Hear the rime of the ancient mariner
  See his eye as he stops one of three
  Mesmerises one of the wedding guests
  Stay here and listen to the nightmares of the sea.
  
  And the music plays on, as the bride passes by
  Caught by his spell and the mariner tells his tale.
  
  Driven south to the land of the snow and ice
  To a place where nobody's been
  Through the snow fog flies on the albatross
  Hailed in God's name, hoping good luck it brings.
  
  And the ship sails on, back to the North
  Through the fog and ice and the albatross follows on.
  
  The mariner kills the bird of good omen
  His shipmates cry against what he's done
  BUt when the fog clears, they justify him
  And make themselves a part of the crime.
  
  Sailing on and on and north across the sea
  Sailing on and on and north 'til all is calm.
  
  The albatross begins with its vengeance
  A terrible curse a thirst has begun
  His shipmates blame bad luck on the mariner
  About his neck, the dead bird is hung.
  
  And the curse goes on and on at sea
  And the curse goes on and on for them and me.
  
  "Day after day, day after day,
   we stuck nor breath nor motion
  as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean
  Water, water everywhere and
   all the boards did shrink
  Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink."
  
  There calls the mariner
  There comes a ship over the line
  BUt how can she sail with no wind in her sails and no tide.
  
  See...onward she comes
  Onward she nears out of the sun
  See, she has no crew
  She has no life, wait but here's two.
  
  Death and she Life in Death,
  They throw their dice for the crew
  She wins the mariner and he belongs to her now.
  Then...crew one by one
  they drop down dead, two hundred men
  She...she, Life in Death.
  She lets him live, her chosen one.
  
  "One after one by the star dogged moon,
  too quick for groan or sigh
  each turned his facce with a ghastly pang
  and cursed me with his eye
  four times fifty living men
  (and I heard nor sigh nor groan)
  with heavy thump, a lifeless lump,
  they dropped down one by one."
  
  The curse it lives on in their eyes
  The mariner wished he'd die
  Along with the sea creatures
  But they lived on, so did he.
  
  and by the light of the moon
  He prays for their beauty not doom
  With heart he blesses them
  God's creatures all of them too.
  
  Then the spell starts to break
  The albatross falls from his neck
  Sinks down like lead into the sea
  Then down in falls comes the rain.
  
  Hear the groans of the long dead seamen
  See them stir and they start to rise
  Bodies lifted by good spirits
  None of them speak and they're lifelesss in their eyes
  
  And revenge is still sought, penance starts again
  Cast into a trance and the nightmare carries on.
  
  Now the curse is finally lifted
  And the mariner sights his home
  spirits go fromhe long dead bodies
  Form their own light and the mariner's left alone.
  
  And then a boat came sailing towards him
  It was a joy he could not believe
  The pilot's boat, his son and the hermit,
  Penance of life will fall onto him.
  
  And the ship sinks like lead into the sea
  And the hermit shrieves the mariner of his sins.
  
  The mariner's bound to tell of his story
  To tell this tale wherever he goes
  To teach God's word by his own example
  That we must love all things thaat God made.
  
  And the wedding guest's a sad and wiser man
  And the tale goes on and on and on.