Bruce Dickinson

You can sail in the desert with a ship of fools You can smuggle in Moses and his book of rules But you can't take mother and give her back her son Hey what kind of freedom is bought with a gun... CHORUS: People like to build their own prison walls When...

When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly's done? When the battle's lost, not won? A tyranny of souls That love has lost A tyranny of souls A pentecost Speaking tongues of fire Enflaming our desires Watching as we...

I wake in sweat you've come to steal my life away Some strange electric glow of artifical day The power breakers close, the grid of darkness falls Shining gleaming black as night, burning all the light [chorus:] What do you want from me? I sense your mastery....

Journey back to the darkside, back into the womb back to where the spirits move like vapour from the tomb The centre of the cyclone blowing out the sun break the shackles of your union to the light I might've had a brother, a service board, they dragged him u...

We live and die like all the rest Every summer has its sunset every year Love and hope put to the test Every grain of comfort holds the seed of fear And I loved you long ago And I love you still But the roads that we have travelled took us far apart Scattered...

Well billy rapped all night about his suicide Said he'd kick it in the head when he was 25 Speed jive, don't want to stay alive when you're 25 And wendy's stealing clothes from marks and sparks And freddie's got spots from ripping off the stars from his face F...

Hello! Well I've studied Greenwich meantime And it's different from CET But you know what, we're all in line And it's not big problem for me, ha, ha But over in the USA While we're having our tea They're maybe just getting dressed Well that's no way t...

There on a lonely desert hill-top the pilgrims huddle closer Waiting for a sign, the coming silver shrine the arc of space and time VERSE II: Truth, all the truth is never clear Perhaps again next year the hope lives on beneath the blazing sun one day you'll...

You wanna talk? You wanna go? From your armchair things you know Secret plan, conspiracy Little people all around You curse love, you curse hate You curse your life, you curse your fate Whatever you can be If only you could learn, if only you could lea...

A silent river flowing black Strange attractions, no turning back Present danger I recall that pins my senses to the wall Back from the edge where the darkness has fled and I'm swimming in light and I'm falling, falling from the edge Back from the edge I f...

Before I met my baby, there was a whole lot going on Yea, before I met my baby, there was a whole lot going on I used to wag my tail in every corner, never hesitate to give that bitch a bone Before I met my baby didn't have a clue Before I met my baby I didn'...

Smoking resting on its grave The carcass burting where it lies no more truth no honest games the serpent writhes within us all lava streams of molten flesh into their mountain holes retire now sleeping eyes of death awake your drug of choice truth or lie i be...

The mark is on you now The furnace sealed inside your head Melting from the inside now Waxy tears run down your face The whore that never told her tale Relives it every night with you Far off stands the lamb and waits For the wolf to come and end its life St...

Born in a mining town in '58. When black and white TV was up to date. And men where still around. Who fought for freedom. Stood their ground and died. That I could be alive and see the damage, That we've managed since. In this sceptred isle. Is nothing sacred....

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 done Before your life becomes your tomb You'd better know that I'm the one So...

I will not be pushed I will not be stamped defiled I will not be crushed I am not your only child I am not a freak Object of your own desire I am not ashamed I am not your alibi I stand alone but I can see You won't bring me down Through all this p...

I saw the girl drive a black town limousine In a little black gun, Unleaded fun, She thinks she's a movie queen Steel wheels, steel rails Move to the steaming beat You've got lead in your pants, Lead in your feet Get out of your cars, Take a walk on the street...

Here I sit, alone at a window The rain falls down On the class in the cold All my life I've been waiting for a moment It never came, maybe never will Ah, sometimes I don't know Those days are gone Now I hide where I just can't say I'm still there, catching y...

How happy is the human soul Not enslaved by dull control Left to dream and roam and play Shed the guilt of former days Walking on the foggy shore Watch the waves come rolling home Through the veil of pale moonlight My shadow stretches out its hand... CHORUS:...

Story of one strange night in Japan... In the smoky haze, She was dancing free Should’ve ordered one But I ordered three Then I watched the room, And it was dancing two So I ordered four and I hit the floor On the count of five, I was still alive A...

We all have secret lives In our secret rooms, Living in our movies, Humming our own tunes Living life in camera, When the night is closing down, Sliding into darkness, You could be like me CHORUS: Where are you going? What are you doing? Why are you looking...

Cold sunlight falling on me Cold sunlight falling on me I am a lonely man Sorrow is my friend Fall asleep as the dawn comes up A ray of hope again Hold the crystal vision for a second Let it pass Hold the crystal vision for a moment Make it last Su...

The first hellrider came on wings a-plenty in the dark Hauled out his poison and they blew away his mark The fascist from the east is coming, mothers hide your sons The second hellrider came from flaming seas and molten sands Half is played in Hell's commands...

You wanna know where legends live At the rainbows end I’ll be there There’s a place it ain’t in space That’s where I get to you I’m not the shy or torrent kind Like a supernova for the blind I used to say I guts like hand But I clean my show into my one night...

Put and opening shot across your bows. Got tunnel vision, pull the sheets in now. Let 'em flap, let 'em rip. This man of war gonna sink your ship: Gonna blow you midships. Gonna dive tonight. There's no release till your deep down inside. Davey Jones gonna k...

Waiting for the midnight hour (x6) CHORUS: My name is Dracula, Come here, I've something for you Dracula, I need a little life Dracula, And you are gonna be my wife Walking through the town when the streets are bare in the night Shadows everywhere, ar...

Well you bred me Well you fed me Well you made me what I am Something for nothing Good for nothing Well... It's a dreamstate, a dreamstate To kill me with your kindness you'll just have to wait You say I'm nothing You say I'm nothing Never gonna be somethin...

I'm your top prime cut of meat, I'm your choice I wanna be elected I'm your yankee doodle dandy In a gold Rolls Royce I wanna be elected Kids want a savior, Don't need a fake I wanna be elected We're all gonna rock To the rules that I make I wanna b...

You knew I wouldn't go That's why you threatened me, would I stay? Said, 'I was sick, and I'd be alone' Said, 'my mind was not my own', I didn't learn You crawled up on your knees A victims pretty please Would I stay? Would I stay? And I stayed How many more...

Always let you down... Always fooled around Always stealing your own way Life just seems too short Life lived in the dirt Kicked in the teeth Is what you meant to say Fighting battles, never fired a shot CHORUS: When you step into the fire You're gonna g...

From the golden brow of a morning hill The shadows rise in the early still The earth is cracked and the dust is cold The embers glow and the fire is old Mountains on the sky, lightning cracks the night Shivering in the cold 'til the morning light I know this...

He rides the wave a sprial slave The prince of darkness plays his games Your hypnotised under velvet skies He breathes the red wind acroos your eyes (chorus) Who leads you to the dark secret Who leads you to the dark secret Your life is lost your soul...

As above, so below All things come from the one Now you are the victim Carried by the wind, rooted in the ground If you want to learn the secrets Close your eyes... The ladder falls away At the gates of Urizen Fallen eagles blaze At the gates of Urizen Eterna...

Yeah, standing by the Three Kings And I thought I saw a star I could smell the holy spirit It was coming from the bar It's magic they said Back from the dead It's not Christmas yet God's not coming back God's not coming back You turn my water into...

When I was younger I thought that to kill or be killed was a thing to be proud of Victim of change, prisoner of hope, hanged by the neck on the end of a rope I don't know... I don't care... CHORUS: Oh, one of the damned Oh, part of the plan Cry oh oh oh the...

Living in the city can be a cold and lonely place to be. Living in the shadows where there is no sun there is no breeze. Drinking stale water, having to pay for the privilege. Talk about your freedom. I'll take you where I think it is. CHORUS: Gypsy road. Is...

What would induce you to swear your allegiance to God? Tonight... Joined at the hip to a million volt switch off the light Alright... You want to find out what the planet's about Falling from grace leaves a cool empty space in the sky Your eyes are black...

There's a secret that we all share In the darkest hours of the night You can swear on the bible... Cut the throat of your rival STICK: I've been taking my life in my hand And I'm making new plans, yeah... Now I'm starting my life on my own In the virgin unkno...

Devil's driving down the track. Hell on wheels and it won't turn back. Engine racing down a one way street. Speed wheel chasing in a red line heat. Into the blackness. Into the night. Out of the tunnel. Into the light. Red for danger. That's just for show. Cli...

I will not accept the truth I will not accept the truth I will not accept the truth That I'll never get there never get there, yeah, yeah I must not push forward, no I must not push forward, no I must not push forward, no Cuz I'll never get there I'll never...

CHORUS: I'm in a band with an Italian drummer and all the girls just fall in his lap I'm in a band with an Italian drummer But for a foreigner he's quite a nice chap He just cooks pasta, always faster He smokes with his father, makes good carbonara His...

These are the pictures, these are the feelings from the front-line Living in silence, feeling the deafness like heavy smoke Smiling with strangers, counting the days, like a spring coiled up inside Welcome to your future, welcome to your book of lies Fing...

I see the scars of action writhing round your face Too much inactivity and home's a lonely place Throw away your beauty cuz you know that it won't last Throw away your present, you've been living in the past Come on, take a trip with me across the bridge o...

See the scars of action writhing round your face Too much inactivity and home's a lonely place Throw away your beauty cause you know that it won't last Throw away your present you've been living in the past Come on, take a trip with me across the bridge of lu...

I've got myself a widget A gizmo with wires and Martian intent, yeah Strange face of beauty, that's my machine It blinks and stares right at me Sees nothing, but in it's wires A strange thing of beauty, that's my machine You won't believe what it can do It te...

And did those feet in ancient times Walk upon England's mountains green? Was the holy lamb of god On England's pleasant pastures seen? And did the countenance divine Shine forth on our clouded hill? Was Jerusalem built here In England's green and pleasant lan...

Blood brothers of angels, now hear us We earthbound your offspring, don't fear us God willing will rise up be near you So open your arms now and take us So we beleaving our dreams like the Icarus of old The plans we made for the bold and the blue wide beyond...

So this is dreamtime, and all is quiet So this is dreamtime, and all is night You've never been held by the hand of god Who's rocking the cradle, if he is not? He turned the oil into his blood Panzer divisions burning in in the mud The stain of freedom - he's...

In the darkness, the raven's head In the courtyard, clothed in fear I see gates that are opening There's only one way out of here Daylight has gone The night has come... See his twisted sons and daughters Writhing slowly in Satan's mire If you only could see...

There's a sinister game that children play...Hey...Hey When they get to the end of each schoolday...Hey...Hey They spend their lives getting ready for the kill... CHORUS: Laughing in the hiding bush The joker is back Laughing in the hiding bush The joker is...

Lickin' the gun lickin' the hand that feeds you. Lickin' the gun finger lickin' fun. Lickin' the gun lickin' the hand that feeds you. Lickin' the fun finger lickin' fun. Senator husband going for broke. I've gotta prove I'm not a joke. We smoked the stu...

Bring the toys out for the boys Let the children make their noise See the monsters in their metal cages Turn the lights down in your soul Cut the power to your heart See the carcass in its dying rages... [mumbling] Machine men - cannibals of rust Machine men...

I am the teacher, come to reach ya Take the old ways back to you You were lost, but I found you And it's your choice what to do I've learned a few things as I've traveled through the years Through the door of evermore... I came through fire, came...

Here in a church a small boy in kneeling He prays to a God he does not know, he cannot feel All of his sins of childhood he will remember He will not cry, tears he will not cry CHORUS: Man of sorrows, I won't see your face Man of sorrows, you left without a t...

Profession Quatermass where are you... Professor Quatermass where are you...? Mankind returns to the stars... But sometimes...the stars...return...to mankind... Didn't you come this way before? A million years ago?  

Hey, you wait, cringing in the dark You create what you always fear A puppet of hatred dishing out poison You use me for bait, you're begging bowls of lies Chain letters of sniveling compromise But I can smell the difference, your truth and you're fiction Yo...

Recording all of the above and some of the below Love is over like it never began Flicker of life, the candle in his hand Watch the fairy tale unfold, unwind For this prize he traveled in his mind Who’s guilty, who decides Who took her life, who gained...

Distant earthrise long ago Lingers at the borders of our minds Mysteries spinning in the dark In the frozen emptiness of time We were lost and we never knew Who we were or what we left behind Living half-lives we were blind To the new frontiers that opened up...

CHORUS: No lies. No angels. No heaven. oh, oh, oh, oh. No lies. No angels. No heaven. oh, oh, oh, oh. No lies. No angels. No heaven. oh, oh, oh, oh. Waiting on a corner on a red light street. Were the dealers and the junkies and the graveyards meet. By the li...

A silent sleeping vampire, arisen from its grave As I lie still and quiet in the dark The only sign of breathing, a flicker on my skin The only sign of life, my beating heart What does it take to open my eyes? What does it take to register surprise? What...

I'm vacuum breathing and open mouthed as the red shift fills my eyes Oh. Minister, my promises as her shadow cuts the day away I remembered you when you walked into that room Dislocated jagged pieces are sliding into this broken mind I'm swimming back agai...

The ashes drift away the smoke of our confusion We turn our frightened faces to each other, say goodbye Waited for the sign, waited for the moment Waited for the miracle to arrive I guess they lie Look at your future, take a look at your burning sky Look at...

You were too weird (x2) You were too weird for your own skin, baby You were too weird for your own piece of mind Took a stab at the sky without a high wire Took a touch-tone ride, but I couldn't come clean Come clean You were too weird (x2) You were too weir...

Is this a citadel is this a prison cell Who sits at my right hand now Who's watching me now Who's made us live this way When do i get my say Automation turns us into Human beings now Tripping over faces Humanity has fallen Huddled into doorways Hnd the streets...

Don't start it What you say to me and what you see it's not for sale I'm a cold starter Don't you hang you hat on my peg pin You big red heart on my shirt tail I'm a coldhearted, I'm mean and bad And virtuous and every bad thing I could ever be Trying...

Say goodbye to earth's children on a sleigh ride to the moon Blue and white in the distance, not sorry I'm leaving you Now and then the earthrise fills my eyes Now and then the darkside fills the sky Turn around the starlight warms my skin Even in the blackne...

How many lifetimes, how many beginnings How many lovers, how many threats How many religions to keep us all guessing Give me a reason. Why? Hell is a reason. Why? The real world, you've got to fight to see it through The real world, it's like the cages i...

You don't know your jailer, like you, he's never been free He looks just like you, doesn't he? He's got no sense of his own reward Who needs freedom anyway when you've got your golden cage? What I call isolation you might call a passion play (yeah) How l...

A 100 years of toil and pain To pull a stone upright again Uproot from its mountain home Taken to this sacred circle Is there a secret in the stone? A message in the hills Is there a secret in the stones? A message long ago I know the king will come...

Katie was a kid, I guess she hid her thoughts from everyone Went to school at eight, she was never late Didn't know the meaning of fun Every night Katie prayed to God above But her daddy gave her everything but love She woke up one day, said: "I'm on my...

Break the bread and drink the wine Seize the challace suck the poison vine There is frost in every sunbeam? water flows from the earth to sky Looking down on every rose nothing moves the wheal of heaven turns As our fingers leave there trace, we are gods and t...

Slowly bleeding, watch the vortex feeding Like a swirling vulture on your face Every hour the unseen rays devour Your screaming eyes cry out but they are blind Father, forgive me my sins Give me the nails, I'll hammer them in The road to hell is full o...

You've seen life through distorted eyes You know you had to learn The execution of your mind You really had to turn The race is run the book is read The end begins to show The truth is out, the lies are old But you don't want to know Nobody will ever...

With sense of irony everyone you see is chasing their illusion Take a dive or sink or swim, but in the end you're in the same pollution In your world escape is swift, the nonsense list is all you need to know In the land of dreams, you make the right co...

I've been down at the crazy house I've been playing with the cat and the mouse I've been down, I've been down I've seen the crazy people running around Shoot all the clowns Shoot 'em down, Shoot 'em down, Shoot 'em down Welcome to the circus where I fool aro...

Sound of Merlins fired up and their spoiling for the fight A thousand bombers ready, it's the target for the night Deeper into Germany, but we all know the score I know that I'm not coming back like those that did before Now the flare gun fires and we...

Trapped inside a web of fiery gravity that fuels all our needs Chaotic energy that sucks the life from H to He All life withers in the sun I deny what I have done Spend my days and nights in roaring halls of crimson fire CHORUS: Solar confinement Solar conf...

Holy was the preacher. Riding on his rig of steel in the rising sun This was no grim reaper. But a man with a smile who took a pride in a job well done. Ohh, in a blood red sunrise. He's preaching conversion as you lay down and die. Just a god given h...

We ride the cosmic streams of time We are the fools you came to trust We blind the eyes of history We tear ourselves down from your cross Half lives... We live again... Half lives... Now we are one... [chorus:] We’re the Soul Intruders In the whirling void o...

Yes, yes, I'd launch a rocket right into the rising sun My living breath is measured, every step is gone Fare you well my friends see you down the line, yeah, yeah I don't belong to nation, state or buying race I leave my prejudice with you, my religion's in...

I've watched the open line, I'd swing the sun up in the sky I threw down the screens and opened up the door The sun came streaming in and it shone out through your eyes As you laughed and threw your gospel on the floor, cry Hey, spirit of joy Oh, you mak...

I came from nothing before nothing began broke the window of existence and became a man No sin for fame, for fools, my star is black and burned I tilt towards the light, I suck your souls into my might CHORUS: We're star children Coming out of nowhere and to...

Spiralling falling, a silver machine From wings of freedom, silent above Eyelids were burning, summer sun roasting Tumbling chrome in the clear blue sky Brighter that sunshine for all of our lifetimes One thousand stars turned day into night at the end CHO...

Who stole your heartbeat in the night? The acolytes fearful in the flickering light They hold a mirror to catch the breath from your mouth Your breath was stolen by the wind ...from the south An other winter's tale is done You're immortal lover, he's gone A c...

Tattooed boys with expensive toys. Living in a bubble of sin. Money can buy you most of anything. Fix your nose or the mess your in. Front page news you can share your views. With a population that wants to be like you. Out on the strip. Out on the tile...

For too long now There were secrets in my mind For too long now There were things I should have said In the darkness I was stumbling for the door To find a reason To find the time, the place, the hour Waiting for the winter sun And the cold light of...

Wash away the blackness with the silver rain Don't turn away - don't turn away Wash away the blackness with the silver rain Don't turn away - don't try to hide... Sulphurous and burning, spitting out the sun The beginning of creation, of the golden one A wind...

And here, my prize, the Black Widow. Isn't she lovely? And so deadly. Her kiss is fifteen times more poisonous than the rattlesnake. And you see her venom is highly neurotoxic Which is to say that it attacks the central nervous system Causing intense pain...

The breeding house stood at 731, He was just a working man And he worked with his hands and prisoners He set a judgement on his fellow man Secret sight was his game, Justified by war His spawn lay in the freezer The killers that wore his name The bree...

He rides the wave, aspiring slave The prince of darkness plays his games You're hypnotised under failing skies He breathes the red wind cross your eyes Who leads you to the dark secret? (x2) Your life is lost, your soul is damned But it feels too good to mak...

In your hour of darkness be not afraid As the moonlight shivers on your grave Come back to find you here Save you from the danger Come back to lead you home From the hooded stranger Conjuring the ghost of Cain He won't let you fall again Return your s...

I am the teacher, come to reach you Take the old words back to you You were lost but I found you and it's your choice what to do I've learned a few things as I've travelled through the years Through the door of evermore I came through fire, came through wate...

Time travel... Voyage of the chosen few... Not yet, but maybe soon... In the post alternative seattle fallout Worms will fly and pigs will shout Does a worm have a brain, well you'd better find out Slice it in half and suck the offending part out If y...

Slowly bleeding, watch the vortex feeding Like a swirling vulture on your face Every hour the unseen rays devour Your screaming eyes cry out but they are blind Father, forgive me my sins Give me the nails, I'll hammer them in The road to hell is full o...

There are twelve commandments There are twelve divisions Twelve are the pagans who have mapped the sky In the outer circle To the inner sanctum From the octave at the end of time The fountain, the trinity The pilgrim is searching for blood (searching for his...

When the dying western sun dips low And the raincloud rises in the east Between the lines of truth and the words of faith Lie the fiery duties of the priest Stir the blood of ancient things Drawing down the moon From the hill of Tarna see the Beltane f...

The job is done and I go out Another boring day I leave it all behind me now So many worlds away I meet my girl, she's dressed to kill And all we gonna do Is walk around to catch the thrill On streets we call the zoo We eat the night, we drink the ti...

I mean you no harm Come closer, learn the truth Come closer, learn the truth Come... Bless me, mother, for I have sinned 

This is the maze of life This is the maze of death This is the matrix of eternity The demon never sleeps The demon never lies He beats my heart and leaves no echo... What heavy burden holds me back Every step along the track? Fear that reaches deep inside of...

You come on down to the pit Come on down to where the vipers spit I've been waiting for you down here Cover your eyes with the velvet hands of darkness (x2) CHORUS: I don't even know your name You won't even see my face But you choose to play my games Welcom...

When the dying western sun dips low And the raincloud rises in the east Between the lines of truth and the words of faith Lie the fiery duties of the priest Stir the blood of ancient things Drawing down the moon From the hill of Tarna see the Beltane f...

You think that it's all over and you want your ragged mile The winds of change are blowing all around Stop and look, you're not the only one on the road out in the night Take some time to find a partner, it does take time Winds of change roll over us Win...

She fixed me in the corner with that beautiful brown eye. She said I'd like to meet you I was so surprised. Well, what can I do for you. What can you do for me. We made for the exit had to wait and see. I hope I'm not wasting your precious time. I know your no...