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(1987) |
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From their conception in London's East End in 1975, to signing with EMI in December 1979, to playing major stadiums all round the world in the eighties, Maiden's progress to the top of the rock world has always been stylish, interesting and LOUD. This video follows the path with interviews and live footage which have rarely been seen before. Home videos from the very beginning at the Ruskin Arms, early Marquee performances, footage from the Beast On The Road Tour, right through to their latest colossal world tour, interspersed with personal interviews with the band and key figures in the Maiden story. |
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(Smith) |
| Was many years ago that I left home and came this way |
| I was a young man full of hopes and dreams |
| But now it seems that all is lost and nothing gained |
| Sometimes things ain't what they seem |
| No brave new world, no brave new world |
| Night and day I scan horizon sea and sky |
| My spirit wanders endlessly |
| Until the day will dawn and friends from home discover why |
| Hear me calling rescue me |
| Set me free, set me free |
| Lost in this place and leave no trace |
| Stranger in a strange land |
| Land of ice and snow |
| Trapped inside this prison |
| Lost and far from home |
| One hundred years have gone and men again they came that way |
| To find the answer to the mystery |
| They found his body lying where it fell that day |
| Preserved in time for all to see |
| No brave new world, no brave new world |
| Lost in this place, to leave no trace |
| What became of the men that started |
| All are gone and their souls departed |
| Left me here in this place |
| So all alone |
| Stranger in a strange land |
| Land of ice and snow |
| Trapped inside this prison |
| Lost and far from home |
| What became of the men that started |
| All are gone and their souls departed |
| Left me here in this place |
| So all alone |
| Stranger in a strange land |
| Land of ice and snow |
| Trapped inside this prison |
| Lost and far from home |
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(Murray) |
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Giving a swish with your arse in the air, don't you know what they're saying? |
| Charlotte you're so refined, when you take all the love that they're giving |
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Sticking with every man that you find, don't you know what they're after? |
| Charlotte you've got your legs in the air, don't you hear all their laughter? |
| Charlotte the harlot show me your leg |
| Charlotte the harlot take me to bed |
| Charlotte the harlot let me see blood |
| Charlotte the harlot let me see love |
| There was a time when you left me standing there, picking up pieces of love from the floor |
| Well Charlotte you left me alone in there, to make your ends as a bloody whore |
| Well Charlotte you told me you loved me true, picking up pieces of love yesterday |
| Well Charlotte your drawers are off colour too, 'cause you're making love all day |
| Taking so many men to your room don't you feel no remorse |
| You charge them only a fiver for starters, and ten the main course |
| You've got no feelings, they died long ago |
| Don't you care who you let in, don't you know you're breaking the law with the service you're giving |
| Charlotte the harlot show me your leg |
| Charlotte the harlot take me to bed |
| Charlotte the harlot let me see blood |
| Charlotte the harlot let me see love |
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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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(G. Macainsh) |
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Beehive hairdo, 45 on the hip, patrolwoman Saunders don't you give her no lip |
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Took me to the station for a breath test, then back to the bedroom for some house arrest |
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Women in uniform, sometimes they look so cold |
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Women in uniform, but oh they feel so warm |
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Coming back to London on a 747, stewardess made me like I'm in heaven |
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Looking up the aisle to see what I could see, she leaned over said "give it to me" |
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White apron brown leather shoes, the nurse at the clinic left my heart all bruised |
| Gave me a massage sprained my right, now she takes my temperature every night |
| Women in uniform, sometimes they look so cold |
| Women in uniform, but oh they feel so warm |
| Women in uniform, women in uniform |
| Women in uniform, women in uniform |
| Commando raid on the Lebanese border, sergeant Anita she gives the order |
| Khaki jacket and a love gun, baby I surrender let's have some fun |
| Women in uniform, sometimes they look so cold |
| Women in uniform, but oh they feel so warm |
| Women in uniform, sometimes they look so cold |
| Women in uniform, but oh they feel so warm |
| Women in uniform, women in uniform |
| Women in uniform, women in uniform |
| Women in uniform, khaki white and blue |
| Women in uniform, coming after you |
| Women in uniform, women in uniform |
| Women in uniform, women in uniform |
| Women in uniform, sometimes they look so cold |
| Women in uniform, but oh they feel so warm |
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(Harris) |
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I remember it as plain as day, although it happened in the dark of night |
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I was strolling through the streets of Paris, it was cold it was starting to rain |
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And then I heard a piercing scream, and I rushed to the scene of the crime |
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But all I found was the butchered remains, of two girls laying side by side |
| Murders in the Rue Morgue - someone call the gendarmes |
| Murders in the Rue Morgue - vite before the killers go free |
| There's some people coming down the street, at last someone's heard my call |
| I can't understand why they're pointing at me, I never done nothing at all |
| Well I must have got some blood on my hands, because everybody's shouting at me |
| I can't speak French so I couldn't explain, and like a fool started running away |
| Murders in the Rue Morgue - running from the gendarmes |
| Murders in the Rue Morgue - am I ever going to be free |
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And now I've gotta get away from the arms of the law, all of France is looking for me |
| I've gotta find a way across the border for sure, down the South of Italy |
| Murders in the Rue Morgue - someone call the gendarmes |
| Murders in the Rue Morgue - I'm never going home |
| Well I made it to the border at last, but I can't erase the scene from my mind |
| Any time somebody stares at me, well I just start running blind |
| Well I'm running through the shadows tonight, away from the staring eyes |
| Any day they'll be looking for me, 'cos I know I show the signs of... |
| Murders in the Rue Morgue - running from the gendarmes |
| Murders in the Rue Morgue - running from the arms of the law |
| Murders in the Rue Morgue - running from the gendarmes |
| Murders in the Rue Morgue - am I ever gonna be free |
| It took so long and I'm getting so tired, I'm running out of places to hide |
| Should I return to the scene of the crime, where the two young victims died |
| If I could go to somebody for help, it would get me out of trouble for sure |
| But I know that's it's on my mind, that my doctor said I've done it before |
| Murders in the Rue Morgue - they're never gonna find me |
| Murders in the Rue Morgue - I'm never going home |
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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 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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(Harris/Murray/Burr) |
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Cold as steel the darkness waits its hour will come |
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A cry of fear from our children worshipping the sun |
| Mother nature's black revenge on those who waste her life |
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War babies in the Garden of Eden shall turn our ashes to ice |
| Sunrise has gone freezing up the fires |
| Sunrise has gone numbing our desires |
| Sunrise has gone, sunrise has gone |
| Around the world people stop with terror stricken eyes |
| A shadow cast upon them all to crush them like a fly |
| In the icy rain and whip lashed seas there's nowhere left to run |
| The hammer blows of winter fall like a hurricane |
| Sunrise has gone freezing up the fires |
| Sunrise has gone numbing our desires |
| Around the world the nations wait for some wise word from their leading light |
| You know it isn't only madmen who listen to fools |
| Is this the end millions cried, clutching their riches as they died |
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Those who survive must weather the storm |
| Gone are the days when man looked down, they've taken away his sacred crown |
| To be set free it took so long, it's not journeys' end it's just begun |
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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/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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(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/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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(Smith) |
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From the coast of gold across the seven seas |
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I'm travellin' on far and wide |
| But now it all seems I'm just a stranger to myself |
| And all the things I sometimes do it isn't me but someone else |
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I close my eyes and think of home |
| Another city goes by in the night |
| Ain't it funny how it is, You never miss it 'til it's gone away |
| And my heart is lying there and will be 'til my dying day |
| So understand |
| Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years |
| Face up make your stand and realise you're living in the golden years |
| Too much time on my hands, I got you on my mind |
| Can't ease this pain so easily |
| When you can't find the words to say it's hard to make it through another day |
| And it just makes me wanna cry and throw my hands up to the sky |
| So understand |
| Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years |
| Face up make your stand and realise you're living in the golden years |
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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 |