Tonart: E minor•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
to an empire of the clouds
To ride the storm,
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they climbed aboard their silver ghost
To ride the storm,
to a kingdom that will come
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To ride the storm, and damn the rest,
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oblivion
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Royalty and dignitaries, brandy and cigars
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Grey lady giant of the skies,
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you hold them in your arms
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The millionth chance they laughed,
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to take down his majesty's craft
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To India they say, magic carpet float away,
Interlude 1
an October fateful day
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Mist is in the trees,
stone sweats with the dew
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red before the blue
Hanging at the mast, waiting for command
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His majesty's airship, the R101
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She's the biggest vessel built by man,
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For all you unbelievers,
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the Titanic fits inside
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Drum rolled tight, her canvas skin,
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Never tested with the fury,
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with a beating yet to come
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gloom,
a storm rising in the west
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The coxswain stared into
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the plunging weather glass
We must go now,
we must take our chance with fate
We must go now,
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for a politician he can't be late
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The airship crew awake for thirty
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But the ship is in their backbone,
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every sinew, every inch
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She never flew at full speed,
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Her fragile outer cover,
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her Achilles would become
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An Achilles yet to come
Verse 8
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Sailors of the sky, a hardened breed
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and an airship creed
Verse 9
the telegraph sounds
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Release the cords that bind
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Said the coxswain, sir, she's heavy,
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she'll never make this flight
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Said the captain, damn the cargo,
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we'll be on our way tonight
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Groundlings cheered in wonder,
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as she backed up from the mast
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Baptizing them her water,
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from the ballast fore and aft
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Now she slips into our past
Interlude 2
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Verse 11
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Fighting the wind as it rolls you
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Feeling the diesels that push
Watching the channel below you
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Lower and lower, into the night
Verse 12
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Lights are passing below you
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Northern France, asleep in their beds
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Storm is raging around you
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A million to one, that's what he said
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Verse 13
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Reaper standing beside her
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With his scythe cuts to the bone
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Panic to make a decision
Verse 14
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Her cover is ripped and she's drowning
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Rain is flooding into the hull
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Bleeding to death and she's falling
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Lifting gas is draining away
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Verse 15
down lads, came a cry,
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bow plunging from the sky
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Three thousand horses silent
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as the ship began to die
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The flares to guide her path
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The empire of the clouds,
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Just ashes at the last
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Verse 16
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Here lie their dreams as I stand in the sun
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On the ground where they built,
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and the engines did run
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To the moon and the stars,
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now what have we done?
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Oh the dreamers may die,
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but the dreams live on
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Verse 17
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Dreams live on
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Dreams live on
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Verse 18
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Now a shadow on a hill,
the angel of the east
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The empire of the clouds
And in a country churchyard,
laid head to the mast
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Eight and Forty souls who came
Outro 1
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