Cradle of Filth je formiran godine 1991. u Suffolku (Engleska). Čovjek koji je došao na ideju da osnuje jedan black metal bend po uzoru na skandinavske black metal legende Mayhem i Emperor i mozak Cradle Of Filth-a je Daniel Lloyd Davey, metal svijetu poznatiji kao Dani Filth. Kad je završio s obrazovanjem 1991. odlučio je osnovati bend COF i tadasnja postava izgledala je ovako: Dani Filth (vokal), John Richard (bas gitara), Paul Ryan (gitara), Darren (bubnjevi) i Benjamin Ryan (klavijature).
1992. oni su snimili "Invoking The Unclean" - nečist demo sa slabim uspjehom. Za COF su karakteristične česte izmjene postave, a od ove prvobitne "demo" postave pa do danas jedino je Dani bio čitavo vrijeme u bendu. Na drugoj demo snimci "Orgiastic Pleasure" iz 1993. drugu gitaru je svirao Robin Eaglestone (Robin Graves), a ovaj demo za razliku od prvog ima mnogo bolji uspjeh. Robin je ubrzo napustio bend, ali se isto tako i vratio, ali ovaj put kao basist nakon što je John Richard napustio bend. Kao drugi gitarist došao je Paul Allender. U ovoj postavi snimaju i treći demo "Total Fucking Darkness" koji je kako i sam Dani kaže jedini vazan.
1994. COF potpisuju ugovor s nezavisnom izdavačkom kućom Cacaphonus Records za koju izdaju i prvi album "The Principle Of Evil Made Flesh". Prije snimanja albuma bend je napustio Darren, a za bubnjevima ga je zamjenio Nicholas Barker. Ovaj album je odmah prodan u 32.000 primjeraka što predstavlja veliki uspjeh za prvi album jednog black metal benda. Do ovog albuma, Dani je uglavnom "koristio" vokale death metal tipa, dok su na "The Principle Of Evil Made Flesh" uvedeni Danijevi visoki vokali, demonski piskavi. Za razliku od mnogih drugih black metal bendova, COF su bili i ostali nešto posebno sa svojim jedinstvenim mješanjem standardnog skandinavskog blacka i dosta elemenata gotike. Na stageu su koristili crno-bijeli make-up, tzv "corpse-paint" i redovito se polijevali krvlju. Glavne značajke njihove glazbe su tekstovi koji sadrže elemente sotonizma, vampirizma, morbidne erotičnosti i naravno gotike, kao i apokaliptične gitare i vokali. 1995 bend napustaju braca Ryan (Ben i Paul) i osnivaju svoj bend Blood Devine. Zamjenili su ih Damien Gregori za klavijaturama i Stuart Anstis za gitarom. Također, imali su problema sa izdavačem, Cacophonus-om. Očigledno nisu dobili ni pare od "The Principle Of Evil Made Flesh" albuma.
1996. izdaju mini CD/album "Vempire Or Dark Faerytales In Phallustein". Po prvi se put na njihovim albumima pojavljuje Sarah Jezebel Deva kao ženski back vokal, a od ovoga albuma će ih stalno pratiti iako nije stalni član benda. Jared Dementer je doveden kao session gitarist za snimanje albuma.
Još iste godine potpisuju ugovor s "Music For Nations" i u studenom 1996. g. izdaju svoj prvi pravi monumentalni album "Dusk And Her Embrace", inače drugi službeni album benda (ili treći ako ćete smatrati Vempire pravim oficijalnim albumom kao što većina i smatra) sa Gianom Piresom kao permanentnim gitaristom. Viktorijanski romantizam i srednjevjekovni utjecaji su bili očiti na ovom odličnom (i po meni njihovom najboljem) albumu. Na ovom albumu gostovao je i legendarni Cronos iz Venoma kao gost vokal (pjesma Haunted Shores). COF su izdali 3 verzije albuma, uključujući "Coffin" izdanje (kutija u obliku kovčega) koja je sadržavala obradu Slayerove pjesme "Hell Awaits". 1997. ih napušta klavijaturista Damien, a kao novi na toj poziciji došao je Les "Lecter" Smith (ex. Anathema i Ship of Fools). Također su te godine održali dva najveća koncerta i to na Dynamo festivalu i Milwaukee Music festivalu (oba u SAD-u).
1998. izlazi njihov slijedeći album "Cruelty And The Beast". Također su izdali ograničeno, Gravestone izdanje albuma u obliku keltskog križa, koji je bio zabranjen u nekim zemljama (npr. Francuskoj) zbog krvavih slika u CD bookletu. Postoje i druga izdanja "Cruelty and the beast" albuma (Japanska verzija, Sa ograničenim bonus CD-om) koji su sadržavali bonus pjesme - obrade i remixe. Održana je jako dobra, duga i uspješna turneja, a broj fanova je rapidno rastao. Bili su čak uhapšeni i u Vatikanu zbog svojih slavnih kontraverznih majica. Na ovom albumu se pojavljivala i glumica Ingrid Pitt u pjesmi "Bathory Aria" i to kao ženski vokal, uz naravno i Sarah i još jedan ženski back vokal Danielle Cottington.
Dugogodišnji bubnjar Nicholas ih napušta 1999. i odlazi u Dimmu Borgir. Sve je počelo kad je Nicholas postao nezadovoljan sa mix-om bubnjeva na "Cruelty And the Beast"-u. On je privremeno bio zamjenjen sa Wesom Sarginsonom (ex. The Bloody Devine, Extreme Noise Terror i December Moon), koji je bio bubnjar u Cradle Of Filthu u ranijim danima. Ali, za vrijeme snimanja "From The Cradle To Enslave" spota, Dave Hirscheimer (ex. Infestation) je ubačen u postavku kao "permanentan" bubnjar. To nije dugo trajalo i Dave je ubrzo bio zamjenjen sa Adrianom Erlandssonom (ex. At the gates, The Haunted). Ove godine izdaju i jedan EP i to "From The Cradle To Enslave" EP za koji su snimili i njihov prvi spot "From The Cradle To Enslave" koji je nešto najkrvoločnije, najbizarnije i najmorbidnije što je svijet do tada imao priliku vidjeti. Izlazi i krvoločni video "PanDaemonAeon" koji sadrži Cradle of Filth-ov prvi spot "From The Cradle To Ensalve". Režisiran od strane Alexa Chandona (Perverilla, Bad Karma, Cradle of Fear), FTCTE je jedan od najkrvavijih spotova ikad izdatih - sadrži više krvi nego Hellraiser filmovi.
2000. Lector napušta bend, a dolazi Martin Powell iz My Dying Bride na mjesto klavijaturiste. Također se i Paul Allender vraća na mjesto gitariste i postava izgleda ovako: Dani (vokali), Gian Pires (gitara), Paul (gitara), Robin (bas), Adrian (bubnjevi) i Martin (klavijature). U toj postavi snimaju najuspješniji album do danas: "Midian", koji predstavlja pravo remek-djelo COF-a, a i metal glazbe uopće. Legendarni Doug Bradley, poznatiji kao Pinhead iz filmova Hellraiser, je jedan od gostiju (sve što je rečeno običnim dubokim i jasnim riječima govori on). Ovaj album je zaista nešto nevjerojatno dobro, a COF već duže vremena glasi kao jedan od najboljih black metal bendova u svijetu.
Na tržištu se pojavio i film Cradle Of Fear, jedan krvoločni underground horor. Glavnu ulogu vampira igra, naravno pogađate, majstor strave i mraka Dani Filth. 2001. izdaju "Bitter Suites To Succubi", ovaj put ne za "Music For Nations", nego za svoju izdavačku kuću "Abracadaver". Nakon ovoga albuma dugogodišnji basist Robin Graves napušta bend iz nekih svojih osobnih razloga. Kao zamjena je doveden Dave Pybus iz Anatheme.
2002. izdaju i službenu "best of" kompilaciju "Lovecraft & Witch Hearts" na dva diska, gdje se praktički nalazi sve najbolje što su do tada snimili. Također ove godine treba izaći prvi službeni live album, također na dva diska (u kolovozu). Naravno, nisu zaboravili ni rad na slijedećem studijskom albumu, kojeg isto uskoro možemo očekivati, ali ipak ne prije slijedeće godine.
Danas Cradle Of Filth važe za jedan od najboljih metal bendova. Ne predstavljaju klasični black metal, već su s originalnim mješanjem gotike i blacka uspjeli izgraditi svoj vlastiti prepoznatljivi zvuk. Svakako su jedan od najkontroverznijih bendova današnjice, nikada se ne zna što bi se moglo točno očekivati od njih. Ali jedno je sigurno, to će uvijek biti nevjerojatno dobra metal glazba. Imaju i vjerovatno najsloženije, najbolje i najzanimljivije tekstove koje neljudskim vokalom izvodi mozak ovog benda, Dani Filth. Jedva čekam slijedeći album ovih metal genijalaca.
Bivši članovi:
·Benjamin Ryan - Keyboards (1991-1994)
·Damien Gregori - Keyboards (1994-1997)
·Les "Lecter" Smith - Keyboards (1997-1999)
·Martin "Foul" Powell - Keyboards (2000-2005) ex-Cryptal Darkness)
·Gian Pyres - Guitars (1996-2002)
·James "Germs Warfare" Mcilroy - Guitars (2004–2005, na kratko otišao u 2006)
·Paul Ryan - Guitars (1991-1994)
·Bryan Hipp - Guitars (1994-1995)
·Stuart Antsis - Guitars (1995-2000)
·Dave Hirschheimer - Drums (1999)
·Nicholas Howard Barker - Drums (1992-1999)
·Was Sarginson - Drums (1999-2000)
·Jon Richard - Bass (1991-1992)
·Robin "Graves" Eaglestone - Bass (1992-2001)
Diskografija:
Albumi:
·The Principle of Evil Made Flesh - (1994)
·V Empire (or Dark Faerytales in Phallustein) - (1996)
·Dusk and Her Embrace - (1997)
·Cruelty and the Beast - (1998)
·From the Cradle to Enslave - (1999)
·Midian - (2000)
·Bitter Suites to Succubi - (2001)
·Lovecraft and Witch Hearts - (2002)
·Live Bait for the Dead - (2002)
·Damnation and a Day - (2003)
·Nymphetamine - (2004)
·Thornography - (2006)
Specijalna izdanja:
·Dusk and Her Embrace (Digipack with one extra track)
·Dusk and Her Embrace (Coffin box packaging with two extra tracks)
·Cruelty and the Beast (Celtic cross box with five extra tracks)
·Cruelty and the Beast (Two-disc edition with five extra tracks)
·Midian (Digipack with two extra tracks)
·Nymphetamine (Two-disc digipack with six extra tracks and CDROM video)
·Thornography (Limited edition numbered "First Day Cover" version)
Demo:
·A Pungent And Sexual Miasma (Demo)- (1992)
·Invoking the Unclean (Demo) - (1992)
·Orgiastic Pleasures (Demo) - (1992)
·The Black Goddess Rises (Demo) - (1992)
·Goetia (Abandoned album) - (1992)
·Total Fucking Darkness (Demo) - (1993)
Uživo:
·Live at Penafiel, Portugal ´94 - (1994) Live
·Sodomizing The Virgin Vamps - (1997) Total Fucking Darkness & live tracks.
·Live in Berlin ´95 - (1997) Live
·I Raped The Virgin Mary and Hung The Bastard Christ - (1997)
·Live at the Dynamo ´99 - (1999) Live
·Live at the Wacken ´99 - (1999) Live
·The Princess of Darkness - (1999) Live
·Venus in Fear - (2000) Live
·RareDaemonAeon - (2001) Compilation/Covers
·Damnation And A Day Tour '03 - (2003) Live
·The Rotten Stench of Early Days When We Raped Dead Angels - (2004) Includes Invoking the Unclean, Orgiastic Pleasures & Black Goddess Rises demos
·Life is Your Sacrifice - (2005) Live
«Dokumentarci»:
·Ginger Snaps soundtrack - (2000) "Her Ghost in the Fog" contributed.
·Maximum Filth - (2001) Unauthorised "audio biography" CD by Chrome Dreams.
·MTV2 Headbangers Ball - (2003) "Mannequin" contributed.
·Twisted Forever: A Tribute to Twisted Sister - (2004) "The Fire Still Burns" contributed.
.Resident Evil: Apocalypse soundtrack - (2004) "Nymphetamine (Fix)" contributed.
·MTV2 Headbanger's Ball Volume 2 - (2005) "Medusa and Hemlock" contributed.
·Roadrunner United - (2005) Dani provides vocals on "Dawn of a Golden Age" and Dave Pybus plays bass on "Enemy Of The State". The former was written by Matt Heafy of Trivium, and the latter by Peter Steele of Type O Negative.
·Viva la Bands - (2005) "English Fire" contributed.
·Underworld: Evolution soundtrack - (2006) "Hw2" contributed.
«šaljivi» albumi:
·Victorian England Under Martian Rule - (2000) Fictional album / April Fool's joke.
Dvd`s:
·PanDaemonAeon ("From the Cradle to Enslave" video, Making-of, and Live in London) - (1999)
·From the Cradle to the Grave (Unauthorised documentary by Chrome Dreams) - (2002)
·Heavy, Left-Handed and Candid (Live in Nottingham, "Schlockumentary", Videos, etc.) - (2002)
·Babalon AD (So Glad For The Madness) (DVD single) - (2003)
·Peace Through Superior Firepower (Live in Paris, "Shockumentary", Videos etc.) - (2005)
Filmovi:
·Cradle of Fear (Film by Alex Chandon featuring Midian-era band) (2000)
·Dominator (Animated film featuring the voice of Dani Filth) (2003)
·Metal: A Headbanger's Journey (Cradle are briefly seen in a list of black metal bands, categorized as "Norwegian black metal") (2006)
Pojave na TV-u:
·Living With the Enemy - BBC reality show (November 4th, 1998)
·Never Mind the Buzzcocks (Dani only) - BBC panel game (April 9th, 2001)
·Viva La Bam - MTV reality show (July 31st, 2005)
Knjige:
·The Gospel of Filth: A Black Metal Bible by Gavin Baddeley and Dani Filth (forthcoming, 2007)
Bendovi od kojih su preradili pjesme:
·Anathema ("Sleepless")
·Bathory ("Bestial Lust")
·Cliff Richard & The Shadows ("Devil Woman")
·Heaven 17 ("Temptation") ·Iron Maiden ("Hallowed Be Thy Name")
·Massacre ("Dawn of Eternity")
·Misfits ("Death Comes Ripping")
·Ozzy Osbourne ("Mr. Crowley")
·Sabbat ("For Those Who Died")
·Samhain ("HW2 / Hallowe'en 2")
·Shakespears Sister ("Stay")
·Sisters of Mercy ("No Time to Cry")
·Slayer ("Hell Awaits")
·Sodom ("Sodomy and Lust")
·Twisted Sister ("The Fire Still Burns")
·Venom ("Black Metal")
Suradnja:
·Christian Death ("Peek-a-Boo")
·Dirty Harry ("Temptation")
·King Diamond ("Devil Woman")
·Liv Kristine ("Nymphetamine")
.Frater Nihil ("Imperium Tenebrarum")
·Obsidian ("Massada")
·Roadrunner United ("Dawn of a Golden Age" & "Enemy of the State")
·Ville Valo ("The Byronic Man")
·Martin Walkyier ("For Those Who Died")
·Darren White ("A Dream of Wolves in the Snow")
«Partneri» na turnejama:
·Akercocke
.Anathema
·Ancient Rites
·Arch Enemy
·At The Gates
·Biohazard
·Bleeding Through
·Callenish Circle
·Cancer
·Cathedral
·Chimaira
·Christian Death
·Deathstars
·Dimmu Borgir
·Dissection
·Emperor
·Extreme Noise Terror
·God Forbid
·The Haunted
·Himsa
·Immolation
·In Flames
·Killswitch Engage
·Lacuna Coil
·Malevolent Creation
·Mendeed
·Moonspell
·Murderdolls
·Napalm Death
·Nile
·Octavia Sperati
·Opeth
·Oppressor
·Poison Idea
·Return to the Sabbat
·Rotting Christ
·Sepultura
·Shadows Fall
·Slayer
·Sworn Enemy
·Type O Negative
·Usurper
·Vader
·Visions of Disorder
Moja osobno najdraža pjesma od COF- a!!!!
Ako kojim slučajem ne razumjete što pjeva, evo i riječi:
Cradle Of Filth - From the cradle to enslave:
Two thousand fattened years like maniacs
Have despoiled our common grave
Now what necrophagous Second Coming backs
From the cradle to enslave?
Sickle constellations
Stud the belts that welt the sky
Whilst the bitter winter moon
Prowls the cloud, dead-eyed
Like shifting parent flesh
Under silk matricide...
Watchful as she was upon Eden
Where every rose arbour and orchard she swept
Hid the hissing of a serpent Libido
In an ancient tryst with catastrophe
Soon the be kept
Hear that hissing now on the breeze
As through the plundered groves of the carnal garden
A fresh horror blows but ten billion souls
Are blind to see the rotting wood for the trees
This is the theme to a better Armageddon
Nightchords rake the heavens
PAN DAEMON AEAON
And what use are prayers to that god?
As devils bay concensus for the space to piss
On your smouldering faith
And the mouldering face
Of this world long a paradise lost
This is the end of everything
Hear the growing chora that a new dawn shall bring
Danse macabre 'neath the tilt of the zodiac
Now brighter stars shall reflect on our fate
What sick nativities will be freed when those lights burn black?
The darkside of the mirror always threw our malice back...
I see the serpentine in your eyes
The nature of the beast as revelations arrive
Our screams shall trail to Angels
For those damned in flames repay
All sinners lose their lot on Judgement Day
We should have cut our looses as at Calvary
But our hearts like heavy crosses held the vain belief
Salvation, like a promised nation
Gleamed a claim away...
This is the end of everything you have ever known
Buried like vanquished reason
Death is season
Drive like the drifting snow
Peace, a fragile lover, left us fantasising war
On our knees or another f**ker's shore
Heiling new flesh
Read, then roared
To a crooked cross and a Holy Cause
What else be whipped to frenzy for?
This is the end of everything
Rear the tragedies
That the Seraphim shall sing
Old adversaries
Next to Eve
Now they're clawing back
I smell their cumming
As through webbed panes of meat
Led by hoary Death
They never left
Dreaming sodomies
To impress on human failure
When we've bled upon our knees
Tablatures of gravel law
Shall see Gehennah paved
When empires fall
And nightmares crawl
From the cradle to enslave....
1. IVANA - moja cura koju jako puno volim i ona je ljubav mog života, nemogu i neznam što bih bez nje!!!! Ivana, pogledom pratit ću te, dodirom hrabrit ću te, zagrljajem branit ću te, poljupcima hranit ću te, SUZAMA tješit ću te, zauvjel VOLJET ĆU TE!!!!! Sve što imam jesi ti, ne mogu te napustiti, s tobom ću zauvjek biti i SAMO ĆU TEBE VOLJETI!!!!!!! VOLI ME - VOLJET ĆU TE, LJUBI ME - LJUBIT ĆU TE, VARAJ ME - UBIT ĆU TE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JEDAN, DVA, EVO VAM GA NA!!!!!!!!!!
NEŠ O MENI:
Ja sam.... nije važno! Može samo tUme! Imam 14 godina, navršio sam ih u 4. mjesecu! Živim u Rijeci i nebi otišao iz nje za niš!
VOLIM:
Svoju curu - IVANU (moj razlog za živjet)
Rock & metal (moj život)
Crnu boju (sve crno)
Ljeto - zimu
MRZIM:
Umišljene ljude
Šminkere
Posebice MRZIM cajke, a ljudi koji ih slušaju, nisu mi dobri frendovi
Proljeće - jesen
Grupe koje se ne zaslužuju nazvati rockom i metalom. (Npr.: Tokyo Hotel, RHCP....)
NAJ BEDNDOVI: 1. IRON MAIDEN (BRUCE)
2. BLACK SABBATH (OZZY)
3. DEEP PURPLE (IAN GILLAN)
4. METALLICA
5. GODSMACK
6. KORN 7. CRADLE OF FILTH
8. DIMMU BORGIR 9. CHILDREN OF BODOM
10. LORDI
11. S.O.A.D.
12. AC / DC
13. LED - ZEPPELIN
14. STEEL DRAGON
15. SLAYER
Evo riječi nekih pjesama: IRON MAIDEN - HALLOWED BE THY NAME (Steve Harris)
I`m waiting in my cold cell, when the bell beginsto chime
Reflecting on my past life and it doesn`t have much time
Couse at 5 o`clock they take me to theGallows Pole
The sands of time, for me are running low
When the priest comes to read the last rites
I take a look through the bars at the last sights
Of a world that hasgone very wrong for me
Can it be there`s a some sort of error
hard to stop this surmounting terror
Is it realy the end, not some crazy dream
Somebody please tell me that i`m dreaming
It`s not so easy to stop from screaming
But words escape me when i try to speak
Tears they flow but why am i crying
After all i`m not afraid of dying
Don`t believe that there is neveran end
As the guards march me out to the countryard
Someone calls from a cell "God be with you"
If there`s a God then why has he left me to die?
As i walk all my life drifts before me
And though the end is near i`m not sorry
Catch my soul couse it`s willing to fly away
Mark my words please believe my soul lives on
Please don`t worry now that i have gone
i`ve gone beyond to see the truth
When you know that your time is close at hand
Maybe then you`ll begin to understand
Life down there is just a strange illusion
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Hallowed be thy name....
DEEP PURPLE - FIREBALL ( Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan)
The golden light about you show me where you're from
The magic in your eye bewitches all you gaze upon
You stand up on your hill and behop all around you
They wonder where you're from oh yeah
They wonder where I found you
Oh my love it's a long way
Where you're from it's a long way
I tried to understand you, I tried to love you right
The way you smile and touch me always sets my heart alight
Your lips are like a fire burning through my soul
And people ask me where you're from
They really wanna know
Oh my soul it's a long way
Where you're from it's a long way
Magic woman wreckin' up my soul
Things you tell me have never been told
Magic woman I don't know
Electric before me I love you so I love you so
You're racing like a fireball dancing like a ghost
You're gemini and I don't know which one I like the most
My head is getting broken and my mind is getting bust
But now I'm coming with you down the road of golden dust
Oh my love it's a long way
Where you're from it's a long way
The golden light about you show me where you're from
The magic in your eye bewitches all you gaze upon
You stand up on your hill and behop all around you
They wonder where you're from oh yeah
They wonder where I found you
IRON MAIDEN - NO MORE LIES (Dickinson, Harris)
There's a darkened sky before me
There's no time to prepare
Salvage a last horizon
But no regrets from me
Maybe I'll be back some other day
To live again just who can say
In what shape or form that I might be
Just another chance for me
A hurried time no disgrace
Instead of racing to conclusion
And wishing all my life away
No-one can stop me now
Time is up it couldn't last
But there's more things I'd like to do
I'm coming back to try again
Someday maybe I'll wait till then
No more lies...
They're all sitting at my table
Talking tall and drinking wine
Their time is up just like me
But they just don't know it yet
So just a word of warning
When you're in your deepest dreams
There's nothing you can hide from
I've got my eye on you
The clock is fast, the hour is near
Eventful past is everclear
My life is set, the time is here
I think I'm coming home
No more lies...
A hurried time, no disgrace
Instead of racing to conclusions
And wishing all your life away
No-one can stop me now
Time is up it couldn't last
But there's more things I have to do
I'm coming back to try again
Don't tell me that this is the end
No more lies...
BLACK SABBATH - SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH
You've seen life through distorted eyes
You know you had to learn
The execution of your mind
You really had to turn
The race is run the book is read
The end begins to show
The truth is out, the lies are old
But you don't want to know
Nobody will ever let you know
When you ask the reasons why
They just tell you that you're on your own
Fill your head all full of lies
The people who have crippled you
You want to see them burn
The gates of life have closed on you
And now there's just no return
You're wishing that the hands of doom
Could take your mind away
And you don't care if you don't see again
The light of day
Nobody will ever let you know
When you ask the reasons why
They just tell you that you're on your own
Fill your head all full of lies
Where can you run to
What more can you do
No more tomorrow
Life is killing you
Dreams turn to nightmares
Heaven turns to hell
Burned out confusion
Nothing more to tell
Everything around you
What's it coming to
God knows as your dog knows
Bog blast all of you
Sabbath bloody sabbath
Nothing more to do
Living just for dying
Dying just for you
METALLICA - NOTHING ELSE MATTERS
So close no matter how far
couldn't be much more from the heart
forever trusting who we are
and nothing else matters
Never opened myself this way
life is ours, we live it our way
all these words I don't just say
and nothing else matters
trust I seek and I find in you
every day for us something new
open mind for a different view
and nothing else matters
never cared for what they do
never cared for what they know
but I know
so close no matter how far
couldn't be much more from the heart
forever trusting who we are
and nothing else matters
never cared for what they do
never cared for what they know
but I know
never opened myself this way
life is ours, we live it our way
all these words I don't just say
trust I seek and I find in you
every day for us something new
open mind for a different view
and nothing else matters
never cared for what they say
never cared for games they play
never cared for what they do
never cared for what they know
and I know
so close no matter how far
couldn't be much more from the heart
forever trusting who we are
no nothing else matters
Iron Maiden - Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
Hear 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 nobody's been
Through the snow fog flies on the albatross
Hailed in God's 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 he's 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 shrin
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 here's 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 he'd 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
God's 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 they're 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 mariner's left alone.
And then a boat came sailing towards him
It was a joy he could not believe
The pilot's 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 mariner's bound to tell of his story
To tell this tale wherever he goes
To teach God's word by his own example
That we must love all things thaat God made.
And the wedding guest's a sad and wiser man
And the tale goes on and on and on....