Longboats have been sighted the evidence of war has begun
Many Nordic fighting men their swords and shields all gleam in the sun
Call to arms defend yourselves get ready to stand and fight for your lives
Judgement day has come around so be prepared don't run stand your ground

They're coming in from the sea
they've come the enemy
beneath the blazing sun
the battle has to be won
Invaders ... Pillaging
Invaders ... Looting

Set ablaze the campfires alert the other men from inland
Warning must be given there's not enough men here for a stand
The Vikings are too many too powerful to take on our own
We must have reinforcements we cannot fight this battle alone

They're coming over the hill
they've come to attack
they're coming in for the kill
there's no turning back
Invaders ... Fighting
Invaders ... Marauding

Axes grind and maces clash as wounded fighters fall to the ground
Severed limbs and fatal woundings bloody corpses lay all around
The smell of death and burning flesh the battle weary fight to the end
The Saxons have been overpowered victims of the mighty Norsemen

You'd better scatter and run
the battle's lost and not won
you'd better get away
Invaders ... Raping
Invaders ... Plundering
				

He's walking like a small child
But watch his eyes burn you away
Black holes in his golden stare
God knows he wants to go home
Children of The Damned(repeat another 3 times)

He's walking like a dead man
If he had lived he would have crucified us all
Now he's standing on the last step
He thought oblivion well it beckons us all
Children of The Damned
(repeat another 3 times)

Now it burns his hand he's turning to laugh
Smiles as the flame sears his flesh
Melting his face screaming in pain
Peeling the skin from his eyes
Watch him die according to plan
He's dust on the ground what did we learn

You're Children of The Damned
Your back's against the wall
You turn into the light
You're Children of The Damned
Like candles watch them burn
Burning in the light
You'll burn again tonight
You're Children of The Damned
				

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

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 defence
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
				

If you're feeling down depressed and lonely
I know a place where we can go
22 Acacia Avenue meet a lady that I know
So if you're looking for a good time
And you're prepared to pay the price
Fifteen quid is all she asks for
Everybody's got their vice

If you're waiting for a long time for the rest to do their piece
You can tell her that you know me and you might even get it free
So any time you're down the East End don't you hesitate to go
You can take my honest word for it she'll teach you more than you can know

Charlotte can't you get out from all this madness
Can't you see it only brings you sadness
When you entertain your men don't know the risk of getting disease

Some day when you're reaching the age of forty
I bet you'll regret the days when you were laying
Nobody then will want to know
You won't have any beautiful wares to show any more

22, the avenue that's the place where we all go
You will find it's warm inside the red light's burning bright tonight

Charlotte isn't it time you stopped this mad life
Don't you ever think about the bad times
Why do you have to live this way
Do you enjoy your lay or is it the pay

Sometimes when your strolling down the avenue
The way you walk it make men think of having you
When you're walking down the street
Everybody stops and turns to stare at you

Beat her mistreat her do anything that you please
Bite her excite her make her get down on her knees
Abuse her misuse her she can take all that you've got
Caress her molest her she always does what you want

You're running away don't you know what you're doing
Can't you see it'll lead you to ruin
Charlotte you've taken your life and you've thrown it away
You believe that because what you're earning
Your life's good don't you know that you're hurting
All the people that love you don't cast them aside
All the men that are constantly drooling
It's no life for you stop all that screwing
You're packing your bags and you're _coming_ with me
				

"Woe to you, Oh Earth and Sea, for the Devil sends the beast
with wrath, because he knows the time is short...
Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast
for it is a human number, its number is Six hundred and sixty
six."
Revelations ch. xiii v. 18

I left alone my mind was blank
I needed time to get the memories from my mind

What did I see can I believe that what I saw
that night was real and not just fantasy

Just what I saw in my old dreams were they
reflections of my warped mind staring back at me

Cos in my dreams it's always there the evil face that twists my mind
and brings me to despair

The night was black was no use holding back
Cos I just had to see was someone watching me
In the mist dark figures move and twist
was all this for real or some kind of hell
666 the Number of the Beast
Hell and fire was spawned to be released

Torches blazed and sacred chants were praised
as they start to cry hands held to the sky
In the night the fires burning bright
the ritual has begun Satan's work is done
666 the Number of the Beast
Sacrifice is going on tonight

This can't go on I must inform the law
Can this still be real or some crazy dream
but I feel drawn towards the evil chanting hordes
they seem to mesmerise me...can't avoid their eyes
666 the Number of the Beast
666 the one for you and me

I'm coming back I will return
And I'll possess your body and I'll make you burn
I have the fire I have the force
I have the power to make my evil take its course
				

White man came across the sea
Brought us pain and misery
Killed our tribes killed our creed
Took our game for his own need

We fought him hard we fought him well
Out on the plains we gave him hell
But many came too much for Cree
Oh will we ever be set free?

Riding through dustclouds and barren wastes
Galloping hard on the plains
Chasing the redskins back to their holes
Fighting them at their own game
Murder for freedom a stab in the back
Women and children and cowards attack

Run to the hills run for your lives
Run to the hills run for your lives

Soldier blue on the barren wastes
Hunting and killing their game
Raping the women and wasting the men
The only good Indians are tame
Selling them whisky and taking their gold
Enslaving the young and destroying the old

Run to the hills run for your lives
				

Cold as steel the darkness waits, it's hour will come
A cry of fear for the chosen worshipping the sun
Mother natures black revenge on those who waste her life
War babies in the garden of Eden shall turn our ashes to ice

CHORUS:
Sunrise is gone, freezing up the fires
Sunrise is gone, numbing all desires
Sunrise is gone, Sunrise is gone

Around the world the people stop with terror-stricken eyes
A shadow cast upon them all to crush them like a fly
In the icy rain and whiplashed seas there's nowhere left to run
The hammer blows of winter fall like a hurricane

REPEAT CHORUS

Around the world the nations wait
for some wise words from their leading light
You know it's not only madmen who listen to fools
"Is this the end" the millions cried
clutching their riches as they died
Those who survive must weather the storm

SOLO

Gone are the days when man looked down
They've taken away his sacred crown
To be so free, it took so long
It's not the journeys end, it's just begun
				

I'm waiting in my cold cell when the bell begins to chime
Reflecting on my past life and it doesn't have much time
Cos at 5 o'clock they take me to the Gallows Pole
The sands of time for me are running low

When the priest comes to read me the last rites
I take a look through the bars at the last sights
Of a world that has gone very wrong for me

Can it be there's some sort of error
Hard to stop the surmounting terror
Is it really the end not some crazy dream

Somebody please tell me that I'm dreaming
It's not so easy to stop from screaming
But words escape me when I try to speak
Tears they flow but why am I crying
After all I am not afraid of dying
Don't believe that there is never an end

As the guards march me out to the courtyard
Someone calls from a cell "God be with you"
If there's a God then why has he let me die?

As I walk all my life drifts before me
And though the end is near I'm not sorry
Catch my soul cos it's willing to fly away

Mark my words please believe my soul lives on
Please don't worry now that I have gone
I've gone beyond to see the truth

When you know that your time is close at hand
maybe then you'll begin to understand
Life down there is just a strange illusion.
				

I remember it as plain as day
although it happened in the dark of the night.
I was strolling through the streets of Paris
and it was cold it was starting to rain.
And then I heard a piercing scream
and I rushed to the scene of the crime
but all I found was the butchered remains
of two girls lay side by side.

Murders in the Rue Morgue
someone call the Gendarmes
Murders in the Rue Morgue
run before the killers go free

There's some people coming down the street
at last there's someone heard my call
I can't understand why they're pointing at me
I never done nothing at all.
But I must have got some blood on my hands
because everyone's shouting at me
I can't speak French so I couldn't explain
and like a fool I started running away.

Murders in the Rue Morgue
someone call the Gendarmes
Murders in the Rue Morgue
am I ever gonna be free.

And now I've gotta get away from the arms of the law.
All France is looking for me.
I've gotta find my way across the border for sure
down the south to Italy.

Murders in the Rue Morgue
someone call the Gendarmes
Murders in the Rue Morgue
I'm never going home.

Well I made it to the border at last
But I can't erase the scene from my mind
Anytime somebody stares at me, well
I just start running blind
Well I'm moving through the shadows at night
Away from the staring eyes
Any day they'll be looking for me
'Cause I know I show the signs of...

Murders in the Rue Morgue
running from the Gendarmes
Murders in the Rue Morgue
running from the arms of the law

Murders in the Rue Morgue
running from the Gendarmes
Murders in the Rue Morgue
am I ever gonna be free

It took so long and I'm getting so tired
I'm running out of places to hide
Should I return to the scene of the crime
Where the two young victims died
If I could go to somebody for help
It'd get me out of trouble for sure
But I know that it's on my mind
That my doctor said I've done it before.

Murders in the Rue Morgue
they're never gonna find me
Murders in the Rue Morgue
I'm never going home.
				

i was born into a scene of angriness and greed, and dominance and persecution.
my mother was a queen, my dad i've never seen, i was never meant to be.
and now i spend my time looking all around,
for a man that's nowhere to be found.
until i find him i'm never gonna stop searching,
i'm gonna find my man, gonna travel around.

'cos i'm a wrathchild, well i'm a wrathchild.
yeah i'm a wrathchild. i'm coming to get you, oh yeah.

say it doesn't matter ain't nothin' gonna alter the course of my destination.
i know i've got to find some serious piece of mind, or i know i'll go crazy.
but now i spend my time looking all around,
for a man that's nowhere to be found.
until i find him i'm never gonna stop searching,
i'm gonna find my man, gonna travel around.

'cos i'm a wrathchild, well i'm a wrathchild.
yeah i'm a wrathchild. i'm coming to get you, oh yeah.
				

white man came across the sea
brought us pain and misery
killed our tribes killed our creed
took our game for his own need

we fought him hard we fought him well
out on the plains we gave him hell
but many came too much for cree
oh will we ever be set free?

riding through dustclouds and barren wastes
galloping hard on the plains
chasing the redskins back to their holes
fighting them at their own game
murder for freedom a stab in the back
women and children and cowards attack

run to the hills run for your lives
run to the hills run for your lives

soldier blue on the barren wastes
hunting and killing their game
raping the women and wasting the men
the only good indians are tame
selling them whisky and taking their gold
enslaving the young and destroying the old

run to the hills run for your lives
				

he's walking like a small child
but watch his eyes burn you away
black holes in his golden stare
god knows he wants to go home
children of the damned(repeat another 3 times)

he's walking like a dead man
if he had lived he would have crucified us all
now he's standing on the last step
he thought oblivion well it beckons us all
children of the damned
(repeat another 3 times)

now it burns his hand he's turning to laugh
smiles as the flame sears his flesh
melting his face screaming in pain
peeling the skin from his eyes
watch him die according to plan
he's dust on the ground what did we learn

you're children of the damned
your back's against the wall
you turn into the light
you're children of the damned
like candles watch them burn
burning in the light
you'll burn again tonight
you're children of the damned
				

"woe to you, oh earth and sea, for the devil sends the beast
with wrath, because he knows the time is short...
let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast
for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty
six."
revelations ch. xiii v. 18

i left alone my mind was blank
i needed time to get the memories from my mind

what did i see can i believe that what i saw
that night was real and not just fantasy

just what i saw in my old dreams were they
reflections of my warped mind staring back at me

cos in my dreams it's always there the evil face that twists my mind
and brings me to despair

the night was black was no use holding back
cos i just had to see was someone watching me
in the mist dark figures move and twist
was all this for real or some kind of hell
666 the number of the beast
hell and fire was spawned to be released

torches blazed and sacred chants were praised
as they start to cry hands held to the sky
in the night the fires burning bright
the ritual has begun satan's work is done
666 the number of the beast
sacrifice is going on tonight

this can't go on i must inform the law
can this still be real or some crazy dream
but i feel drawn towards the evil chanting hordes
they seem to mesmerise me...can't avoid their eyes
666 the number of the beast
666 the one for you and me

i'm coming back i will return
and i'll possess your body and i'll make you burn
i have the fire i have the force
i have the power to make my evil take its course
				

as i lay here lying on my bed, sweet voices come into my head.
oh what it is, i wanna know, please won't you tell me it's got to go.
there's a feeling that's inside me, telling me to get away.
but i'm so tired of living, i might as well end today.
				

you walk through the subway, his eyes burn a hole in your back,
a footstep behind you, he lunges prepared for attack.
scream for mercy, he laughs as he's watching you bleed,
killer behind you, his blood lust defies all his needs.

my innocent victims are slaughtered with wrath and despise,
the mocking religion of hatred that burns in the night.
i have no one, i'm bound to destroy all this greed,
a voice inside me compelling to satisfy me.

i can see what a knife's meant to be,
and you'll never know how i came to foresee, see, see.

my faith in believing is stronger than lifelines and ties,
with the glimmer of metal my moment is ready to strike.

death call arises, a scream breaks the still of the night,
another tomorrow, remember to walk in the light!
i have found you, and now there is no place to run,
excitement shakes me, oh god help me what have i done?!
oh yeah, i've done it!
yeeeeaaaaaaaahhhh!

you walk through the subway, my eyes burn a hole in your back,
a footstep behind you, he lunges prepared for attack.
scream for mercy, he laughs as he's watching you bleed,
killer behind you, my blood lust defies all my needs.
oh look out, i'm coming for you!
ahahahaha!
				

if you're feeling down depressed and lonely
i know a place where we can go
22 acacia avenue meet a lady that i know
so if you're looking for a good time
and you're prepared to pay the price
fifteen quid is all she asks for
everybody's got their vice

if you're waiting for a long time for the rest to do their piece
you can tell her that you know me and you might even get it free
so any time you're down the east end don't you hesitate to go
you can take my honest word for it she'll teach you more than you can know

charlotte can't you get out from all this madness
can't you see it only brings you sadness
when you entertain your men don't know the risk of getting disease

some day when you're reaching the age of forty
i bet you'll regret the days when you were laying
nobody then will want to know
you won't have any beautiful wares to show any more

22, the avenue that's the place where we all go
you will find it's warm inside the red light's burning bright tonight

charlotte isn't it time you stopped this mad life
don't you ever think about the bad times
why do you have to live this way
do you enjoy your lay or is it the pay

sometimes when your strolling down the avenue
the way you walk it make men think of having you
when you're walking down the street
everybody stops and turns to stare at you

beat her mistreat her do anything that you please
bite her excite her make her get down on her knees
abuse her misuse her she can take all that you've got
caress her molest her she always does what you want

you're running away don't you know what you're doing
can't you see it'll lead you to ruin
charlotte you've taken your life and you've thrown it away
you believe that because what you're earning
your life's good don't you know that you're hurting
all the people that love you don't cast them aside
all the men that are constantly drooling
it's no life for you stop all that screwing
you're packing your bags and you're _coming_ with me
				

cold as steel the darkness waits, it's hour will come
a cry of fear for the chosen worshipping the sun
mother natures black revenge on those who waste her life
war babies in the garden of eden shall turn our ashes to ice

chorus:
sunrise is gone, freezing up the fires
sunrise is gone, numbing all desires
sunrise is gone, sunrise is gone

around the world the people stop with terror-stricken eyes
a shadow cast upon them all to crush them like a fly
in the icy rain and whiplashed seas there's nowhere left to run
the hammer blows of winter fall like a hurricane

repeat chorus

around the world the nations wait
for some wise words from their leading light
you know it's not only madmen who listen to fools
"is this the end" the millions cried
clutching their riches as they died
those who survive must weather the storm

solo

gone are the days when man looked down
they've taken away his sacred crown
to be so free, it took so long
it's not the journeys end, it's just begun
				

[instrumental]
				

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

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 defence
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
				

i'm waiting in my cold cell when the bell begins to chime
reflecting on my past life and it doesn't have much time
cos at 5 o'clock they take me to the gallows pole
the sands of time for me are running low

when the priest comes to read me the last rites
i take a look through the bars at the last sights
of a world that has gone very wrong for me

can it be there's some sort of error
hard to stop the surmounting terror
is it really the end not some crazy dream

somebody please tell me that i'm dreaming
it's not so easy to stop from screaming
but words escape me when i try to speak
tears they flow but why am i crying
after all i am not afraid of dying
don't believe that there is never an end

as the guards march me out to the courtyard
someone calls from a cell "god be with you"
if there's a god then why has he let me die?

as i walk all my life drifts before me
and though the end is near i'm not sorry
catch my soul cos it's willing to fly away

mark my words please believe my soul lives on
please don't worry now that i have gone
i've gone beyond to see the truth

when you know that your time is close at hand
maybe then you'll begin to understand
life down there is just a strange illusion.
				

i've been looking so long for you now you won't get away from my grasp
. you've been living so long in hiding in hiding behind that false mask.
and you know and i know that you ain't got long now to last.
your looks and your feelings are just the remains of your past.

you're standing in the wings, there you wait for the curtain to fall.
knowing the terror and holding you have on us all.
yeah, i know that you're gonna scratch me, maim me and maul.
you know i'm helpless from your mesmerising cat call.

keep your distance, walk away, don't take his bait.
don't you stray, don't fade away.
watch your step, he's out to get you, come what may.
don't you stray, from the narrow way.

i'm running and hiding in my dreams you're always there.
you're the phantom of the opera, you're the devil, you're just out to scare.
you damaged my mind and my soul it just floats through the air.
haunt me, you taunt me, you torture me back at your lair.
				

won't you come into my room, i wanna show you all my wares.
i just want to see your blood, i just want to stand and stare.
see the blood begin to flow as it falls upon the floor.
iron maiden can't be faught, iron maiden can't be sought.

oh well, wherever, wherever you are,
iron maiden's gonna get you, no matter how far.
see the blood flow watching it shed up above my head.
iron maiden wants you for dead.

won't you come into my room, i wanna show you all my wares.
i just want to see your blood, i just want to stand and stare.
see the blood begin to flow as it falls upon the floor.
iron maiden can't be faught, iron maiden can't be sought.

oh well, wherever, wherever you are
iron maiden's gonna get you, no matter how far
see the blood flow, watching it shed, up above my head
iron maiden wants you for dead...
				

out of the route came a warhorse of steel. 
i've never killed a woman before, but i know how it feels. 

i know you'd have gone insane if you saw what i saw. 
so now i've got to look for sanctuary from the law. 
so give me sanctuary from the law and i'll be alright. 
just give me sanctuary from the law and love me tonight, tonight. 

i met up with a stranger last night to keep me alive. 
he spends all his money on gambling and guns to survive. 

i can laugh at the wind, i can howl at the rain. 
down in the canyon or out in the plain. 
				

walk away!

look out now, baby won't you take me away,
sittin' here its gonna be a new day.
gotta sing my song and i can't go wrong,
gotta keep on roaming, gotta sing my song.

what you feeling when you hold me tight?
i'm gonna cuddle up with you tonight, gonna get you feeling so secure.
listen child don't you see there's a cure?
anywhere got to get you away, feels so good think it's gonna be a new day.
i'm gonna get my song till i can't go on,
i'm gonna keep on roaming gonna sing my song.

i want you to sing it, sing it, sing it, sing it along.
i want you to sing it, sing it, sing it, sing it along.
				

just sixteen, a pickup truck, out of money, out of luck.
i've got nowhere to call my own, hit the gas, and here i go.

i'm running free yeah, i'm running free.
i'm running free yeah, oh i'm running free.

spent the night in an l. a. jail, and listened to the sirens wail.
they ain't got a thing on me, i'm running wild, i'm running free.

i'm running free yeah, i'm running free.
i'm running free yeah, oh i'm running free.

puller here at the bottle top, whiskey, dancing, disco hop.
now all the boys are after me, and that's the way it's gonna be.

i'm running free yeah, i'm running free.
i'm running free yeah, oh i'm running free.
				

walkin' through the city
lookin' oh so pretty
i just gotta find my way
see the ladies flashin'
all their legs and lashes
i just gotta find my way

well, you see me crawlin' through the bushes
with it open wide
what ya seein' girl?
can you believe that feelin? can you believe it?
can you believe your eyes?
it's the real thing girl

got me feelin' myself and reelin' around
got me talking, girl, feel like walkin' around