(B. Dickinson / Roy Z)
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 echo... Fingers holding onto cracks The howling wind that blows us back Sucked into the grinding wheels of hell... At the trumpets of Jericho, still the walls remain At the trumpets of Jericho, Avalon's in chains This is the river of space This is the river of time Chase the dragons of infinity Atlas stands and laughs Throws his burden down Rolls the earth in the inferno... What heavy burden holds me back Every step along the track? Fear that reaches deep inside of me At the trumpets of Jericho, still the walls remain Blow the trumpets of Jericho, still the walls remain At the end of the rainbow, there the grail remains Sound the trumpets of Jericho, Avalon's in chains... As they drag you down, In your clothes of lead See the golden light, Flashing overhead Mocking you, ha ha ha ha ha ha... Do you know who you are In your robes of skin? How many creatures live inside you? Man is born forever free But is everywhere in chains Trapped inside this earthly prison cell... At the trumpets of Jericho, still the walls remain At the trumpets of Jericho, Avalon's in chains At the trumpets of Jericho, there the grail remains At the trumpets of Jericho Still the walls remain (x4) The silence of the tomb... The wheel of fortune round... (yea-eah)
(B. Dickinson / Roy Z)
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 has come... See his twisted sons and daughters Writhing slowly in Satan's mire If you only could see the visions The trembling world I now despise As the veil reveals the outer darkness I am sucked into the halls of flame... CHORUS: Arise, awake, The king in crimson comes Arise, awake, The king in crimson, crimson comes He knows the weakness that you can't fight The stone of night that weighs you down If you only could see the visions His hand is death if you take it now As you scream into the web of silence There is nothing that can save you now... REPEAT CHORUS (x2) As you scream into the web of silence There is nothing that can save you now... REPEAT CHORUS (x2) To your window I come At your window I come
(B. Dickinson / Roy Z)
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 waves come rolling home Through the veil of pale moonlight My shadow stretches out its hand... CHORUS: And so we lay, we lay in the same grave Our chemical wedding day (x2) Floating in the endless blue My seed of doubt I leave to you Let it wither on the ground Treat it like a plague you found All my dreams that were outside In living colour, now alive And all the lighthouses Their beams converge to guide me home... REPEAT CHORUS (x2) SOLO REPEAT CHORUS (x2)
(B. Dickinson / Roy Z)
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 eyes... The ladder falls away At the gates of Urizen, fallen eagles blaze At the gates of Urizen, eternal twins are damned At the gates of Urizen, separate lives begin... In every woman is a man From the moon come silver ghosts Spectres of the blood From my spirit comes the darkness From the void, the crimson fortress rises... CHORUS: At the gates of Urizen, the ladder falls away At the gates of Urizen, fallen eagles blaze At the gates of Urizen, eternal twins are damned At the gates of Urizen, separate lives begin... SOLO REPEAT CHORUS The gates of Urizen (x3) At the gates...
(B. Dickinson / A. Smith)
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? He turned the oil into his blood Panzer divisions burning in in the mud The stain of freedom - he's washed it out Who's rocking the cradle - I have no doubt Sleeping eyes awake To see his hooded gaze Whispers on the wind The darker side of ecstasy Satan - has left his killing floor Satan - has left his killing floor Satan - hellfires burn no more Satan - has left his killing floor SOLO Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh (x4) So now it's dreamtime for you tonight So now it's dreamtime, and all is quiet You've never been held by the hand of god Who's rocking your cradle, if he is not? Sleeping eyes awake To see his hooded gaze Whispers on the wind The never-ending breath goodbye Satan - has left his killing floor Satan - has left his killing floor Satan - his fires burn no more Satan - is coming back for more Satan - has left his killing floor (x2)
(B. Dickinson / Roy Z / E. Casillas)
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 it every night with you Far off stands the lamb and waits For the wolf to come and end its life CHORUS: Stand inside the temple as the book of Thel is opening The priestess stands before you, offering her hand out, she's rising Come the dawning of the dead In famine and in war Now the harlot womb of death Spits out its rotten core Serpent on the altar now Has wrapped itself around your spine So you look into its mouth And you kiss the pearly fangs divine Happy that your end is swift The weeping virgin cries in bliss The snake and priestess, they are one The veil of flesh is ripped undone REPEAT CHORUS I CHORUS II: By the pricking of my thumbs Something wicked this way comes And when sleep takes you tonight Will you wake to see the light...? SOLO Woah-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh (x4) The burning sweat of poison tears The river flowing red with blood The cradle-robbing hand of death Caresses every dreaming head Waiting for the marriage hearse To take you to the funeral pyre So you burn the family tree The generations burning higher REPEAT CHORUS I: REPEAT CHORUS II: By the dawning of the dead (x4) [Spoken:] What demon hath formed this abominable void... This soul-shuddering vacuum? Some said it is Urizen - But unknown, abstracted, brooding secret The dark power hid
(B. Dickinson)
For too long now There were secrets 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 reason, to find the time, the place, the hour Waiting for the winter sun, and the cold light of day The misty ghosts of childhood fears The pressure is building and I can't stay away CHORUS: I throw myself into the sea Release the wave, let it wash over me To face the fear, I once believed The tears of the dragon, for you and for me Where I was I had wings that couldn't fly Where I was I had tears I couldn't cry My emotions frozen in an icy lake I couldn't feel them until the ice began to break I have no prayer over this, you know I'm afraid The walls I built are crumbling away The water is moving, I'm slipping away REPEAT CHORUS SOLO Slowly I awake Slowly I rise The walls I built are crumbling away The water is moving, I'm slipping away REPEAT CHORUS (x2)
(B. Dickinson / Roy Z / A. Dickinson)
There's a sinister game that children play...Hey...Hey When they get to the end of each schoolday...Hey...Hey They spend their lives getting ready for the kill... CHORUS: Laughing in the hiding bush The joker is back Laughing in the hiding bush The joker is back Who remembers the names of fallen heroes aha aha? Who remembers today to fly their flag? I couldn't say I loved you like I did before...Ha! Laughing in the hiding bush The joker is back Laughing in the hiding bush It's the laughing attack The joker is back He's wild in the pack The joker is back Laughing in the hiding... gonna kick him in the bush, yeah SOLO REPEAT CHORUS (x2)
(B. Dickinson / Roy Z)
Journey back to the darkside, back into the womb back to where the spirits move like vapour from the tomb The centre of the cyclone blowing out the sun break the shackles of your union to the light I might've had a brother, a service board, they dragged him under to the other side of twilight, he's waiting for me now Nativity was lost on me, I didn't ask, I couldn't see What created me, what and where and how CHORUS: Welcome home, It's been too long, we've missed you Welcome home, we've opened up the gates Welcome home, to your brothers and sisters Welcome home, to an accident of birth Feel our bodies breathing as you try to stop believing There's nothing you can do about your shadow You can fight us, you are like us and your body will betray you Lay down and die like all the others Where are the angels and their wings of freedom? Jesus had his day off when they pulled you through REPEAT CHORUS To an accidental birth SOLO Visions growing dim as the daylight fades away I'm spinning, twisting, black, well, It's your dying day REPEAT CHORUS (x2)
(B. Dickinson / Roy Z)
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 at the end of time The fountain, the trinity The pilgrim is searching for blood (searching for his blood) To look for his own free will The stone of infinity, washed in the flood CHORUS: Lovers in the tower The moon and sun divided, and the hanged man smiles Lovers in the tower The moon and sun divided, let the fool decide In the atom circle Where we break the stars Hammer into anvil, stuffing out the sun Witness all the killing See the birth of Mars Our religion thrown into the fire REPEAT BRIDGE: Lovers in the tower The moon and sun divided, the hanged man smiles Lovers in the tower The moon and sun divided, the magician laughs Lovers in the tower The moon and sun divided, and the priestess kneels (priestess kneels) Lovers in the tower The moon and sun divided, let the fool decide REPEAT CHORUS Lovers in the tower The moon and sun divided, the priestess kneels to receive Lovers in the tower The moon and sun divided, the magician laughs
(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 coming, mothers hide your sons The second hellrider came from flaming seas and molten sands Half is played in Hell's commands Hauled out his poison with his promises of promised lands Glad, good times of lying leaders Here comes the riders as the wheel of time is running out of time (x2) The third hellrider came teaching brothers to kill brother man And the fourth hellrider waits on an acid trail for an acid world Walls of old religions' fools and superstitious men Throw some scary tarot cards and... Here comes the riders as the wheel of time is running out of time Here comes the riders as the revolution's stepping out to light the dark aside of Aquarius has robbed us of our souls and minds Here comes the riders as the wheel of time is running out of time SOLO From the starlit sky on the silver sea a lonely silver surfer comes to push the wheel for me (x2) Gotta move, gotta move, gotta move that wheel around (x3) Gotta push the wheel of time around (x4) I've gotta move the wheel of torment (x3) move that wheel around Gotta move the wheel of time, I've (x3) round
(B. Dickinson / A. Smith)
Slowly bleeding whilst the vortex feeding like a swirling vulture on your face Every hour the unseen rays devour your screaming eyes cry out but they are blind Father forgive me my sins give me the nails, I'll hammer them in CHORUS: The road to hell is full of good intentions Say farewell, we may never meet again The road to hell is full of good intentions Drive the left side highway with no sinister regrets Brave new world of secret fantasy that hovers just beyond your bloody grasp Close enough to thrill the danger of the kill price for failure of your will Father forgive me my sins cause we are the junkies who never can win REPEAT CHORUS SOLO Father forgive me my sins give me the nails, I'll hammer them in Father forgive me my sins cause we are the junkies who never can win REPEAT CHORUS
