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...

When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurly-burly's done? When the battle's lost, not won? [chorus:] A tyranny of souls,...

I wake in sweats you've come to steal my life away Some strange electric glow of artifical day The power breaker's closed the grid of darkness falls Shining gle...

(Dickinson/Roy Z) Journey back to the dark side, back into the wom Back to where the spirits move like vapor from the tom The center of the cyclone, blowing out...

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 love...

Well billy rapped all night about his suicide Said he could kick it in the head when he was 25 Speed jive Don't wanna stay alive when your 25 And Wendy's steali...

There, on a lonely desert hilltop The pilgrims huddle closer Waiting for a sign, the coming silver shrine The arc of space and time Truth, oh, the truth is nev...

[B Dickinson/ J Gers] [Tattooed millionaire-sessions, 1990] Before I met my baby, there was a whole lot going on Yea, before I met my baby, there was a whole ...

Smoking, resting on it's grave The carcass rusting where it lies No more truth, no honest games The serpent writhes within us all Lava streams of molten flesh I...

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...

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 b...

[B Dickinson] [Soundtrack-The Nightmare on Elm Street pt 5"] Honey its getting close to midnight And all the myths are still in town True love and lipstick on ...

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...

Here I sit, Alone at the window The rain Falls down On the glass In the cold All my life I've been waiting For a moment It never came Maybe never will Ah,someti...

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 wav...

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 dovn, Sliding into da...

[B Dickinson / Roy Z] 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 com...

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 cry...

(Dickinson/Roy Z) The first hellrider came On wings a-plenty in the dark Hauled out his poison And he blew away his mark The fascist from the east is coming Mot...

You wanna know where legends live? At the rainbow's end I'll be there There's a place in inner space That's where I'll get to you I'm not the shy retiring kind ...

Frankly Seaman Staines, I don?t give a damn) Put an opening shot across your bows Got tunnel vision, hmm, pull the sheets in now Let 'em flap, oh let 'em rip T...

[D Siviter/ A Siviter] [First Shots recording session, 1977] Waiting for the midnight hour [x6] [CHORUS:] My name is Dracula, Come here, I've something for ...

Always let you down Always fooled around Always stealing in your own way Life just seems too short Life lived in the dirt Kicked in the teeth Is what you meant ...

(B Dickinson / Roy Z) He rides the wave, aspiring slave The Prince of Darkness plays his games You're hypnotized, under velvet skies He breathes the red wind '...

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 eye...

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 d...

What would induce you to swear your allegiance to god, tonight? Joined at the hip to a million-volt switch of the light - alright You want to find out what the ...

There's a secret that we all share In the darkest hours of the night You can swear on the bible Cut the thoat of your rival I've been taking my life in my hand...

[C Dale] [Skunkworks-sessions, 1996] [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 drum...

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 da...

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 ...

Blood brothers of angels now hear us, We earthbound your offspring, don't fear us God willing, we'll rise up, be near you So open your arms now, and take us So ...

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? ...

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 h...

[B Dickinson/ Roy Z/ A Dickinson] There's a sinister game that children playHeyHey When they get to the end of each schooldayHeyHey They spend their lives gett...

There's a sinister game That children playHeyHey When they get to the end Of each schooldayHaHa They spand their lives Getting ready for the kill Laughting in ...

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 S...

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 ...

I am the teacher, come to reach ya 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'...

Here, in a church, a small boy is 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, tea...

Professor 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 t...

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 F...

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...

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...

Welcome to the world, young man Welcome to the world that I have planned for you It's all come true Welcome to the city's gates Camps of concentration for the p...

I?m vacuum-breathing and open-mouthed As the red shift fills my eyes Minister my promises As her shadow cuts the day away I remembered you, as you walked into ...

The ashes drift away, 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 m...

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...

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 ...

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?...

A 100 years of toil and pain To pull a stone upright again Uprooted from its mountain home Taken to this sacred circle Is there a secret in the stones? A messag...

Break the bread and drink the wine Seize the chalice, suck the poison vine There is frost in every sunbeam Water flows from the earth to sky Looking down on eve...

(Dickinson/Smith) Slowly bleeding, watch the vortex feeding Like a swirling vulture on your face Every hour the unseen rays devour Your screaming eyes cry out b...

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...

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 al...

Sound of merlins fired up and their spoiling for the fight 1000 bombers ready, it's the target for tonight Deeper into Germany but we all know the score I know ...

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 aga...

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 y...

(B Dickinson / Roy Z) I came from nothing before nothing began Broke the window of existence and became a man No sympathy for fools My star is black and burne...

Spiralling, falling - a silver machine From wings of freedom, silent above Eyelids were burning, summer sun roasting Tumbling chrome in the clear blue sky Brigh...

(Dickinson/Roy Z) 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 But...

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 y...

For too long now There were secret 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 reaso...

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 ...

How happy is the human soul Not enslaved by dull control Left to dream and roam and play Shed the guild of former days Walking on the foggy shore Watch the wave...

He rides the wave, aspiring slave The Prince of Darkness plays his games You're hypnotized, under failing skies He breathes the red wind 'cross your eyes Who l...

(B Dickinson / Roy Z) 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 lear...

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...

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 ...

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 ec...

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 Cover y...

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 St...

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 Sti...

Think that it's all over And you've walked your ragged mile The winds of change are blowing All around Stop and look you're not the only one On the road Out i...

She fixed me in the corner with that beutiful brown eye She said I'd like to meet you I was so suprised Well, what can I do for you What can you do for me We ma...