2 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT

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(1984)

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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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RAINBOW'S GOLD

(Terry Slesser/Kenny Mountain)

IM

In the heat of the morning

When your day is still dawning

And your bird she's singing

Catch your soul he's willing to fly away

IM

Packed your bags in a hurry

Because your mind's in a worry
Mark my words you're gonna be sorry if you ever fly away
IM
Sweet little girl with the Saint Da Vinci smile
Stares at me with sadness in her eyes
I'm not sure if she's really real or make believe
Maybe she's a vision that comes to only me
Cause I'm so tired
Yes I'm so tired
So tired
Yes I'm so tired
IM

In the heat of the morning

When your day is still dawning

And your bird she's singing

Catch your soul he's willing to fly away

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MISSION FROM 'ARRY

(Iron Maiden)

 

Steve: ...anyways, he did not deserve to get a bollocking... ...at the time, I know why

he got a bollocking, because you, you know, you dunno what the fuck he's goin' on

about, but he didn't really deserve it. All he's trying to do is relay a message from me to

you, right? And he went the wrong way about it, okay?

Nicko: Yeh, he did go the wrong way about it

Steve: Well then

Nicko: Well I'm, I, I, I, I tell you what, I mean it ain't gonna happen again

Bruce: I don't see where you get steamed, I mean, if the truss was gonna...

Nicko: Why I got steamed up Bruce is because he fucked me right up. And I knew there

was a problem, I still didn't know what it was even after he...I, I fucked! I fucking fucked up

Steve: I know that. Look, it's like...

Nicko: ...and I stopped, and it was like "oh, for fuck's sake!" Come on kids, and I'm looking around... what is he trying to tell me? What's the problem?

Steve: Can't you understand? Can't you understand if I'm trying to get a fucking

message through to ya, right?...I'd have still...it'd a been a lot worse. If I, if I had to go

me gear done...as it happens, (snaps his fingers) just in the nick of the time I got it done. If I...

Nicko: Yeah, I still didn't get the message

Steve: I know you didn't. But what we're saying, it didn't... whatever happens if I got him trying to get a fuckin' message to ya. Y'know what I mean?

Nicko: Sure Steve, but the fact is that the guy was not handling it the right way

Steve: You don't think of things like that Nick

Nicko: But that's diff... look...

Steve: I bollocked...I was shouting at ya, "look, my gear's gone down"

Nicko: It's me that fucked-up

Steve: Listen...

Nicko: I'm the one out there all on me own...

Steve: I know

Nicko: ...I'm doing a drum solo. And I've got fuckin' talkin' to...

Steve: No I'm the one, I'm only one 'a thinking, I've got fucking like a minute to go before m..., to get this fucking gear right

Bruce: Yeah, but if somebody gives a message to me...

Steve: No?

Bruce: ...I mean, it doesn't matter who it is, I mean, the message gets through

Nicko: Bruce, it's different...

Steve: It's a different situation

Nicko: ...it's different for you. You're not standing there all on your fucking own having a

somebody try to get your attention and talk to you. I'm playin' a drum solo, and the

guy's standing a yard, or two yards behind my drum riser goin'...

Steve: Yeah, all I'm trying a...

Nicko: ..."fucking anga-yangna-baba"..."wha?"..."BABA-BABA-BABA!"..."WHAAAA???..."

the fuck! Uhhhhh! By the time I've got that far, I'm fuckin totally fucked. Because I'm

p..., I'm not paying attention to my gig...
Steve: Hey, look...

Nicko: ...I'm paying attention to what he's trying to tell me

Bruce: Yeah, but nobody woulda noticed

Steve: I complete...

Nicko: I noticed!

Steve: I completely understand that

Nicko: Fucked me right up

Steve: But he, he was only doing what I told him to do, and that was get a message to

you. Now that the fucking heat of the moment and just, everything on hand... he don't

think to fucking tell Bill, he wants to get the message to you, not to fucking Bill, so he

don't think of that, he just tries to get the message to you, right? So, he don't fucking

deserve to get a bollocking for that, I mean, alright he got one I know... not sayin that. But I just don't, you know...

Bruce: Attente! Attente!

Steve: ...Bob was a nice guy. He's not like he's, fuckin', he's an asshole...

Nicko: No, no...

Steve: ...or an idiot, or anything like that

Nicko: Oh no, but he was out of order, because he didn't...

Bruce: He wasn't out of order

Nicko: He was

Steve: He wasn't out of order. he was wrong

Nicko: He was, 'cause he fucked me up by tryin to tell me...

Steve: Nicko

Nicko: If he'd of come up to the riser...

Steve: Nicko

Nicko: Look...

Steve: Nicko

Nicko: ...if he'd of come up to the riser there, I COULDA FUCKIN HEARD HIM!!!

Steve: But Nick...

Nicko: Cunt was standin' behind, I was sittin' down

Steve: Yeah...

Nicko: ..."bada-bada-ba"

Steve: He was wrong. He made a mistake, but he wasn't out of order

Bruce: It wasn't deliberate

Steve: He made a mistake...

Nicko: Now, I know it ain't deliberate

Steve: ...for fuck's sake

Nicko: I didn't know that at the time, right? I still didn't know that Steve had a problem with his bass...

Steve: That's what I'm saying

Nicko: ...luckily enough, by the time I finished the poxy solo, he had his bass working again

Steve: It was all that fucking grief...

Bruce: All it takes is the guy...

Nicko: The grief was, because I bollocked him up, and I happened to tell ya, and you go

"don't bollock him, go out and apologize," right. Fuck him, I'm gonna go and apologize to him

Bruce: Well all you gotta do...

Nicko: It's not for me to apologize. I bollocked him 'cause he fucked me up. Right there, he fucked me up. He was wrong

Bruce: All you gotta do...no he wasn't wrong

Nicko: He was

Steve: He wasn't wrong

Nicko: He did not handle it...he's not even fucking communicating, right?

Steve: Aw! I don' wanna fuckin argue about this, it's fucking stupid... I think you're really out of order, I think...honestly

Nicko: No bollocks! Oh I am not out of order

Steve: You are. You're attitude is out of order

Nicko: He...no it ain't

Steve: It is

Nicko: No it ain't. The guy fucked me up

Steve: I know he did...

Nicko: Well then that's out of order...

Steve: ...He didn't mean to

Nicko: LOOK, I'M NOT SAYIN' HE FUCKIN' MEANT TO 'ARRY!!! The fact is that he was a

dumbkopf, 'cause he don't know how to fuckin communicate with me onstage...

Bruce: But he's not a dumbkopf

Nicko: Aww!

Steve: He's not fuckin' stupid

Nicko: Well, he fuckin' certainly did a good job out there this afternoon, didn't he?

Steve: He made a mistake, because I...

Nicko: What do you mean "He made a mistake"?

Steve: Because I...

Nicko: You sent him. How could he make a mistake?

Steve: That's right

Nicko: How did he make a mistake?

Steve: Well, he made the mistake by not sending Bill first, right?

Nicko: Well, well he made a mistake, right?

Steve: Yeah

Nicko: Well, why?...

Bruce: There's a difference between making a mistake...

Steve: Well that's what I'm saying

Bruce: ...and a difference between making a human error...

Nicko: Right, so he made a mistake, right?

Steve: Yeah!

Nicko: And I'm griefed up cause he fuckin' made me make a mistake. Now that he... now

I can understand what he was talking about after the fact... it remains to be seen, he was on a mission from you

Steve: Aw, I'm not gonna argue about it

Nicko: Right? Fuck my old boots, it just... I can't hack... I can't handle that situation

when people think some can't make me grief, and it's important to me to get a message

like that...fucking hell! How can I get some... get, get... when I also fucked as well... I

would'na minded if I'd have gotten what it was happening straight. Like, on the end "all

right, 'Arris got his bass fucked, right I'll carry on and do something else", then that's

fine, if I didn't fuck-up... but he made me fuck. It totally threw me right out, and he wasn't...

Steve: I know it did

Nicko: ...He didn't know how to talk to me about it. And, and I've, I've told him "don't do that again"

Steve: Because, see, it's not, it's not, it's not fair relaying a message to people. He was just...

Nicko: And he never turned 'round

Steve: ...look, it coulda been anybody. It was just that he was the first one on hand

Nicko: 'Arry

Steve: He was just standing there

Nicko: He never turned around, he never even turned around afterwards and said "Listen,

did you?...I'm sorry, but you didn't understand what I was saying right?"

Steve: Well why should he?

Nicko: Well then, then, then because...

Steve: He got a fuckin' bollocking

Nicko: ...He woulda stood up for himself because he knows he was gotten a bollocking wrong, because he was on a mission from you

Steve: He was probably...

Bruce: No

Steve: He was probably fuckin upset...

Bruce: He's probably a bit upset

Steve: ...because you gave him a fucking bollocking

Nicko: Well, rightly

Steve: You gave him up for...as far as he's con...

Bruce: No, not rightly

Nicko: Rightly, yeah

Steve: But no, it's not rightly

Bruce: No!

Nicko: I told him "DON'T EVER DO THAT AGAIN!"

Steve: No

Bruce: That's crazy

Steve: But what?...

Bruce: What happens if the lighting truss is gonna fall down on your head? Does he go?...

Nicko: Well then somebody drags me out of the fuckin' way, or else I'm dead, right?

Bruce: Yeah, but don't... I mean... you know

Steve: I think your attitude is totally fucking out of order

Nicko: No it ain't. No it ain't

Steve: Yes it is

Nicko: No it ain't. If I'd have known... now I'm the fuckin' cunt all of a sudden

Steve: No, you're not the cunt

Bruce: You're not a cunt

Nicko: Because I told him he was out of order, and I didn't know he was on a mission from you to tell me that his bass, your bass was FUCKED!

Steve: I know you didn't

Bruce: All you've got to do Nicko, is just go to the guy and say...

Steve: You didn't know, and he didn't know, alright?

Bruce: "Sorry about, sorry about shouting. It was a misunderstanding. But in future, tell Bill", that's all you gotta say

Nicko: No. No.

Bruce: And that way, he's a fuckin' proud geezer...

Steve: What's, what's the matter with ya?

Bruce: He goes...

Nicko: Look...

Steve: 'Cause if this is some sorta pride thing or what?

Nicko: I bollocked him... no it ain't pride. It's, it's not fuckin' pride

Steve: Well what's the matter with ya?

Bruce: It is pride

Nicko: Oh bollocks!

Steve: What's the matter with ya?

Nicko: The guy was wrong to have been fuckin' there to do what he done

Steve: I know. All I'm, all I'm gonna say is that when you're going up tomorrow...

Bruce: No it isn't wrong. What's he supposed to do? Turn around...

Steve: ...this is a different attitude, 'cause this is fucking stupid

Nicko: I told him straight out not to do it again

Bruce: What's he supposed to do? What's he?...

Nicko: I'm not gonna go out and apologize for saying that to him...

Bruce: He's NOT!

Nicko: ...He was outta fuckin' order

Bruce: He's not out of order

Bruce: what happens...

Nicko: Bruce

Bruce: ...if I fucking go and tell somebody to do something, he goes "No, fuck off! I'm not gonna do that"

Nicko: Listen, Bruce...

Bruce: Then he's out of order

Nicko: Bruce...

Bruce: But he goes and tells him to go and do something...

Nicko: ...I'm not concerned with, with, with, with, with other people that can't fucking

talk to me on stage, who don't know how to fucking communicate with me...

Bruce: But he's not out of order trying to do it

Nicko: ...He did not know how to communicate with me

Steve: Some cunt's recording this

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