1. Inertia (Bruce
Dickinson / Alex Dickson)
2. Faith (Bruce
Dickinson / Alex Dickson)
3. Innerspace (Bruce
Dickinson / Alex Dickson / Chris Dale)
4. The Prisoner (Steve
Harris / Adrian Smith)
Recorded
live in Pamplona and Gerona, Spain -
May 31 and June 1, 1996
Recorded by Peter Vink
Engineered by Henk Blankevoort and
Apple Van Else
Inertia
(Bruce
Dickinson / Alex Dickson)
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 days like a spring
coiled up inside
Welcome
to your future
Welcome to your book of lies
Fingers
crawl through pages
Nothing changes, living here
Inertia,
no wish to move at all
Inertia, everything's a stone wall
Inertia, history lets you die
A
ragged pile of silent accusers
Smell the blood of strangers here
No eyes, no ears, no smell, no taste
The mouth of the maggot is full of
this place
Murdered
conscience, the pressure is crushing
heads
Like paper lanterns now
Unbreakable grip, a dead hand driving
us
Forward to the end
Kicking
through the traces
A thousand years from now
Inertia,
no wish to think at all
Inertia, everything's a stone wall
Inertia, history lets you die
Inertia,
no wish to move at all
Inertia, everything's a stone wall
Inertia, history lets you die
Faith
(Bruce
Dickinson / Alex Dickson)
You
knew I wouldn't go
That's why you threatened me
Would I stay?
Said
I was sick, and I'd be alone
Said my mind was not my own
I didn't learn
You
crawled up on your knees
A victim's pretty-please
Would I stay? Would I stay?
And I stayed
How
many more times
Till I broke down from that guilty
mess?
You taught me to hate to love you
That's because you love to hate
yourself
I
wish it had a happy end
Like the fairy tales pretend
There can be
But
things are not the same
When your life love was a game
Of make-believe
You've
got everything you want
But not everything you need
And it's true
You receive what you achieve
How
many screaming fights, tears of rage
Until it ended?
How many more times till I say who I
am
And don't pretend?
How
many more times
Till I broke out of that guilty mess?
How many more times till I say who I
am
I don't pretend?
Innerspace
(Bruce
Dickinson / Alex Dickson / Chris Dale)
I
see the scars of action all writhing
'round your face
Too much inactivity and home's a
lonely place
Throw away your beauty cause you know
that it won't last
Throw away your present, you've been
living in the past
C'mon,
take a trip with me
Across the bridge of lunacy
Fire up some beast and ride the
skywaves
I've
thrown away my images, they're all so
distant now
Discovery was a stranger then,
welcome to my house
Whatever demons torture me, I love
them like a friend
Nothing lasts forever but the
certainty of change
I'd
rather move around and be
Than figure out life and what it
means
Fire up some beast and ride the
skywaves
Don't wanna waste my time on you
If you can't travel this way too
Fire up some beast, we'll ride the
skywaves
And
when the fireball's work is done
And we are part of the nuclear one
The whole damn thing begins again
Our glory days have just begun
A fiery sideslip, then we're gone
I'll see ya Monday morning
Anyway,
I'm coming back
Anyway, I'm coming back
The
Prisoner
(Steve
Harris / Adrian Smith)
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
I'm
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-defense
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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