SONG LYRICS & CHORDS (L)

[Chorus]: / Climb on the boxes... Live to dive! / Leap into masses of sweat, beer and noise...

Still all this party, raising hell to get my beer / I will go crazy, if I don't find it here / Someone snatched my only joy...

He seems alone and silent / thoughts remain without an answer / Afraid and uninvited...

She was a juke-box dancer / A blue eyed gypsy queen / She always had an answer...

Intro: / You're lazy Just stay in bed / You're lazy Just stay in bed...

I want you / To tell me / Who you are...

We hold each other / In the dead of night / And the end...

Oh, Riverwind where have you gone? / Oh, Riverwind and autumn comes on. / The grasslands are endless...

As days go, as nights go / I want to hear the magic word. / As days go, as nights go...

1. You say, you don't wanna stay / You don't wanna see me now. / Take my hand and forgive mistakes...

1. You're sad and lonely / Every night and day, / So, that's the price you...

1.Clouds dark in the sky / We're going to die / Lightning strikes the Bell...

Jay walking - and you're gonna land in jail / Doesn't matter - if you can pay the bail / Gotta get out of here...

Oh no, / here it is again / I need to know...

I'll never waste another day / searching to find the reason / why did I choose to play this game...

It’s getting closer now / The clock strikes midnight time / It is the tolling of the judgement bell...

I - I am the one / The one - who lost control / Control - but in the end I’d be the...

Out in the fields / The full moon is rising / Enlightens the name on our shields...

The cold nights have awakened Me / The soft winds to undress Me / The nails of two witches have touched Me...

Lonely and crippled she lives all alone / Stares out the window, no one on the telephone / Her only friend – a little Kitty Kat...

...oh, hey! What! Dave, is that you? Yeah? What day is it? Saturday. Saturday? What do you mean, I've been / in here a week? I have? I don't remember.... I did number four or five the other week and I... you know, it / was the other week, wasn't it? It's too f.... I was in here for a couple of days then. Eh? What do you mean,...

....What ho sed de ting! How you doing, you lot out there? Gosh! You, I guess you are now the proud owners of the very first little box set of the re-released singles from Iron Maiden. Well, I've got to say this, welcome to Not a lot of people know that, part 1. Cause here, I'm about to tell you a few stories now and in the next nine releases of this here box sets, over the period of the next ten weeks. Now look here, first of all, my goodness, it's ten years almost to the day...ooh little chickadees out there, oh you've got your grubby little hands on Running Free, Burning Ambition, oh gosh! The very first single! Sanctuary, Drifter, and I've Got The Fire, the second singles..gosh! The first one was released, as I said, almost ten years to the very day on February 8, 1980. Eh, I'll tell you something, right? You know 'Arry... 'Arry Harris, right, he had a band called Gypsy's Kiss ....disgusting...and you know what that rhymes with doncha? Well if you don't, I'm not gonna tell ya anyway so there. He had this song called Burning Ambition, which I suppose was a real drive for 'Arry then because he was, you know, full of ambition to get his music out and play it for people, and he had this song. And he was in this band Gypsies Kiss, well they were, cause they couldn't handle this song. And they turned around and said 'Arry you know look at all these chord changes and time changes, as he's famous for, and I should know...come on, give us a break. So, he took the song... the band and they're going, come on 'Arry, gypsies kiss off will ya, I can't play that! And he said, allright, I've had enough of this then, I'm gonna go find some people that can, so kiss you and all. So anyway that's what he did. Not kiss them, no, he did the other thing, you know, what it rhymes with... mm off. I'll say it, he pissed off, so there you go. Whatever. Now he went out and he formed a band, and um..uuh, Burning Ambition was actually recorded late in 1979 and originally featured the original drummer in fact of..in fact I think there was one guy before him...but Doug Sampson was on drums in those days. Dave double tracked on guitars... you know, he double tracked and all..he doesn't have to though, does he? You know what I'm saying. Well, ok, Running Free as well was also the first art work from Riggsy...RIGGSY! I tell people I'm actually from another planet you know cause I'm a bit off the wall, well I'll tell you this guy OWNS the other planet, my goodness! No god bless him, he's a diamond guy I love him, what an artist! He first brought Eddie into the first sleeve on this the Running Free single, and Eddie if you remember rightly was standing in the shadows, you never really saw him. But uh, oh my goodness, he brought him out didn't he, on the first album all in his glory and splendour, Eddie comes out and goes yeeeeh I'm here, so watch out folks. Well there, what can you say about it, Running Free, it's a song the band still to this day plays, it's one of the truly great Iron Maiden songs, I mean not only just because it was their first single, but...what a crack. And now then, well we've gone through that, Burning Ambition we talked about, on the other side we got Sanctuary...on the other single rather, we've got Sanctuary, Drifter live, and I've Got The Fire, an old Montrose song. Well this... this was the first top-30 entry actually, it made number 29 and uh, oh you know the boys were really happy it was released 23rd of May 1980 god dearie me, it was a couple within a few months of one another... You lucky boys and girls! Woah, as I said you've got one every week for ten weeks coming out here...ah, oh well. This was recorded by the way...the live Drifter and I've Got The Fire, was recorded in the Marquee in April 1980. And that was a good year, I've got a good drop of wine at home made in 1980, yeah still got half a bottle left, it's really good. I've Got The Fire, it's an old Montrose song as I said, and Steve liked it so he recorded it live, and it used to be a set opener for the band in those days, but on the back of that they kind of got into the deal of like not recording Iron Maiden songs on the b's, this was when the beginnings when b-sides were other people's songs that the band decided to play. Anyway around this time, they uh, they didn't get top of the pops ...rotten buggers...but we all know why, it's the bleedin BBC isn't it? Well you know we'll work out some sort of abbreviation for that later on...but anyway they couldn't get on because there was some sort of reaction, strikes and all that good stuff, you know what the BBC usually like to do... You! Move the broom! Well, is he a labourer? No he f'king well ain't! Well that's it, we're going on strike. Put your teacups up to your face lads, lets go out to the canteen and have another drink... You know, whatever...Well what can you say, what can you say, strikes all around. So the boys didn't get to play top of the pops -- that's no biggie, you know they never play the band anyway do they? poxy BBC... Anyway funnily enough, around this time it the very first gig I ever did with Iron Maiden, no not actually playing with them like as a full band. I played in a band called McKitty, and these guys in McKitty...a guy called Donnovan McKitty himself, we did a gig in Belgium, and it was in fact... not a lot of people know this...but it was in fact Maiden's very first European gig, how about that, and I was there! So there! Hmm! Stuff that up your f'king pipe and smoke it! Right! So there you go. I was really privileged to be there, and that's when I really first met the band, we got on so well and we had such a riot....what can I say? Anyway, you remember the Sanctuary sleeve, you lot? Yeah...Maggie Thatcher...weeelll, can you believe it, she was there, you know what she was trying to do...stupid cow... she was trying to pull down an Iron Maiden poster off the wall. Well, what can you say about that? Not a lot, believe me! She was...I dunno why they called her the iron maiden, do you? Nothing like this....I know why! Maybe because she's like Eddie! Hahahaha! Listen! By the way I've got to tell you this little story real quick, allright, I'm running out of time on this one but nevertheless... You remember Eddie, right? Course you remember Eddie! Well this is the origin of Eddie, right. The band used to have this backdrop which featured this theatrical mask and it sort of spat out all this red die and smoke and all that gobby stuff and here's poor old Clive sitting under it getting gobbed on every night... Oy! what's all this?!, he's going, What's all this red st...you know, this shit coming over my head, I've had enough of that, eh....anything you could find, anything they could find they'd sling in it. Anyway, they called him Eddie the Head, see, and it's after an old east-end joke that goes as follows: Eddie was very unfortunate, he was born without a body. So nevertheless, his parents loved him dearly and took him home and placed him on the mantelpiece one day. Well, his family gave him lots of love and attention and he always got loads of presents on his birthday kind of...blowing things, and hats and all that kind of stuff, wow... Anyway one year he was about 16, and the hospital phoned up Eddie's parents and they said to them, look, due to modern technology and all those good things that we can do with this stuff nowdays, we are now able to build Eddie a body. So, the parents were soooo excited, they couldn't believe it, and they couldn't wait to tell Eddie, I mean this is it, Eddie's gonna have a body! Weeeha! However, as it was close to his birthday, they decided to tell the doctors to go ahead and build his body, and then they would surprise him, you know they weren't far away from his birthday... well, a good birthday present, so anyway... A few weeks later the big day arrived, yes, Eddie's birthday. So his parents go up to him, and walked up to the mantelpiece and Hello Eddie, how you doin? This year is gonna to be the best birthday yet! Have we got something for you, such a wonderful present! And his mum's going Oh goodness Eddie we're so pleased! And Eddie's going, Oh no! said Eddie, Not another fucking hat! Hahahahaha! Oh, I think it's funny! Shit, it is! It's pretty good isn't it! Anyway, after this...anyway, Derek came up with the creature Eddie and the body and that on the record covers, and the name was just carried over and the rest is history isn't it? And Eddie's out there, yet he's got to have a bit of nookie before long, that's all I can say....

....What ho hahahaha! / Well, welcome once again to the Not a lot of people know that, part II. Or in other words, Nick's verbal / diarrhoea for the second time running. You lucky lot! Now you're out there holding in your sweaty palms...

(snore....snore....) / (Someone else): Hey Nicko, wake up the tape's rolling... / Ah! ok now, well! What you doing letting me go to sleep now? Yeah, ah! Did you say the tape's rolling?...

Dark forces (from) minds filled with hate / Conjures evil changing mens fate / Dark lord Lucifer...

Ah Ha! Ha! Ha! Haaaa! Maybe I can get out of here now! Oh, this is Nicko's not alot of people know that, / number ten. When I finish this I can go home! Ahahaha! Ah oh, why do I want to go home? Oh I don't / know, I've been in here so long, oh I'm stuck to the chair and all that kind of good stuff... And I've had so...

...what ho! Nicko here! Welcome to Nicko's Not alot of people know that, number 9! Yes! This is the one / that comes after eight or before ten, but if you don't have number eight, it comes after seven, doesn't it? Yes, / well you stupid little people, if you do not have number eight or number seven or one of them's missing,...

Oooooh, allow me to introduce myself! My name is... well you know who that is, don't you, boys and girls! / Yes! If you are listening now, which you should be, or you have just done... Wasted Years, ooooh an Adrian / Smith composition, and Reach Out by a guy called Dave Calwell, and The Sheriff Of Huddersfield. Yeeeess,...

(drumming and singing in the background)... / Oh..Oh! You cheeky! You slimeball! What did you do that for, you rotten terror Dave? You f'king put my / own voice and verbals in the... you know, they've heard me trying to sing this f'king song now....

What ho sed de ting! / I'm back, nyaaah! You thought you got away with it, didn't you? But you didn't. No, not on your fourth little / box set of Run To The Hills, Total Eclipse, Number Of The Beast, and Remember Tomorrow live. Aaah!...