CD 1
1. Accident of Birth (Bruce Dickinson / Roy Z.)
2. Ghost of Cain (Bruce Dickinson / Adrian Smith)
3. Accident of Birth (demo) (Bruce Dickinson / Roy Z.)

CD 2
1. Accident of Birth (Bruce Dickinson / Roy Z.)
2. Starchildren (demo) (Bruce Dickinson / Roy Z.)
3. Taking the Queen (demo) (Bruce Dickinson / Roy Z.)

Produced by Roy Z.

Accident of Birth
(Bruce Dickinson / Roy Z.)

Journey back to the dark side, back into the womb
Back to where the spirits move like vapor from the tomb
The center of the cyclone, blowing out the sun
Break the shackles of your union to the light

I might've had a brother
As I was born, 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?

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 shadows
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

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

Vision's growing dim as the daylight fades away
A spinning, twisting black hole, it's your dying day

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

Accident of Birth (demo)
(Bruce Dickinson / Roy Z.)

Journey back to the dark side, back into the womb
Back to where the spirits move like vapor from the tomb
The center of the cyclone, blowing out the sun
Break the shackles of your union to the light

I might've had a brother
As I was born, 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?

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 shadows
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

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

Vision's growing dim as the daylight fades away
A spinning, twisting black hole, it's your dying day

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

Ghost of Cain
(Bruce Dickinson / Adrian Smith)

In your hour of darkness be not afraid
As the moonlight shivers on your grave

Come back to find you here
Save you from the danger
Come back to lead you home
From the hooded stranger

Conjuring the ghost of Cain
He won't let you fall again
Return your soul to sleep again
Conjuring the ghost of Cain

Cross a cork with silver, won't save you now
You must pay the ferryman, pay him somehow

There's only one place left
To take you across the river
You'll never know who saved you
The angel who delivered

Conjuring the ghost of Cain
He won't let you fall again
Return your soul to sleep again
Conjuring the ghost of Cain

A streamer from the sun
Fire around your heart
The earth gives up its dead
The brothers are apart

Conjuring the ghost of Cain
He won't let you fall again
Return your soul to sleep again
Conjuring the ghost of Cain

Starchildren (demo)
(Bruce Dickinson / Roy Z.)

I mean you no harm
Come closer, learn the truth
Come closer, learn the truth
Come bless me, mother, for I have sinned

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 burned
I tilt towards the light
I suck your souls into my might

We are starchildren, coming out of nowhere and to nowhere return
Starchildren, a hundred million deaths sucked out in one breath

I shiver at the threshold of your waking hour
The knowledge that you seek is my source of power

I live apart from you
But I know the things you do
No angel can save you, how?
You don't need a god 'cause I'm here now

I'am starchildren, coming out of nowhere and to nowhere return
Starchildren, a hundred million deaths snuffed out in one breath

Do I fulfill your deepest need for prophecy?
I am the ruler that you seek, so come to me
Come to me

We are starchildren, coming out of nowhere and to nowhere return
Starchildren, a hundred million souls snuffed out in one breath

Starchildren, I'm the ruler of existence in your space and time
Starchildren, to penetrate your future is my only crime

Taking the Queen (demo)
(Bruce 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 your breath was stolen by the wind from the south

Another winter's tale is done
Your immortal lover, he's gone
The chalice stolen from her hand
Eternal life at her command
Now all that she rules must sleep

The howling shriek of death in your eyes
The hawklord and the beast enter your room
The gold will turn to rust
Your empire follows you into your tomb

The wraiths of night caress
And whisper softly now, "We are the dead"
They bear your life away
They tear your heart in two
They've taken the queen

To some better place, so they think
As the flame burns low

Now the flame burns higher
And it purifies the love that died
A stone rolls closed on a life
Back to the earth, sealing the tomb

Our skeletons rise through the veil of blood
Who summons us now from our graves?
"We are the dead"
The shriek of death in your eyes
The hawklord and the beast enter your room

The wraiths of night caress
And whisper softly now, "We are the dead"
They bear your life away
They've torn your heart in two
They've taken the queen