Empire Of The Clouds
To ride the storm to an empire of the clouds
- To ride the storm to an empire of the clouds
- To ride the storm they climbed
- Aboard their silver ghost
- To ride the storm to a kingdom that will come
- To ride the storm and damn the rest Oblivion
- Royalty and dignitaries brandy and cigars
- Grey lady giant of the skies
- You hold them in your arms
- The millionth chance they laughed
- To take down his majesty's craft
- To India they say magic carpet float away
- An October fateful day
- Mist is in the trees
- Stone sweats with the dew
- The morning sunrise red before the blue
- Hanging at the mast
- Waiting for command
- His majesty's airship
- The R101
- She's the biggest vessel built by man
- A giant of the skies
- For all you unbelievers
- The Titanic fits inside
- Drum roll tight her canvas skin
- Silvered in the sun
- Never tested with the fury
- With the beating yet to come
- The fury yet to come
- In the gathering gloom
- The storm rising in the west
- The coxswain stared
- Into the plunging weather glass
- We must go now
- We must take our chance with fate
- We must go now
- For a politician he can't be late
- The airship crew awake for thirty
- Hours at full stretch
- But the ship is in their backbone
- Every sinew every inch
- She never flew at full speed
- A trial never done
- Her fragile outer cover
- Her achilles would become
- An achilles yet to come
- Sailors of the sky
- A hardened breed
- Loyal to the king and an airship creed
- The engines drum
- The telegraph sounds
- Release the cords
- That bind us to the ground
- Said the coxswain Sir she's heavy
- She'll never make this flight
- Said the captain damn the cargo
- We'll be on our way tonight
- Groundlings cheered in wonder
- As she backed off from the mast
- Baptizing them her water
- From the ballast fore and aft
- Now she slips into our past
- Fighting the wind as it rolls you
- Feeling the diesels that push you along
- Watching the channel below you
- Lower and lower into the night
- Lights are passing below you
- Northern France asleep in their beds
- Storm is raging around you
- A million to one that's what he said
- Reaper standing beside her
- With his scythe cuts to the bone
- Panic to make a decision
- Experienced men asleep in their graves
- Her cover is ripped and she's drowning
- Rain is flooding into the hull
- Bleeding to death and she's falling
- Lifting gas is draining away
- We're down lads came the cry
- Bow plunging from the sky
- Three thousand horses silent
- As the ship began to die
- The flares to guide her path
- Ignited at the last
- The empire of the clouds
- Just ashes in our past
- Just ashes at the last
- Here lie their dreams
- As I stand in the sun
- On the ground where they built
- And the engines did run
- To the moon and the stars
- Now what have we done
- Oh the dreamers may die
- But the dreams live on
- Dreams live on
- Dreams live on
- Now a shadow on a hill
- The angel of the east
- The empire of the clouds
- May rest in peace
- And in a country churchyard
- Laid head to the mast
- Eight and forty souls
- Who came to die in France
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