ROCK IN RIO

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(2002)

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Rock In Rio Festival 2001 - Iron Maiden headlines one of the biggest shows on earth to a massive sell out 250,000 crowd and a global TV audience of millions. The explosive two hour set, shot using 18 cameras and edited by Steve Harris, is Maiden at its best, performing their biggest show ever on the final date of their Brave New World Tour. Capturing the band's energy and massive stage production, this video puts you firmly in the front row of Rock In Rio, making it the best record to date of one of the world's premier rock bands.

 

 

  The Wicker Man  
  Ghost Of The Navigator  
  Brave New World  
  Wrathchild  
  2 Minutes To Midnight  
  Blood Brothers  
  Sign Of The Cross  
  The Mercenary  
  The Trooper  
  Dream Of Mirrors  
  The Clansman  
  The Evil That Men Do  
  Fear Of The Dark  
  Iron Maiden  
  The Number Of The Beast  
  Hallowed Be Thy Name  
  Sanctuary  
  Run To The Hills  

 

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

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

Your time will come, your time will come

 

Your time will come, your time will come

Your time will come, your time will come

Your time will come, your time will come

Your time will come, your time will come

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GHOST OF THE NAVIGATOR

(Gers/Dickinson/Harris)

 

I have sailed to many lands, now I make my final journey

On the bow I stand, west is where I go

Through the night I plough, still my heart, calculate and pray

As the compass swings, my will is strong, I will not be led astray

Mysteries of time clouds that hide the sun

But I know, but I know, but I know

 

I see the ghosts of navigators but they are lost

As they sail into the sunset they'll count the cost

As their skeletons accusing emerge from the sea

The sirens of the rocks, they beckon me

 

Take my heart and set it free, carried forward by the waves

Nowhere left to run, navigator's son

Chasing rainbows all my days

 

Where I go I do not know, I only know the place I've been

Dreams they come and go, ever shall be so

Nothing's real until you feel

 

I steer between the crashing rocks, the sirens call my name

Lash my hands onto the helm, blood surging with the strain

I will not fail now as sunrise comes the darkness left behind

For eternity I follow on there is no other way

Mysteries of time clouds that hide the sun

But I know, I know
 

I see the ghosts of navigators but they are lost

As they sail into the sunset they'll count the cost

As their skeletons accusing emerge from the sea

The sirens of the rocks, they beckon me

 

Take my heart and set it free, carried forward by the waves

Nowhere left to run, navigator's son

Chasing rainbows all my days

 

Where I go I do not know, I only know the place I've been

Dreams they come and go, ever shall be so

Nothing's real until you feel

 

I see the ghosts of navigators but they are lost

As they sail into the sunset they'll count the cost

As their skeletons accusing emerge from the sea

The sirens of the rocks, they beckon me

 

Take my heart and set it free, carried forward by the waves

Nowhere left to run, navigator's son

Chasing rainbows all my days

 

Where I go I do not know, I only know the place I've been

Dreams they come and go, ever shall be so

Nothing's real until you feel

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BRAVE NEW WORLD

(Murray/Harris/Dickinson)

 

Dying swans twisted wings, beauty not needed here

Lost my love, lost my life, in this garden of fear

I have seen many things, in a lifetime alone

Mother love is no more, bring this savage back home

 

Wilderness house of pain, makes no sense of it all

Close this mind dull this brain, Messiah before his fall

What you see is not real, those who know will not tell

All is lost sold your souls to this brave new world

 

A brave new world, in a brave new world

A brave new world, in a brave new world

In a brave new world, a brave new world

In a brave new world, a brave new world

 

Dragon kings dying queens, where is salvation now

Lost my life lost my dreams, rip the bones from my flesh

Silent screams laughing here, dying to tell you the truth

You are planned and you are damned in this brave new world

 
A brave new world, in a brave new world

A brave new world, in a brave new world

In a brave new world, a brave new world

In a brave new world, a brave new world
 
A brave new world, in a brave new world

A brave new world, in a brave new world

In a brave new world, a brave new world

In a brave new world, a brave new world

 

Dying swans twisted wings, bring this savage back home

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WRATHCHILD

(Harris)

 

I was born into a scene of angriness and greed of dominance and persecution

My mother was a queen my dad I've never seen I was never meant to be

 

Now I spend my time looking all around, for a man that's nowhere to be found

Until I find him I've never gonna stop searching

I'm going to find my man, gonna travel round
 
Cos I'm a wrathchild
Yeah I'm a wrathchild
Well I'm a wrathchild
I'm coming to get you
Ooh yeah yeah
 
Some say it shouldn't matter ain't nothing gonna alter the course of my destination
But I know I've gotta find some serious piece of mind or I know I'll just go crazy
 

Now I spend my time looking all around, for a man that's nowhere to be found

Until I find him I've never gonna stop searching
I'm going to find my man, gonna travel round
 
Cos I'm a wrathchild
Yeah I'm a wrathchild
Well I'm a wrathchild
I'm coming to get you
Ooh yeah yeah

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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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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

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

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

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

We're blood brothers, we're blood brothers
 

We're blood brothers, we're blood brothers

We're blood brothers, we're blood brothers
 

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

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SIGN OF THE CROSS

(Harris)

Eleven saintly shrouded men, silhouettes stand against the sky
One in front with a cross held high, come to wash my sins away
IM
Standing alone in the wind and the rain, feeling the fear that is growing
Sensing the change in the tide again, brought by the storm that is brewing
Feel the anxiety hold off the fear, some of the doubt in the things you believe
Now that your faith will be put to the test, nothing to do but await what is coming
IM
Why then is God still protecting me, even when I don't deserve it
Though I am blessed with an inner strength, some they would call it a penance
Why am I meant to face this alone, asking the question time and again
Praying to God won't keep me alive, inside my head feel the fear start to rise
IM
They'll be saying their prayers when the moment comes
There'll be penance to pay when it's judgement day
And the guilty'll bleed when that moment comes
They'll be coming to claim, take your soul away
IM
The sign of the cross
The name of the rose...a fire in the sky
The sign of the cross
IM
They'll be coming to bring the eternal flame
They'll be bringing us all immortality
Holding communion so the world be blessed
My creator, my God'll lay my soul to rest
IM
The sign of the cross
The name of the rose...a fire in the sky
The sign of the cross
IM
The sign of the cross
The name of the rose...a fire in the sky
The sign of the cross
The name of the rose...the sign of the cross
IM
Lost the love of heaven above, chose the lust of the earth below
Eleven saintly shrouded men, came to wash my sins away

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THE MERCENARY

(Gers/Harris)

 

Pay to kill, die to lose, hunted, hunter which are you

Diablo come again to make trophies out of men

Lose your skin, lose your skull, one by one the sack is full

In the heat dehydrate, know which breath will be your last

 

Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, you've got to kill to stay alive

Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, you've got to kill to stay alive

 

Show them no fear, show them no pain

Show them no fear, show them no pain

Show them no fear, show them no pain

Show them no fear, show them no pain

 

Human heart, human mind, intellect intertwined

Focus sharp in the night, watch the jungle burning bright

Toe to toe throw the line, everyone's caught hand tied

Iron will iron fist, how could it have come to this?
 
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, you've got to kill to stay alive

Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, you've got to kill to stay alive

 

Show them no fear, show them no pain

Show them no fear, show them no pain

Show them no fear, show them no pain

Show them no fear, show them no pain

 

Show them no fear, show them no pain

Show them no fear, show them no pain

Show them no fear, show them no pain
Show them no fear, show them no pain
 

Show them no fear, show them no pain

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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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DREAM OF MIRRORS

(Gers/Harris)

 

Have you ever felt the future is the past, but you don't know how...?

A reflected dream of a captured time, is it really now, is it really happening?

 

Don't know why I feel this way, have I dreamt this time, this place?

Something vivid comes again into my mind

And I think I've seen your face, seen this room, been in this place

Something vivid comes again into my mind

 

All my hopes and expectations, looking for an explanation

Have I found my destination? I just can't take no more

 

The dream is true, the dream is true

The dream is true, the dream is true

 

Think I've heard your voice before, think I've said these words before

Something makes me feel I just might lose my mind

Am I still inside my dream? Is this a new reality
Something makes me feel that I have lost my mind
 

All my hopes and expectations, looking for an explanation

Coming to the realization that I can't see for sure

 

I only dream in black and white, I only dream cause I'm alive

I only dream in black and white, to save me from myself

I only dream in black and white, I only dream cause I'm alive

I only dream in black and white, please save me from myself
 

The dream is true, the dream is true

The dream is true, the dream is true

 
I get up put on the light, dreading the oncoming night
Scared to fall asleep and dream the dream again
Nothing that I contemplate, nothing that I can compare
To letting loose the demons deep inside my head
 
Dread to think what might be stirring, that my dream is reoccurring
Got to keep away from drifting, saving me from myself
 
I only dream in black and white, I only dream cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white, to save me from myself
I only dream in black and white, I only dream cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white, to save me from myself
 
Lost in a dream of mirrors, lost in a paradox
Lost and time is spinning, lost a nightmare I retrace
Lost a hell that I revisit, lost another time and place
Lost a parallel existence, lost a nightmare I retrace
 
I only dream in black and white, I only dream cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white, to save me from myself
I only dream in black and white, I only dream cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white, to save me from myself
 
I only dream in black and white, I only dream cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white, to save me from myself
I only dream in black and white, I only dream cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white, to save me from myself
 

The dream is true, the dream is true

The dream is true, the dream is true

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THE CLANSMAN

(Harris)

 

Walk alone in the hills with the wind in your face

It feels good to be proud and be free and a race

That is part of a clan and to live on highlands

And the air that you breathe so pure and so clean

 

When alone on the hills with the wind in your hair

With a longing to feel just to be free

 

Is it right to believe in the need to be free

It's a time when you die and without asking why

Can't you see what they do they are grinding us down

They are taking our land that belongs to the clans

 

Not alone with a dream just a want to be free

With a need to belong I am a clansman

 

Freedom

Freedom

Freedom

Freedom

 

It's a time wrought with fear It's a land wrought with change

Ancestors could hear what is happening now

They would turn in their graves they would all be ashamed

That the land of the free has been written in chains

 

And I know what I want when the timing is right

The I'll take what is mine I am the clansman

 

And I swear to defend and we'll fight to the end

And I swear that I'll never be taken alive

And I know that we'll stand and we'll fight for our land

And I swear that my bairns will be born free

 

And I know what I want when the timing is right

Then I'll take what I want I am the clansman

 

Freedom

Freedom
Freedom
Freedom
 

No, no we can't let them take anymore

No we can't let them take anymore

We're the land of the free

 

No, no we can't let them take anymore

No we can't let them take anymore

We're the land of the free

 

No, no we can't let them take anymore

No we can't let them take anymore

No we can't let them take anymore

We're the land of the free

 

Freedom

Freedom

Freedom
Freedom
 

It is right to believe in the need to be free

It's a time when you die and without asking why

Can't you see what they do they are grinding us down

They are taking our land that belongs to the clans

 

Not alone with a dream just a want to be free

With a need to belong I am a clansman

 

And I know what I want when the timing is right

Then I'll take what is mine I am the clansman

 

Freedom

Freedom
Freedom
Freedom
 

And I know what I want when the timing is right

The I'll take what is mine I am the clansman

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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
Oh - balancing on a ledge
Living on a razors edge
Balancing on a ledge
The evil that men do lives on and on
The evil that men do lives on and on
The evil that men do lives on and on
The evil that men do live 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
The evil that men do lives on and on
The evil that men do lives on and on
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 that men do lives on and on
The evil that men do lives on and on
The evil that men do lives on and on
The evil, the evil, the evil that men do
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
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have a constant fear that something's always near
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have a phobia that someone's always there
Have you run your fingers down the wall, and have you felt your neck skin crawl
When you're searching for the light
Sometimes when you're scared to take a look, at the corner of the room
You've sensed that something's watching you
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have a constant fear that something's always near
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have a phobia that someone's always there
Have you ever been alone at night, thought you heard footsteps behind
And turned around and no-one's there
And as you quicken up your pace, you find it hard to look again
Because you're sure there's someone there
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have a constant fear that something's always near
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have a phobia that someone's always there
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
Watching horror films the night before, debating witches and folklore
The unknown troubles on your mind
Maybe your mind is playing tricks, you sense and suddenly eyes fix
On dancing shadows from behind
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have a constant fear that something's always near
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have a phobia that someone's always there
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have a constant fear that something's always near
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have a phobia that someone's always there
When I'm walking a dark road
I am a man who walks alone

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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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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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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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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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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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