MAIDEN LYRICS - En Vivo (Album)

EN VIVO!
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	Satellite 15...The Final Frontier
	El Dorado
	2 Minutes To Midnight
	The Talisman
	Coming Home
	Dance Of Death
	The Trooper
	The Wicker Man
	Blood Brothers
	When The Wild Wind Blows
	The Evil That Men Do
	Fear Of The Dark
	Iron Maiden
	The Number Of The Beast
	Hallowed Be Thy Name
	Running Free

SATELLITE 15...THE FINAL FRONTIER

(Smith/Harris)

I try to call the Earth's command desperation in my voice, I'm drifting way of course now with very little choice

The loneliness is hard to bear I try to calm my fear, just hoping any second now some contact filters through

Desperate calls, signal back from satellite, as my life flashes before me

Try again, must get through, hear me now for I've very little time

Not much time, hear my call, please get through I am here

I'm stranded in space, I'm lost without a trace, I haven't a chance of getting away

Too close to the Sun I surely will burn, like Icarus before me or so legend goes

I think of my life reliving my past, there's nothing but wait 'til my time comes

I've had a good life I'd do it again, maybe I'll come back some time afresh

For I have lived my life to the full I have no regrets, but I wish I could talk to my family to tell them one last goodbye

The Final Frontier...The Final Frontier

If I could survive to live one more time I wouldn't be changing a thing at all

Done more in my life than some do in ten I'd go back and do it all over again

For I have lived my life to the full I have no regrets, but I wish I could talk to my family to tell them that one last goodbye

The Final Frontier...The Final Frontier

There isn't much time must say my last rites, nobody is here to read them to me

Must say my goodbyes if only a line, a message to tell them in case they might find...

For I have lived my life to the full I have no regrets, but I wish I could talk to my family to tell them that one last goodbye

The Final Frontier...The Final Frontier

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EL DORADO

(Smith/Harris/Dickinson)

Gotta tell you a story on a cold winters night

You'll be sailin' for glory before you know what is right

So come over here now I got a vision for you

It's my personal snake oil it's just something I do

I'm the jester with no tears and I'm playing on your fears

I'm a trickster smiling underneath this mask of love and death

The eternal lie I've told about the pyramids of gold

I've got you hooked at every turn your money's left to burn

You'll be wanting a contract you'll be waiting a while

I'd like to give you my contact but that isn't my style

Well you only get one chance and it's too good to miss

If I gave a lot to ya then I wouldn't exist

Greed lust and angry pride it's the same old same old ride

The smoke and mirrors visions that you see are just like me

I'm a clever banker's face with just a letter out of place

I know someone just like you knows someone just like me

El Dorado come and play El Dorado step this way

Take a ticket for the ride El Dorado streets of gold

See my ship is over sold you've got one last chance to try

So gone is the glory and gone is the gold

Well if you need a story I've come it has to be told

Well you can say I'm a devil and I wouldn't say no

But out here on the dark side hey on with the show

So now my tale is told big and bad and twice as bold

The ship of fools is sinking as the cracks begin to grow

There is no easy way for an honest man today

Which is something you should think of as my life boat sails away

El Dorado come and play El Dorado step this way

Take a ticket for the ride El Dorado streets of gold

See my ship is over sold you've got one last chance to try

El Dorado come and play El Dorado step this way

Take a ticket for the ride El Dorado streets of gold

See my ship is over sold you've got one last chance to try

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2 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT

(Smith/Dickinson)

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 on the loose or the Demon's seed, the glamour, the fortune, the pain

Go to war again blood is freedom's stain, don't you pray fro 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 fee it with our babies

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

2 minutes to midnight

The hands that threaten doom

2 minutes to midnight

To kill the unborn in the womb

Midnight...all night...

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THE TALISMAN

(Gers/Harris)

When I stand and look about the port and contemplate my life

Will I ever see my countrymen again ?

As the captain calls us on the deck I take my things and walk to the harbour side

I glance back one last time

Fleeing our nation our problems we leave behind

Ships by the ten fold sail out on the tide

We are pleased to be out and embracing the open sea

Free from our troubles and more free from thee

Inheritors unfilled reason behind us we flee from what is not what is will be

We flee the earth and face our harsh reality will death be low mist that hangs on the sea

We run from the evil tongues rash judgements selfish men

Never to be seen on these shores again

As we sail into oceamize and lose sight of land a face of contentment around in the air

We're off now to seek all our fortunes to the land of our dreams

Riding the waves and the storm is upon us

The winds lash the sails but the ropes keep them tight

Off in the distance a dark cloud approaching

None could imagine what there was to come

No there's no one going back

No there's not a second chance

As we strap onto the side we pray to God that we won't die

As we ride the rough seas as we soak from the ocean waves

I just hope for all our lives and pray that I survive

Four ships are lost in the stormy conditions

The spirits of the sunken crews their phantoms follow us

Spirits sails they drive us on through the all consuming waves

Cold mortality no weapon against these ever raging seas

Four leagues and ten and we hit storms again

We just can't get away from the eye of the storm

The birds out soar the raging storm but we cannot escape it

Abandoned earth that we now crave is many leagues from safe

Holding on for our dear lives and we're praying once again

Rotten luck or just jonahed the talisman is in my hand

Limbs fatigued trembling with cold blinded from the sea spray salt

Clasping anything we can hold heaven's rain upon us falls

Twenty days without a meal and ten without fresh water still

Those that didn't die in storms the scurvy rest did slaughter

Westward the tide

Westward we sail on

Westward the tide

Sail by the talisman

We approach the other side of the ocean with the tide

In our favour just for once welcome greeting our new land

The elation in our hearts the excitement in our veins

As we sail towards the coastline of our golden promised land

Weary limbs fatigued away I have no life left in me

No more strength and nothing left to give must find the will to live

Never thought that we could make it truly sight of shores divine

The sickness I am dying from never wanted it to end this way

Westward the tide

Westward we sail on

Westward the tide

Sail by the talisman

Westward the tide

Westward we sail on

Westward the tide

Sail by the talisman

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COMING HOME

(Smith/Harris/Dickinson)

When I stand before you shining in the early morning sun

When I feel the engines roar and I think of what we've done

Oh the bittersweet reflection as we kiss the earth goodbye

As the waves and echoes of the towns become the ghosts of time

Over borders that divide the Earthbound tribes

No creed and no religion just a hundred winged souls

We will ride this thunderbird silver shadows on the earth

A thousand leagues away our land of birth

To Albion's land

Coming home when I see the runway lights

In the misty dawn the night is fading fast

Coming home far away as the vapour trails alight

Where I've been tonight you know I will not stay

Curving on the edge of daylight 'til it slips into the void

Waited in the long night dreaming 'til the sun is born again

Stretch the fingers of my hand cover countries with my span

Just a lonely satellite speck of dust in cosmic sand

Over borders that divide the Earthbound tribes

Flown the dark Atlantic over mariners stormy graves

We will ride this thunderbird silver shadows on the earth

A thousand leagues away our land of birth

To Albion's land

Coming home when I see the runway lights

In the misty dawn the night is fading fast

Coming home far away as the vapour trails alight

Where I've been tonight you know I will not stay

To Albion's land

Coming home when I see the runway lights

In the misty dawn the night is fading fast

Coming home far away as the vapour trails alight

Where I've been tonight you know I will not stay

Coming home far away when I see the runway lights

In the misty dawn the night is fading fast

Coming home far away as the vapour trails alight

Where I've been tonight you know I will not stay

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DANCE OF DEATH

(Gers/Harris)

Let me tell you a story to chill the bones

'Bout a thing that I saw

One night wandering in the everglades

I'd one drink but no more

I was rambling enjoying the bright moonlight

Gazing up at the stars

Not aware of a presence so near to me

Watching my every move

Feeling scared and I fell to my knees

As something rushed me from the trees

Took me to an unholy place

And that is where I fell from grace

Then they summoned me over to join in with them

To the dance of the dead

Into the circle of fire I followed them

Into the middle I was led

As if time had stopped still I was numb with fear

But still I wanted to go

And the blaze of the fire did no hurt upon me

As I walked onto the coals

And I felt I was in a trance

And my spirit was lifted from me

And if only someone had the chance

To witness what happened to me

And I danced and I pranced and I sang with them

All had death in their eyes

Lifeless figures they were undead all of them

They had ascended from hell

As I danced with the dead

My free spirit was laughing and howling down at me

Below my undead body

Just danced the circle of dead

Until the time came to reunite us both

My spirit came back down to me

I didn't know if I was alive or dead

As the others all joined in with me

By luck then a skirmish started

And took the attention away from me

When they took their gaze from me

Was the moment that I fled

I ran like hell faster than the wind

But behind I did not glance

One thing that I did not dare

Was to look just straight ahead

When you know that your time has come around

You know you'll be prepared for it

Say your last goodbyes to everyone

Have a drink and say a prayer for it

When you're lying in your sleep, when you're lying in your bed

And you wake from your dreams to go dancing with the dead

When you're lying in your sleep, when you're lying in your bed

And you wake from your dreams to go dancing with the dead

To this day I guess I'll never know

Just why they let me go

But I'll never go dancing no more

'Til I dance with the dead

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THE TROOPER

(Harris)

You'll take my life but I'll take yours too

You'll fire your musket but I'll run you through

So when you're waiting for the next attack

You' d better stand there's no turning back

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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THE WICKER MAN

(Smith/Harris/Dickinson)

Hand of fate is moving and the finger points to you

He knocks you to your feet and so what are you gonna do

Your tongue has frozen now you've got something to say

The piper at the gates of dawn is calling you his way

You watch the world exploding every single night

Dancing in the sun a newborn in the light

Say goodbye to gravity and say goodbye to death

Hello to eternity and live for every breath

Your time will come, your time will come

The ferryman wants his money you ain't going to give it back

He can push his own boat as you set up off the track

Nothing you can contemplate will ever be the same

Every second is a new spark, sets the universe aflame

You watch the world exploding every single night

Dancing in the sun a newborn in the light

Brothers and their fathers joining hands and make a chain

The shadow of the Wicker Man is rising up again

Your time will come, your time will come

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BLOOD BROTHERS

(Harris)

And if you're taking a walk through the garden of life

What do you think you'd expect you would see?

Just like a mirror reflecting the moves of your life

And in the river reflections of me

Just for a second a glimpse of my father I see

And in a movement he beckons to me

And in a moment the memories are all that remain

And all the wounds are reopening again

We're blood brothers, we're blood brothers

And as you look all around at the world in dismay

What do you see, do you think we have learned

Not if you're taking a look at the war-torn affray

Out in the streets where the babies are burned

We're blood brothers, we're blood brothers

There are times when I feel I'm afraid for the world

There are times I'm ashamed of us all

When you're floating on all the emotion you feel

And reflecting the good and the bad

Will we ever know what the answer to life really is?

Can you really tell me what life is?

Maybe all the things that you know that are precious to you

Could be swept away by fate's own hand

We're blood brothers, we're blood brothers

When you think that we've used all our chances

And the chance to make everything right

Keep on making the same old mistakes

Makes untipping the balance so easy

When we're living our lives on the edge

Say a prayer on the book of the dead

We're blood brothers, we're blood brothers

And if you're taking a walk through the garden of life...

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WHEN THE WILD WIND BLOWS

(Harris)

Have you heard what they said on the news today

Have you heard what is coming to us all

That the world as we know it will be coming to an end

Have you heard have you heard

He sees them in the distance when the darkened clouds roll

He could feel tension in the atmosphere

He would look in the mirror see an old man now

Does it matter they survive somehow

They said there's nothing can be done about the situation

They said there's nothing you can do at all

To sit and wait around for something to occur

Did you know did you know

As he stares across the garden looking at the meadows

Wonders if they'll ever grow again

The desperation of the situation getting graver

Getting ready when the wild wind blows

Have you seen what they said on the news today

Have you heard what they said about us all

Do you know what is happening to just every one of us

Have you heard have you heard

There will be a catastrophe the like we've never seen

There will be something that will light the sky

That the world as we know it it will never be the same

Did you know did you know

He carries everything into the shelter not a fuss

Getting ready when the moment comes

He has enough supplies to last them for a year or two

Good to have because you never know

They tell us nothing that we don't already know about

They tell us nothing that is real at all

They only fill us with the stuff that they want

Did you know did you know

He's nearly finished with the preparations for the day

He's getting tired that'll do for now

They are preparing for the very worst to come to them

Getting ready when the wild wind blows

He sees the picture on the wall it's falling down upside down

He sees a tear drop from his wife roll down her face saying Grace

Remember times they had they flash right through his mind left behind

Of a lifetime spent together long ago will be gone

They've been preparing for some weeks now

For when the crucial moment comes

To take their refuge in the shelter

Let them prepare for what will come

They make a tea and sit there waiting

They're in the shelter feeling snug

Not long to wait for absolution

Don't make a fuss just sit and wait

Can't believe all the lying

All the screens are denying

That the moments of truth have begun

Can't you see it on the TV

Don't believe them in the least bit

Now the days of our ending have begun

Say a prayer when it's all over

Survivors unite all as one

Got to try and help each other

Got the will to overcome

I can't believe all the lying

All the screens are denying

That the moments of truth have begun

Can't you see it on the TV

Don't believe them in the least bit

Now the days of our ending have begun

When they found them had their arms wrapped around each other

Their tins of poison laying near by their clothes

The day they both mistook an earthquake for the fallout

Just another when the wild wind blows

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THE EVIL THAT MEN DO

(Smith/Dickinson/Harris)

Love is a razor and I walked the line on that silver blade

Slept in the dust with his daughter, her eyes red with the slaughter of innocence

But I will pray for her, I will call her name out loud

I would bleed for her, if I could see her now

Living on a razors edge

Balancing on a ledge

Living on a razors edge

Oh - balancing on a ledge

Living on a razors edge

Balancing on a ledge

The evil that men do lives on and on

Circle of fire my baptism of joy at an end it seems

The seventh lamb slain the book of life opens before me

And I will pray for you, some day I may return

I would die for you, beyond is where I learn

Living on a razors edge

Balancing on a ledge

Living on a razors edge

The evil that men do lives on and on

Living on a razors edge

Balancing on a ledge

Living on a razors edge

The evil that men do lives on and on

The evil, the evil, the evil that men do

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FEAR OF THE DARK

(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