Gampang! Lagu ni bikin wa terngiang-ngiang masa nak tidur. Bermula dengan lagu Aces High yang diperkenalkan oleh member wa, terus minat Iron Maiden. Yalah, masa zaman wa minat metal-metal ni mana mampu beli kaset original, masa tengah seolak tingkatan 1 lagi beb. Harap kat kaset2 cap Apache yang beli kat pasar malam aje le. Tau-tau ajelah, jenis kaset tu bukannya tahan. Baru main kejap, dah naik serdak kat head player radio tu. Lama2 dah macam bunyi besi bergesel, naik ngilu gigi wa. Tapi sekarang dah ada macam2, video klip pun boleh layan masa tengah buat kerja.
Dan dengan adanya teknologi intenet ni jugalah barulah wa dapat tgk lirik lagu ni dengan sepenuhnya :
Samuel Taylor ColdridgeHear 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 nobodys been
Through the snow fog flies on the albatross
Hailed in gods 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 hes 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 heres 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 hed 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
Gods 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 theyre 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 mariners left alone.
And then a boat came sailing towards him
It was a joy he could not believe
The pilots 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 mariners bound to tell of his story
To tell this tale wherever he goes
To teach gods word by his own example
That we must love all things thaat God made.
And the wedding guests a sad and wiser man
And the tale goes on and on and on.
Panjang nak mampus lirik dia ni, sama dengan puisi asal yang dikarang oleh S
amuel Taylor Coldridge. Jadinya lirik lagu ini asalnya dari puisi, dan wa pernah tgk teks originalnya yang dibawa oleh sepupu wa yang mula berhantu dengan kumpulan lagenda ni. Mengisahkan tentang
mariner atau pelaut yang belayar ke laut dan kemudiannya menceritakan tentang kisah pelayarannya di lautan (emmm betul tak cerita gua ni hah?). Kapal yang belayar kemudiannya menghala ke selatan akibat taufan yang melanda dan tiba di antartika. Panjangla nak cerita, hehehe ... lu baca sendiri kat
sini. Kalau lu baca lirik lagi ni, lu fahamlah plot yang wa cakap tadi tu. Apa-apa hal, maiden mmg best! Apa yang wa nak cakap adalah lirik2 maiden kebanyakannya mempunyai maksud yang mendalam dan puitis serta bersifat filosofik. Kalau dulu2 main layan je, tapi sekarang sambil2 mengkaji maksud lirik2 lagu kumpulan metal yang wa selalu dengar dedulu.
Hari ni memang mengantuk. Dagu wa dah stok sampai atas meja punya. Kelopak mata cam takleh bukak sangat dah ni. Ofis mate pulak dok pasang lagu-lagu Indon. Memang tak masuk kepala betol. Boring punya boring, wa cari dalam laptop lagu-lagu best untuk gua layan sambil buat kerja. Akhirnya terjumpa album compress ni, donlot dah lama. Wa memang pernah dengar nama band ni, tapi tak pernah dengar lagu-lagu dia.
