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IRON MAIDEN LYRICS
"Piece of Mind" (1983)
1. Where Eagles Dare
2. Revelations
3. Flight of Icarus
4. Die With Your Boots On
5. The Trooper
6. Still Life
7. Quest for Fire
8. Sun and Steel
9. To Tame a Land
1. Where Eagles Dare
It's snowing outsidel; the rumbling sound of engines roar in the night
The mission is near, the confident men are waiting to drop from the sky
The blizzard goes on, but still they must fly
No one should go where eagles dare
Bavarian alps that lay all around, they seem to stare from below
The enemy lines a long time passed are lying deep in the snow
Into the night they fall through the sky
No one should fly where eagles dare
They're closing in, the fortress is near, it's standing high in the sky
The cable car's the only way in, it's really impossible to climb
They make their way, but maybe too late
They've got to try to save the day
The panicking cries, the roaring of guns are echoing all around the valley
The mission complete, they make to escape away from the Eagles Nest
They dared to go where no one would try
They chose to fly where eagles dare
2. Revelations
"O God of Earth and Altar,
Bow down and hear our cry,
Our earthly rulers falter,
Our people drift and die,
The walls of gold entomb us,
The swords of scorn divide,
Take not thy thunder from us,
But take away our pride."
(G.K. Chesterton: English Hymnal)
Just a babe in a black abyss
No reason for a place like this
The walls are cold and souls cry out in pain
An easy way for the blind to go
A clever path for the fools who know
The secret of the Hanged Man: the smile of his lips
The light of the Blind - you'll see
The venom that tears my spine
The Eyes of the Nile are opening - you'll see
She came to me with a serpent's kiss
As the Eye of the Sun rose on her lips
Moonlight catches silver tears, I cry
So we lay in a black embrace
And the Seed is sown in a holy place
And I watched and I waited for the Dawn
The light of the Blind - you'll see
The venom that tears my spine
The Eyes of the Nile are opening - you'll see
Bind all of us together, ablaze with Hope and Free,
No storm or heavy weather will rock the boat, you'll see
The time has come to close your eyes and still the wind and rain
For the one who will be King is the Watcher in the Ring... It is You...
3. Flight of Icarus
As the sun breaks above the ground
An old man stands on the hill
As the ground warms to the first rays of light
A bird song shatters the still
His eyes are ablaze, see the madman in his gaze
Fly, on your way, like an eagle, fly as high as the sun
On your way, like an eagle, fly and touch the sun
Now the crowd breaks and a young boy appears
Looks the old man in the eye
As he spreads his wings and shouts at the crowd
In the name of God, my father, I'll fly
His eyes seem so glazed as he flies on the wings of a dream
Now he knows his father betrayed
Now his wings turn to ashes to ashes his grave
Fly, on your way, like an eagle, fly as high as the sun
On your way, like an eagle, fly tuch the sun
Fly, on your way, like an eagle, fly as high as the sun
On your way, like an eagle, fly as high as the sun
On your way, like an eagle, fly tuch the sun
On your way, like an eagle, fly...
4. Die With Your Boots On
Another Prophet of Disaster who says the ship is lost
Another Prophet of Disaster leaving you to count the cost
Taunting us with Visions, afflicting us with fear
Predicting War for millions in the hope that one appears
No point asking when it is
No point asking who's to go
No point asking what's the game
No point asking who's to blame
'Cos if you're gonna die, if you're gonna die...
If you're gonna die, die with your boots on
If you're gonna try, well, just stick around
Gonna cry, just move along
If you're gonna die, you're gonna die
In 13 the Beast is rising, the Frenchman did surmise
Through earthquakes and starvation the warlord will arise
Terror, Death, Destruction pour from the Eastern Sands
But the truth of all predictions is always in your hands
5. The Trooper
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 toward 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
6. Still Life
Take a look in the pool and what do you see?
In the dark depths their faces beckoning me
Can't you see them? - it's plain for all to see
They were there, oh, I know you don't believe me
Oh, I've never felt so strange, but I'm not going insane
I've no doubt that you think I'm off my head
You don't say, but it's in your eyes instead
Hours I spend out just gazing into that pool
Something draws me there I don't know what to do
Oh, they drain my strength away
Oh, they're asking me to stay
Nightmares! Spirits calling me
Nightmares! They won't leave me be
All my life's blood is slowly draining away
And I feel that I'm weaker every day
Somehow I know I haven't long to go
Joining them at the bottom of the pool
Now I feel they are so near
I begin to see them clear
Nightmares! Coming all the time
Nightmares! Will give me peace of mind
Now it's clear and I know what I have to do
I must take you down there to look at them too
Hand in hand then we'll jump right into that pool
Can't you see? - not just me, they want you too
Oh, we'll drown together
It will be forever
Nightmares! Coming all the time
Nightmares! Now we rest in peace
7. Quest for Fire
In a time when dinosaurs walked the earth
When the land was swamp and caves were home
In an age when prize possession was fire
To search for landscapes men would roam
Then the tribes, they came to steal their fire
And the wolves, they howled into the night
As they fought a vicious angry battle
To save the power of warmth and light
Drawn by quest for fire
They searched all through the land
Drawn by quest for fire
Discovery of man
And they thought that when the embers died away
That the flame of life had burnt and died
Didn't know the sparks that made the fire
Were made by rubbing stick and stone
So they ploughed through the forest and swamps of danger
And they fought the cannibal tribes and beasts
In the search to find another fire
To regain the power of light and heat
8. Sun and Steel
You killed your first man at 13
Killer instinct, animal supreme
By 16 you had learned to fight
The way of the warrior, you took it as your right
Sunlight falling on your steel
Death in life is your ideal
Life is like a wheel
Through earth and water, fire and wind,
You came at last, nothing was the end
Make a cut by fire and stones
Take you and your blade and break you both in two
Break you both in two
Sunlight falling on your steel
Death in life is your ideal
Life is like a wheel
Sunlight falling on your steel
Death in life is your ideal
Life is like a wheel rolling on and on
Sunlight falling on your steel
Death in life is your ideal
Life is like a wheel and it's rolling still, yeah
9. To Tame a Land
He is the king of all the land in the Kingdom of the sands of a time tomorrow
He rules the sandworms and the Fremen in a land amongst the stars of an age tomorrow
He is destined to be a King, he rules over everything on the land called planet Dune
Bodywater is your life and without it you would die on the desert, the planet Dune
Without a stillsuit you would fry on the sands so hot and dry in a world called Arrakis
It is a land that's rich in spice, the sandriders and the "mice" that they call the "Muad'Dib"
He is the Kwizatz Haderach, he is born of Caladan and will take the Gom Jabbar
He has the power to foresee or to look into the past, he is the ruler of the stars
The time will come for him to lay claim his crown
And then the foe, yes, they'll be cut down
You'll see, he'll be the best that there's been
Messiah supreme, true leader of men
And when the time for judgement's at hand
Don't fret, he's strong and he'll make a stand
Against evil and fire that spreads through the land
He has the power to make it all end.!.
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