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BRUCE DICKINSON LYRICS
"Alive In Studio A/Alive At The Marquee Club" (1995 Live album)
1. Cyclops
2. Shoot All The Clowns
3. Son Of A Gun
4. Tears Of The Dragon
5. 1000 Points Of Light
6. Sacred Cowboys
7. Tattooed Millionaire
8. Born In '58
9. Fire
10. Change Of Heart
11. Hell No
12. Laughing In The Hiding Bush
1. Cyclops
We all have secret lives
In our secret rooms,
Living in our movies,
humming our own tunes
Living life in camera,
When the night is closing down,
Sliding into darkness,
You could be like me
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Why are you looking at the cameras eye?
Where are you staying?
Why are you leaving?
We watch you breathing through the cameras eye
We all make-up our faces
The make-up of the clown,
Happy leaving traces,
Of our childish background,
Pointing at the sky,
We can watch the stars
You think you're all alone,
But you never are...
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Why are you looking at the cameras eye?
Where are you staying?
Why are you leaving?
We watch you breathing through the cameras eye
They ain't watching you, they ain't watching you now
They ain't watching you, they ain't watching you now
They ain't watching you, they ain't watching you now
They ain't watching you, they ain't watching you now
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Why are you looking at the cameras eye?
Political sleazes,
Sexual divas,
We watch your heart beating through the cameras eye
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Why are you looking at the cameras eye?
Political sleazes,
Sexual divas,
We watch your heart beating through the cameras eye
2. Shoot All The Clowns
I've been down
At the crazy house
I've been playing
With the cat and the mouse
I've been down
I've been down
I've seen the crazy people
Running around
Shoot all the clowns
Shoot 'em down
Shoot 'em down
Shoot 'em down
Welcome to the circus
Where I fool around
I got the killer smile
I'm a killer clown
Cover up your face
You've been found out
You laugh when
There's nothing to smile about
Shoot shoot
Shoot all the clowns
Wanna gimme money
Well you better get ready
I'm a certified friend
Of John Paul Getty
I'm a fat stargazer
I'm an all night raver
I'm an anything you wannabe
If I can get your sympathy
Welcome to the circus
I'm a killer clown
Welcome to the circus
Hey gather round
2 sides to life
2 sides to fun
The one who does it
And the one who gets done
3. Son Of A Gun
Holy was the preacher
Riding high on his rig of steel in the rising sun
This was no grim reaper - but a man with a
Smile who took pride in a job well done
Ooh in a blood red sunrise
He's preaching conversion, as you lay down and die
A God given holy roller
In a God forsaken land
He didn't choose this killing ground
He didn't want this scrap of land
He's gonna scorch the earth
And make the rivers run dry
Until we learn to hate like him
To kill for killing – live to die
Ride on you son of a gun, Ride on,
ride into the setting sun
You gotta be a hero
For one last time
To prove through your destruction
Killing is a great way of life
There's a wooden cross somewhere
Where they'll bury you down deep
You lie to your people – you lie to yourself
You're in love with death – you've got no shame
The preacher laughed – the preacher cried
He loaded bullets as he smiled
The congregation sat and wondered would they live or
would they die?
Just an ordinary man – with his orders and his plans
In the shadows of a cross
Ooh in a blood red sunrise
Take me to Jesus – with Judas my guide
Chorus
Ride on you bleeding heart
Ride on you played no part
Ride on you feel no pity
Ride on you feel no pain
Ride into history
4. Tears Of The Dragon
For too long now
There were secrets in my mind
For too long now
There were things I should have said
In the darkness, I was stumbling for the door
To find a reason, to find the time, the place, the hour
Waiting for the winter sun, and the cold light of day
The misty ghosts of childhood fears
The pressure is building and I can't stay away
I throw myself into the sea
Release the wave, let it wash over me
To face the fear, I once believed
The tears of the dragon, for you and for me
Where I was
I had wings that couldn't fly
Where I was
I had tears I couldn't cry
My emotions, frozen in an iced lake
I couldn't feel them, until the ice began to break
I have no prayer over this, you know I'm afraid
The walls I built are crumbling
The water is moving, I'm slipping away
I throw myself into the sea
Release the wave, let it wash over me
To face the fear, I once believed
The tears of the dragon, for you and for me
Slowly I awake
Slowly I rise
The walls I built are crumbling
The water is moving, I'm slipping away
I throw myself into the sea
Release the wave, let it wash over me
To face the fear, I once believed
The tears of the dragon, for you and for me
I throw myself into the sea
Release the wave, let it wash over me
To face the fear, I once believed
The tears of the dragon, for you and for me...
5. 1000 Points Of Light
You can sail in the desert
With a ship of fools
You can smuggle in moses
And his book of rules
But you can't take mother
And give her back her son
Hey what kind of freedom
Is bought with a gun...
People like to build
Their own prison walls
When they're afraid
To look inside a...
A 1000 points of light
Are the muzzle flashes
In the night
And the freedoms
You profess to hold
Won't bring the dead back
From the cold...
Political speeshes
They are lying in the mud
Nothing else matters
But money and blood
Tyranny off freedom
Is do what you like
There's a world gone crazy
Cos it can't say no.
6. Sacred Cowboys
With a sense of irony everyone you see is chasing their illusion
Take a dive or sink or swim, but in the end you're in the same pollution
In your world escape is swift, the nonsense list is all you need to know
In the land of dreams, you make the right connections, then you'll be the hero
Ecstasy, the cult of me provides our institutions
You can live forever besides a grave that stands where people used to function
You can join the saviours of our culture, vultures circling overhead my sky
Like the sin of gluttony won't set you free, but Betty Ford can help you try
You can get all the things you never needed
You can sell people crap and make them eat it
Where is our John Wayne
Where is our sacred cowboys now?
Where are the indians on the hill
There's no indians left to kill
People die with oxygen and all their money can afford a breath
People starving everywhere and staring in the face of death
Prostitutes and politicians laying in their beds together
You can be the saviour of the poor making up the policies to open the back door...
You can get all the things you never needed
You can sell people crap and make them eat it
Where is our John Wayne
Where is our sacred cowboys now?
Where are the indians on the hill
There's no indians left to kill
Where is our John Wayne
Where is our sacred cowboys now?
Where are the indians on the hill
There's no indians left to kill
You can get all the things you never needed
You can sell people crap and make them eat it...EAT IT
Where is our John Wayne
Where is our sacred cowboys now?
Where are the indians on the hill
There's no indians left to kill
Where is our John Wayne
Where is our sacred cowboys now?
Where are the indians on the hill
There's no indians left to...kill
7. Tattooed Millionaire
Tattooed boys with expensive toys
Living in a bubble of sin
Money can buy you most of anything
Fix your nose or the mess you're in
Front page news you can share your views
With a population that wants to be like you
Out on the strip – out on the tiles
Same old rgeed behind the P.R. smiles
You and all your entourage – to me you're all the same
to me
You and all your entourage – playing foolish games
I don't want you big city shining
I don't want your silver lining
I don't wanna be a tattooed millionaire
He's got a wife – she ain't no brain child
Ex mud Queen of Miami
In his stretch cadillac he keeps her in the back
L.A. dude L.A. attitude
Laid back selfish and getting fat
Body guards porn stars gold credit cards
Using each other – running for cover
8. Born In '58
Born in a mining town in 58
When black and white T.V. was up to date
And men were still around
Who fought for freedom – stood their ground and died
That I could be alive
And see the damage that we've managed since
In this sceptered Isle
Is nothing sacred – but the one square mile
Justice and liberty
You can buy – but you don't get free
In a world of steel and glass
We bury our past
On and on – we slept till dawn
When we awoke – we hardly spoke
My Grandfather tought me how to fight
Old fashioned stuff like wrong and right
But all around I see his morals
Buried in a mess of money troubles
Born in a mining town in 58
When black and white T.V. was up to date
And men were still around
Who fought for freedom – stood their ground and died
Justice and liberty
You can buy – but you don't get free
In a world of steel and glass
We bury our past
On and on – we slept till dawn
When we awoke – we hardly spoke
On and on – we slept till dawn
When we awoke – it was... all the same
9. Fire
Always let you down
Always fooled around
Always stealing your own way
Life just seems too short
Life lived in the dirt
Kicked in the teeth
Is what you meant to say
Fighting battles, never fired a shot
When you step into the fire
You're gonna get burned
Hide all the money you saved
Money won't pay
For the trouble you caused
Troubles coming back for more
Living on the edge
A blind man kneels on broken glass
Building the bars of his own case
Running circles till you drop
Hating life until it stops
Kicked in the teeth
Is what you meant to say
Fighting battles, never fired a shot
When you step into the fire
You're gonna get burned
Hide all the money you saved
Money won't pay
For the trouble you caused
Troubles coming back for more
When you step into the fire
You're gonna get burned
Hide all the money you saved
Money won't pay
For the trouble you caused
Troubles coming back for...more
Running circles till you drop
Hating life until it stops
Kicked in the teeth
Is what you meant to say
Fighting battles, never fired a shot
When you step into the fire
You're gonna get burned
Hide all the money you saved
Money won't pay
For the trouble you caused
Troubles coming back for more
Step into the fire
You're gonna get burned
Hide all the money you saved
Money won't pay
For the trouble you caused
Troubles coming back for more
Step into the fire
You're gonna get burned
Hide all the money you saved
Money won't pay
For the trouble you caused
Troubles coming back for more
10. Change Of Heart
Here I sit, alone at a window
The rain falls down
On the class in the cold
All my life, I've been waiting for a moment
It never came, maybe never will
Ah, sometimes I don't know
Those days are gone
Lord I hide where I just can't say
I'm still there, catching your tears
As they fall to the ground
You, you're walking away
You couldn't stay
You need a change of heart
You, you're walking away
You couldn't stay
You need a change of heart
Trees are bare, the earth it is hard
I wait for winter, soft winter and snow
Those days are gone
Now I hide where I just can't say
I'll be there, catching your tears
Before they fall to the ground
You, you're walking away
You couldn't stay
You need a change of heart
You, you're walking away
You couldn't stay
You need a change of heart
And I know, wherever you go
I'll be around, yeah
I'll be there, catching your tears
Before they fall to the ground, yeah
Those days are gone
Now I hide where I just can't say
I'm still there, watching your tears
As they fall to the ground
You, you're walking away
You couldn't stay
You need a change of heart
You, you're walking away
You couldn't stay
You need a change of heart
You, you're walking away
You couldn't stay
You need a change of heart
Oh, oh child.
You need a change of heart
Change of heart
Change of heart
11. Hell No
There's a secret that we all share
In the darkest hours of the night
You can swear on the bible...
Cut the throat of your rival
Oh, oh,
I've been taking my life in my hand
And I'm making new plans, yeah...
Now I'm starting my life on my own
In the virgin unknown...
Hell...Hell no...
Oh were do we belong?
In this place, where we fight,
Oh were do we belong?
There's a place in the misty air
Not a million miles from here
You can make it your own place
You can change your own face
Oh, oh,
I've been taking my life in my hand
And I'm making new plans, yeah...
Now I'm starting my life on my own
In the virgin unknown...
Hell...Hell no...
Oh were do we belong?
In this place, where we fight,
Oh were do we belong?
Hell...Hell no...
Oh were do we belong?
In this place, where we fight,
Oh were do we belong?
If you can't really say what you don't really know,
then you don't really know what you can't really say
If you can't really say what you don't really know,
then you don't really know what you can't really say
If you can't really say what you don't really know,
then you don't really know what you can't really say
If you can't really say what you don't really know,
then you don't really know what you can't really say
Screaming out hell no
Shouting out hell no
On his knees shouting hell no
Defiant as hell no
On the street singing hell no
On his knees hell no
Still shouting out hell no
Screaming Hell no, hell no, one, two, three, four
Hell...Hell no...
Oh were do we belong?
In this place, where we fight,
Oh were do we belong?
Hell...Hell no...
Oh were do we belong?
In this place, where we fight,
Oh were do we belong?
12. Laughing In The Hiding Bush
There's a sinister game that children play
Hey, hey, hey, hey
When they get to the end of each schoolday
Hey, hey, hey, hey
They spend their lives getting ready for the kill...Ha!
Laughing in the hiding bush
The joker is back
Laughing in the hiding bush
The joker is back
Who remembers the names of fallen heroes
Hey, hey, Hey, hey
Who remembers today to fly their flags
Hey, hey, Hey, hey
I couldn't say I loved you like I did before...Ha!
Laughing in the hiding bush
The joker is back
Laughing in the hiding bush
It's the laughing attack
The joker is back
He's wild in the pack
The joker is back
Laughing in the hiding gonna kick him in the bush, yeah
Laughing in the hiding bush
The joker is back
Laughing in the hiding bush
The joker is back
Laughing in the hiding bush
He's wild in the pack
Laughing in the hiding bush
The joker is back
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