BRUCE DICKINSON LYRICS

1. Mars Within (Intro)

Professor Quatermass, where are you [x2]
Mankind returns to the stars
But sometimes the stars return to mankind
Didn't you come this way before, a million years ago?

2. Abduction

I wake in sweat
You've come to steal my life away
Some strange electric glow
Of artificial day
The power breakers closed
The grid of darkness falls
Shining gleaming black as night
Burning all the light

What do you want from me
I sense your mastery
There's something you won't ever find
So have your way with me
This prisoner is never free
Rip me up leave me behind

Are you the truth to sit in judgement on my sins
Evil laser gadgets come to penetrate my skin
The hanging judge is open
And I'm damned before his eyes
Another genesis has failed
And many more have tried

[Chorus]

[Solo]

Masterplan moment

And so the story goes
I dreamt this long ago
Highways hidden in the sand
Reveal the troops I know
They took my worthless heart
And spat it through their eyes
Abduction means the end for me
A million years of misery

[Chorus]

So have your way with me
This soldier's lost his victory
Rip me up...

3. Soul Intruders

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

We’re the Soul Intruders, and the whirling void of night
We’re the Soul Intruders, and we're crying for the light
We’re the Soul Intruders, with no life of our own
I'm a sole survivor, but who sits on my throne?

Solar winds have taken hold
Blowing us where we do not know
Existence silent and unknown
Father son and viral host

Half-lives, eat but never kill
Half-lives, we live as well

We’re the Soul Intruders, and the whirling void of night
We’re the Soul Intruders, and we're crying for the light
We’re the Soul Intruders, with no life of our own
I'm a sole survivor, but who sits on my throne?

[Solo]

Half-lives, eat but never kill
Hope flies, we live as well

We’re the Soul Intruders, and the whirling void of night
We’re the Soul Intruders, and we're crying for the light
We’re the Soul Intruders, with no life of our own
I'm a sole survivor, but who sits on my throne?

4. Kill Devil Hill

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

So we're believing our dreams, like the Icarus of old
The plans we made for the bold
In the blue-eyed beyond, there is nowhere to hide,
There's no going back now

As the wind whips over the hillside
Twenty knots over Kill Devil Hill
Steady wind blows over the sand
Twenty knots over Kill Devil Hill
As the breeze whips straight as an arrow
Let her go over Kill Devil Hill
Gasoline and the wind in the wires
Kill Devil Hill and the way to the stars.

We stand on this seashore and wonder
What madness, what secrets we plunder
All failure, we learn from, discovery
The wreckage of heaven lies in the sand
First chances abandoned
With wood string and wire we can barely control our desire
For Destinies arrows....

As the wind whips over the hillside
Twenty knots over Kill Devil Hill
Steady wind blows over the sand
Twenty knots over Kill Devil Hill
As the breeze whips straight as an arrow,
Let her go over Kill Devil Hill
Gasoline and the wind in the wires
Kill Devil Hill and the way to the stars

5. Navigate The Seas Of The Sun

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 our eyes
To find our minds were spinning
Souls entwined in a spiral dance
The ancient ways have found us
Again to give us one last chance

Living in this place
Staring into space we find
We might share the corners of our lives
Infinity runs deep
Eternity that we can't keep
Melting through the frozen wastes of time

So we go and will not return
To navigate the seas of the sun
Our children will go on and on
To navigate the seas of the sun
So we go and will not return
To navigate the seas of the sun
Our children will go on and on
To navigate the seas of the sun

We can't go on tomorrow
Living death by gravity
Couldn't stand it anymore
We'll sail our ships to distant shores

Purple gold and blue
Living colors every hue
Flowers in the garden of the gods
No one can ever know
If you never saw them grow
This darkness is really full of light

[Solos]

Well beyond the earth,
Beyond all things that gave us birth
We'll Navigate the Seas of the Sun
If God is throwing dice,
And Einstein doesn't mind the chance
We'll Navigate the Seas of the Sun
Infinity runs deep, eternity that we can't keep
We'll Navigate the Seas of the Sun
Flowers of our souls, purple blue and gold we find
To Navigate the Seas of the Sun
So we know who we are, even in this frozen waste
We'll Navigate the Seas of the Sun
Living in this place, staring into space we find
We'll Navigate the Seas of the Sun
Well beyond the earth,
Beyond all things that gave us birth
We'll Navigate the Seas of the Sun
If Einstein's throwing dice,
and God doesn't mind the chance
We'll Navigate the Seas of the Sun
Flowers of our souls, purple blue and gold we find
We'll Navigate the Seas of the Sun
And who we were before -
Eternity that we can't keep
We'll Navigate the Seas of the Sun.

6. River Of No Return

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 every rose nothing moves the wheal of heaven turns
As our fingers leave there trace, we are gods in a world we dared embrace

Now we're lost, you can't disguise, the River of No Return
Now it's gone, you realize, the River of No Return

Growing embers of our ancient lives
We struggle hard we live to turn the tide
Living longer in the astral waste
We stare each other, we look death in the face
All my life in front of you, lonely secrets hidden from your view.
Now we orbit a different sun, for eternity, doomed to tell no one..

Now we're lost, you can't disguise, the River of No Return
Now it's gone, you realize, the River of No Return

[Solo]

Now I'm truly all alone,
Canyon walls and the river of no return
I'm amazed at what I am,
I’ve never knew the feelings I ignored

Now we're lost, you can't disguise, the River of No Return
Now it's done, we realize, the River of No Return
And the anguish drives me on, I wish I could return
All the love that washed away
Down the River of No Return

7. Power Of The Sun

Is this a citadel
Is this a prison cell?
Who sits at my right hand now,
Who's watching me now?
Who 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
And the streets at dawn

The power of the sun
Keeps us moving on
Spinning ever faster
The city never sleeps
The echoes of the footfalls
Already in the past

Every dawn arrives
The gathering of the tribes
Shattered waves of people
Breaking over city walls
Never out of touch
But always on your own
Trapped inside the logic
Of your own communication zone

What deals have been done
Who's under the gun
Stay one step ahead
Of the next in line

[Chorus]

The cameras never lie
The ghost of you and I
Already in the past
Inside a picture frame
We'll vanish once again
Now the dawn is coming fast

[Chorus]

8. Devil On A Hog

You wanna know where legends live
At the rainbows end I'll be there
There's a place in Innerspace
That's where I get to you

I'm not the shy, retiring kind
Like a supernova for the blind
I used to sit at God's right hand
but I quit that show to do my one night stands

Coming outta nowhere I'm a Godhead rider

You won't see my face no more
My machine has left the floor
Leave my rivals in the dirt
I've seen your world and I got the shirt
Before I leave and go my way
I've loved it but I couldn't stay
There's nothing left for you to feel
Just remember me

You might see me in Tokyo
To the rings of Saturn, hey let's go
And you can trip all the lights with me
But your one time chance is never free

I see you baby once again
Maybe three score years and ten
I'll be driving a different ship
That's when I'll take you down
For your final trip

Coming outta nowhere I'm a godhead rider
You won't see my face no more
My machine has left the floor
Leave my rivals in the dirt
I've seen your world and I got the shirt
Before I leave and go my way
I loved it but I couldn't stay
There's nothing left for you to feel
Just remember me

Coming outta nowhere I'm a Godhead rider
Coming outta nowhere I'm a Godhead rider
You won't see my face no more
My machine has left the floor
Leave my rivals in the dirt
I've seen your world and I got the shirt
Before I leave and go my way
I loved it but I couldn't stay
There's nothing left for you to feel
Just remember me

9. Believil

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 believe
You and me
I believe
Evil
I believe
You will see
I believe
Evil

What does not kill it
Makes it strong
The carcass stares it will not die
It feeds on you
It feeds on me
I know his name
You know mine too

[Chorus x2]

10. A Tyranny Of Souls

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 die

Who rips the child out from the womb?
Who raised the dagger, who plays the tune?
At the crack of doom on judgment day
No ocean could wash my sins away

A tyranny of souls
That love has lost
A tyranny of souls
A Pentecost
Speaking tongues of fire
Enflaming our desires
Watching as we die
On our own cross
A tyranny of souls

We are the black space
We are the black light
We shine where no others dare

Killin' my head with the neon
Suffering my fate for no reason
No is a relative stranger to my life

Deeds of the Faithful
Seeds of betrayal

Hammer the nail into my hand
Anger is ruler in my land
I am the killer of weakness in my head

We are the black light
We are the black space

A tyranny of souls
That love has lost
A tyranny of souls
A Pentecost
Speaking tongues of fire
Enflaming our desires
Watching as we die
On our own cross
A tyranny of souls

A tyranny of souls
That love has lost
A tyranny of souls
A Pentecost
Speaking tongues of fire
Enflaming our desires
Watching as we die







BRUCE DICKINSON LYRICS