Empire Of The Clouds

[00:00.00] Iron Maiden - Empire Of The Clouds

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[02:09.00] To ride the storm, to an empire of the clouds

[02:14.00] To ride the storm, they climbed aboard their silver ghost

[02:23.00] To ride the storm, to a kingdom that will come

[02:30.00] To ride the storm, and damn the rest, oblivion

[02:40.00] Royalty and dignitaries, brandy and cigars

[02:46.00] Grey lady giant of the skies, you hold them in your arms

[02:56.00] The millionth chance they laughed, to take down his majesty's craft

[03:00.00] "To India," they say, "magic carpet float away," an October fateful day

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[03:35.00] Mist is in the trees, stone sweats with the dew

[03:42.00] The morning sunrise, red before the blue

[03:49.00] Hanging at the mast, waiting for command

[03:54.00] His majesty's airship, the R101

[04:01.00] She's the biggest vessel built by man, a giant of the skies

[04:08.00] For all you unbelievers, the titanic fits inside

[04:14.00] Drum roll tight, her canvas skin, silvered in the sun

[04:20.00] Never tested with the fury, with the beating yet to come

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[04:27.00] The fury yet to come…

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[04:32.00] In the gathering gloom, the storm rising in the west

[04:38.00] The coxswain stared into the plunging weather glass

[04:48.00] We must go now, we must take our chance with fate

[04:55.00] We must go now, for a politician he can't be late

[05:00.00] The airship crew awake for thirty hours at full stretch,

[05:11.00] But the ship is in their backbone, every sinew, every inch

[05:16.00] She never flew at full speed, a trial never done

[05:22.00] Her fragile outer cover, her Achilles would become

[05:28.00] An Achilles yet to come...

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[05:34.00] Sailors of the sky, a hardened breed

[05:41.00] Loyal to the king, and an airship creed

[05:47.00] The engines drum, the telegraph sounds

[05:53.00] Release the cords that bind us to the ground

[06:00.00] Said the coxswain, "Sir, she's heavy, she'll never make this flight."

[06:05.00] Said the captain, "Damn the cargo! We'll be on our way tonight."

[06:11.00] Groundlings cheered in wonder, as she backed off from the mast

[06:18.00] Baptizing them her water, from the ballast fore and aft

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[06:24.00] Now she slips into our past…

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[12:33.00] Fighting the wind as it rolls you

[12:35.00] Feeling the diesels that push you along

[12:38.00] Watching The Channel below you

[12:41.00] Lower and lower, into the night

[12:44.00] Lights are passing below you

[12:47.00] Northern France, asleep in their beds

[12:50.00] Storm is raging around you

[12:53.00] A million to one, that's what he said

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[13:39.00] Reaper standing beside her

[13:41.00] With his scythe cuts to the bone

[13:44.00] Panic to make a decision

[13:47.00] Experienced men, asleep in their graves

[13:51.00] Her cover is ripped and she's drowning

[13:54.00] Rain is flooding into the hull

[13:57.00] Bleeding to death and she's falling

[14:00.00] Lifting gas is draining away

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[15:12.00] "We're down, lads!" came a cry, bow plunging from the sky

[15:18.00] Three thousand horses silent as the ship began to die

[15:24.00] The flares to guide her path ignited at the last

[15:31.00] The empire of the clouds, just ashes in our past

[15:37.00] Just ashes at the last…

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[16:06.00] Here lie their dreams as I stand in the sun

[16:11.00] On the ground where they built, and the engines did run

[16:17.00] To the moon and the stars, now what have we done?

[16:23.00] Oh the dreamers may die, but the dreams live on

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[16:37.00] Dreams live on

[16:42.00] Dreams live on

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[17:16.00] Now a shadow on a hill, the angel of the east

[17:22.00] The empire of the clouds may rest in peace

[17:29.00] And in a country churchyard, laid head to the mast

[17:37.00] Eight and forty souls, who came to die in France…