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IRON MAIDEN LYRICS
"A Matter of Life and Death" (2006)
1. Different World
2. These Colours Don't Run
3. Brighter Than a Thousand Suns
4. The Pilgrim
5. The Longest Day
6. Out of the Shadows
7. The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg
8. For the Greater Good of God
9. Lord of Light
10. The Legacy
1. Different World
You lead me on the path, keep showing me the way
I feel a little lost, a little strange today
I think I'll take a hold of whatever comes my way
Then we'll see what happens, take it day by day
I though I had it all, I had it all worked out
Just what my future held that there would be no doubt
But then the card came up and I took another turn
But I don't know if it's fulfillment that I yearn
Tell me what you can hear and then tell me what you see
Everybody has a different way to view the world
I would like you to know, when you see the simple things
To appreciate this life it's not too late to learn
Don't want to be here - somewhere I'd rather be
But when I get there, I might find it's not for me
Tell me what you can hear and then tell me what you see
Everybody has a different way to view the world
I would like you to know, when you see the simple things
To appreciate this life it's not too late to learn
Tell me what you can hear and then tell me what you see
Everybody has a different way to view the world
I would like you to know, when you see the simple things
To appreciate this life it's not too late to learn
Don't want to be here - somewhere I'd rather be
But when I get there, I might find it's not for me
Don't know what I want or where I want to be
I'm feeling more confused the more the days go by
2. These Colours Don't Run
It's the same in every country when you say you're leaving
Left behind the loved ones waiting silent in the hall
Where you're going lies adventure others only dream of
Red and green light this is real and so you go to war
For the passion, for the glory
For the memories, for the money
You're a soldier for your country
What's the difference - all the same
Far away from the land of our birth
We fly a flag in some foreign earth
We sailed away like our fathers before
These colors don't run from a cold bloody war
There is no one that will save you going down in flames
No surrender, certain death - you look it in the eye
On the shores of tyranny you: lonely unmarked graves
For the passion, for the glory
For the memories, for the money
You're a soldier for your country
What's the difference - all the same
Far away from the land of our birth
We fly a flag in some foregin earth
We sailed away like our fathers before
These colors don't run from a cold bloody war
Far away from the land of our birth
We fly a flag in some foreign earth
We sailed away like our fathers before
These colors don't run from a cold bloody war...
3. Brighter Than a Thousand Suns
We are not the sons of God
We are not His chosen people now
We have crossed the path He trod
We will feel the pain of His beginning
Shadow fingers rise above
Iron fingers stab the desert sky
Oh, behold the power of man
On its tower ready for the fall
Knocking heads together well
Rise a city - build a living hell
Join the race to suicide
Listen for the tolling of the bell
Out of the universe a strange love is born
Unholy union - Trinity reformed
Yellow sun, it's evil twin
In the black the winds delivered him
We will split our souls within
Atom seed to nuclear dust is riven
Out of the universe a strange love is born
Unholy union - Trinity reformed
Out of the darkness brighter than a thousand suns
Out of the darkness brighter than a thousand suns
Out of the darkness brighter than a thousand suns
Out of the darkness brighter than a thousand suns
Out of the darkness brighter than a thousand suns
Out of the darkness brighter than a thousand suns
Bury Your morals and bury Your dead
Bury Your head in the sand
E=Mc squared - you can relate
How we make God with our hands?
Whatever would Robert have said to his God
About how he made war with the sun
E=Mc squared - you can relate
How we make God with our hand's?
All the nations are rising
Through acid veils of love and hate
Chain letters of Satan
Uncertainty leads us all to this
All the nations are rising
Through acid veils of love and hate
Cold fusion and fury
Divide and conquer while ye may
Others preach and others fall and pray
In the bunkers where we'll die
There the executioners they lie
Bombers launch whit no recall
Minutes warning of the missile fall
Take a look at your last sky
Guessing you won't have the time to cry
Out of the universe a strange love is born
Unholy union - Trinity reformed
Out of the darkness
Out of the darkness
Out of the darkness brighter than a thousand suns
Out of the darkness brighter than a thousand suns
Out of the darkness brighter than a thousand suns
Out of the darkness brighter than a thousand suns
Out of the darkness brighter than a thousand suns
Holy Father we have sinned...
4. The Pilgrim
The keys to death and hell, the ailing kingdom doomed to fall
The bonds of sin and heart will break; the pilgrims course will take
Quelling the devils migh and ready for eternal fight
Aching limbs and fainting soul: holy battles take their toll
Liberty and hope divine changing a water into wine
So to you we bid farewell; kingdom of heaven to hell
Spirit holy, life eternal: raise me up take me home
Pilgrim sunrise, pagan sunset - onward journey begun
To courage find and gracious will deliver good from ill
Clean the water, clean our guilt; with us do what you will
Then will my judge appear; bear no false angel that I hear
For only then I will confess to my eternal hell
Now give us our holy sign changing a water into wine
So to you we bid farewell: kingdom of heaven to hell
Spirit holy, life eternal: raise me up take me home
Pilgrim sunrise, pagan sunset - onward journey begun
Now give us our holy sign changing a water into wine
So to you we bid farewell: kingdom of heaven to hell
Spirit holy, life eternal: raise me up take me home
Pilgrim sunrise, pagan sunset - onward journey begun
Spirit holy, life eternal: raise me up take me home
Pilgrim sunrise, pagan sunset - onward journey begun
5. The Longest Day
In the gloom the gathering storm abates
In the ships gimlet eyes await
The call to arms to hammer at the gates
To blow them wide throw evil to its fate
All summers long the drills to build the machine
To turn man from flesh and blood to steel
From paper soldiers to bodies on the beach
From summer sends to Armageddon's reach
Overload your master - not your god
The enemy coast dawning grey with scud
These wretched souls puking shaking fear
To take a bullet for those who send them here
The world's all right the cliffs erupt in flame
No escape remorseless shrapnel rains
Drowning men; no chance for a warrior's fate
A choking death enter hell's gates
Sliding we go, only fear on our side
To the edge of the wire and we rush with the tide
Oh, the water is red with the blood of the dead
But I'm still alive, pray to God I survive
How long on this longest day 'till we finally make it trough?...
The rising dead faces bloated torn
They are relieved, the living wait their turn
Your number's up: the bullet's got your name
You still go on to hell and back again
Valhalla waits; Valkyries rise and fall
The warrior tombs lie open for us all
A ghostly hand reaches through the wall
Blood and sand we will prevail
Sliding we go, only fear on our side
To the edge of the wire and we rush with the tide
Oh, the water is red with the blood of the dead
But I'm still alive, pray to God I survive
How long on this longest day 'till we finally make it trough?...
How long on this longest day 'till we finally make it trough?...
6. Out of the Shadows
Hold a halo round the world - golden is the day
Princes of the Universe - your burden is the way
So there is no better time; who will be born today?
A gypsy child at day break: a king for a day
Out of the shadows and into the sun
Dreams of the past as the old ways are done
Oh, there is beauty and surely there is pain
But we must endure it to live again
Dusty dreams in fading daylight flicker on the walls
Nothing new your life's adrift; what purpose to it all?
Eyes are closed and death is calling reaching out its hand
Call upon the starlight to surround you
Out of the shadows and into the sun
Dreams of the past as the old ways are done
Oh, there is beauty and surely there is pain
But we must endure it to live again
Out of the shadows and into the sun
Dreams of the past as the old ways are done
Oh, there is beauty and surely there is pain
But we must endure it to live again
Out of the shadows and into the sun
Dreams of the past as the old ways are done
Oh, there is beauty and surely there is pain
But we must endure it to live again
Out of the shadows and into the sun
Dreams of the past as the old ways are done
Oh, there is beauty and surely there is pain
But we must endure it to live again
A man who casts no shadow has no soul...
7. The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg
Let me tell you 'bout my life
Let me tell you 'bout my dreams
Let me tell you 'bout the things that happen always real to me
Let me tell you of my hope of my need to reach the sky
Let me take you on an awkward journey
Let me tell you why
Let me tell you why...
Why should these curses be laid upon me:
I won't be forgiven 'till I can brake free?
What did I do to deserve all this guilt:
Pay for my sins with the sale of my soul?
Demons are trapped all inside of my head
My hopes are gone; reach for heaven from hell
My sins are many, my guilt is too heavy
The pressure of knowing of hiding what I know
I'm able to see things, things I don't want to see
The lives of a thousand souls weigh heavy down on me
I know they're crying for help reaching out
The burden of them will take me down as well
The sin of a thousand souls not died in vain:
Reincarnate still in me live again
Someone to save me, something to save me from myself
To bring the salvation, to exorcise this hell
Someone to save me, something to save me from myself
To bring the salvation, to exorcise this hell...
Someone to save me, something to save me from myself
To bring the salvation, to exorcise this hell
Someone to save me, something to save me from myself
To bring the salvation, to exorcise this hell...
8. For the Greater Good of God
Are you a man of peace or man of holy war?
Too many sides to you - don't know which any more
So many full of life, but also filled with pain
Don't know just how many will live to breathe again
A life that's made to breath destruction or defense
A mind that's vain corruption - bad or good intent
A wolf in a sheep's clothing or saintly or sinner
Or someone that would believe a holy war winner
They fire off many shots and many parting blows
Their actions beyond a reasoning - only God would know
And as he lies in heaven or it could be in hell
I feel he's somewhere here or looking from below
But I don't know... I don't know...
Please tell me now what life is?
Please tell me now what love is?
Well tell me now what war is?
Again tell me what life is?
More pain and misery in the history of mankind
Sometimes is seems more like the blind leading blind
It brings upon us more of famine death and war
You know religion has a lot of answers for
Please tell me now what life is?
Please tell me now what love is?
Well tell me now what war is?
Again tell me what life is?
And as they search to find the bodies in the sand
They find it's ashes that are scattered across the land
And as their spirits seem to whistle on the wind
A shot is fired - somewhere another war begins
And all because of it; you'd think that we would learn
But still the body count, the city fires burn
Somewhere there's someone dying in a foreign land
Meanwhile the world is crying stupidity of man
Tell me why... Tell me why...
Please tell me now what life is?
Please tell me now what love is?
Well tell me now what war is?
Again tell me what life is?
Please tell me now what life is?
Please tell me now what love is?
Well tell me now what war is?
Again tell me what life is?
For the greater good of God...
Please tell me now what life is?
Please tell me now what love is?
Well tell me now what war is?
Again tell me what life is?
Please tell me now what life is?
Please tell me now what love is?
Well tell me now what war is?
Again tell me what life is?
For the greater good of God...
He gave his life for us, He fell upon the cross
To die for all of those who never mourn His loss
It wasn't meant for us to fell the pain again
Tell me why... Tell me why...
9. Lord of Light
There are secrets that you keep
There are secrets that you keep
There are secrets that you tell to me alone
I can't reach things I can't see
You don't see this strange world quite the same as me
Don't deny me what I am
Nothing hidden, still you fail to see the truth
These are things you can't reveal
These are things you can't reveal
We are part of some strange plan
Why the slaughter of the brotherhood of man?
Infernal sacrifice of hell
Fire breathing lead the way
Mounds of bodies as they all burn into one
Revenge is living in the past
Time to look into a new millennium
Spiral path leads through the maze
Down into the fiery underworld below
Fire breathing lead the way
Lucifer was just an angel led astray
Free your soul and let it fly
Give your life to the Lord of Light
Keep your secrets and rain on me
All I see are mysteries
Free your soul and let it fly
Give your life to the Lord of Light
Keep your secrets and rain on me
All I see are mysteries
We are not worthy in your black and blazing eyes
We gather demons in the mirror every day
The bridge of darkness casts a shadow on us all
And all our sins to you we give this day
Others wait their turn; their lives were meant to last
Use yours wisely as the light is fading fast
Free your soul and let it fly
Mine was caught - I couldn't try
Time returns again to punish all of us
We are cast out by our bloody fathers hand
We are strangers in this lonely promised land
We are shadows of the one unholy ghost
In our nightmare world the only one we trust
Free your soul and let it fly
Give your life to the Lord of Light
Keep your secrets and rain on me
All I see are mysteries
Free your soul and let it fly
Give your life to the Lord of Light
Keep your secrets and rain on me
All I see are mysteries...
10. The Legacy
Tell you a thing that you ought to know
Two minutes of your time, then on you go
Tell tale of the man all dressed in black
That most of them not coming back
Sent off to war to play little games
And on their return can't name no names
Some strange yellow gas has played with their minds
Has reddened their eyes, removed all the lies
And strange as it sounds, death knows no bounds
How many get well? - only time will tell
-- Only time will tell...
You lie in your death bad now, but what did you bring to the table
Brought us only holy sin
Utter trust is a deadly thing to the prayer of holy peace
We didn't know what was lying underneath, so how could we be such fools
And to think that we thought you the answer
I can't being to understand in all the lies
But on your death bed I can see it in you're eyes
Just as clear as all the sweat upon your brow
It really makes sense, I can see it clearly now
Tangled up in a web of lies could have been a way to prophesies
Unaware of the consequence, not aware of the secrets that you keep
Nothing that we could believe to reveal the facade of faceless men
Not a thing that we could foresee, now a sing that would tell us the outcome
You had us all strung out with promises of peace
But all along you cover plan was to deceive
Can it put to rights? - now only time will tell
Your prophecies will send us all to hell as well
Left to all our golden sons; all to pick up on the peace
You could have all to them - a little chance... at least
Take the world to a better place: given them all just a little hope
Just think what a legacy - you now - will leave
We seem destined to live in fear and some that would say Armageddon is near
But where there's a life while there's hope that man won't self destruct
Why can't we tread our fellow men with more respect and a shake of their hands?
But anger and loathing is rifle; the death on all sides is becoming a way of life
We live in an uncertain world: fear understanding and ignorance is leading to death
Only the corpses are left for vultures that prey on their bones
But some are just not waiting peace; their whole life is death and misery
The only thing that they know: fight fire with fire - life is cheap
But if they do stop to think that man is teetering right on the brink
But do you think that they care they benefit from death and pain and despair?
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