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LYRICS PIECE OF MIND

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Where Eagles Dare

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 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

(Solo: Dave Murray)

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 round 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

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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"
(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 on his lips

(Chorus) 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

(Chorus)

(Solo: Dave Murray)
(Solo: Adrian Smith)

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, it is you

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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

(Chorus) 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

(Chorus)

(Solo: Dave Murray)
(Solo: Adrian Smith)

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 toward the sun On your way, like an eagle, fly.....

(Solo: Dave Murray)

Fly as high as the sun

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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
'Cos if you're gonna die, if you're gonna die

(Chorus) If you're gonna die, die with your boots on,
              If you're gonna try, well stick around
              Gonna cry, just move along
              If you're gonna die, you're gonna die, gonna die
              Die with your boots on, if you're gonna try,
              Well stick around, gonna cry, just move along
              If you're gonna die, you're gonna die

Thirteen 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

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,
'Cos if you're gonna die, if you're gonna die,

(Chorus)

(Solo: Dave Murray)

They die with their boots on, yes they die
They die with their boots on, they die, we die, we die,
we die, we die, we die

(Solo: Adrian Smith)

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
'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 stick around
Gonna cry, just move along
If you're gonna die, you're gonna die

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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

(Solo: Adrian Smith)
(Solo: Dave Murray)

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

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Still Life

(Solo: Dave Murray)

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.

(Solo: Adrian Smith)
(Solo: Dave Murray)

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...forever calling me, nightmares...now we rest in peace

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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 the fire
And the wolves they howled into the night
As they fought a vicious angry battle
to save the power of warmth and light

(Chorus) 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 plowed through 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

(Chorus)

(Solo: Adrian Smith)
(Solo: Dave Murray)

(Chorus)

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Sun & 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

(Chorus) 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

(Chorus)
rolling on and on


(Solo: Dave Murray)

(Chorus)
and it's rolling still

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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 sand worms and the Fremen
in a land amongst the stars
of an age tomorrow

He is destined to be a king,
he rules over everything
in the land called planet Dune

Bodywater is your life
and without it you would die
in the desert of 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 Hderach,
he is born of Caladan
and will take the Gom Jabbar

He has the power to forsee
or to look into the past,
he's 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 judgment's at hand
Don't fret he's strong,
and he'll make a stand
Against evil the fire that spreads through the land
He has the power to make it all end.

(Solo: Dave Murray)
(Solo: Adrian Smith)

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