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BRUCE DICKINSON LYRICS
"Anthology" (2006 DVD)
1. Riding With the Angels
2. Born in '58
3. Lickin' the Gun
4. Gypsy Road
5. Dive Dive Dive
6. Drum Solo
7. Zulu Zulu
8. The Ballad of Mutt
9. Son of a Gun
10. Hell on Wheels
11. All the Young Dudes
12. Tattooed Millionaire
13. No Lies
14. Fog on the Tyne
15. Winds of Change
16. Sin City
17. Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter
18. Black Night
19. Space Race
20. Back from the Edge
21. Tattooed Millionaire
22. Inertia
23. Faith
24. Meltdown
25. I Will Not Accept the Truth
26. Laughing in the Hiding Bush
27. Tears of the Dragon
28. God's Not Coming Back
29. Dreamstate
30. The Prisoner
1. Riding With the Angels
Katie was a kid, I guess she hid her thoughts from everyone
Went to school at eight, she was never late
Didn't know the meaning of fun
Every night Katie prayed to God above
But her daddy gave her everything but love
She woke up one day, said: "I'm on my way"
Her mummy read the letter, It did say:
"I'm on my way, I'm on my way"
CHORUS:
Riding with the angels (x4)
She's having fun fun fun
She's having fun fun fun
Rode around, every boy in town tried to win her back
It was no go, cause she rode with Joe
he was the leader of the pack
People ran for cover when they rolled to town
The night was black, rain on the ground
Engines scream, running too fast
They knew the ride would be their last
They're on their way, They're on their way
REPEAT CHORUS
Look out
SOLO
Riding with the angels (x3)
REPEAT CHORUS
Riding with the angels, Fun fun fun fun fun fun
(Repeat and fade out)
2. 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
3. Lickin' the Gun
Lickin' the gun lickin' the hand that feeds you
Lickin' the gun finger lickin' fun
Senator husband goin' for broke
I've gotta prove I'm not a joke
We smoked the stuff in '69
Now it's different it's a crime
Kids today don't understand
Kids today need a guiding hand
I get a sticker if it rhymes with buck
When the law suits fly I guess I'll duck
Watch religion come and go
Watch corruption on their shows
Buy your silence money for blood
Out of the ark and into the flood
Crazy men with Russian guns
My words never killed anyone
Kissing babies lickin' the gun
Ain't political nah just having fun
Eat it up law down and die
They'll shoot you up and they don't know why
They're doing a job and they enjoy it too
They're protecting us from me and you
We smoked the stuff in '69
Now it's different it's a crime
I don't care to wait and see
If I'm cool enough to make history
4. Gypsy Road
Living in the city can be a cold and lonely place to be
Living in the shadows where this is no sun there in no breeze
Drinking stale water, having to pay for the privilege
Talk about freedom, I'll take you where I think it is
Gypsy Road is the highway that I run to
Gypsy Road, welcome to your dreams
Living by my own rules, a rebel yell and a rebel creed
Keep your life simple, try not to take what you don't need
Think about freedom, dream a little every day
Suddenly you'll find yourself there, follow me, walk this way
I'll find my dreams
You'll find your's too
5. Dive Dive Dive
Put an opening shot across your bows
Got tunnel vision pull the sheets in now
Let 'em flap ooh let 'em rip
This man o' war gonna sink your ship
Gonna blow you midships
Gonna dive tonight
There's no release when you're deep down inside
Dive Dive Dive
Dive Dive Dive
Dive Dive Dive
No muff too tuff
We dive at five
Dave Jones gonna keep your bones
No monkee business now you're on your own
Turn your stern and cover me
We're rolling swell for a seaman dog like me
Seaman Staines is down below
Torpedoes loaded ready to go
Wait for discharge waiting to release
As she rounded the horn we came up from below
6. Drum Solo
7. Zulu Zulu
She fixed me in the corner with that beautiful brown eye
She said I'd like to meet you
I was so surprised
She said "What can I do for you?"
"What can you do for me?" Well we made for the exit
had to wait and see
"I hope I'm not wasting your precious time"
I know you're not wasting mine
We came together over coffee with milk
She never stopped till every drop was spilt
She was a Zulu Lulu
She broke my back and my heart at the same time
She was a Zulu Lulu
Had to move on and when I came back she'd gone
She dropped to her knees I guess she had religion
She lived with her mother had been a good girl twice
When I asked her to comment on her present position
She said "I like to take a lay preacher's advice"
I ain't looking for sumpathy
But prayers for the wicked are always nice
She said "I don't like to preach to the converted"
I said "you can be a good girl more than twice"
Chorus
I ain't looking for sympathy
But prayers for the wicked are always nice
She looked me up and down and said
"Assegai for me"
I began to see God she said "wait and see babe"
8. The Ballad of Mutt
When you think that it's all over and you want your ragged mile
And the winds of change are blowing all around, all around
Stop and look, you're not the only one on the road out in the night
Take some time to find your brother, it does take time to get it right
CHORUS:
Winds of change blow over us (x3)
Winds of change don't change us at all
In a world of desperation women struggle to be free
Their last truth and inspiration to break the chains of you and me
Look around and have your visions of what is and what could be
Letting loose imagination, make your own reality
REPEAT CHORUS
We all stand together, all of us as one
You hold on to somebody as the road whines on and on
You fierce into the rising sun, even a blind man knows the way
You're children of a new age, you can blaze your own way
REPEAT CHORUS
9. 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
10. Hell on Wheels
Devil's driving down the track
Hell on wheels they won't turn back
Engine racing down a one way street
Speeds chasing that red line heat
Into the blackness into the night
Out of the tunnel into the light
Red for danger that's just for show
Climb aboard come as you go
Hard to steer when the devil's driving
Helens wheels and the brakes won't hold
Hard to steer when the devil's driving
Hell on wheels and the brakes won't hold
Too smart to come she just arrived
Only gave her one but she's using five...
Minutes of time in the usual place
If I was strapped in you could sit on my place
The doors were locked in windows sealed
Hitting me with the jack was the devil's deal
Bluelight flashing as the lipstick smudge
Dived for cover in a tunnel of glove
Something's driving me I don't know where
Something down in my cellar somewhere
NO one waiting for me down the line
No one waiting for me this time check it out
Knuckle down stick shift take it slow
Easy come means easy go
Lay off the gas make it last
Cos under my hood she's blowing fast
Into the blackness into the light
Out of the tunnel into the light
Red for danger that's just for show
Climb aboard come as you go
11. All the Young Dudes
Well Billy rapped all night about his suicide
How he'd kick it in the head when he was 25
Speed jive, don't want to stay alive when you're 25
And Wendy's stealing clothes from Marks and Sparks
And Freddie's got spots from ripping off the stars from
his face
Funky little boatrace
television man is crazy saying we're juvenile
delinquent wrecks
Oh man I need T.V.? When I got T. Rex
Hey brother you guessed I'm a dude now
Billy's looking sweet cos he dresses like a queen
But he can kick like a mule it's a real mean team
But we can love, oh yes, we can love
And my father's back at home with his Beatles and his Stones,
He never got off on the revolution stuff,
What a drag
Too many snags
Well I drunk a lot of wine and I'm feeling fine
Gonna raise some cat to bed
Oh man is that concrete all around or is it in my head
Brother I'm a dude now...
All the young dudes carry the news
Boogaloo dudes carry the news
12. 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
13. No Lies
No lies
No angels
No Heaven
On a corner of a red light street
Where the dealers and the junkies and the graveyards
meet
By the light of a street light moon
If you hang around here babe you're leaving soon
On the run from a country from the law
Here's a safe place behind every front door
Wanna wander where the guide book doesn't go
Watching the windows part of the sideshow
Where the money men's wallets bleed
Where the fat cat winners fill their needs
Where the vicar goes for his sin
Where the stick up artist gets stuck in
Take a look roudn here its no big deal
For an ounce of pleasure of a 5 minute feel
Riding sidesaddle on a rental machine
Hang on loosley part of the scene
14. Fog on the Tyne
15. Winds of Change
16. Sin City
Diamonds and dust
Poor man last, rich man first
Lambourginis and caviar
Dry martinis, Shangri-la
I got a burning feeling
Deep inside of me
And it's yearning
But I'm gonna set it free
CHORUS:
I'm coming in to sin city
I'm gonna win in sin city
Where the lights are bright
Through the town tonight
I'm gonna win in sin city
Oh, I'm gonna rule you baby
Come one, Oh!
SOLO
Ladders and snakes
Ladders give, snakes take
Rich man, poor man, beggarman, thief
Ain't got a hope in hell, that's my belief
Fingers Freddy, Diamond Jim
They're getting ready, and I'm coming in to get you babe
So spin that wheel, roll those dice
Cut those load of decks
Bring on the dancing girls
And put the champaign on ice
REPEAT CHORUS
Wow, come on
17. Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter
18. Black Night
Black night is not right
I don't feel so bright
I don't care to sit tight
Maybe I'll find on the way down the line
that I'm free, free to be me
Black night is a long way from home
I don't need a dark tree
I don't want a rough sea
I can't feel, I can't see
Maybe I'll find on the way down the line
that I'm free, free to be me
Black night is a long way from home
SOLO
Black night, black night
I don't need black night
I can't see dark night
Maybe I'll find on the way down the line
that I'm free, free to be me
Black night is a long way from home
19. Space Race
Yes, yes, I'd launch into the rising sun
My living breath is measured
Every step is gone
Fare you well my friends
See you down the line, yeah, yeah
I don't belong to nation, state or dying race
I leave my prejudice
With you my religion's in space
So have a little respect
Why are we running in this space race?
Why are we acting like we own the place?
Just want to feel the starlight on my face
Reach out my hand and touch beyond...
Yes, yes, I'd float around till gravity's end, unity is coming
Singular again
See you then my friends at the end of time, yeah, yeah
Secret knowledge, science, logic is all gone
Nothing left but burning up into the sun
On a cosmic beach, I'll see ya there
20. Back from the Edge
A silent river flowing black
Strange attractors, no turning back
Present danger I recall
That pins my senses to the wall
Back from the edge where the darkness has fled
And I'm swimming in light and I'm falling...falling from the edge...
Back from the edge
I fell from grace and that's a fact
I still have urges I fight back
Cold decisions wear me thin
Kill yourself...begin again
Back from the fear that you're not worth a damn
Throw yourself into light and the rush as you spin from the edge
Back from the edge
Now and then I wonder where the faces from my childhood have gone?
Like father like son in your bones it lives on glowing shadows
Back from the edge
Back from the edge
21. 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
22. Inertia
These are the pictures
T hese are the feelings from the front line
Living in silence
Feeling the deafness like heavy smoke
Smiling with strangers counting the days
Like a spring coiled up inside
Welcome to your future
Welcome to your book of lies
Fingers crawl through pages
Nothing changes living here...
Inertia
No wish to move at all
Inertia
E verything's a stone wall
Inertia
H istory lets you die
A ragged pile of silent accusers
Smell the blood of strangers here
No eyes no ears no smell no taste
The mouth of the maggot is full ofthis place
Murdered conscience the pressure is crushing heads
Like paper lanterns now
Unbreakable grip a dead hand
Driving us forward to the end
Kicking through traces
A thousand years from now
Inertia
No wish to think at all
Inertia
Everything's a stone wall
Inertia
History lets you die
23. Faith
You knew I wouldn't go
That's why you threatened me...would I stay?
Said I was sick...I'd be alone, said my mind was at my own...I didn't learn
You crawled up on your knees...a victim's pretty please...
Would I stay? Would I stay? ...and I stayed
How many more times, till I broke down from that guilty mess
You taught me to hate to love you
That's because you love to hate yourself
I wish it had a happy end
Like the fairy-tales pretend there can be
But things are not the same
When your life love was a game
Of make believe
You get everything you want
But not everything you need
A nd it's true..you receive...what you achieve
How many screaming fights, tears of rage
Until it ended
How many more times till I say who I am
And don't pretend
24. Meltdown
Hey you wait...cringing in the dark
You create what you always fear
A puppet of hatred dishing out poison
You use me for bait, your begging bowl of lies,
Chain letters of snivelling compromise
I can smell the difference...your truth and your fiction
You and your twisted convictions
Were you my friend when I belonged?
Were you my friend when I was strong?
Were you my friend when I was weak?
Were you my friend when I was crawling, calling...out of my head
Cold...like your blood, the snake is always cool (cool)
When things get tough
You slither on the ground
You cover up your tracks when I'm around
Its over now my friend
Your dog has had its day
Its payback time for what you had to say
You're stuck with the life you made
Stuck with the plans you made
Stuck with everything you are
25. I Will Not Accept the Truth
I will not accept the truth
I will not accept the truth
I will not accept the truth
That I'll never get there never get there, yeah, yeah
I must not push forward, no
I must not push forward, no
I must not push forward, no
Cuz I'll never get there I'll never get there, no way
I will not believe your lies
I will not believe your lies
I will not believe your lies
You say I'll never get there never get there
Hold on,
hold on
Hold on,
hold on
I will not accept the truth
I will not believe your lies
I will not acknowledge pain
I will survive and live again
Coming back now,
rising up now
Hold on,
hold on Hold on,hold on Hold on, hold on
I will not accept the truth
I will not accept the truth
I will not accept the truth!
26. 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
27. 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...
28. God's Not Coming Back
Yeah, standing by the three kings and I thought I saw a star
[mumble]
I could smell the holy spirit, it was coming from the bar
[mumble]
CHORUS:
Its magic they said, back from the dead
Its not Christmas yet, Gods not coming back
[mumble]
Gods not coming back [mumble]
You turn my water into wine, you fix my table, its just fine
Two ton rocks he rolled away, Lepers cured every Sunday
["OK, goodnight, thank you very much,
be back next Sunday, alright?"]
REPEAT CHORUS
SOLO
Hanging with Magdalene
He never dug the little queen
["Shes a little stunner, you know what I mean?"]
You look like Ian Gillan but I bet you couldnt scream
Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!
REPEAT CHORUS
Gods not coming back (x3)
Oh well...
29. Dreamstate
Well you bred me
Well you fed me
Well you made me what I am
Something for nothing
Good for nothing Well...
It's a dreamstate, a dreamstate
To kill me with your kindness you'll just have to wait
You say I'm nothing
You say I'm nothing
Never gonna be something Well then, that's life for me
Your expectations,
your reservations
Aw, come on, please
It's a dreamstate, a dreamstate
You bought into the vision so you don't have to wait
A dreamstate of bliss, a dreamstate of bliss
A dreamstate, a dreamstate
Now I'm standing up here before the judge
Juries got their head where the sun don't shine
Everybody's lying on my case they're lying on my, lying on my, lying on my Lying on my case
Eyes above me, eyes above me
Never realised there was someone else in here
No resolution and no conclusion
Do I believe?
It's a dreamstate, a dreamstate
You fell for it sucker, you fell for the bait
A dreamstate of bliss, a dreamstate of bliss
A dreamstate, a dreamstate
30. The Prisoner
I'm on the run, I'll kill to eat
I'm starving now, feeling dead on my feet
Going all the way, I'm nature's beast
Do what I want, I'll do as I please
Run, fight to breathe, it's tough
Now you see me now you don't
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
Run, fight to breathe, it's tough
Now you see me now you don't
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
I'm not a number I'm a free man
Live my life how I want to
You'd better scratch me from your black book
Cos I'll run rings round you
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