L'Albatros

“I'm the albatross I swept in at the rescue”

Angela & Uncle Jerry note that in the final chorus, the song shifts from the Rime of the Ancient Mariner's negative albatross (ill omen) to Charles Baudelaire's more complimentary poem L'Albatros, in which the albatross is described as 'the prince of clouds.' This marks the song's reversal, Taylor transforms from being the bad-omen albatross of Coleridge to being the majestic, rescuing albatross of Baudelaire.