Sucka Emceez
Written by: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Michael Turner & Christopher Portugal
[Thes One, with echo effect:]
Part-eth four… The Rime of the Ancient Mariner...
People Under The Stairs, by the way… Stepfather is the name of this album. April 18th, it came out. I know you bought it, I appreciate that. It's very nice of you…
Now, what's going on on the ship? What's crackin'?
'I fear thee, ancient Mariner!
I fear thy skinny hand!
And thou art long, and lank, and brown,
As is the ribbed sea-sand.
I fear thee and thy glittering eye,
And thy skinny hand, so brown.' –
"Fear not, fear not, thou Wedding-Guest!
This body dropped not down.
Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on the wide wide sea!
And Christ would take no pity on
My soul in agony.
The many men, so beautiful!
And they all dead did lie;
And a million million slimy things
Lived on; and so did I.
I looked upon the rotting sea,
And drew my eyes away;
I looked upon the Eldridge deck,
And there the dead men lay.
I looked to heaven, and tried to pray;
But or ever a prayer had gusht,
A wicked whisper came and made
My heart as dry as dust.
I closed my lids, and kept them close,
'Til the balls like pulses beat;
For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky,
La-ay like a leaden load on my weary eye,
And the dead were at my feet.
The cold sweat melted from their limbs,
Nae rot nor reek did they:
The look from which they looked on me
Had never passed away.
An orphan's curse would drag to hell
A spirit from on high;
But oh! More horrible than that
Is the curse in a dead man's eye!
Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse,
And yet I could not die.
The moving moon went up the sky,
And no where did abide
Softly she was going up,
And a star or two beside –
Her beams bemocked the sultry main,
Like morning frosty spread;
But where the ship's huge shadow lay,
The charmed water burnt always
A still and was awfully red.
Beyond the shadow of the ship
I watched the water-snakes:
They moved in tracks of shining white,
And when they reared, the elfish light
Fell off in hoary flakes.
Trivia:
- This is one part of a loose reading by Thes One of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", meant as a snub to people who tried to download Stepfather early from the web and got this "internet leak" instead.
This track appears on the following releases:
- A fake Internet "leak" in 2006.
- Redheaded Stepfather: The Fake Leak (2006) (CD-R) - HipHopSite.com promo with the online purchase of Stepfather
