Iron Maiden - Powerslave (1984) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bruce Dickinson - Lead Vocals Dave Murray - Guitars Adrian Smith - Guitars Steve Harris - Bass Nicko McBrain - Drums ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Track Listing CD 1 1) Aces High (Harris) 4:31 2) 2 Minutes to Midnight (Smith, Dickinson) 6:06 3) Losfer Words (Big 'Orra) (Harris) 4:15 4) Flash Of The Blade (Dickinson) 4:05 5) The Duellists (Harris) 6:18 6) Back In The Village (Smith, Dickinson) 5:02 7) Powerslave (Dickinson) 7:12 8) Rime Of The Ancient Mariner (Harris) 13:45 CD 2 1) Rainbow's Gold (Slesser, Mountain) 4:57 2) Mission From 'Arry (Harris, McBrain) 6:43 3) King Of Twilight (Nektar) 4:54 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CD 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1) Aces High (Harris) 4:31 There goes the siren that warns of the air raifd Then comes the sound of the guns sending flak Out for the scramble we've got to get airborne Got to get up for the comming attack. Jump in the cockpit and start up the engines Remove all the wheel blocks there's no time to waste Gathering speed as we heed down the runway Gotta get airborne before it's too late Running, scrambling, flying Rolling, turning, diving, going in again Run, live to fly, fly to live, do or die Run, live to fly, fly to live, Aces high Move in to fire at the mainstream of bombers Let off a sharp burst and then turn away Roll over, spin round and come in behind them Move to their blindsides and firing again Bandits at 8 o'clock move in behind us Ten ME - 109's out of the sun Ascending and turning out spitfires to face them Heading straight for them I press my guns. Rolling, turning, diving Rolling, turning, diving, goin' again Run, live to fly, fly to live, do or die Run, live to fly, fly to live, Aces high. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) 2 Minutes to Midnight (Smith, Dickinson) 6:06 Kill for again or shoot to maim But we don't need a reason To Golden Goose is on the loose And never out of season Some blackened pride still burns inside This smell of bloody treason Here's my gun for a barrel of fun For the love of living death Chorus: The killer's breed or the Demon's seed, The glamour, the fortune, the pain, Go to war again, blood is freedom's stain But don't you pray for my soul anymore. 2 minutes to midnight, The hands that treaten doom. 2 minutes ot midnight, To kill the unborn in the womb. The blind men shout let the creatures out We'll show the unbeliverers, The Napalm screams of human flames Of a prime time Belsen Feast ... YEAH! As the reasons for the carnage cut their meat and lick the gravy We oil the jaws of the war machine and feed it with our babies. Chorus: The body bags and little rags of children torn in two And the jellied brains of those who remain to put the finger right on you As the Madmen play on words and make us all dance to their song To the tune of starving millions to make better kind of gun. Chorus: Midnight ... all night (repeat) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) Losfer Words (Big 'Orra) (Harris) 4:15 Instrumental ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4) Flash Of The Blade (Dickinson) 4:05 As a young boy chasing Dragons with your wooden sword so mightly, You're St. George you're David and you always killed the beast Times change very quickly And you had to grow up early A house in smiking rums and the bodies at your feet Chorus: You'll die as you lived In a flash of the blade In a corner forgotten by no-one You lived for the touch For the feel of the steel One man, and his Honour. The smell of resined leather The steely iron mask As you cut and thrust and parried at the fencing master's call He taught you all he ever knew To fear no mortal man And now you'll wreak your vengeance in the Screams of evil man. Chorus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5) The Duellists (Harris) 6:18 He threw down a glove you made the mistake Of picking it up now you're gone The choosing of guns or figthing with swords The choise of weapons is gone He'll tear you apart as soon as you start You know you don't have a chance Chorus: OH...OH... Fight for the Honour Fight for the Splendour Fight for the Pleasure OH...OH... Fight for the Honour Fight for the Splendour Fight for your Life! Ready to start the duel begins the best man wins in the end A lunge and a feint, a parry too late A cut to the chest and you're down Seeing the stain then feeling the pain Feeling the sweat on your brow Chorus: The fighting resumes, a silence looms the Swordsman move 'gainst each other A cut and a thrust, a parry, a blow a stab to the heart and you're down The Angel of Death hears your last breath Meanwhile the reaper looks on OH...OH... Fought for the Honour Fought for the Splendour Fought to the Death ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6) Back In The Village (Smith, Dickinson) 5:02 Turn the spotlights on the people Sitch 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 in black and burned. Shellshock in the kitchen. Tables overturned Chorus: Back in the village again In the village I'm back in the village again Throwing dice now, rolling loaded I see sixes all the way, In a black hole and I'm spinning As my wings get shot away. No breaks on the inside, Paper cats and burning barns, There's fox among the chickens, And a killer in the hounds. Questions are a burden And answers are a prison for oneself Shellshock in the kitchen Tables start to burn. Chorus: But still we walk into the valley And others try to kill the inner flame We're burning brighter and before I don't have a number, I'M A NAME! Back in the village again In the village I'm back in the village again Back in the village again In the village I'm back in the village Back in the village Back in the village again ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7) Powerslave (Dickinson) 7:12 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 the Temple Enter the risen Osiris - risen again. Chorus: 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 Live Giver dies, all around is laid waste, And in my last hour, I'm a Slave to the Power of Death. When I was living this lie - Fear was my Game People would worship and fall - drop to their knees. So bring me the blood and red wine for the one to succeed me, For he is a man and a God - and He will die too. Chorus: Now I am cold but a ghost lives in my veins, Silent the terror that reigned - marbled in stone Shell of man God preserved - a thousand ages, But open the gates of my hell - I will strike from the grave Chorus: 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 Live Giver dies, all around is laid waste, And in my last hour, I'm a Slave to the Power of Death. Slave to the Power of Death... Slave to the Power of Death... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8) Rime Of The Ancient Mariner (Harris) 13:45 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 passes by Caught by his spell and the Mariner tells his tale. Driven south to the land of the snow and ice To a place where nobody's been Through the snow fog flies on the albatross Hailed in God's name, hoping good luck it brings. And the ship sails on, back to the North Through the fog and ice and the albatross follows on The mariner kills the bird of good omen His shipmates cry against what he's done But when the fog clears, they justify him And make themselves a part of the crime. Sailing on and on and North across the sea Sailing on and on and North 'till all is calm The albatross begins with its vengeance A terrible curse a thirst has begun His shipmates blame bad luck on the Mariner About his neck, the dead bird is hung. And the curse goes on and on at sea And the curse goes on and on for them and me. "Day after day, day after day, we stuck nor breath nor motion As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean Water, water everywhere and all the boards did shrink Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink." (SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1798-1834)) There, calls the mariner there comes a ship over the line But how can she sail with no wind in her sails and no tide. See... onward she comes Onwards she nears, out of the sun See... she has no crew She has no life, wait but there's two Death and she Life in Death, they throw their dice for the crew She wins the Mariner and he belongs to her now. Then ... crew one by one They drop down dead, two hundred men She... She, Life in Death. She lets him live, her chosen one. NARRATIVE "One after one by the star dogged moon, too quick for groan or sigh Each turned his face with a ghastly pang and cursed me with his eye Four times fifty living men (and I heard nor sigh nor groan), With heavy tramp, a lifeless lump, they dropped down one by one." (SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1798-1834)) The curse it lives on in their eyes The Mariner he wished he'd die Along with the sea creatures But they lived on, so did he. And by the light of moon He prays for their beauty not doom With heart he blesses them God's creatures all of them too. Then the spell starts to break The albatross falls from his neck Sinks down like lead into the Sea Then down in falls comes the rain. Hear the groans od the long dead seamen See them stir and they start to rise Bodies lifted by good spirits None of them speak and they're lifeless in their eyes And revenge is still sought, penance starts again Cast into a trance and the nightmare carries on. Now the curse is finally lifted And the Mariner sights his home Spirits go from the long dead bodies Form their own light and the Mariner's left alone And then a boat came sailing towards him It was a joy he could not believe The Pilot's boat, his son and the hermit Penance of life will fall onto Him. And the ship it sinks like lead into the sea And the hermit shrieves the mariner of his sins The Mariner's bound to tell of his story To tell his tale wherever he goes To teach God's word by his own example That we must love all things that God made. And the wedding guest's a sad and wiser man And the tale goes on and on and on. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CD 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1) Rainbow's Gold (Slesser, Mountain) 4:57 (from The Beckett (19..)) In the heat of the morning when your day is still dawning And your bird, she's singing Catch your soul, he's willing to fly away Packed your bags in a hurry Because your mind's in a worry Mark my words, you're gonna be sorry if you ever fly away Sweet little girl with the Saint Da Vinci-smile Stares at me with sadness in her eyes I'm not sure if she's really real or make-believe Maybe she's a vision that comes to only me Cause I'm so tired Yes I'm so tired So tired Yes I'm so tired N the heat of the morning when your day is still dawning And your bird, she's singing Catch your soul, he's willing to fly away ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Mission From 'Arry (Harris, McBrain) 6:43 Steve: ...anyways, he did not deserve to get a bollocking... ...the time, I know why he got a bollocking, because you, you know, you dunno what the fuck he's goin' on about, but he didn't really deserve it. All he's trying to do is relay a message from me to you, right? And he went the wrong way about it, okay? Nicko: Yeh, he did go the wrong way about it. Steve: Well then. Nicko: Well I'm, I, I, I, I tell you what, I mean it ain't gonna happen again. Bruce: I don't see where you get steamed, I mean, if the truss was gonna... Nicko: Why I got steamed up Bruce is because he fucked me right up. And I knew there was a problem, I still didn't know what it was even after he...I, I fucked! I fucking fucked up! Steve: I know that. Look, it's like... Nicko: ...and I stopped, and it was like "oh, for fuck's sake!" Come on kids, and I'm looking around... what is he trying to tell me? What's the problem? Steve: Can't you understand? Can't you understand if I'm trying to get a fucking message through to ya, right?...I'd have still...it'd a been a lot worse. If I, if I had to go me gear done...as it happens, (snaps his fingers) just in the nick of the time I got it done. If I... Nicko: Yeah, I still didn't get the message. Steve: I know you didn't. But what we're saying, it didn't... whatever happens if I got him trying to get a fuckin' message to ya. Y'know what I mean? Nicko: Sure Steve, but the fact is that the guy was not handling it the right way. Steve: You don't think of things like that Nick. Nicko: But that's diff... look... Steve: I bollocked...I was shouting at ya, "look, my gear's gone down". Nicko: It's me that fucked-up. Steve: Listen... Nicko: I'm the one out there all on me own... Steve: I know. Nicko: ...I'm doing a drum solo. And I've got fuckin' talkin'... Steve: No I'm the one, I'm only one 'a thinking, I've got fucking like a minute to go before m...,to get this fucking gear right. Bruce: Yeah, but if somebody gives a message to me... Steve: No? Bruce: ...I mean, it doesn't matter who it is, I mean, the message gets through. Nicko: Bruce, it's different... Steve: It's a different situation. Nicko: ...it's different for you. You're not standing there all on your fucking own having asomebody try to get your attention and talk to you. I'm playin' a drum solo, and the guy'sstanding a yard, or two yards behind my drum riser goin'... Steve: Yeah, all I'm trying a... Nicko: ..."fucking anga-yangna-baba"..."wha?"..."BABA-BABA-BABA!"..."WHAAAA???" Fuck! Uhhhhh! By the time I've got that far, I'm fuckin totally fucked. Because I'm p..., I'm not paying attention to my gig... Steve: Hey, look... Nicko: ...I'm paying attention to what he's trying to tell me. Bruce: Yeah, but nobody woulda noticed. Steve: I complete... Nicko: I noticed! Steve: I completely understand that. Nicko: Fucked me right up. Steve: But he, he was only doing what I told him to do, and that was get a message to you. Now that the fucking heat of the moment and just, everything on hand... he don't think to fucking tell Bill, he wantsto get the message to you, not to fucking Bill, so he don't think of that, he just tries to get the message to you, right? So, he don't fucking deserve to get a bollocking for that, I mean, alright he got one I know... not sayin that. But I just don't, you know... Bruce: Attente! Attente! Steve: ...Bob was a nice guy. He's not like he's, fuckin', he's an asshole... Nicko: No, no... Steve: ...or an idiot, or anything like that. Nicko: Oh no, but he was out of order, because he didn'... Bruce: He wasn't out of order. Nicko: He was. Steve: He wasn't out of order. he was wrong. Nicko: He was, 'cause he fucked me up by tryin to tell me... Steve: Nicko. Nicko: If he'd of come up to the riser... Steve: Nicko. Nicko: Look... Steve: Nicko. Nicko: ...if he'd of come up to the riser there, I COULDA FUCKIN HEARD HIM!!! Steve: But Nick... Nicko: Cunt was standin' behind, I was sittin' down. Steve: Yeah... Nicko: ..."bada-bada-ba" Steve: He was wrong. He made a mistake, but he wasn't out of order. Bruce: It wasn't deliberate. Steve: He made a mistake... Nicko: Now, I know it ain't deliberate. Steve: ...for fuck's sake. Nicko: I didn't know that at the time, right? I still didn't know that Steve had a problem with his bass... Steve: That's what I'm saying. Nicko: ...luckily enough, by the time I finished the poxy solo, he had his bass working again. Steve: It was all that fucking grief... Bruce: All it takes is the guy... Nicko: The grief was, because I bollocked him up, and I happened to tell ya, and you go "don't bollock him, go out and apologize," right. Fuck him, I'm gonna go and apologize to him. Bruce: Well all you gotta do... Nicko: It's not for me to apologize. I bollocked him 'cause he fucked me up. Right there, he fucked me up. He was wrong. Bruce: All you gotta do...no he wasn't wrong. Nicko: He was. Steve: He wasn't wrong. Nicko: He did not handle it...he's not even fucking communicating, right? Steve: Aw! I don' wanna fuckin argue about this, it's fucking stupid... I think you're really out of order, I think...honestly. Nicko: No bollocks! Oh I am not out of order. Steve: You are. Your attitude is out of order. Nicko: He...no it ain't. Steve: It is. Nicko: No it ain't. The guy fucked me up. Steve: I know he did... Nicko: Well then that's out of order... Steve: ...He didn't mean to. Nicko: LOOK, I'M NOT SAYIN HE FUCKIN' MEANT TO 'ARRY!!! The fact is that he was a dummkopf, 'cause he don't know how to fuckin communicate with me onstage... Bruce: But he's not a dummkopf. Nicko: Aww! Steve: He's not fuckin' stupid. Nicko: Well, he fuckin' certainly did a good job out there this afternoon, didn't he? Steve: He made a mistake, because I... Nicko: What do you mean "He made a mistake"? Steve: Because I... Nicko: You sent him. How could he make a mistake? Steve: That's right. Nicko: How did he make a mistake? Steve: Well, he made the mistake by not sending Bill first, right? Nicko: Well, well he made a mistake, right? Steve: Yeah. Nicko: Well, why?... Bruce: There's a difference between making a mistake... Steve: Well that's what I'm saying. Bruce: ...and a difference between making a human error... Nicko: Right, so he made a mistake, right? Steve: Yeah! Nicko: And I'm griefed up cause he fuckin' made me make a mistake. Now that he... now I can understand what he was talking about after the fact... it remains to be seen, he was on a mission from you. Steve: Aw, I'm not gonna argue about it. Nicko: Right? Fuck my old boots, it just... I can't... I can't handle that situation when people grief, and it's important to me to get a message like that...fucking hell! How can I get some... get, get... when I also fucked as well... I would'na minded if I'd have gotten what it was happening straight. Like, on the end "all right, 'Arris got his bass fucked, right I'll carry on and do something else", then that's fine, if I didn't fuck-up... but he made me fuck. It totally threw me right out, and he wasn't... Steve: I know it did. Nicko: ...He didn't know how to talk to me about it. And, and I've, I've told him "don't do that again." Steve: Because, see, it's not, it's not, it's not fair relaying a message to people. He was just... Nicko: And he never turned 'round. Steve: ...look, it coulda been anybody. It was just that he was the first one on hand. Nicko: 'Arry. Steve: He was just standing there. Nicko: He never turned around, he never even turned around afterwards and said "Listen, did you?...I'm sorry , but you didn't understand what I was saying right?" Steve: Well why should he? Nicko: Well then, then, then because... Steve: He got a fuckin' bollocking. Nicko: ...He woulda stood up for himself because he knows he was gotten a bollocking wrong, because he was on a mission from you. Steve: He was probably... Bruce: No. Steve: He was probably fuckin upset... Bruce: He's probably a bit upset. Steve: ...because you gave him a fucking bollocking. Nicko: Well, rightly. Steve: You gave him up for...as far as he's con... Bruce: No, not rightly. Nicko: Rightly, yeah. Steve: But no, it's not rightly. Bruce: No! Nicko: I told him "DON'T EVER DO THAT AGAIN!" Steve: No. Bruce: That's crazy. Steve: But what?... Bruce: What happens if the lighting truss is gonna fall down on your head? Does he go?... Nicko: Well then somebody drags me out of the fuckin' way, or else I'm dead, right? Bruce: Yeah, but don't... I mean... you know. Steve: I think your attitude is totally fucking out of order. Nicko: No it ain't. No it ain't. Steve: Yes it is. Nicko: No it ain't. If I'd have known... now I'm the fuckin' cunt all of a sudden. Steve: No, you're not the cunt. Bruce: You're not a cunt. Nicko: Because I told him he was out of order, and I didn't know he was on a mission from you to tell me that his bass, your bass was FUCKED! Steve: I know you didn't. Bruce: All you've got to do Nicko, is just go to the guy and say... Steve: You didn't know, and he didn't know, alright? Bruce: "Sorry about, sorry about shouting. It was a misunderstanding. But in future, tell Bill" that's all you gotta say. Nicko: No. No. Bruce: And that way, he's a fuckin' proud geezer... Steve: What's, what's the matter with ya? Bruce: He goes... Nicko: Look... Steve: 'Cause if this is some sorta pride thing or what? Nicko: I bollocked him... no it ain't pride. It's, it's not fuckin' pride. Steve: Well what's the matter with ya? Bruce: It is pride. Nicko: Oh bollocks! Steve: What's the matter with ya? Nicko: The guy was wrong to have been fuckin' there to do what he done. Steve: I know. All I'm, all I'm gonna say is that when you're going up tomorrow... Bruce: No it isn't wrong. What's he supposed to do? Turn around... Steve: ...this is a different attitude, 'cause this is fucking stupid. Nicko: I told him straight out not to do it again. Bruce: What's he supposed to do? What's he?... Nicko: I'm not gonna go out and apologize for saying that to him... Bruce: He's NOT! Nicko: ...He was outta fuckin' order. Bruce: He's not out of order. Bruce: what happens... Nicko: Bruce. Bruce: ...if I fucking go and tell somebody to do something, he goes "No, fuck off! I'm not gonna do that." Nicko: Listen, Bruce... Bruce: Then he's out of order. Nicko: Bruce... Bruce: But he goes and tells him to go and do something... Nicko: ...I'm not concerned with, with, with, with, with other people that can't fucking talk to me on stage, who don't know how to fucking communicate with me... Bruce: But he's not out of order trying to do it. Nicko: ...He did not know how to communicate with me. Steve: Some cunt's recording this! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) King Of Twilight (Nektar) 4:54 (from Nektar "A Tab In The Ocean" (19..)) I've been trying, trying so hard I've been crying, crying in the dark Don't forsake me, the time of mine is near Don't ever break me and the world that brought me here Sick and lonely, waiting for you Sick and lonely, wondering what to do Can you hear me, when I say to you You give me your hand, I'll give mine to you When the king of twilight shows me I will take ten steps to see Forty leaves I pay for freedom For a chance to be free For a chance to be free When the king of twilight calls you take a step and you will see We all need a quick solution For a chance to be free For a chance to be free Free When the king of twilight shows me I will take ten steps to see Forty leaves I pay for freedom For a chance to be free For a chance to be... free ------------------------------------------------------------------------