Тексты песен Iron Maiden

(Bayley, Gers, Harris) I get in from work at 2 a.m. and sit down with a beer Turn on late night TV and then I wonder why I'm here It's meaningless and trivial and it washes over me And once

(Smith, Dickinson) Kill for gain or shoot to maim, but we don't need a reason The Golden Goose is on the loose and never out of season Blackened pride still burns inside this shell of bloody tre

If you're feeling down depressed and lonely I know a place where we can go 22 Acacia Avenue Meet a lady that I know, so if you're looking for a good time And you're prepared to pay the price Fifteen

If you're feeling down depressed and lonely I know a place where we can go 22 Acacia Avenue meet a lady that I know So if you're looking for a good time And you're prepared to pay the

(Harris) There goes the siren that warns of the air raid There comes the sound of the guns sending flak Out for the scramble we've got to get airborne Got to get up for the coming attack Jump i

(Harris) Lying awake at night I wipe the sweat from my brow But it's not the fear 'cos I'd rather go now Trying to visualize the horrors that will lay ahead The desert sand mound a bur

(Harris) Lying awake at night I wipe the sweat from my brow But it's not the fear 'cos I'd rather go now Trying to visualize the horrors that will lay ahead The desert sand mound a bur

I can't be compromising in my thoughts no more I can't prevent the times my anger fills my heart I can't be sympathyzing with a new lost cause I feel I've lost my patience with

(Harris) "My son ask for thyself another kingdom, for 'that which I leave is too small for thee" (King Philip of Macedonia - 339 B.C.) (0:15-Intro solo: Adrian Smith) Near to the eas

Lyrics by: Del Bromham Look inside your head and find, tell me now and it's all in your mind Look inside your head and find a way deep inside and it's all in your mind It's all in your mind It's all i

As I lay here lying on my bed, sweet voices come into my head. Oh what it is, I wanna know, please won't you tell me it's got to go. There's a feeling that's inside me, telling me

(Smith, Dickinson) Turn the spotlights on the people, switch the dial and eat the worm Take your chances, kill the engine, drop your bombs and let it burn White flags shot to ribbons, the truce is bl

(Dickinson, Gers) Covered in sinners and dripping with guilt Making you money from slime and from filth Parading your bellies in ivory towers Investing our lives in your schemes and your powers You

(Harris) And if you're taking a walk through the garden of life What do you think you'd expect you would see? Just like a mirror reflecting the moves of your life And in the river reflectio

Harris) Sometimes it makes me wonder, sometimes it makes me question Sometimes it makes me saddened, always it makes me angry But when you can see it happening, the madness that's all around you

(Murray, Harris, Dickinson) Dying swans twisted wings, beauty not needed here Lost my love, lost my life, in this garden of fear I have seen many things, in a lifetime alone Mother love is no more, b

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

[Dickinson] Honey it's getting close to midnight And all the myths are still in town True love and lipstick on your linen Bite the pillow make no sound If there's some living to be d

(Dickinson) Honey its getting close to midnight, and all the myths are still in town True love and lipstick on your linen, bite the pillow make no sound If there's some living to be done before

(Smith, Dickinson, Harris) 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, spi

(Harris) If you had the time to lose, an open mind and time to choose Would you care to take a look, or can you read me like a book Time is always on my side, time is always on my side Can I tempt y

(Dickinson, Murray) There's a madman in the corner of your eye, he likes to pry - into your sunlight He wants to burst into the street with you and I, a world of shadows and of rain He's se

Giving a swish with your arse in the air, don't you know what they're saying? Charlotte you're so refined when you take all the love that they're giving. Sticking with every man t

Harris) I'd sail across the ocean, I'd walk a hundred miles If I could make it to the end, oh just to see a smile You see it in their faces, the sadness in their tears The desperation and t

He's walking like a small child But watch his eyes burn you away Black holes in his golden stare God knows he wants to go home Children of The Damned (repeat another 3 times) He's walking

(Gers, Bayley) Como estais amigos, for the death of those we don't know Shall we kneel and say a prayer, they will never know we care Shall we keep the fires burning, shall we keep the flames al

Let me tell you a story to chill the bones, about a thing that I saw. One night wandering in the everglades. I had one drink but no more. I was rambling, enjoying the bright moonlight. Gazing up

(Murray, Harris) (0:01-Solo: Dave Murray) When you see familiar faces but you don't remember where they're from Could you be wrong? When you've been particular places that you know yo

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 th

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 thought I

Harris) Don't look to the eyes of a stranger, don't look through the eyes of a fool Don't look to the eyes of a stranger, somebody's watching when the light goes down Don't

(Gers, Harris) Have you ever felt the future is the past, but you don't know how...? A reflected dream of a captured time, is it really now, is it really happening? Don't know why I feel t

Walk away! Look out now, baby won't you take me away, Sittin' here its gonna be a new day. Gotta sing my song and I can't go wrong, Gotta keep on roaming, gotta sing my song. What yo

Everybody's waiting for something to happen. Everybody's waiting for something to see Lunatics waiting for bigger disasters. Everyone's waiting for news on TV Winding lives at the

(Murray, Harris) Why is it some of us are destined to stay alive, and some of us are here just so that we'll die How come the bullet hits the other guy, do we have to try and reason why Be it

(Dickinson, Gers) We live our lives in fever, in a choking sweat of fear In the heat of the night you can feel so much In the heat of the night I scream "Don't touch!" I remember a ti

(Harris) I am a man who walks alone and when I'm walking a dark road At night or strolling through the park When the light begins to change I sometimes feel a little strange A little anxious whe

[Harris] I am a man who walks alone And when I'm walking a dark road At night or strolling through the park When the light begins to change I sometimes feel a little strange A little a

(Harris) I am a man who walks alone and when I'm walking a dark road At night or strolling through the park When the light begins to change I sometimes feel a little strange A little anxious whe

I am a man who walks alone And when I'm walking a dark road At night or strolling through the park When the light begins to change I sometimes feel a little strange A little anxious when it's dark Fea

(Dickinson) As a young boy chasing dragons with your wooden sword so mighty You're St. George or you're David and you always killed the beast Times change very quickly and you had to grow u

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 birdsong shatters the still. His eyes are ablaze, See the madman in his gaze. F

Are you a man of peace Or man of holy war Too many sides to you Don't know wich anymore So many full of life But also filled with pain Don't know just how many Will live to breathe

(Harris) After the war and now that they've sent us homeward I can't help but feel that I'm on my own No one can see just what this conflict has done to The minds of the men who are on

(Harris) She fell in love with his greasy machine, she leaned over wiped his kickstart clean She'd never seen the beast before, but she left there wanting more more more But when she was walking

(Harris, Bayley) I'm running out of time, I'm running out of breath And now it's getting so I can't sleep at night In the day, feel like death I'm getting in far too deep, I

Shadows may hide you but also may be your grave You're running today maybe tomorrow you'll be saved You pray for daylight to save you for a while You wonder if your children will face the k

Weaving a thread round your heart and your soul. Decieving your eyes and delaying your goal Ships in the night when they pass out of sight. Deliver their cargo of eartly delights To the women and t

(Harris) Instrumental

(Gers, Dickinson, Harris) I have sailed to many lands, now I make my final journey On the bow I stand, west is where I go Through the night I plough, still my heart, calculate and pray As the compass

I'm waiting in my cold cell when the bell begins to chime Reflecting on my past life and it doesn't have much time Cos at 5 o'clock they take me to the Gallows Pole The sands of time for me are run

(Harris) Can't understand what is happening to me, this isn't real this is only a dream But I never have felt, no I never have felt this way before I'm looking down on my body below, I

(Harris, Dickinson) Believe in me and send no money, I died on the cross and that ain't funny But my so called friends are making me a joke, they missed out what I said like I never spoke They c

(Dickinson, Smith) I got the keys to view at number 22, behind my green door there's nothing to see Is that a feature, what kind of creature would hang around waiting for a guy like me Stone col

(Harris) Infinite dreams I can't deny them, infinity is hard to comprehend I couldn't hear those screams, even in my wildest dreams Suffocation waking in a sweat, scared to fall asleep agai

My life is so empty, nothing to live for. My mind is all confusion, 'cos I defied the law. When you weren't there to help me, I lost my mind and ran. I never had no trouble before this all

(Harris) My life is so empty, nothing to live for My mind is all confusion, 'cos I defied the law When you weren't there to help me, I lost my mind and ran I never had no trouble before thi

Refto, Platesz, Frezo Refto, Platesz, Frezo Refto, Platesz, Frezo REfto, Platesz, Frezo.... Let me see the sky Donґt me take a ray My Mouth is May Go Away .....

Longboats have been sighted the evidence of war has begun Many Nordic fighting men their swords and shields all gleam in the sun Call to arms defend yourselves get ready to stand and fight for your l

Won't you come into my room, I want to show you all my wares, I just want to see your blood, I just want to stand and stare. See the blood begin to flow, As it falls upon the floor, Iron maiden

(Harris) Won't you come into my room, I wanna show you all my wares I just want to see your blood, I just want to stand and stare See the blood begin to flow, as it falls upon the floor Iron Mai

(Smith/Harris/Dickinson) From the red sky of the east. To the sunset in the west We have cheated death and he has cheated us But that was just a dream. And this is what it means We are sle

From the red sky of the East, to the sunset in the West We have cheated Death and He has cheated us But that was just a dream and this is what it means: We are sleeping and we'll dream for evermore An

(Dickinson, Murray) (0:16-Solo: Dave Murray) Lights out - We live in a world of darkness No doubt - Everything's up for sale We sleep - All of the world is burning We pray - To god for a better

(Harris) A lonely cry for help reaching out for help to anyone A silent prayer to God to help you your way I've been depressed so long, it's hard to remember when I was happy I've felt

You walk through the subway, his eyes burn a hole in your back, A footstep behind you, he lunges prepared for attack. Scream for mercy, he laughs as he's watching you bleed, Killer behind you, h

(Harris, Di'Anno) You walk through the subway, his eyes burn a hole in your back A footstep behind you, he lunges prepared for attack Scream for mercy, he laughs as he's watching you bleed

(Murray, Harris) I feel the breeze on my face in expectance Not very long before the storm reaches here Off in the distance the lightning flashing again Feel something strong as the power draws near

(McBrain) ........ : Hey Nicko, wake up the tape's rolling... Ah! ok now, well! What you doing letting me go to sleep now? Yeah, ah! Did you say the tape's rolling? Well look here, I must

(Churchill) Instrumentality

(Bayley, Gers, Harris) All my dark dreams drift like smoke in the breeze The fear grips me as I fall toward my sleep Here comes the nightmare that never ends Here is the dream that makes monsters of

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

(Harris, Gers) I don't care for this world anymore, I just want to live my own fantasy Fate has brought us to these shores, what was meant to be is now happening I've found that I like thi

Harris) Instrumental

(Bayley, Gers) The freeway is jammed and it's backed up for miles The car is an oven and baking is wild Nothing is ever the way it should be What we deserve we just don't get you see A bri

I stand alone in this desolate space In death they are truly alive Massacred innocence, evil took place The angels were burning inside Centuries later I wonder why What secret that they t

(Smith, Dickinson) Seven deadly sins, seven ways to win Seven holy paths to hell, and your trip begins Seven downward slopes, seven bloodied hopes Seven are your burning fires, seven your desires...

(Harris) Mother Russia how are you sleeping? Middle winter cold winds blow From the trees the snowflakes drifting, swirling round like ghosts in the snow Mother Russia poetry majestic, tells the time

I remember it as plain as day although it happened in the dark of the night. I was strolling through the streets of Paris and it was cold it was starting to rain. And then I heard a piercing scream a

Bleeding you dry from the start. The sum of my parts. To give it away. New life in a day. Some new Frankenstein. Damned for all time. Cursed by the angel who fell. Who saves me from hell. A

There's a darkening sky before me. There's no time to prepare. Salvage a lost horizon But no regrets from me. Maybe i'll be back some other day. To live again, just who can say. In what shape or

(Harris) There are times when I've wondered and times when I've cried When my prayers they were answered at times when I've lied But if you asked me a question would I tell you the tru

(Harris, Dickinson) The demon in your mind will rape you in your bed at night The wisdom of ages, the lies and outrages concealed Time it waits for no man, my future is revealed Time it waits for no

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 the day break A King fo

Out of the silent planet, out of the silent planet we are Out of the silent planet, out of the silent planet we are Out of the silent planet, out of the silent planet we are Out of the silent plane

In a foreign field he lay lonely soldier unknown grave on his dying words he prays tell the world of Paschendale Relive all that he's been through last communion of his soul rust your bu

I've been looking so long for you now, you won't get away from my grasp. You've been living so long in hiding. Hiding behind that false mask. You know and I know that you ain't g

(Dickinson) Into the Abyss I'll fall, the eye of Horus Into the eyes of the night, watching me go Green is the cat's eye that glows in this temple Enter the risen Osiris, risen again Tell

Listen to me Lamia, listen to what I've got to say. I've got these feelings, and they won't go away. I've got these fears inside that'll bring me to my knees. Oh help me Lami

Walking through the city, looking oh so pretty, I've just got to find my way. See the ladies flashing. All there legs and lashes. I've just got to find my way. Well you see me crawling thr

(Murray, Dickinson) When it all comes down the line, and the lights they turn to greed And you race off with your tyres screaming, rolling thunder And the people choke with poison, children cry in fe

Thinking of an age old dream, places I have never seen, Fantasies lived times before. I split my brain, melt through the floor. Over clouds my mind will fly, forever now I can't think why. My b

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 s

When I was wandering in the desert. And was searching for the truth I heard a choir of angels calling out my name. I had the feeling that my life would never be the same again I turned my face to

Unchain the colours before my eyes, Yesterday's sorrows, tomorrow's white lies. Scan the horizon, the clouds take me higher, I shall return from out of fire. Tears for rememberance, and te

(Harris, Di'Anno) Unchain the colours before my eyes, Yesterday's sorrows tomorrow's white lies Scan the horizon the clouds take me higher, I shall return from out of fire Tears for r

"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,

Hear the rime of the ancient mariner, see his eye as he stops one of three Mesmerizes one of the wedding guests, stay here and listen the nightmares of the sea And the music plays on, as the bride pas

Hear the rime of the ancient mariner See his eye as he stops one of three Mesmerises one of the wedding guests Stay here and listen to the nightmares of the sea. And the music plays on, as the bride p

(Harris) Hear the rime of the ancient mariner, see his eye as he stops one of three Mesmerizes one of the wedding guests, stay here and listen the nightmares of the sea And the music plays on, as th

The convoy lights are dead ahead, the merchantmen lay in their bed The thump of diesels hammers down, in the oily sea - the killing ground His knuckles white his eyes alight, he slams the hatch on th

White man came across the sea Brought us pain and misery Killed our tribes killed our creed Took our game for his own need We fought him hard we fought him well Out on the plains we gave him hell Bu

Just sixteen a pickup truck Out of money and out of luck I've got no place to call my own Hit the gas and here I go I'm Running Free, yeah, I'm Running Free I'm Running Free, yea

(Harris, Di'Anno) Just sixteen a pickup truck, out of money out of luck I've got nowhere to call my own, hit the gas and here I go Chorus: I'm running free yeah, I'm running fr

Out of the winter came a war horse of steel. I've never killed a woman before, but I know how it feels. *Chorus*: I know you'd have gone insane if you saw what I saw. So now I've got

(Smith) Out in the street somebody's crying, out in the night the fires burn Maybe tonight somebody's crying, reached the point of no return Oh - my eyes they see but I can't believe O

(Harris) Here they stand brothers them all, all the sons divided they'd fall Here await the birth of the son, the seventh, the heavenly, the chosen one Here the birth from an unbroken line, bor

(Harris) Eleven saintly shrouded men, silhouettes stand against the sky One in front with a cross held high, come to wash my sins away Standing alone in the wind and rain, feeling the fear that is g

Take a look in the pool and what do you see In the dark depths there 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

The only place where you can dream, living here is not what it seems. Ship of white light in the sky, nobody there to reason why. Here I am, I'm not really there, smiling faces ever so rare. A l

The only place where you can dream, living here is not what it seems. Ship of white light in the sky, nobody there to reason why. Here I am, I'm not really there, smiling faces ever so rare. A let's w

(Smith) Was many years ago that I left home and came this way I was a young man, full of hopes and dreams But now it seems that all is lost and nothing gained Sometimes things ain't what they se

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

(Harris, Dickinson) Trace your way back 50 years, to the glow of Dresden - blood and tears In the black above by the cruel searchlight, men will die men will fight - yeah! Who shot who and who fired

Слишком долго я хранил свои секреты, Слишком долго я молчал о том, что следовало рассказать. В темноте я, спотыкаясь, искал выход, Чтобы отыскать причину, отыскать время, место и час... Я жду зимнего

(Harris, Bayley, Gers) Silently to silence fall in the fields of futile war Toys of death are spitting lead where boys that were our soldiers bled War horse and war machine curse the name of liberty

(Harris) Roll of the dice, take a spin of the wheel Out of your hands now, so how do you feel But you're not gonna win, you'd better go back again Do you feel lucky or do you feel scared T

(Harris, Gers) Now I'm here can you see me, 'Cos I'm out on my own When the room goes cold tell me you can feel me...'cos I'm here Here I am can you see me, passing through

(Harris) Now the contracts out, they've put the word about, I'm coming after you It's not the money I make, it's the thrill of the chase, and I'm coming after you I watch you

(Harris) Feel the sweat break on my brow, is it me or is it shadows that are dancing on the walls Is this a dream or is it now, is this a vision or normality I see before my eyes I wonder why I wond

(Harris) Wake alone in the hills with the wind in your face It feels good to be proud and be free and a race That is part of a clan and to live on highlands And the air that you breathe, so pure and

(Harris) He threw down a glove you made the mistake of picking it up now you're gone The choosing of guns or fighting with swords, the choice of weapons is done He'll tear you apart as soon

(Harris, Bayley, Gers) I've looked into the heart of darkness, where the blood-red journey ends When you've faced the heart of darkness, even your soul begins to bend For a week I have been

(Harris) I'm an educated fool, so I don't know what it is I'm supposed to do About this awkward situation that's been thrust right down upon me As I'm walking down into, on m

(Smith, Dickinson, Harris) Love is a razor and I walked the line on that silver blade Slept in the dust with his daughter, her eyes red with the slaughter of innocence But I will pray for her, I will

(Smith, Harris) Azazel is beside you and he's playing the game Demons are inside you and they're making their play Watching and they're hiding as they wait for the time For a devil to

(Harris) On a cold October morning as frost lay on the ground Waiting to make my move I make no sound Waiting for the mist to cover all around I carefully picked my time then took the wall I'm

(Harris) The tough of the track with the wind and the rain that's beating down on your back Your heart's beating loud, and goes on getting louder and goes on even more 'Til the sound i

In the gloom the gathering storm abates In the ships gimlet eyes await The call to arms to hammer all the gates To blow them wide throw evil to its fate All summers long the drill to build the

(Gers, Harris) Pay to kill, die to lose, hunted, hunter which are you Diablo come again to make trophies out of men Lose your skin, lose your skull, one by one the sack is full In the heat dehydra

(Murray, Harris) Like a mirage riding on the desert sand Like a vision floating with the desert winds Know the secret of the ancient desert lands Your are the keeper of the mystery in your hands Nom

"Woe to you, oh Earth and Sea For the Devil sends the beast wrath Because he knows the time is short Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast For it is a human number

The keys to death and hell The ailing kingdom doomed to fail The bonds of sin and heart will break The pilgrims course will take Quelling the devils might And ready for eternal fight Aching l

On the run kill to eat You're starving now you're dead on your feet Going all the way nature's beast Do what I want as I please Run fight to breathe it's tough Now you see me now

(Murray, Harris) Now that I know that the right time has come, my prediction will surely be true The impending disaster it looms and the whole of the village is doomed Why won't you listen to me

Let me tell you 'bout my life, Let me tell you 'bout my dreams, Let me tell you 'bout the things that happen, all is real to me. Let me tell you of my hope, of my need to reach t

(Murray, Harris) When a person turns to wrong, is it a want to be, belong? Part of things at any cost, at what price a life is lost At what point do we begin, fighter spirit a will to win But what m

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 n

(Harris, Gers) When you start to take a look within, do you feel ease with what you see Do you think you can have peace of mind, and have self-believe or be satisfied Do you think you even like yours

(Smith, Harris, Dickinson) Hand of fate is moving and the finger points to you He knocks you to your feet and so what are you gonna do Your tongue has frozen now you've got something to say The

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 gr

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 r

Instrumental

She lays in bed at night and that is when I make my call. But when she stares at me, she can't see nothing at all, Because, you see, I can't take no shape or form. It's been three long

(Harris, Gers, Murray, Bayley) There's an evil virus that's threatening mankind Not state of the art, a serious state of the mind The muggers, the backstabbers, the two faced elite A menace

(Smith) From the coast of gold, across the seven seas, I'm travelin' on, far and wide But now it seems, I'm just a stranger to myself And all the things I sometimes do, it isn't m

(Dickinson, Gers) Maybe one day I'll be an honest man, up till now I'm doing the best I can Long roads, long days of sunrise to sunset, sunrise to sunset Dream on brother while you can, dre

(Harris, Gers) The rebel of yesterday, tomorrow's fool, who are you kidding being that cool? Trying to break away from running with the pack, but they ain't listening so you've gotta g

(Murray, Bayley, Harris) My telescope looks out into the stars tonight A little speck of light seems twice the size tonight The calculations are so fine, can it be growing all the time? Now I can�

It's snowing outside 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

чего-то потянуло послушать хороший олдовый хеви восьмидесятых =/ I'm gonna organise some changes in my life I'm going to exorcise the demons of my past I'm gonna take the car and hit the open road I'm

I was born into a scene of angriness and greed, and dominance and persecution. My mother was a queen, my dad I've never seen, I was never meant to be. And now I spend my time looking all around,