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THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST  (1982)


 

 

 

  1. Invaders
  2. Children Of The Damned
  3. The Prisoner
  4. 22 Acacia Avenue
  5. The Number Of The Beast
  6. Run To The Hills
  7. Gangland
  8. Hallowed Be Thy Name
Vocals
Bruce Dickinson
Guitar
Dave Murray
Guitar
Adrian Smith
Bass
Steve Harris
Drums
Clive Burr

Invaders

Longboats have been sighted the evidence of war has begun 
Many Nordic fighting men their swords and shields all gleam in the sun 
Call to arms defend yourselves get ready to stand and fight for your lives 
Judgement day has come around so be prepared don't run stand your ground

They're coming in from the sea 
they've come the enemy 
beneath the blazing sun 
the battle has to be won 
Invaders ... Pillaging 
Invaders ... Looting

Set ablaze the campfires alert the other men from inland 
Warning must be given there's not enough men here for a stand 
The Vikings are too many too powerful to take on our own 
We must have reinforcements we cannot fight this battle alone 

They're coming over the hill 
they've come to attack 
they're coming in for the kill 
there's no turning back 
Invaders ... Fighting 
Invaders ... Marauding

Axes grind and maces clash as wounded fighters fall to the ground 
Severed limbs and fatal woundings bloody corpses lay all around 
The smell of death and burning flesh the battle weary fight to the end 
The Saxons have been overpowered victims of the mighty Norsemen 

You'd better scatter and run 
the battle's lost and not won 
you'd better get away 
Invaders ... Raping 
Invaders ... Plundering


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Children Of The Damned

He's walking like a small child 
But watch his eyes burn you away 
Black holes in his golden stare 
God knows he wants to go home 
Children of The Damned 
(repeat another 3 times)

He's walking like a dead man 
If he had lived he would have crucified us all 
Now he's standing on the last step 
He thought oblivion well it beckons us all 
Children of The Damned 
(repeat another 3 times)

Now it burns his hand he's turning to laugh 
Smiles as the flame sears his flesh 
Melting his face screaming in pain 
Peeling the skin from his eyes 
Watch him die according to plan 
He's dust on the ground what did we learn

You're Children of The Damned 
Your back's against the wall 
You turn into the light 
You're Children of The Damned 
Like candles watch them burn 
Burning in the light 
You'll burn again tonight 
You're Children of The Damned

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The Prisoner

On the run kill to eat 
You're starving now you're dead on your feet 
Going all the way nature's beast 
Do what I want as I please

Run fight to breathe it's tough 
Now you see me now you don't 
Break the walls I'm coming out

Not a prisoner I'm a free man 
And my blood is my own now 
Don't care where the past was 
I know where I'm going ... out

If you kill me it's self defence 
If I kill you then I call it vengeance 
Spit in your eye I will defy 
You'll be afraid when I call out your name

I'm not a number I'm a free man 
I'll live my life how I want to 
You'd better scratch me from your black book 
Cos I'll run rings round you

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22 Acacia Avenue

If you're feeling down depressed and lonely 
I know a place where we can go 
22 Acacia Avenue meet a lady that I know 
So if you're looking for a good time 
And you're prepared to pay the price 
Fifteen quid is all she asks for 
Everybody's got their vice

If you're waiting for a long time for the rest to do their piece 
You can tell her that you know me and you might even get it free 
So any time you're down the East End don't you hesitate to go 
You can take my honest word for it she'll teach you more than you can know

Charlotte can't you get out from all this madness 
Can't you see it only brings you sadness 
When you entertain your men don't know the risk of getting disease 

Some day when you're reaching the age of forty 
I bet you'll regret the days when you were laying 
Nobody then will want to know 
You won't have any beautiful wares to show any more 

22, the avenue that's the place where we all go 
You will find it's warm inside the red light's burning bright tonight

Charlotte isn't it time you stopped this mad life 
Don't you ever think about the bad times 
Why do you have to live this way 
Do you enjoy your lay or is it the pay

Sometimes when your strolling down the avenue 
The way you walk it make men think of having you 
When you're walking down the street 
Everybody stops and turns to stare at you

Beat her mistreat her do anything that you please 
Bite her excite her make her get down on her knees 
Abuse her misuse her she can take all that you've got 
Caress her molest her she always does what you want 

You're running away don't you know what you're doing 
Can't you see it'll lead you to ruin 
Charlotte you've taken your life and you've thrown it away 
You believe that because what you're earning 
Your life's good don't you know that you're hurting 
All the people that love you don't cast them aside 
All the men that are constantly drooling 
It's no life for you stop all that screwing 
You're packing your bags and you're _coming_ with me


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The Number Of The Beast

Number Of The Beast

I left alone my mind was blank 
I needed time to get the memories from my mind

What did I see can I believe that what I saw 
that night was real and not just fantasy

Just what I saw in my old dreams were they 
reflections of my warped mind staring back at me 

Cos in my dreams it's always there the evil face that twists my mind
and brings me to despair

The night was black was no use holding back 
Cos I just had to see was someone watching me 
In the mist dark figures move and twist 
was all this for real or some kind of hell 
666 the Number of the Beast 
Hell and fire was spawned to be released

Torches blazed and sacred chants were praised 
as they start to cry hands held to the sky 
In the night the fires burning bright 
the ritual has begun Satan's work is done 
666 the Number of the Beast 
Sacrifice is going on tonight

This can't go on I must inform the law 
Can this still be real or some crazy dream 
but I feel drawn towards the evil chanting hordes 
they seem to mesmerise me...can't avoid their eyes 
666 the Number of the Beast 
666 the one for you and me

I'm coming back I will return 
And I'll possess your body and I'll make you burn 
I have the fire I have the force 
I have the power to make my evil take its course 

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Run To The hills

Run To The Hills

White man came across the sea 
Brought us pain and misery 
Killed our tribes killed our creed 
Took our game for his own need

We fought him hard we fought him well 
Out on the plains we gave him hell 
But many came too much for Cree 
Oh will we ever be set free?

Riding through dustclouds and barren wastes 
Galloping hard on the plains 
Chasing the redskins back to their holes 
Fighting them at their own game 
Murder for freedom a stab in the back 
Women and children and cowards attack

Run to the hills run for your lives 
Run to the hills run for your lives

Soldier blue on the barren wastes 
Hunting and killing their game 
Raping the women and wasting the men 
The only good Indians are tame 
Selling them whisky and taking their gold 
Enslaving the young and destroying the old

Run to the hills run for your lives 
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Gangland

Shadows may hide you but also may be your grave 
You're running today maybe tomorrow you'll be saved 
You pray for daylight to save you for a while 
You wonder if your children will face the killer's smile

Dead men -- tell no tales 
In Gangland -- murder's up for sale 
Dead men -- tell no tales 
In Gangland -- where jail birds die

Face at the window leers into your own 
But it's only your reflection still you tremble in your bones 
How long can you hide? How long till they come? 
A rat in a trap but you've got to survive

Once you were glad to be free for a while 
The air tasted good and the world was your friend 
Then came the day when the hard times began 
Now your alone but alive for how long?

A knife at your throat another body on the pile 
A contract to keep and it's service with a smile 
Murder for vengeance or murder for gain 
Death on the streets or a blackened out jail

Dead men -- tell no tales 
In Gangland -- murder's up for sale 
Dead men -- tell no tales 
In Gangland -- where jail birds die

In Gangland you tell no tales

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Hallowed Be Thy Name

Hallowed Be Thy Name

I'm waiting in my cold cell when the bell begins to chime 
Reflecting on my past life and it doesn't have much time 
Cos at 5 o'clock they take me to the Gallows Pole 
The sands of time for me are running low

When the priest comes to read me the last rites 
I take a look through the bars at the last sights 
Of a world that has gone very wrong for me

Can it be there's some sort of error 
Hard to stop the surmounting terror 
Is it really the end not some crazy dream

Somebody please tell me that I'm dreaming 
It's not so easy to stop from screaming 
But words escape me when I try to speak 
Tears they flow but why am I crying 
After all I am not afraid of dying 
Don't believe that there is never an end

As the guards march me out to the courtyard 
Someone calls from a cell "God be with you" 
If there's a God then why has he let me die?

As I walk all my life drifts before me 
And though the end is near I'm not sorry 
Catch my soul cos it's willing to fly away

Mark my words please believe my soul lives on 
Please don't worry now that I have gone 
I've gone beyond to see the truth

When you know that your time is close at hand 
maybe then you'll begin to understand 
Life down there is just a strange illusion.

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