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Iron Maiden
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When I stand and look
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About the port
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And contemplate my life, will I
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Ever see my countrymen again?
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As the captain calls us on the deck
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I take my things and walk
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To the harbourside, I glance back
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One last time.
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Fleeing our nation, our problems
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We leave behind.
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Ships by the tenfold sail
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Out on the tide.
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We are pleased to be out and
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Embracing the open sea.
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Free from our troubles
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And more free from thee.
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Inheritors unfulfilled reason
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Behind us.
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We flee from what is not what
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Is will be.
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We flee the earth and face our
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Harsh reality.
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Will death be low mist that
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Hangs on the sea?
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We run from evil tongues, rash
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Judgements, selfish men.
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Never to be seen on these
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Shores again.
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As we sail into oceansize
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And lose sight of land
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A face of contentment
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Around in the air.
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We're off now to
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Seek all our fortunes.
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To the land of our dreams.
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Riding the waves and the storm
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Is upon us.
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The winds lash the sails but
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The ropes keep them tight.
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Off in the distance a dark cloud
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Approaching.
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None could imagine what there
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Was to come.
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No, there's no one going back.
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No, there's not a second chance.
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As we strap onto the side
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We pray to God that we don't die.
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As we ride the rough seas,
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As we soak from the ocean waves,
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I just hope for all our lives
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And pray that I survive.
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Four ships are lost in the
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Stormy conditions.
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The spirits of the sunken crews,
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Their phantoms follow us.
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Spirits, sails, they drive us on
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Through the all-consuming waves.
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Cold mortality, no weapon
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Against these ever raging seas.
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Four leagues and ten and we
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Hit storms again.
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We just can't get away from
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The eye of the storm.
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The birds outsoar the raging storm
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But we cannot escape it.
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Abandoned earth that we
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Now crave
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Is many leagues from safe.
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Holding on for our dear lives
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And we're praying once again.
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Rotten luck or just Jonahed?
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The talisman is in my hand.
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Limbs fatigued, trembling with cold.
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Blinded from the sea spray salt.
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Clasping anything we can hold.
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Heaven's rain upon us falls.
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Twenty days without a meal
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And ten without fresh water still.
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Those that didn't die in storms
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The scurvy rest did slaughter.
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Westward the tide.
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Westward we sail on.
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Westward the tide.
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Sail by the talisman.
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We approach the other side
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Of the ocean with the tide
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In our favour just for once.
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Welcome greeting, our new land.
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The elation in our hearts,
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The excitement in our veins
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As we sail towards the coastline
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Of our golden promised land.
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Weary limbs fatigued away.
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I have no life left in me.
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No more strength and nothing
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Left to give.
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Must find the will to live.
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Never thought that we could
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Make it.
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Truly sight of shores divine.
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The sickness I am dying from.
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Never wanted it to end this way.
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Westward the tide.
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Westward we sail on.
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Westward the tide.
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Sail by the talisman.
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Westward the tide.
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Westward we sail on.
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Westward the tide.
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Sail by the talisman.
Iron Maiden – The Writing On The Wall (O...
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