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IRON MAIDEN LYRICS
"Can I Play With Madness" (1988 Single)
1. Can I Play With Madness
2. Black Bart Blues
3. Massacre (Thin Lizzy cover)
1. Can I Play With Madness
Can I play with madness?!
Give me the sense to wonder, to wonder if I'm free
Give me a sense of wonder, to know I can be me
Give me the strength to hold my head up, spit back in their face
Don't need no key to unlock this door
Gonna break down the walls, break out of this bad place
Can I play with madness? - the prophet stared at his crystal ball
Can I play with madness? - there's no vision there at all
Can I play with madness? - the prophet looked and he laughed at me
Can I play with madness? - he said: "You're blind, too blind to see"
I screamed aloud to the old man, I said: "Don't lie, don't say you don't know"
I say: "You'll pay for your mischief in this world or the next"
Oh, and then he fixed me with a freezing glance and the Hell fires raged in his eyes
He said: "Do you want to know the truth, son? - I'll tell you the truth
Your soul's gonna burn in a lake of fire.!."
Can I play with madness? - the prophet stared at his crystal ball
Can I play with madness? - there's no vision there at all
Can I play with madness? - the prophet looked and he laughed at me
Can I play with madness? - he said: "You're blind, too blind to see"
Oh, "Listen to me", said the prophet
Can I play with madness? - the prophet stared at his crystal ball
Can I play with madness? - there's no vision there at all
Can I play with madness? - the prophet looked and he laughed at me
Can I play with madness? - he said: "You're blind, too blind to see"
Can I play with madness?
2. Black Bart Blues
Bruce:
What the fuck is that?
Nerd:
Hi guys, are you in a band or something?
I mean it would be so cool if you were in a band
'cos you're driving a big bus with band on the front of it
Bruce:
Why don't you shut up and get on board will ya?
Nerd:
Wow! I have it here you got a stereo and a microwave and, and you got a beer
I'd like a Heineken if you've got one that's real cool, that's great, yeah!
Bruce:
Would you like to see Black Bart?
Nerd:
Who's Black Bart?
Bruce:
Let me introduce you
Black Bart's seen it, Black Bart knows
Black Bart's done it: the Black Bart blues
Suspended in suspension, medieval nights in Tennessee and elsewhere
We all got to try the Black Bart blues
Black Bart's truckin' ain't what it seems
Black Bart's lookin', don't know where she's been
Maybe she's an acrobat, spends her evenings dancing on a pole
We all got to try the Black Bart blues
Black Bart tried most of anything
Black Bart liked it but he couldn't sing
So he asked me to tell ya: "Try it for yourself and you will see"
We all got to try the Black Bart blues
Bruce:
What did you do that for?
Nerd:
I'm sorry, I just... I guess I'm not used to...
Bruce:
Shut up and get on with it will you
Black Bart's livin' across the ocean now
Black Bart's lookin' to come back somehow
So if you are a dancer, you could dance around his pole in May
That's a maypole
Black Bart's coming, now Black Bart's gone
Black Bart did it so I wrote this song
Whatever and however, in and out or several at a time, mmm yes!
We all got to do the Black Bart blues
Here comes the guitar solo
We all got to try the Black Bart blues
Yowsa! Yowsa! Yowsa!
3. Massacre (Thin Lizzy cover)
At a point below zero there's no place left to go
Six hundred unknown heroes were killed like sleeping buffalo
Through the devil's canyon, across the battlefield
Death has no companion, the spirit's lost
There goes the bandolero through the hole in the wire
He's a coward but he doesn't care, doesn't care if he lives or if he dies
The general that's commanding, he's defending what he fears
While the troops they are depending on reinforcements from the rear
If God is in his heaven, how come there's no heaven here?
In God's name they use weapons for the massacre
At a point below zero where the sun can see the land
Six hundred unknown heroes lay dead beneath the sand
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