A REAL DEAD ONE

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(1993)

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  The Number Of The Beast  
  The Trooper  
  Prowler  
  Transylvania  
  Remember Tomorrow  
  Where Eagles Dare  
  Sanctuary  
  Running Free  
  Run To The Hills  
  2 Minutes To Midnight  
  Iron Maiden  
  Hallowed Be Thy Name  

 

THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST

(Harris)

 

I left alone my mind was black, I needed time to get the memories from my mind

What did I see can I believe, that what I saw that night was real and not just fantasy

 

Just what I saw in my old dreams, were they reflections of my warped mind staring back at me

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

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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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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PROWLER

(Harris)

 

Walking through the city, looking oh so pretty

I've just got to find my way

 

See the ladies flashing, all their legs and lashes

I've just got to find my way

 

Well you see me crawling through the bushes with it open wide

What you seeing girl?

Can't you believe that feeling

Can't you believe it

Can't you believe your eyes?

It's the real thing girl

 

Got me feeling myself, and reeling around

Got me talking, but feel like walking around

I'm on my way

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TRANSYLVANIA

(Harris)

Instrumental

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REMEMBER TOMORROW

(Harris/Di'anno)

 

Unchain the colours before my eyes, yesterdays sorrows tomorrows white lies

Scan the horizon the clouds take me higher, I shall return from out of the fire

 

Tears for remembrance and tears for joy, tears for somebody and this lonely boy

Out in the madness the all seeing eye, flickers above us to light up the sky

 

Unchain the colours before my eyes, yesterdays sorrows tomorrows white lies

Scan the horizon the clouds take me higher, I shall return from out the fire

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WHERE EAGLES DARE

(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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SANCTUARY

(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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RUNNING FREE

(Harris/Di'anno)

 

Just sixteen a pickup truck, out of money out of luck

I've got no place to call my own, Hit the gas and here I go

 

I'm running free yeh, I'm running free

I'm running free yeh, I'm running free

 

Spend the night in an L.A. jail, listen to the sirens wail

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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RUN TO THE HILLS

(Harris)

 

White man came across the sea, brought us pain and misery

Killed our tribes killed our creed, took our game for his own need

 

We fought him hard we fought him well, out on the plains we gave him hell

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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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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IRON MAIDEN

(Harris)

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
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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HALLOWED BE THY NAME

(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

Cos at 5 o'clock they take me to the Gallows Pole

The sands of time for me are running low

 

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

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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