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| Recorded for the BBC Radio 1 Friday Rock Show 14th November 1979 | Iron Maiden | |
| Running Free | ||
| Transylvania | ||
| Sanctuary | ||
| Recorded at the Reading Festival U K 28th August 1982 | Wrathchild | |
| Run To The Hills | ||
| Children Of The Damned | ||
| The Number Of The Beast | ||
| 22 Acacia Avenue | ||
| Transylvania | ||
| The Prisoner | ||
| Hallowed Be Thy Name | ||
| Phantom Of The Opera | ||
| Iron Maiden | ||
| Recorded at the Reading Festival U K 23rd August 1980 | Prowler | |
| Remember Tomorrow | ||
| Killers | ||
| Running Free | ||
| Transylvania | ||
| Iron Maiden | ||
| Recorded at Donington Monsters Of Rock U K 20th August 1988 | Moonchild | |
| Wrathchild | ||
| Infinite Dreams | ||
| The Trooper | ||
| Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son | ||
| The Number Of The Beast | ||
| Hallowed Be Thy Name | ||
| Iron Maiden |
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(Harris) |
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Won't you come into my room, I want to show you all my wares |
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I just want to see your blood, I just want to stand and stare |
| See the blood begin to flow, as it falls upon the floor |
| Iron Maiden can't be fought, Iron Maiden can't be sought |
| Oh well, wherever, wherever you are |
| Iron Maiden's gonna get you, no matter how far |
| See the blood begin to flow, watching it shed up above my head |
| Iron Maiden wants you for dead |
| All my feelings cannot be held, I'm happy in my new strange world |
| Won't you come into my room, I want to show you all my wares |
| I just want to see your blood, I just want to stand and stare |
| See the blood begin to flow, as it falls upon the floor |
| Iron Maiden can't be fought, Iron Maiden can't be sought |
| Oh well, wherever, wherever you are |
| Iron Maiden's gonna get you, no matter how far |
| See the blood begin to flow, watching it shed up above my head |
| Iron Maiden wants you for dead |
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(Harris/Di'anno) |
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Just sixteen a pickup truck, out of money out of luck |
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I've got no place to call my own, Hit the gas and here I go |
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I'm running free yeh, I'm running free |
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I'm running free yeh, I'm running free |
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Spend the night in an L.A. jail, listen to the sirens wail |
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But they ain't got a thing on me, I'm running wild I'm running free |
| I'm running free yeh, I'm running free |
| I'm running free yeh, I'm running free |
| Pulled her at the Bottle Top, whiskey dancing disco hop |
| And all the boys are after me, and that's the way it's gonna be |
| I'm running free yeh, I'm running free |
| I'm running free yeh, I'm running free |
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(Harris) |
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Instrumental |
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(Harris/Murray/Di'anno) |
| Out of winter came a warhorse of steel |
| I've never killed a woman before but I know how it feels |
| I'd know you'd have gone insane if you saw what I saw |
| So now I've got to look for sanctuary from the law |
| I met up with a stranger last night to keep me alive |
| He spends all his time on gambling and guns to survive |
| I'd know you'd have gone insane if you saw what I saw |
| So now I've got to look for sanctuary from the law |
| So give me sanctuary from the law...and I'll be alright |
| Sanctuary from the law...and love me tonight |
| I'd know you'd have gone insane if you saw what I saw |
| So now I've got to look for sanctuary from the law |
| So give me sanctuary from the law...and I'll be alright |
| Just give me sanctuary from the law...and love me tonight |
| I can laugh at the wind |
| I can howl at the rain |
| Down in the canyon or out on the plain |
| I'd know you'd have gone insane if you saw what I saw |
| So now I've got to look for sanctuary from the law |
| So give me sanctuary from the law...and I'll be alright |
| Just give me sanctuary from the law...and love me tonight, tonight |
| Love me tonight |
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(Harris/Smith) |
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If you're feeling down depressed an lonely, I know a place where we can go |
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22 Acacia Avenue meet a lady that I know |
| So if you're looking for a good time, and you're prepared to pay the price |
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Fifteen quid is all she asks for, everybody's got their vice |
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If you're waiting for a long time for the rest to do their piece |
| You can tell her that you know me and you might even get it free |
| So any time you're down the East End don't you hesitate to go |
| You can take my honest word for it she'll teach you more than you can know |
| Charlotte can't you get out from all this madness |
| Can't you see it only brings you sadness |
| When you entertain your men don't you know the risk of getting disease |
| Someday when you're reaching the age of forty, I bet you'll regret the days when you were laying |
| Nobody then will want to know, You won't have any more beautiful wares to show any more |
| 22, the avenue that's the place where we all go |
| You will find it's warm inside, the red light's burning bright tonight |
| Charlotte isn't it time you stopped this mad life, don't you ever think about the bad times |
| Why do you have to live this way, do you enjoy your lay or is the pay |
| Sometimes when you're strolling down the avenue, the way you walk it makes men think of having you |
| When you're walking down the street, everybody stops and turns to stare at you |
| Beat her mistreat her do anything that you please, bite her excite her make her get down on her knees |
| Abuse her misuse her she can take all that you've got, caress her molest her she always does want you want |
| You're running away don't you know what you're doing, can't you see it'll lead you to ruin |
| Charlotte you've taken your life and you've thrown it away |
| You believe that because what you're earning, your life's good don't you know that you're hurting |
| All the people that love you don't cast them aside |
| All the men that are constantly drooling, it's no life for you stop all that screwing |
| You're packing your bags and you're coming with me |
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(Harris) |
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He's walking like a small child, but watch his eyes burn you away |
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Black holes in his golden stare, God knows he wants to go home |
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Children of the damned |
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Children of the damned |
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Children of the damned |
| Children of the damned |
| He's walking like a dead man, if he had lived he would have crucified us all |
| Now he's standing on the last step, he thought oblivion, well it beckons us all |
| Children of the damned |
| Children of the damned |
| Children of the damned |
| Children of the damned |
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Now it's burning his hands, he's turning to laugh |
| Smiles as the flames sear his flesh |
| Melting his face, screaming in pain |
| Watch him die according to plan |
| He's dust on the ground, what did we learn |
| You're children of the damned |
| Your back's against the wall |
| You turn into the light |
| You're children of the damned |
| Like candles watch them burn |
| Burning in the light |
| You'll burn again tonight |
| You're children of the damned |
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(Harris) |
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I'm waiting in my cold cell when the bell begins to chime |
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Reflecting on my past life and it doesn't have much time |
| Cos at 5 o'clock they take me to the Gallows Pole |
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The sands of time for me are running low |
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When the priest comes to read me the last rites |
| I take a look through the bars at the last sights |
| Of a world that has gone very wrong for me |
| Can it be there's been 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 so easy to stop from screaming |
| But words escape me when I try to speak |
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Tears they flow 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 |
| Someone calls from a cell "God be with you" |
| If there's a God then why has he let me die? |
| As I walk all my life drifts before me |
| And though the end is near I'm not sorry |
| Catch my soul cos it's willing to fly away |
| Mark my words please believe my soul lives on |
| Please don't worry now that I have gone |
| I've gone beyond to see the truth |
| When you know that your time is close at hand |
| Maybe then you'll begin to understand |
| Life down there is just a strange illusion |
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(Harris) |
| Infinite dreams I can't deny them, infinity is hard to comprehend |
| I couldn't hear those screams, even in my wildest dreams |
| Suffocation waking in a sweat |
| Scared to fall asleep again, in case the dream begins again |
| Someone chasing I cannot move, standing rigid a nightmare's statue |
| What a dream when will it end, and will I transcend? |
| Restless sleep the minds in turmoil, one nightmare ends another fertile |
| Getting to me so scared to sleep, but scared to wake now in too deep |
| Even though its reached new heights, I rather like the restless nights |
| It makes me wonder it makes me think, there's more to this I'm on the brink |
| It's not the fear of what's beyond, It's just that I might not respond |
| I have an interest almost craving, but would I like to get too far in? |
| It can't all be coincidence, too many things are evident |
| You tell me you're an unbeliever, spiritualist? well me I'm neither |
| But wouldn't you like to know the truth |
| Of what's out there to have the proof |
| And find out just which side you're on |
| Where would you end in Heaven or in Hell? |
| Help me, help me to find my true self without seeing the future |
| Save me, save me from torturing myself even within my dreams |
| There's got to be just more to it than this, or tell me why do we exist |
| I'd like to think that when I die, I'd get a chance another time |
| And to return and live again, reincarnate play the game |
| Again and again and again |
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(Harris/Di'anno) |
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You walk through the subway, his eyes burn a hole in your back |
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A footstep behind you, he lunges prepared for attack |
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Scream for mercy, he laughs as he's watching you bleed |
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Killer behind you, his blood lust defies all his needs |
| My innocent victims, are slaughtered with wrath and despise |
| The mocking religion of hatred, that burns in the night |
| I have no-one, am bound to destroy all this greed |
| A voice inside me, compelling to satisfy me |
| I can see, what a life's meant to be |
| You'll never know, how I came to foresee |
| My faith in believing is stronger, than lifelines and ties |
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The glimmer of metal, my moment is ready to strike |
| The death call arises, a scream breaks the still of the night |
| Another tomorrow, remember to walk in the light |
| I have found you, and now there is no place to run |
| Excitement shakes me, Oh God help me what have I done |
| Yeah I've done it again! |
| He walks through the subway, his eyes burn a hole through your back |
| A footstep behind you, he lunges prepared for attack |
| Scream for mercy, he laughs as he's watching you bleed |
| Killer behind you, his blood lust defies all his needs |
| Look out I'm coming for you! |
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(Smith/Dickinson) |
| "Seven deadly sins, seven ways to win |
| Seven holy paths to hell and your trip begins |
| Seven downward slopes, seven bloodied hopes |
| Seven are your burning fires, seven your desires..." |
| I am he the boneless one, the fallen angel watching you |
| Babylon the scarlet whore, I'll infiltrate your gratitude |
| Don't you dare to save your son, kill him now and save the young ones |
| Be the mother of a birth strangled babe, be the devil's own Lucifer's my name |
| Moonchild - hear the mandrake scream |
| Moonchild - open the seventh seal |
| I count the heads of those unborn, the accursed ones I'll find them all |
| If you die by your own hand, as a suicide you shall be damned |
| And if you try to save your soul, i will torment you - you shall not grow old |
| With every second and passing breath, you'll be so alone your soul will bleed to death |
| Moonchild - hear the mandrake scream |
| Moonchild - open the seventh seal |
| Moonchild - you'll be mine soon child |
| Moonchild - take my hand tonight |
| The twins they are exhausted, seven in the night |
| Gemini is rising as the red lips kiss to bite |
| Seven angels seven demons battle for his soul |
| When Gabriel lies sleeping this child was born to die |
| One more dies one more lives, one baby cries one mother grieves |
| For all the sins you will commit, you'll beg forgiveness and none I'll give |
| A web of fear shall be your coat, to clothe you in the night |
| A lucky escape for you young man but I'll see you damned in endless night |
| Moonchild - hear the mandrake scream |
| Moonchild - open the seventh seal |
| Moonchild - you'll be mine soon child |
| Moonchild - take my hand tonight |
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(Harris) |
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I've been looking so long for you now, you won't get away from my grasp |
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You've been living so long in hiding, hiding behind that false mask |
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You know and I know that you ain't got that long to last |
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Your looks and your feelings are just the remains of your past |
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Standing in the wings there, you wait for the curtain to fall |
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Knowing the terror and holding you have on us all |
| I know that you're going to scratch me and maim me and maul |
| You know I'm helpless from your mesmerising cat call |
| Keep your distance walk away don't take his bait, don't you stray don't fade away |
| Watch your step he's out to get you come what may, Don't you stray from the narrow way |
| I'm running and hiding, in my dreams you're always there |
| You're the Phantom of the Opera, you're the devil you're just out to scare |
| You damaged my mind and my soul, it just floats through the air |
| You haunt me you taunt me, you torture me back at your lair |
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(Harris) |
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Walking through the city, looking oh so pretty |
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I've just got to find my way |
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See the ladies flashing, all their legs and lashes |
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I've just got to find my way |
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Well you see me crawling through the bushes with it open wide |
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What you seeing girl? |
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Can't you believe that feeling |
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Can't you believe it |
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Can't you believe your eyes? |
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It's the real thing girl |
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Got me feeling myself, and reeling around |
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Got me talking, but feel like walking around |
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I'm on my way |
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(Harris/Di'anno) |
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Unchain the colours before my eyes, yesterdays sorrows tomorrows white lies |
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Scan the horizon the clouds take me higher, I shall return from out of the fire |
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Tears for remembrance and tears for joy, tears for somebody and this lonely boy |
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Out in the madness the all seeing eye, flickers above us to light up the sky |
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Unchain the colours before my eyes, yesterdays sorrows tomorrows white lies |
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Scan the horizon the clouds take me higher, I shall return from out the fire |
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(Harris) |
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White man came across the sea, brought us pain and misery |
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Killed our tribes killed our creed, took our game for his own need |
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We fought him hard we fought him well, out on the plains we gave him hell |
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But many came too much for Cree, oh will we ever be set free? |
| Riding through dustclouds and barren wastes, galloping hard on the plains |
| Chasing the redskins back to their holes, fighting them at their own game |
| Murder for freedom the stab in the back, women and children and cowards attack |
| Run to the hills, run for your lives |
| Run to the hills, run for your lives |
| Soldier blue in the barren wastes, hunting and killing their game |
| Raping the women and wasting the men, the only good Indians are tame |
| Selling them whiskey and taking their gold, enslaving the young and destroying the old |
| Run to the hills, run for your lives |
| Run to the hills, run for your lives |
| Run to the hills, run for your lives |
| Run to the hills, run for your lives |
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(Harris) |
| Here they stand brothers them all, all the sons divided they'd fall |
| Here await the birth of the son, the seventh the heavenly the chosen one |
| Here the birth from an unbroken line, born the healer the seventh his time |
| Unknowingly blessed and as his life unfolds, slowly unveiling the power he holds |
| Seventh son of a seventh son |
| Seventh son of a seventh son |
| Seventh son of a seventh son |
| Seventh son of a seventh son |
| Seventh son of a seventh son |
| Seventh son of a seventh son |
| Seventh son of a seventh son |
| Seventh son of a seventh son |
| Then they watch the progress he makes, the Good and the Evil which path will he take |
| Both of them trying to manipulate, the use of his powers before it's too late |
| Seventh son of a seventh son |
| Seventh son of a seventh son |
| Seventh son of a seventh son |
| Seventh son of a seventh son |
| Seventh son of a seventh son |
| Seventh son of a seventh son |
| Seventh son of a seventh son |
| Seventh son of a seventh son |
| "Today is born the seventh one |
| Born of woman the seventh son |
| And he in turn of a seventh son |
| He has the power to heal |
| He has the gift of the second sight |
| He is the chosen one |
| So it shall be written |
| So it shall be done" |
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(Harris) |
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I left alone my mind was black, I needed time to get the memories from my mind |
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What did I see can I believe, that what I saw that night was real and not just fantasy |
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Just what I saw in my old dreams, were they reflections of my warped mind staring back at me |
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Cos in my dreams it's always there, the evil face that twists my mind and brings me to despair |
| The night was black was no use holding back, cos I just had to see was someone watching me |
| In the mist dark figures move and twist, was this all for real or some kind of hell |
| 666 the number of the beast |
| Hell and fire was spawned to be released |
| Torches blazed and sacred chants were praised, as they start to cry hands held to the sky |
| In the night the fires burning bright, the ritual has begun Satan's work is done |
| 666 the number of the beast |
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Sacrifice is going on tonight |
| This can't go on I must inform the law, can this still be real or some crazy dream |
| But I feel drawn towards the evil chanting hordes, they seem to mesmerise me...can't avoid their eyes |
| 666 the number of the beast |
| 666 the one for you and me |
| I'm coming back I will return, and I'll possess your body and I'll make you burn |
| I have the fire I have the force, I have the power to make my evil takes its course |
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(Smith/Harris) |
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On the run kill to eat, you're starving now you're dead on your feet |
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Going all the way nature's beast, do what I want as I please |
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Run fight to breathe it's tough |
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Now you see me now you don't |
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Break the walls I'm coming out |
| Not a prisoner I'm a free man, and my blood is my own now |
| Don't care where the past was, I know where I'm going...out |
| If you kill me it's self defence, if I kill you then I call it vengeance |
| Spit in your eye I will defy, you'll be afraid when I call out your name |
| I'm not a number I'm a free man, I'll live my life how I want to |
| You'd better scratch me from your black book, cos I'll run rings around you |
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(Harris) |
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You'll take my life but I'll take yours too |
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You'll fire your musket but I'll run you through |
| So when you're waiting for the next attack |
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You' d better stand there's no turning back |
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The Bugle sounds and the charge begins |
| But on this battlefield no one wins |
| The smell of acrid smoke and horses breath |
| As I plunge on into certain death |
| The horse he sweats with fear we break to run |
| The mighty roar of the Russian guns |
| And as we race towards the human wall |
| The screams of pain as my comrades fall |
| We hurdle bodies that lay on the ground |
| And the Russians fire another round |
| We get so near yet so far away |
| We won't live to fight another day |
| We get so close near enough to fight |
| When a Russian gets me in his sights |
| He pulls the trigger and I feel the blow |
| A burst of rounds take my horse below |
| And as I lay there gazing at the sky |
| My body's numb and my throat is dry |
| And as I lay forgotten and alone |
| Without a tear I draw my parting groan |
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(Harris) |
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I was born into a scene of angriness and greed of dominance and persecution |
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My mother was a queen my dad I've never seen I was never meant to be |
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Now I spend my time looking all around, for a man that's nowhere to be found |
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Until I find him I've never gonna stop searching |
| I'm going to find my man, gonna travel round |
| Cos I'm a wrathchild |
| Yeah I'm a wrathchild |
| Well I'm a wrathchild |
| I'm coming to get you |
| Ooh yeah yeah |
| Some say it shouldn't matter ain't nothing gonna alter the course of my destination |
| But I know I've gotta find some serious piece of mind or I know I'll just go crazy |
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Now I spend my time looking all around, for a man that's nowhere to be found |
| Until I find him I've never gonna stop searching |
| I'm going to find my man, gonna travel round |
| Cos I'm a wrathchild |
| Yeah I'm a wrathchild |
| Well I'm a wrathchild |
| I'm coming to get you |
| Ooh yeah yeah |