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Ancient Mariner

from The Rutted Road by Pale Roses

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ANCIENT MARINER

Inspired by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Who are you, stranger? A sinner?
How heavy is your cross?
Are you the Ancient Mariner
Who shot the albatross?
Water, water everywhere
But not a drop to share
With the old sea ghosts around you,
Death-in-life has finally found you.

Where is your crew now, master?
Did you leave them behind
To serve the sweet disaster
That made you lose your mind?
Water, water everywhere
But not a drop to share
With the old sea ghosts around you,
Death-in-life has finally found you.

What happened to your vessel?
What storms did you go through?
Some say you had to wrestle
With life-in-death, is it true?
Water, water everywhere
But not a drop to share
With the old sea ghosts around you,
Death-in-life has finally found you.

Now I know that you are real
And no devil in disguise,
You surely know the way I feel,
A little sad and nearly wise.
Water, water everywhere
But not a drop to share
With the old sea ghosts around you,
Death-in-life has finally found you.

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from The Rutted Road, released November 23, 2012

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