Iron Maiden - Fortunes Of War Lyrics

Iron Maiden - Fortunes Of War Video

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 their way home

 

I'm scarred for life

But it's not my flesh that's wounded

So how can I face the torment alone

The vivid scenes and all the recurring nightmares

I lay there and sweat until it gets light

 

People say 'don't worry'

Say that time's a perfect healer

That the nightmares they will come to pass

Can't hear what they're saying

I am living in my own world

And I'm feeling trance-like all the time

 

I hear voices in my head

Could I really be going crazy

In the night the visions seem so real

Do you care if you live or die

When you laugh are you really crying

You're not sure what's real anymore

 

Fortunes of war

Fortunes of war

Fortunes of war

No pain anymore

 

Sometimes I wake

I feel that my spirit's broken

I wonder if I've the strength...

Carry on carry on

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Iron Maiden - Face In The Sand Lyrics

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Everybody's waiting for something to happen,

Everybody's waiting for something to see

Lunatics waitin for bigger disasters,

Everybody's waiting for news on TV

 

Winding lives at the end of the spiral,

Waiting dictators with their next big thrill

Everyone's looking but no one is listening,

Everybody wants to be in at the kill

 

I wait for the signs, they tell me true, I see the signs of the end time

 

Everybody's searching but nothing's revealing,

Everyone's looking for the reason why

Everyone's hoping for life everafter,

Everyone's looking at death from the sky

 

Everyone's nightmares are going to happen,

Everybody's ripping the mask from their eyes

Everyone's praying but no one's believing,

Everyone's heroes tell everyone's lies

 

I wait for the signs, they tell me true, I see the signs of the end time

 

So I watch and I wait, and I pray for an answer

An end to the strife and the world's misery, but the end never came

And we're digging the graves, and we're loading the guns for the kill

 

Can the end be at hand? Is the face in the sand?

Future memory of our tragedy

 

Can the end be at hand? Is the face in the sand?

Future memory of our tragedy

 

So I watch and I wait, and I pray for an answer

An end to the strife and the world's misery, but the end never came

And we're digging the graves, and we're loading the guns for the kill

 

Can the end be at hand? Is the face in the sand?

Future memory of our tragedy

 

Can the end be at hand? Is the face in the sand?

Future memory of our tragedy

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Iron Maiden - Massacre Lyrics

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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 is forced to yield

 

There goes the bandolero

Through the hole in the wall

He's a coward but doesn't care though

In fact, he doesn't care at all

 

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 the heavens

How can this happen here?

In His name, they used the weapons

For the massacre

 

There is a point below zero

Where the sun can see the land

Six hundred unknown heroes

Lay dead in the sand

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Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name Lyrics

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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

'Cause at 5 o'clock, they'll take me to the gallows pole

The sands of time for me are running low

 

When the priest comes to read me the last rites

(I) take a look through the bars at the last sights

Of a world that has gone very wrong for me

 

Can it be that there's some sort of error

Hard to stop the surmounting terror

Is it really the end, not some crazy dream?

 

Somebody please tell me that I'm dreaming

It's not easy to stop from screaming

But words escape me when I try to speak

Tears fall, but why am I crying?

After all, I'm not afraid of dying

Don't I believe that there never is an end?

 

As the guards march me out to the courtyard

Somebody cries from a cell God be with you

If there's a God, (then) why has he let me go?

 

As I walk, my life drifts before me

Though the end is near, I'm not sorry

Catch my soul, it's willing to fly away

 

Mark my words, believe my soul lives on

Don't worry now that I have gone

I've gone beyond to see the truth

 

When you know that your time is close at hand

Maybe then you'll begin to understand

Life down here is just a strange illusion

 

Hallowed be thy name

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Iron Maiden - Remember Tomorrow Lyrics

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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 remembrance, and tears for joy,

Tears for somebody and this lonely boy.

Out in the madness, the all seeing eye,

Flickers above us, to light up the sky.

 

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.

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Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills Lyrics

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White man came across the sea

He brought us pain and misery

He killed our tribes, he killed our creed

He took our game for his own need

We fought him hard, we fought him well

Out on the plains, we gave him hell

But many came, too much for Cree

Oh, will we ever be set free?

 

Riding through dust clouds and barren wastes

Galloping hard on the plains

Chasing the redskins back to their holes

Fighting them at their own game

Murder for freedom, a stab in the back

Women and children, a coward's attack

 

Run to the hills

Run for your lives

Run to the hills

Run for your lives

 

Soldier blue in the barren wastes

Hunting and killing's a game

Raping the women and wasting the men

The only good Indians are tame

Selling them whiskey and taking their gold

Enslaving the young and destroying the old

 

Run to the hills

Run for your lives

Run to the hills

Run for your lives

 

Run to the hills

Run for your lives

Run to the hills

Run for your lives

 

Run to the hills

Run for your lives

Run to the hills

Run for your lives

 

Run to the hills

Run for your lives

Run to the hills

Run for your lives

 

Run to the hills

Run for your lives

Run to the hills

Run for your lives

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