Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band formed in Leyton, East London, in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. As pioneers of the new wave of British heavy metal movement, Iron Maiden achieved initial success during the early 1980s. The band's discography has grown to 41 albums, including 17 studio albums, 13 live albums, four EPs, and seven compilations.

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Steve Harris, Dave Murray, Adrian Smith, Bruce Dickinson, Nicko McBrain and Janick Gers

Song lyrics

Run to the hills, run for your lives.

666 the number of the beast.
Hell and fire was born to be released

Fly, on your way, like an eagle
Fly, touch the Sun

Iron Maiden (1980)

• Iron Maiden can't be fought, Iron Maiden can't be sought.
  • Iron Maiden, written by Steve Harris

Killers (1981)

• Over clouds my mind will fly, forever now I can't think why.
  My body tries to leave my soul.
  Or is it me, I just don't know.
  Mem'ries rising from the past, the future's shadow overcast.
  Something's clutching at my head, through the darkness I'll be led.
  • Purgatory, written by Steve Harris

The Number of the Beast (1982)

• Night was black, was no use holding back,
  'Cause I just had to see, was someone
  watching me.
  In the mist, dark figures move and twist,
  Was all this for real, or just some kind of hell.
  666 the number of the beast.
  Hell and fire was born to be released.
  • The Number of the Beast, written by Steve Harris

• 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.
  • Run to the Hills, written by Steve Harris

• Run to the hills, run for your lives.
  • Run to the Hills

• Around the world the nations wait,
  For some wise word from their leading light.
  You know it's not only madmen who listen to fools.
  Is this the end, the millions cried,
  Clutching their riches as they died.
  Those who survive must weather the storm.
  • Total Eclipse, written by Steve Harris, Dave Murray and Clive Burr

• The sands of time for me are running low.
  • Hallowed Be Thy Name, written by Steve Harris

Piece of Mind (1983)

• 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 Hangman ­ the smile on 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.
  • Revelations, written by Bruce Dickinson

• She came to me with a serpents kiss,
  As the Eye of the Sun rose on her lips.
  Moonlight catches silver tears I cry.
  • Revelations

• Bind us all together,
  Ablaze with Hope and Free.
  No storm or heavy weather,
  Will rock the boat you'll see.
  • Revelations

• 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
  • Flight of Icarus, written by Adrian Smith and Bruce Dickinson

• Fly, on your way, like an eagle
  Fly as high as the Sun
  On your way, like an eagle
  Fly, touch the Sun
  • Flight of Icarus

• 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.
  • Die with Your Boots On, written by Adrian Smith, Bruce Dickinson and Steve Harris

• You take my life but I'll take yours too
  You fire your musket but I run you through
  So when you're waiting for the next attack
  You'd better stand there's no turning back.
  • The Trooper, written by Steve Harris

• 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 Trooper

Powerslave (1984)

• Running, scrambling, flying
  Rolling, turning, diving
  • Aces High, written by Steve Harris

• Run,
  Live to fly, fly to live, do or die
  Won't you
  Run, live to fly, fly to live
  Aces high
  • Aces High

• The killer's breed or the Demon's seed,
  The glamour, the fortune, the pain,
  Go to war again, blood is freedom's stain,
  Don't you pray for my soul anymore.
  • 2 Minutes to Midnight, written by Adrian Smith and Bruce Dickinson

• 2 minutes to midnight,
  The hands that threaten doom.
  2 minutes to midnight,
  To kill the unborn in the womb.
  • 2 Minutes to Midnight

• Tell me why I had to be a Powerslave
  I don't wanna die, I'm a God,
  Why can't I live on?
  When the Life Giver dies,
  All around is laid waste,
  And in my last hour,
  I'm a Slave to the Power of Death.
  • Powerslave, Written by Bruce Dickinson

Somewhere in Time (1986)

Don't waste your time
Always searching for those wasted years

• Too much time on my hands
  I got you on my mind
  Can't ease this pain, so easily
  When you can't find the words to say
  It's hard to make it through another day
  And it makes me want to cry
  And throw my hands up to the sky
  • Wasted Years, written by Adrian Smith

• So understand
  Don't waste your time
  Always searching for those wasted years
  Face up... make your stand
  And realize you're living in the golden years
  • Wasted Years

Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (1988)

• Infinite dreams, I can't deny them
  Infinity is hard to comprehend
  I couldn't hear those screams
  Even in my wildest dreams
  • Infinite Dreams, written by Steve Harris

• It can't be all coincidence
  Too many things are evident
  You tell me you're an unbeliever
  Spiritualist? Well me I'm neither
  But wouldn't you like to know
  The truth
  Of what's out there to have the proof
  And find out just which side
  You're on
  Where would you end in Heaven or
  In hell?
  • Infinite Dreams

• There's got to be just more to it
  Than this
  Or tell me why do we exist
  I'd like to think that when I die
  I'd get a chance, another time
  And to return and live again
  Reincarnate, play the game
  Again and again and again
  • Infinite Dreams

• 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, written by Adrian Smith, Bruce Dickinson and Steve Harris

The evil that men do lives on and on!

Sands are flowing and the lines
Are in your hand
In your eyes I see the hunger, and the
Desperate cry that tears the night

Spend your days full of emptiness
Spend your years full of loneliness
Wasting love, in a desperate caress
Rolling shadows of nights

• Living on the razor's edge
  Balancing on the ledge
  You know, you know!
  • The Evil That Men Do, written by Adrian Smith, Bruce Dickinson and Steve Harris

• Circle of fire my baptism of joy
  And an end it seems
  The seventh lamb slain
  The book of life opens before me
  • The Evil That Men Do

• And I will pray for you
  Some day I may return
  Don't you cry for me
  Beyond is where I learn
  • The Evil That Men Do

• The evil that men do lives on and on!
  • The Evil That Men Do

• There's a time to live but isn't it strange
  That as soon as you're born you're dying
  • The Claivoyant, written by Steve Harris

No Prayer for the Dying (1990)

• I've lived in filth I've lived in sin
  And I still smell cleaner than the shit you're in
  • Holy Smoke, written by Steve Harris and Bruce Dickinson

• A million network slaves
  In an advertising new age
  I don't need a crystal ball to sell ya
  Your children have more brains
  Than your drug infested remains
  California dreaming as the Earth dies screaming
  • Public Enema Number One, written by Dave Murray and Bruce Dickinson

• Bring your daughter, bring your daughter to the slaughter
  Let her go, let her go, let her go
  • Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter, written by Bruce Dickinson

• Mother Russia
  Dance of the Csars
  Hold up your heads
  Remember who you are
  Can you release
  The anger the grief
  Can you be happy
  Now your people are free
  • Mother Russia, written by Steve Harris

Fear of the Dark (1992)

• The serpent is crawling inside of your ear
  He says you must vote for what you want to hear
  Don't matter what's wrong as long as you're alright
  So pull yourself stupid and rob yourself blind.
  • Be Quick or Be Dead, written by Bruce Dickinson and Janick Gers

• Now we live, in a world of uncertainty
  Fear is the key - to what you want to be
  You don't get a say the majority gets its way
  You're outnumbered by the bastards till the day you die...
  • Fear Is the Key, written by Bruce Dickinson and Janick 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
  • Wasting Love, written by Bruce Dickinson and Janick Gers

• Dream on brothers, while you can
  Dream on sisters, I hope you find the one
  All of our lives, covered up quickly
  By the tides of time
  • Wasting Love

• Sands are flowing and the lines
  Are in your hand
  In your eyes I see the hunger, and the
  Desperate cry that tears the night
  • Wasting Love

• Spend your days full of emptiness
  Spend your years full of loneliness
  Wasting love, in a desperate caress
  Rolling shadows of nights
  • Wasting Love

• You can make your own luck
  You create your destiny
  I believe you have the power if you want to
  ..........it's true
  • The Apparition, written by Steve Harris and Janick Gers

Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have a phobia that someone's always there

• When the light begins to change
  I sometimes feel a little strange
  A little anxious when it's dark
  • Fear of the Dark, written by Steve Harris

• Have you ever been alone at night
  Thought you heard footsteps behind
  And turned around and no one's there?
  And as you quicken up your pace
  You'll find it hard to look again
  Because you're sure that someone's there
  • Fear of the Dark

• Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
  I have constant fear that something's always near
  Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
  I have a phobia that someone's always there
  • Fear of the Dark

The X Factor (1995)

Saints and sinners
Something within us
To be lord of the flies

• 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
  • Lord of the Flies, written by Steve Harris and Janick Gers

• I've found that I like this living in danger
  Living on edge it feels, it makes me feel as one
  Who cares now what's right or wrong,
  it's reality
  • Lord of the Flies

• We don't need a code of morality
  I like all the mixed emotion and anger
  It brings out the animal, the power you can feel
  And feeling so high on this much adrenalin
  Excited but scary to believe what we've become
  • Lord of the Flies

• Saints and sinners
  Something within us
  To be lord of the flies
  • Lord of the Flies

• Try to release the anger from within
  Forgive yourself a few immortal sins
  Do you really care what people think
  Are you strong enough to release the guilt
  • The Unbeliever, written by Steve Harris and Janick Gers

Virtual XI (1998)

• I want to live my life on my own
  I want to lift the unturned stone
  I want to walk right into the fire
  I want to live out all my desires
  I want to go and see the fire burn
  I want to see and feel my world turn
  I want to know what more there's to learn
  I want to pass the point of no return
  • The Educated Fool, written by Steve Harris

Brave New World (2000)

• You watch the world exploding every single night
  Dancing in the sun a newborn in the light
  Say goodbye to gravity and say goodbye to death
  Hello to eternity and live for every breath
  • The Wicker Man, written by Adrian Smith, Steve Harris and Bruce Dickinson

• Your time will come, your time will come
  • The Wicker Man

• The ferryman wants his money you ain't going to give it back
  He can push his own boat as you set up off the track
  Nothing you can contemplate will ever be the same
  Every second is a new spark, sets the universe aflame
  • The Wicker Man

• Withered hands, withered bodies begging for salvation
  Deserted by the hand of gods of their own creation
  Nations cry underneath decaying skies above
  You are guilty
  • Out of the Silent Planet, written by Janick Gers, Bruce Dickinson and Steve Harris

Out of the silent planet
Dreams of desolation
Out of the silent planet
Come the demons of creation

And I dream, of the rain,
as it falls upon the leaves.

I know what I want
I'll say what I want
And no one can take it away

El Dorado streets of gold
See my ship is oversold
You've got one last chance to try

• The punishment is death for all who live
  • Out of the Silent Planet

• The killing fields, the grinding wheels crushed by equilibrium
  Separate lives no more disguise, no more second chances
  Haggard wisdom spitting out the bitter taste of hate
  I accuse you

  Before you know the crime it's all too late

  • Out of the Silent Planet

• Out of the silent planet
  Dreams of desolation
  Out of the silent planet
  Come the demons of creation
  • Out of the Silent Planet

• There's a thin line between love and hate
  Wider divide that you can see between good and bad
  There's a grey place between black and white
  But everyone does have the right to choose the path that he takes
  • The Thin Line Between Love and Hate, written by Dave Murray and Steve Harris

Dance of Death (2003)

• When I'm feeling down and low
  I vow I'll never be the same again
  I just remember what I am
  And visualize just what I'm gonna be
  • Wildest Dreams, written by Adrian Smith and Steve Harris

• 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 towards the barren sun.
  • Rainmaker, written by Dave Murray, Steve Harris and Bruce Dickinson

• And I know, of the pain, that you feel the same as me.
  And I dream, of the rain, as it falls upon the leaves.
  And the cracks, in our lives, like the cracks upon the ground.
  They are sealed, and are now, washed away.
  • Rainmaker

• You tell me we can start the rain.
  You tell me that we all can change.
  You tell me we can find something to wash the tears away.
  You tell me we can start the rain.
  You tell me that we all can change.
  You tell me we can find something to wash the tears.
  • Rainmaker

• So we can only get one chance can we take it
  And we only get one life can't exchange it
  Can we hold on to what we have don't replace it
  The age of innocence is fading... like an old dream
  • Age of Innocence, written by Dave Murray and Steve Harris

• And the fragment remains of our memories
  And the shadows we made with our hands
  Deeper grey, come to form all the colors of the dawn
  Will this Journeyman’s day be his last?
  • Journeyman, written by Adrian Smith, Steve Harris and Bruce Dickinson

• In your life you may choose desolation
  And the shadows you build with your hands
  If you turn to the light
  That is burning in the night
  Then the Journeyman's day has begun
  • Journeyman

• I know what I want
  I'll say what I want
  And no one can take it away
  • Journeyman

A Matter of Life and Death (2006)

• 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
  • Lord of Light, written by Adrian Smith, Steve Harris and Bruce Dickinson

The Final Frontier (2010)

• El Dorado come and play
  El Dorado step this way
  Take a ticket for the ride
  El Dorado streets of gold
  See my ship is oversold
  You've got one last chance to try
  • El Dorado, written by Adrian Smith, Steve Harris and Bruce Dickinson

• Left the elders to their parley meant to satisfy our lust,
  Leaving Damocles still hanging over all their promised trust
  Walk away from freedoms offered by their jailers in their cage
  Step into the light startripping over mortals in their rage
  • Starblind, written by Adrian Smith, Steve Harris and Bruce Dickinson

Other

• 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 to society, a social disease
  • Virus, written by Blaze Bayley, Dave Murray, Janick Gers and Steve Harris, featured in the 1996 compilation album Best of the Beast

External links

• Official website