[00:00.000] 作词 : Bruce Dickinson
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Bruce Dickinson
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[2:06.329]To ride the storm, to an empire of the clouds
[2:12.815]To ride the storm, they climbed aboard their silver ghost
[2:23.700]To ride the storm, to a kingdom that will come
[2:30.207]To ride the storm, and damn the rest, oblivion
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[2:40.342]Royalty and dignitaries, brandy and cigars
[2:45.924]Related giant of the skies, you hold them in your arms
[2:52.349]The millionth chance they laughed, to take down his majesty's craft
[2:58.140]"To India," they say, "magic carpet float away," an October fateful day
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[3:35.867]Mist is in the trees, stone sweats with the dew
[3:42.221]The morning sunrise, red before the blue
[3:48.953]Hanging at the mast, waiting for command
[3:55.081]His majesty's airship, the R101
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[4:02.365]She's the biggest vessel built by man, a giant of the skies
[4:08.286]For all you unbelievers, the titanic fits inside
[4:14.537]Drum rolled tight, a canvas skin, silvered in the sun
[4:20.547]Never tested with the fury, with a beating yet to come
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[4:26.672]The fury yet to come?
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[4:31.965]In the gathering gloom, a storm rising in the west
[4:38.316]The coxswain stared into the plunging weather glass
[4:48.317]We must go now, we must take our chance with fate
[4:54.572]We must go now, for the politicians he can't be late
[5:03.888]The airship crew awake for thirty hours at full stretch,
[5:09.756]But the ship is in their backbone, every sinew, every inch
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[5:16.036]She never flew at full speed, a trial never done
[5:22.409]A fragile outer cover, her Achilles would become
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[5:28.422]An Achilles yet to come...
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[5:34.199]Sailors of the sky, a hardened breed
[5:40.429]Loyal to the king, and an airship creed
[5:46.530]The engines drum, the telegraph sounds
[5:52.846]Release the cords that bind us to the ground
[5:59.383]Said the coxswain, "Sir, she's heavy, she'll never make this flight."
[6:05.695]Said the captain, "Damn the cargo! We'll be on our way tonight."
[6:12.384]Grounds men cheered in wonder, as she backed up from the mast
[6:18.113]Baptizing with her water, from the ballast fore and aft
[6:24.250]Now she slips into our past?
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[12:31.937]Feeling the wind as it blows you
[12:35.060]Feeling the beams as they pass you along
[12:37.900]Watching the channel below you
[12:40.968]Lower and lower, into the night
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[12:44.136]Lights are passing below you
[12:47.095]Northern France, asleep in their beds
[12:50.169]Storm is raging around you
[12:53.306]A million to one, that's what he said
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[13:38.757]Reaper standing beside you
[13:41.794]Wind inside cuts to the bone
[13:44.922]Panicked to make a decision
[13:47.903]Experienced men, asleep in their graves
[13:51.146]The cover is ripped and she's flooding
[13:54.105]Rain is flooding into the hold
[13:57.203]Bleeding to death and she's falling
[14:00.242]Lifting gas is draining away
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[15:11.653]"We're down, lads!" came a cry, bow plunging from the sky
[15:17.946]Three thousand horses silent as the ship began to die
[15:24.440]The flares to guide her path ignited at the last
[15:30.858]The empire of the clouds, just ashes in our past
[15:37.201]Just ashes at the last?
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[16:05.433]Here lie their dreams as they stand in the sun
[16:10.792]On the ground where they built and the engines they run
[16:16.964]To the moon and the stars, now what have we done?
[16:23.062]Oh the dreamers may die, but the dreams live on
[16:35.323]Dreams live on
[16:41.390]Dreams live on
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[17:14.961]Now a shadow on a hill, the angel of the east
[17:22.174]The empire of the clouds may rest in peace
[17:28.850]And in a country churchyard, laid head to the mast
[17:36.106]Eight and forty souls, who came to die in France?
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