Tag: Iron Maiden

Metal March Day 14

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Run to the Hills
Iron Maiden
1982

Iron Maiden are up there as hallowed gods of metal. Run to the Hills, written by Steve Harris, is one of Maiden’s classics and really has to be on the metal playlist, so here it is

Metal March Day 3

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Fear of the Dark
Iron Maiden
1992

Sure I fear something when I am out alone at night – that something is discrimination and prejudice – I have faced it more times than I care to mention. I won’t let it stop me being me.

“When I’m walking a dark road
I am a man who walks alone”
Those last two lines say something else – and it nails me every time as if I am drifting to the darker places I go alone.

Wasting Love by Iron Maiden

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Wasting Love
Album: Fear of the Dark
Date: 1992
Genre: Rock

Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band formed in London in 1975 by bassist and songwriter Steve Harris. The band’s discography to date includes 39 albums, 4 EPs, and 7 compilations. Pioneers of the resurgence of British heavy metal, Iron Maiden achieved their initial success during the early 1980s. They are considered one of the most successful heavy metal bands in history, supported by their mascot ‘Eddie’ who has appeared on almost all of their album and single covers, and at their live shows

Wasted Years by Iron Maiden

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Wasted Years
Album: Somewhere In Time
Date: 1986
Genre: Metal

Lyrics by Adrian Frederick Smith

Wasted years!
One, two, three-

From the coast of gold, across the seven seas
Travelin’ on, far and wide
But now it seems I’m just a stranger to myself
And all the things I sometimes do, it isn’t me but someone else

I close my eyes and I think of home
Another city goes by in the night
Ain’t it funny how it is? You never miss it til’ it’s gone away
And my heart is lying there, will be ’til my dying day, Adrian!

So understand
Don’t waste your time always searching for those wasted years
Face up, make your stand
Realize you’re living in the golden years

Too much time on my hands, I got you on my mind
Can’t ease this pain so easily
When you can’t find the words to say, hard to make it through another day
And it makes me wanna cry, throw my hands up to the sky

So understand
Don’t waste your time always searching for those wasted years
Face up, make your stand
Realize you’re living in the golden years, hey!

So understand, Adrian!
Don’t waste your time always searching for those wasted years
Face up, make your stand
Realize you’re living in the golden years

So understand
Don’t waste your time always searching for those wasted years
Face up, make your stand
Realize you’re living in the golden years, hey!

Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band formed in London in 1975 by bassist and songwriter Steve Harris. The band’s discography to date includes 39 albums, 4 EPs, and 7 compilations. Pioneers of the resurgence of British heavy metal, Iron Maiden achieved their initial success during the early 1980s. They are considered one

Flight of Icarus by Iron Maiden

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Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band formed in London in 1975 by bassist and songwriter Steve Harris. The band’s discography to date includes 39 albums, 4 EPs, and 7 compilations. Pioneers of the resurgence of British heavy metal, Iron Maiden achieved their initial success during the early 1980s. They are considered one of the most successful heavy metal bands in history, supported by their mascot ‘Eddie’ who has appeared on almost all of their album and single covers, and at their live shows.

Flight of Icarus
Album: Piece of Mind
Date: 1983
Genre: Metal

Lyrics by Iron Maiden

As the sun breaks above the ground
An old man stands on the hill
As the ground warms to the first rays of light
A birdsong shatters the still

His eyes are ablaze
See the madman in his gaze

Fly on your way, like an eagle
Fly as high as the sun
On your way, like an eagle
Fly, touch the sun, yeah

Now the crowd breaks and a young boy appears
Looks the old man in the eye
As he spreads his wings and shouts at the crowd
In the name of God my father, I fly

His eyes seem so glazed
As he flies on the wings of a dream
Now he knows his father betrayed
Now his wings turn to ashes, to ashes his grave

Fly on your way like an eagle
Fly as high as the sun
On your way, like an eagle
Fly, touch the sun

Yeah, fly on your way like an eagle
Fly as high as the sun
On your way, like an eagle
Fly as high as the sun

On your way, like an eagle
Fly, touch the sun
On your way, like an eagle
Fly!

Fly as high as the sun

Fear of the Dark by Iron Maiden

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Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band formed in London in 1975 by bassist and songwriter Steve Harris. The band’s discography to date includes 39 albums, 4 EPs, and 7 compilations. Pioneers of the resurgence of British heavy metal, Iron Maiden achieved their initial success during the early 1980s. They are considered one of the most successful heavy metal bands in history, supported by their mascot ‘Eddie’ who has appeared on almost all of their album and single covers, and at their live shows.

Fear of the Dark
Album: Fear of the Dark
Date: 1992
Genre: Rock

Lyrics by Steve Harris

I am a man who walks alone
And when I'm walking a dark road
At night or strolling through the park
When the light begins to change
I sometimes feel a little strange
A little anxious when it's dark
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have a constant fear that somethings always near
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have a phobia that someone's always there
Have you run your fingers down the wall
And have you felt your neck skin crawl
When you're searching for the light?
Sometimes when you're scared to take a look
At the corner of the room
You've sensed that somethings watching you
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have a constant fear that somethings always near
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have a phobia that someone's always there
Have you ever been alone at night
Thought you heard footsteps behind
And turned around and no one's there?
And as you quicken up your pace
You find it hard to look again
Because you're sure there's someone there
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have a constant fear that somethings always near
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have a phobia that someone's always there
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
Watching horror films the night before
Debating witches and folklores
The unknown troubles on your mind
Maybe your mind is playing tricks
You sense, and suddenly eyes fix
On dancing shadows from behind
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have a constant fear that somethings always near
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have a phobia that someone's always there
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have a constant fear that somethings always near
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have a phobia that someone's always there
When I'm walking a dark road
I am a man who walks alone

Aces High by Iron Maiden

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Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band formed in London in 1975 by bassist and songwriter Steve Harris. The band’s discography to date includes 39 albums, 4 EPs, and 7 compilations. Pioneers of the resurgence of British heavy metal, Iron Maiden achieved their initial success during the early 1980s. They are considered one of the most successful heavy metal bands in history, supported by their mascot ‘Eddie’ who has appeared on almost all their album and single covers, and at their live shows

Aces High
1984
Album: Powerslave
Genre: Heavy Metal

Aces High, a song by heavy metal band Iron Maiden and written by the band’s bassist Steve Harris. The second single release from the album ‘Powerslave’ it was the band’s eleventh single.

Lyrics by Stephen Percy Harris

There goes the siren that warns of the air raid
There comes the sound of the guns sending flak
Out for the scramble, we've got to get airborne
Got to get up for the coming attack
Jump in the cockpit and start up the engines
Remove all the wheel blocks, there's no time to waste
Gathering speed as we head down the runway
Got to get airborne before it's too late
Running, scrambling, flying
Rolling, turning, diving, going in again
Running, scrambling, flying
Rolling, turning, diving
Run, live to fly
Fly to live
Do or die
Won't you run?
Live to fly
Fly to live
Aces high
Move in to fire at the mainstream of bombers
Let off a sharp burst and then turn away
Roll over, spin 'round to come in behind them
Move to their blindsides and firing again
Bandits at 8 o'clock move in behind us
Ten ME-109s out of the sun
Ascending and turning our spitfires to face them
Heading straight for them, I press down my guns
Rolling, turning, diving
Rolling, turning, diving, doing it again
Rolling, turning, diving
Rolling, turning, diving
Run, live to fly
Fly to live
Do or die
Won't you run?
Live to fly
Fly to live
Aces high

2 Minutes to Midnight by Iron Maiden

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Artist: Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band formed in London in 1975 by bassist and songwriter Steve Harris. The band’s discography to date includes 39 albums, 4 EPs, and 7 compilations. Pioneers of the resurgence of British heavy metal, Iron Maiden achieved their initial success during the early 1980s. They are considered one of the most successful heavy metal bands in history, supported by their mascot ‘Eddie’ who has appeared on almost all their album and single covers, and at their live shows.

Title: 2 Minutes to Midnight
Date: 1984
Genre: Heavy Metal
Album: Powerslave

‘2 Minutes to Midnight’ featured on the fifth Iron Maiden album, ‘Powerslave.’ Released as their tenth single in 1984 it achieved number 11 in the UK Singles Chart. It was Maiden’s first single to exceed five minutes’ play length, and remained their longest single until ‘Infinite Dreams’ in 1989.

Lyrics by Dickinson Paul Bruce / Smith Adrian Frederick

Kill for gain or shoot to maim
But we don't need a reason
The Golden Goose is on the loose
And never out of season.
Blackened pride still burns inside
This shell of bloody treason
Here's my gun for a barrel of fun
For the love of living death.

The killer's breed or the Demon's seed,
The glamour, the fortune and the pain,
Go to war again, blood is freedom's stain,
Don't you pray for my soul anymore.

2 minutes to midnight,
The hands that threaten doom.
2 minutes to midnight,
To kill the unborn in the womb.

The blind men shout let the creatures out
We'll show the unbelievers,
The Napalm screams of human flames
Of a prime time Belsen feast… YEAH!
As the reasons for the carnage cut their meat and lick the gravy,
We oil the jaws of the war machine and feed it with our babies.

The killer's breed or the Demon's seed,
The glamour, the fortune and the pain,
Go to war again, blood is freedom's stain,
Don't you pray for my soul anymore.

2 minutes to midnight,
The hands that threaten doom.
2 minutes to midnight,
To kill the unborn in the womb.

The body bags and little rags of children torn in two,
And the jellied brains of those who remain to put the finger right on you
As the madmen play on words and make us all dance to their song,
To the tune of starving millions, to make a better kind of gun.

The killer's breed or the Demon's seed,
The glamour, the fortune and the pain,
Go to war again, blood is freedom's stain,
Don't you pray for my soul anymore.

2 minutes to midnight,
The hands that threaten doom.
2 minutes to midnight,
To kill the unborn in the womb.
Midnight… is all night…
Midnight… all night…

Hallowed Be Thy Name by Iron Maiden

~ JezzieG

Artist: Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band formed in London in 1975 by bassist and songwriter Steve Harris. The band’s discography to date includes 39 albums, 4 EPs, and 7 compilations. Pioneers of the resurgence of British heavy metal, Iron Maiden achieved their initial success during the early 1980s. They are considered one of the most successful heavy metal bands in history, supported by their mascot ‘Eddie’ who has appeared on almost all their album and single covers, and at their live shows.

Title: Hallowed Be Thy Name
Year: 1982
Album: The Number of the Beast
Genre: Heavy Metal

Written by Steve Harris for the 1982 album ‘The Number of the Beast’, ‘Hallowed Be Thy Name’ has been acclaimed as one of the greatest heavy metal songs of all time and is considered one of Iron Maiden’s signature songs.

Lyrics written by Steve Harris

I’m waiting in my cold cell, when the bell begins to chime
Reflecting on my past life and it doesn’t have much time
‘Cause at 5 O’clock they take me to the gallows pole, yeah
The sands of time for me are running low, running low

When the priest comes to read me the last rites
Take a look through the bars at the last sights
Of a world that has gone very wrong for me

Can it be that there’s some sort of error
Hard to stop the surmounting terror
Is it really the end, not some crazy dream?

Somebody please tell me that I’m dreaming
It’s not easy to stop from screaming
But words escape me when I try to speak

Tears fall but why am I crying
After all I’m not afraid of dying
Don’t I believe that there never is an end

As the guards march me out to the courtyard
Somebody cries from a cell, ‘God be with you’
If there’s a God then why has He let me go?

As I walk my life drifts before me
Though the end is near I’m not sorry
Catch my soul, it’s willing to fly away

Mark my words, believe my soul lives on
Don’t worry now I have gone
Gone beyond to seek the truth, yeah, yeah

When you know that your time is close at hand
Maybe then you’ll begin to understand
Life down here is just a strange illusion

Yeah, hallowed be thy name
Yeah, hallowed be thy name
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah