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(1983) |
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| Where Eagles Dare | ||
| Revelations | ||
| Flight Of Icarus | ||
| Die With Your Boots On | ||
| The Trooper | ||
| Still Life | ||
| Quest For Fire | ||
| Sun And Steel | ||
| To Tame A Land |
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(Harris) |
| It's snowing outside, the rumbling sound of engines roar in the night |
| The mission is near, the confident men are waiting to drop from the sky |
| The blizzard goes on but still they must fly |
| No-one should go where eagles dare |
| Bavarian Alps that lay all around, they seem to stare from below |
| The enemy lines a long time passed, are lying deep in the snow |
| Into the night they fall through the sky |
| No-one should go where eagles dare |
| They're closing in the fortress is near, it's standing high in the sky |
| The cable cars the only way in, it's really impossible to climb |
| They make their way but maybe too late |
| They've got to try to save the day |
| The panicking cries, the roaring of guns are echoing all round the valley |
| The mission complete, they make to escape away from the Eagles Nest |
| They dared to go where no-one would try |
| They chose to fly where eagles dare |
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(Dickinson) |
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"O God of Earth an Altar, bow down and hear our cry |
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Our earthly rulers falter, our people drift and die |
| The walls of gold entomb us, the swords of scorn divide |
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Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride" |
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Just a babe in a black abyss, no reason for a place like this |
| The walls are cold and souls cry out in pain, an easy way for the blind to go |
| A clever path for the fools who know, the Secret of the Hangman - the smile on his lips |
| The light of the Blind - you'll see |
| The venom that tears my spine |
| The Eyes of the Nile are opening - you'll see |
| She came to me with a serpents kiss, as the Eye of the Sun rose on her lips |
| Moonlight catches silver tears I cry, so we lay in a black embrace |
| And the Seed is sown in a holy place, and I watched and I waited for the Dawn |
| The light of the Blind - you'll see |
| The venom that tears my spine |
| The Eyes of the Nile are opening - you'll see |
| Bind us all together, ablaze with Hope and Free |
| No storm or heavy weather, will rock the boat you'll see |
| The time has come to close your eyes, and still the wind and rain |
| For the one who will be King |
| Is the watcher in the Ring |
| It is You |
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(Smith/Dickinson) |
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As the sun breaks above the ground, an old man stands on the hill |
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As the ground warms to the first rays of light, a birdsong shatters the still |
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His eyes are ablaze, see the madman in his gaze |
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Fly on your way, like an eagle |
| Fly as high the sun |
| On your way like an eagle |
| Fly and touch the sun |
| 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 as high as the sun |
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(Smith/Dickinson/Harris) |
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Another Prophet of Disaster, who says the ship is lost |
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Another Prophet of Disaster, leaving you to count the cost |
| Taunting us with Visions, afflicting us with fear |
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Predicting War for millions, in the hope that one appears |
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No point asking when it is |
| No point asking who's to go |
| No point asking what's the game |
| No point asking who's to blame |
| 'Cos if you're gonna die, if you're gonna die |
| 'Cos if you're gonna die, if you're gonna die |
| If you're gonna die, die with your boots on |
| If you're gonna try, just stick around |
| Gonna cry, just move along |
| If you're gonna die, you're gonna die |
| In 13 the Beast is Rising, the Frenchman did surmise |
| Through earthquakes and starvation, the Warlord will arise |
| Terror Death Destruction, pour from the Eastern sands |
| But the truth of all predictions, is always in your hands |
| No point asking when it is |
| No point asking who's to go |
| No point asking what's the game |
| No point asking who's to blame |
| 'Cos if you're gonna die, if you're gonna die |
| 'Cos if you're gonna die, if you're gonna die |
| If you're gonna die, die with your boots on |
| If you're gonna try, just stick around |
| Gonna cry, just move along |
| If you're gonna die, you're gonna die |
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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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(Murray/Harris) |
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Take a look in the pool and what do you see, in the dark depths their faces beckoning me |
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Can't you see them it's plain for all to see, they were there oh I know you don't believe me |
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Oh...I've never felt so strange |
| But...I'm not going insane |
| I've no doubt that you think I'm off my head, you don't say but it's in your eyes instead |
| Hours I spend out just gazing into that pool, something draws me there I don't know what to do |
| Oh...they drain my strength away |
| Oh...they're asking me to stay |
| Nightmares...sprits calling me |
| Nightmares...they won't leave me be |
| All my life's blood is slowly draining away, and I feel that I'm weaker every day |
| Somehow I know I haven't long to go, joining them at the bottom of the pool |
| Now...I feel they are so near |
| I...begin to see them clear |
| Nightmares...coming all the time |
| Nightmares...will give me peace of mind |
| Now it's clear and I know what I have to do, I must take you down there to look at them too |
| Hand in hand then we'll jump right into the pool, can't you see not just me they want you too |
| Oh...we'll drown together |
| It...will be forever |
| Nightmares...forever calling me |
| Nightmares...now we rest in peace |
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(Harris) |
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In a time when dinosaurs walked the earth, when the land was swamp and caves were home |
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In an age when prize possession was fire, to search for landscapes med would roam |
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Then the tribes they came to steal their fire, and the wolves they howled into the night |
| As they fought an angry vicious battle, to save the power of warmth and light |
| Drawn by Quest for fire |
| They searched all through the land |
| Drawn by Quest for fire |
| Discovery of man |
| And they thought that when the embers died away, that the flame of life had burnt and died |
| Didn't know the sparks that made the fire, were made by rubbing stick and stone |
| So they ploughed through forest and swamps of danger, and they fought the cannibal tribes and beasts |
| In the search to find another fire, to regain the power of light and heat |
| Drawn by Quest for fire |
| They searched across the land |
| Drawn by Quest for fire |
| Discovery of man |
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(Dickinson/Smith) |
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You killed your first man at 13, killer instinct animal supreme |
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By 16 you had learned to fight the way of the warrior, you took it as your right |
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Sunlight, falling on your steel |
| Death in life is your ideal |
| Life is like a wheel, rolling on and on |
| Through earth and water fire and wind, you came at last - nothing was the end |
| Make a cut by fire and stones |
| Take you and your blade and break you both in two - break you both in two |
| Sunlight, falling on your steel |
| Death in life is your ideal |
| Life is like a wheel, rolling on and on |
| Sunlight, falling on your steel |
| Death in life is your ideal |
| Life is like a wheel, and it's rolling still |
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(Harris) |
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He is the King of all the land |
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In the Kingdom of the sands, of a time tomorrow |
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Hercules the sandworms and the Freman |
| In a land amongst the stars, of an age tomorrow |
| He is destined to be a King |
| He rules over everything, on the land called planet Dune |
| Bodywater is your life |
| And without you would die, on the desert the planet Dune |
| Without a stillsuit you would fry |
| On the sands so hot and dry, in a world called Arrakis |
| It is a land that's rich in spice |
| The sandriders and the mice, that they call the Muad Dib |
| He is the Kwizatz Haderach |
| He is born of Caladan, and will take the Gom Jabber |
| He has the power to foresee |
| Or to look into the past, he is the ruler of the stars |
| The time will come for him to lay claim his crown |
| And then the foe yes they'll be cut down |
| You'll see he'll be the best that there's been |
| Messiah supreme true leader of men |
| And when the time for judgement's at hand |
| Don't fret he's strong and he'll make a stand |
| Against evil the fire that spreads through the land |
| He has the power to make it all end |