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The song's lyrics were based on the Samuel Taylor Coleridge-penned poem of the same name, which tells the tale of a sea vessel's doomed journey. The composition remains one of Maiden's most musically complex, as there are numerous time changes and contrasting sections (even a middle section where a ghoulish voice recites lines from Coleridge's poem). Although the song seemed to be made for the concert stage, the band performed it only occasionally in a live setting