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[DOSSIER] IRON MAIDEN : Les références littéraires et cinématographiques dans les albums du groupe !

Écrit par Antephil le .


Si il y a bien un groupe dans de metal qui puise ses références dans l'histoire, la littérature et le cinéma, il s'agit bien d'Iron Maiden, de nombreux fans ayant découvert des œuvres ou des moments historiques grâce au groupe, ce dernier truffant certains de ses albums de ses coups de coeur culturels. C'est pour cela que nous vous proposons de découvrir des sources littéraires et cinématographiques au fil des albums du groupe, ceux-ci faisant écho a notre ligne éditoriale.
 
Le groupe de Steve Harris (et surtout ce dernier, on y revient plus bas) n'aura pas attendu pour afficher son affection a ces médias, la toute première référence affichée se faisant sur le premier album du combo Anglais, "Iron Maiden" en 1980. Depuis les titres de la vierge de fer n'auront cesse de traiter de nombreuses œuvres plus ou moins connues jusqu'au dernier opus du groupe en date, "The Book Of Souls" (2015). 
 
On notera que la grande majorité des titres références sont écrits par Steve Harris seul jusqu’en 1995, a partir de cette année la on peu constater que le bassiste compositeur a du partager nombres de films avec Blaze Bayley, le chanteur des albums "The X-Factor" (1995) et "Virtual XI" (1998), et depuis bons nombres de titres inspirés de romans ou de films sont co-écrits avec d'autres musiciens du groupe, ce qui laisse aussi a penser que Harry' a donc terminé de regarder ses films en hermite, et partage également ses découvertes littéraires. On peu noter aussi que certaines inspirations littéraires (Dune) ou séries (Le Fugitif) ont été faites bien avant de devenir des adaptations cinéma.
 
Nous vous laissons donc découvrir toutes ces références dans les pages suivantes en espérant que le groupes a encore beaucoup de culture a partager avec ses fans !

Merci a tous les lecteurs qui m'ont aidé a trouver des références !
 

"Iron Maiden" (1980)

"Phantom Of The Opera"  (Harris) :

Inspiré par le roman Le Fantôme de l'Opéra du Français Gaston Leroux paru en 1910.

Les paroles :

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 mesmerizing 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.
 

"Killers" (1980) 

"Murders In The Rue Morgue" (Harris) :

Inspiré de la nouvelle The Murders In The Rue Morgue (Double Assassinat dans la Rue Morgue en VF) par Edgar Allan Poe, parue en Avril 1841 dans le Garham's Magazine. Ensuite traduit  en 1856 par Charles Baudelaire dans le recueil Histoires Extraordinaires.



Les paroles : 

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.
 

"The Number Of The Beast" (1982) 

"Children Of The Damned" (Harris) :

Inspiré du film d'horreur Britannique Village Of The Damned (Le Village des Damnés en VF) de Wolf Rilla sorti en 1960.



Les paroles : 

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
 
He's walking like a dead man
If he had lived he would have crucified us all
Now he's standing on his last stand
He thought oblivion well it beckons us all
Children of The Damned
 
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 burning in the night
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

"The Prisoner" (Harris/Smith) :

Inspiré de la série Britannique The Prisoner (Le Prisonnier en VF) en 17 épisodes de 52mns de 1967 a 1968.



Les paroles : 

(We want information, information, information)
(Who are you?)
(The new number two)
(Who is number one?)
(You are number six)
(I am not a number, I am a free man)
 
I'm 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 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
 
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
 
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
'Cause I'll run rings round you
 
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
 
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
'Cause I'll run rings round you
 
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
 

"Piece Of Mind" (1983) 

"Where Eagles Dare" (Harris) :

Inspiré du film de guerre Britannique et Américain Where Eagles Dare (Quand les Aigles Attaquent en VF) de Brian G. Hutton avec Clint Eastwood et Richard Burton sorti en 1968.



Les paroles :

It's snowing outside the rumbling sound
Of engines roar in the night.
The mission is near the confident men
Are waiting to drop from the sky.
 
The Blizzard goes on but still they must fly
No one should go where eagles dare.
 
Bavarian alps that lay all around
They seem to stare from below.
The enemy lines a long time passed
Are lying deep in the snow.
 
Into the night they fall through the sky
No one should fly where eagles dare.
 
They're closing in the fortress is near
It's standing high in the sky.
The cable car's the only way in
It's really impossible to climb.
 
They make their way but maybe too late
They've got to try to save the day.
 
The panicking cries the roaring of guns
Are echoing all around the valley.
The mission complete they make to escape
Away from the Eagles Nest.
 
They dared to go where no one would try
They chose to fly where eagles dare.
 

"Quest For Fire" (Harris) :

Inspiré du film préhistorique Quest For Fire (La Guerre du Feu en VF)de Jean-Jacques Annaud sorti en 1981.



Les paroles : 

In a time when dinosaurs walked the earth
When the land was swamp and caves were home
In an age when prize possession was fire
To search for landscapes men would roam.
 
Then the tribes they came to steal their fire
And the wolves they howled into the night
As they fought a vicious angry battle
To save the power of warmth and light.
 
Drawn by quest for fire
They searched all through the land
Drawn by quest for fire
Discovery of man.
 
And they thought that when the embers died away
That the flame of life had burnt and died
Didn't know the sparks that made the fire
Were made by rubbing stick and stone.
 
So they ploughed through the forest and swamps of danger
And they fought the cannibal tribes and beasts
In the search to find another fire
To regain the power of light and heat.
 
Drawn by quest for fire
They searched across the land
Drawn by quest for fire
Discovery of man.
 

"To Tame  A Land" (Harris) :

Inspiré du roman de science-fiction Dune écrit par Frank Herbert paru en 1965.



Les paroles : 

He is the king of all the land
In the Kingdom of the sands
Of a time tomorrow.
 
He rules the sand worms and the Fremen
In a land amongst the stars
Of an age tomorrow.
 
He is destined to be a King
He rules over everything
On the land called planet Dune.
 
Body water is your life
And without it you would die
On the desert the planet Dune.
 
Without a still suit you would fry
On the sands so hot and dry
In a world called Arrakis.
 
It is a land that's rich in spice
The sand riders and the "mice"
That they call the "Muad'Dib".
 
He is the Kwizatz Haderach.
He is born of Caladan
And will take the Gom Jabbar.
 
He has the power to foresee
Or to look into the past
He is the ruler of the stars
 
The time will come for him
To lay claim his crown,
And then the foe yes
They'll be cut down,
You'll see he'll be the
Best that there's been,
Messiah supreme
True leader of men,
And when the time
For judgement's at hand
Don't fret he's strong
And he'll make a stand,
Against evil and fire
That spreads through the land,
He has the power
To make it all end.
 

"Powerslave" (1984)

"The Duellists" (Harris) :

Inspiré film Britannique The Duellists (Les Duéllistes en VF) de Ridley Scott sorti en 1977.

Les paroles : 

He threw down a glove you made the mistake

Of picking it up now you're gone
The choosing of guns or fighting with swords
The choice of weapons is done
He'll tear you apart as soon as you start
You know you don't have a chance.
 
OH...OH...Fight for the honour
Fight for the splendour
Fight for the pleasure
OH...OH...Fight for the honour
Fight for the splendour
Fight for your life!
 
Ready to start the duel begins the best man wins in the end.
A lunge and a feint, a parry too late
A cut to the chest and you're down
Seeing the stain then feeling the pain
Feeling the sweat on your brow.
 
The fighting resumes, a silence looms the swordsmen move 'gainst each
other
A cut and a thrust, a parry, a blow, a stab to the heart and you're down
The Angel of Death hears your last breath
Meanwhile the Reaper looks on.
 
OH...OH...Fought the honour
Fought for the splendour
Fought for the pleasure
OH...OH...Fought for the honour
fought for the splendour
Fought to the death
 


"Back In The Village" (Dickinson/Smith):

Nouvelle référence a la série The Prisoner.



Les paroles :
 

Turn the spotlights on the people
Switch the dial and eat the worm
Take your chances, kill the engine
Drop your bombs and let it burn
 
White flags shot to ribbons,
The truce in Black and Burned.
Shellshock in the kitchen.
Tables overturned
 
[Chorus:]
Back in the village again
In the village,
I'm back in the village again.
 
Throwing dice now, rolling loaded
I see sixes all the way,
In a black hole and I'm spinning
As my wings get shot away.
 
Questions are a burden
And answers are a prison for oneself
Shellshock in the kitchen
Tables start to burn.
 
[Chorus:]
Back in the village again
In the village,
I'm back in the village again.
 
No breaks on the inside,
Paper cats and burning barns,
There's fox among the chickens,
And a killer in the hounds.
 
Questions are a burden
And answers are a prison for oneself
Shellshock in the kitchen
Tables start to burn.
 
[Chorus:]
Back in the village again
In the village,
I'm back in the village again.
 
But still we walk into the valley
And others try to kill the inner flame
We're burning brighter than before
I don't have a number, I'M A NAME!
 
Back in the village again
In the village
I'm back in the village again
Back in the village again
In the village
 
I'm back in the village
Back in the village
Back in the village again.
 

"The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner" (Harris) :

Inspiré du poème The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner (La Complainte du Vieux Marin en VF) composé entre 1797 at 1799 par le Britannique Samuel Taylor Coleridge.



Les paroles :

Hear the rime of the ancient mariner
See his eye as he stops one of three
Mesmerizes one of the wedding guests
Stay here and listen to the nightmares of the sea.

And the music plays on, as the bride passes by
Caught by his spell and the mariner tells his tale.
 
Driven south to the land of the snow and ice
To a place where nobody's been
Through the snow fog flies on the albatross
Hailed in God's name, hoping good luck it brings.
 
And the ship sails on, back to the North
Through the fog and ice and the albatross follows on.
 
The mariner kills the bird of good omen
His shipmates cry against what he's done
But when the fog clears, they justify him
And make themselves a part of the crime.
 
Sailing on and on and north across the sea
Sailing on and on and north 'til all is calm.
 
The albatross begins with it's vengeance
A terrible curse a thirst has begun
His shipmates blame bad luck on the mariner
About his neck, the dead bird is hung.
 
And the curse goes on and on at sea
And the curse goes on and on for them and me.
 
"Day after day, day after day, 
We stuck nor breath nor motion
As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean
Water, water everywhere and
All the boards did shrink
Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink."
 
There calls the mariner
There comes a ship over the line
BUt how can she sail with no wind in her sails and no tide?
 
See... onward she comes
Onward she nears out of the sun
See, she has no crew
She has no life, wait but here's two.
 
Death and she Life in Death, 
They throw their dice for the crew
She wins the mariner and he belongs to her now.
Then, crew one by one
They drop down dead, two hundred men
She, she, Life in Death.
She lets him live, her chosen one.
 
"One after one by the star dogged moon, 
Too quick for groan or sigh
Each turned his face with a ghastly pang
And cursed me with his eye
Four times fifty living men
(And I heard nor sigh nor groan)
With heavy thump, a lifeless lump, 
They dropped down one by one."
 
The curse it lives on in their eyes
The mariner he wished he'd die
Along with the sea creatures
But they lived on, so did he.
 
And by the light of the moon
He prays for their beauty not doom
With heart he blesses them
God's creatures all of them too.
 
Then the spell starts to break
The albatross falls from his neck
Sinks down like lead into the sea
Then down in falls comes the rain.
 
Hear the groans of the long dead seamen
See them stir and they start to rise
Bodies lifted by good spirits
None of them speak and they're lifeless in their eyes
 
And revenge is still sought, penance starts again
Cast into a trance and the nightmare carries on.
 
Now the curse is finally lifted
And the mariner sights his home
Spirits go from the long dead bodies
Form their own light and the mariner's left alone.
 
And then a boat came sailing towards him
It was a joy he could not believe
The pilot's boat, his son and the hermit, 
Penance of life will fall onto him.
 
And the ship it sinks like lead into the sea
And the hermit shrives the mariner of his sins.
 
The mariner's bound to tell of his story
To tell this tale wherever he goes
To teach God's word by his own example
That we must love all things that God made.
 
And the wedding guest's a sad and wiser man
And the tale goes on and on and on.


"Somewhere In Time" (1986) 

"The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner" (Harris) :

Inspiré du film Britannique du même nom (La Solitude du Coureur de Fond en VF) de Tony Richardson sorti en 1962 et tiré de la nouvelle d'Allan Sillitoe parue en 1959. 

Les paroles : 

Tough of the track,
With the wind,
And the rain that's beating down on your back.
Your heart's beating loud
And goes on getting louder
And goes on even more till the sound
Is ringing in your head,
With every step you tread,
And every breath you take,
Determination makes
 
You run,
Never stop,
Gotta win, gotta run till you drop,
Keep the pace,
Hold the race,
Your mind is getting clearer,
You're over halfway there but the miles
Just never seem to end
As if you're in a dream,
Not getting anywhere.
It seems so futile.
 
Run, on and on,
Run, on and on,
The loneliness of the long distance runner.
 
I've got to keep running the course,
I've got to keep running and win at all costs,
I've got to keep going, be strong,
Must be so determined and push myself on.
 
Run over stiles, across fields,
Turn to look at who's on your heels,
Way ahead of the field,
The line is getting nearer but do
You want the glory that goes,
You reach the final stretch,
Ideals are just a trace,
You feel like throwing the race,
It's all so futile.
 
Run, on and on,
Run, on and on,
The loneliness of the long distance runner.
 


"Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son" (1988) :

"Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son" (Harris) :

L'album est inspré entiérement par le roman de fantasy Seventh Son (Le Septième Fils en VF) écrit par l'Américain Orson Scott Card en 1987 et faisant parti des Chroniques d'Alvin Le Faiseur, suivi par le Prophète Rouge.

 



Les paroles : 

Here they stand brothers them all
All the sons divided they'd fall
Here await the birth of the son
The seventh, the heavenly, the chosen one
 
Here the birth from an unbroken line
Born the healer the seventh, his time
Unknowingly blessed and as his life unfolds
Slowly unveiling the power he holds
 
Seventh son of a seventh son 
Seventh son of a seventh son 
Seventh son of a seventh son
 
Then they watch the progress he makes
The Good and the Evil which path will he take
Both of them trying to manipulate
The use of his powers before it's too late
 
Seventh son of a seventh son
Seventh son of a seventh son 
Seventh son of a seventh son 
 
Today is born the seventh one
Born of woman the seventh son
And he in turn of a seventh son
He has the power to heal
He has the gift of the second sight
He is the chosen one
So it shall be written
So it shall be done
 


"No Prayer For The Dying" (1990) 

"Run Silent, Run Deep" (Harris/Dickinson) :

Inspiré du film Américain du même nom (L'Odysée du Sous-Marin Nerka en VF) de Robert Wise avec Clark Gable et Burt Lancaster sorti en 1958.

 
Les paroles :
 
The convoy lights are dead ahead
The Merchantmen lay in their bed,
The trump of... diesels hammers down,
In the oily sea - the killing ground,
His knuckles white his eyes alight,
He slams the hatch on the deadly night,
A cunning fox in the chickens lair
A hound of hell and the devil don't care
 
Running silent, Running deep, we are your final prayer,
Warriors in secret sleep, a merchantman's nightmare,
A silent death lies waiting, for all of you below,
Running silent, Running deep, sink into your final sleep
 
Chill the hearts of fighting men,
In open ocean wondering when?
The lethal silver fish will fly
The boat will shiver - men will die
A cast of millions - a part of play
Killer? Victim? or fool for a day
Obeying an order - men have to die
Us or them - a well rehearsed lie
 
The lifeboats shattered the hull is torn,
The tar black smell of burning oil,
On the way down to Davy Jones,
Every man for himself - you're on your own
The wolf eyes watch the crosswire
"Stern tubes ready", "Aim and fire!"
They can pin some medal on your chest,
But in two more weeks - dead like the rest


"Fear Of The Dark" (1992)

"The Fugitive" (Harris) :

Inspiré par la série Américaine The Fugitive (Le Fugitif en VF) de 120 épisodes de 50minutes diffusée entre 1963 et 1967.



Les paroles :

On a cold October morning
As frost lay on the ground
Waiting to make my move
I make no sound
 
Waiting for the mist to cover all around
I carefully picked my time
Then took the wall
 
I'm sick and tired of running
The hunger and the pain
A stop to look about then off again
 
Being at the wrong place
And the wrong time
Suspected of a hit that was my crime
 
I am a fugitive being hunted down
Like game
I am a fugitive but I've got to clear
My name
 
Always looking 'round me
Forever looking back
I'll always be a target for attack
 
Ever moving onwards
Always on the run
Waiting for the sight of a loaded gun
 
I am a fugitive being hunted down
Like game
I am a fugitive but I've got to clear
My name
 
Even if I find them
And get to clear my name
I know that things can never
Be the same
 
But if I ever prove
My innocence some day
I've got to get them all to make them pay
 
I am a fugitive being hunted down
Like game
I am a fugitive but I've got to clear
My name
 

"The X-Factor" (1995) 

"Sign Of The Cross" (Harris) :

Inspiré du thriller historique Le Nom de la Rose de Jean-Jacques Annaud sorti en 1986.

Les paroles :
 
Eleven saintly shrouded men 
Silhouettes stand against the sky 
One in front with a cross held high 
Come to wash my sins away 
 
Standing alone in the wind and rain 
Feeling the fear that is growing 
Sensing the change in the tide again 
Brought by the storm that is brewing 
Feel the anxiety hold off the fear 
Some of the doubt in the things you believe 
Now that your faith will be put to the test 
Nothing to do but await what is coming 
 
Why then is god still protecting me 
Even when I don't deserve it 
Thought I am blessed with an inner strength 
Some they would call it a penance 
Why am I meant to face this alone 
Asking the question time and again 
Praying to God won't keep me alive 
Inside my head feel the fear start to rise
 
They'll be saying their prayers 
when the moment comes 
There'll be penance to pay when it's judgment day 
And the guilty'll bleed when the moment comes 
They'll be coming to claim, 
take your soul away 
 
The sign of the cross 
The name of the rose
a fire in the sky 
The sign of the cross 
 
They'll be coming to bring the eternal flame 
They'll be bringing us all immortality 
Holding communion so the world be blessed 
My creator my God'll lay my soul to rest 
 
Lost the love of heaven above 
Chose the lust of the earth below 
Eleven saintly shrouded men 
Came to wash my sins away
 
 
"Lord Of The Flies" (Harris/Gers) :
 
Inspiré du roman Lord Of The Flies (Sa Majesté des Mouches en VF) de l'Anglais William Golding paru en 1954.
 

Les paroles : 
 
I don't care for this world anymore
I just want to live my own fantasy
Faith has brought me to these shores
What was meant to be is now happening
 
I've found that I like this living in danger
Living on the edge it feels... it makes me feel as one
Who cares now what's right or wrong it's reality
Killing so we survive wherever we may roam
Wherever we may hide we've got to get away
 
I don't want existence to end
We must prepare ourselves for the elements
I just want to feel like we're strong
We don't need a code of morality
 
I like all the mixed emotion and anger
It brings out the animal the power you can feel
And feeling so high on this much adrenalin
Excited but scary to believe what we've become
 
Saints and sinners
Something within us
We are lord of the flies
 
Saints and sinners
Something willing us
To be lord of the flies
 
 
"Man On The Edge" (Bayley/Gers) :
 
Inspiré du drame policier Falling Down (Chute Libre en VF) de Joel Shcumacher avec Michael Douglas sorti en 1993.

 
Les paroles : 
 
The freeway is jammed 
And it's backed up for miles 
The car is an oven and baking is wild 
Nothing is ever the way it should be 
What we deserve we just don't get you see 
 
A briefcase, a lunch and a man on the edge 
Each step get closer to losing his head 
Is someone in heaven are they looking down 
Cause nothing is fair just you look around 
 
Falling down 
Falling down 
Falling down 
 
He's sick of waiting of lying like this 
There's a hole in the sky for the angels to kiss 
Branded a leper because you don't fit 
In the land of the free 
You can't live by your wits 
 
Once he built missiles a nation's defence 
Now he can't even give birthday presents 
Across the city he leaves in his wake 
A glimpse of the future a cannibal state
 
 
"The Edge Of Darkness" (Harris/Bayley/Gers) :
 
Inspiré de la nouvelle Heart Of Darkness (Au Coeur des Ténébres / Le Coeur des Ténébres en VF) de l'Anglais Joseph Conard paru en 1899, et qui donnera le film Apocalypse Now de Francis Ford Coppola avec Marlon Brando et Martin Sheen sorti en 1979.
 

Les paroles :
 
I've looked into the heart of darkness 
Where the blood red journey ends 
When you've faced the heart of darkness 
Even your soul begins to bend 
 
For a week I have been waiting 
Still I am only in Saigon 
The walls move in a little closer 
I feel the jungle call me on 
 
Every minute I get weaker 
While in the jungle they grow strong 
What I wanted was a mission 
And for my sins they gave me one 
 
They brought it up just like room service 
Cause everyone gets what they want 
And when that mission was all over 
I'd never want another one 
 
I know, captain that you've done this work before 
We've got a problem you can help us all I'm sure 
The colonel's gone rogue 
and his methods are unsound 
You'll take a PBR up river track him down 
 
There's a conflict in every human heart 
And the temptation is to take it all too far 
In this war things get so confused 
But there are some things which can not be excused 
 
He's acting like a god an insane lunatic 
Your mission, exterminate with extreme prejudice 
The route is dangerous and your progress may be slow 
Here is the file and it's all you need to know 
 
Here I am the knife in my hand 
And now I understand why the genius must die 
 
Now I stand alone in darkness 
With his blood upon my hands 
Where sat the warrior the poet 
Now lie the fragments of a man
 

"Virtual XI" (1998)

"The Clansman" (Harris/Bayley) :

Inspiré du film Braveheart de Mel Gibson sorti en 1995, lui même inspiré de la vie romancée de William Wallace, héros et symbole de l'indépendance Ecossaise.



Les paroles :

Wake alone in the hills
With the wind in your face
It feels good to be proud
And be free and a race
That is part of a clan
And to live on highlands
And the air that you breathe
So pure and so clean
 
When alone on the hills
With the wind in your hair
With a longing to feel 
Just to be free
 
Is it right to believe
In the need to be free
It's a time when you die
And without asking why
Can't you see what they do
They are grinding us down
They are taking our land
That belongs to the clans
 
Not alone with a dream
Just want to be free
With a need to belong
I am a clansman 
Freedom
 
It's a time wrought with fear
It's a land wrought with change
 
Ancestors could hear
What is happening now
They would turn in their graves
They would all be ashamed
That the land of the free
Has been written in chains
And I know what I want
 
When the timing is right
Then I'll take what is mine
I am the clansman
 
And I swear to defend
And we'll fight to the end
And I swear that I'll never
Be taken alive
And I know that we'll stand
And we'll fight for our land
And I swear that my bairns Will be born free
 
And I know what I want
When the timing is right
Then I'll take what I want
I am the clansman 
Freedom
 
And I know what I want When the timing is right
Then I'll take what is mine I am the clansman
 
No, no we can't let them take anymore
No we can't let them take anymore
We've the land of the free
Freedom
 
Is it right to believe
In the need to be free
It's a time when you die
And without asking why
Can't you see what they do
They are grinding us down
They are taking our land
That belongs to the clans
 
Not alone with a dream
Just want to be free
With a need to belong
I am a clansman
 
And I know what I want
When the timing is right
Then I'll take what is mine
I am the clansman 
Freedom
 

"When Two Wolrds Collide" (Murray/Bayley/Gers) :

Inspiré du film de science fiction Américain When Worlds Collide (Le Choc des Mondes en VF) de par Rudolp Maté sorti en 1951.



Les paroles :

My telescope looks out
Into the stars tonight
A little speck of light
Seems twice the size tonight
The Calculations are so fine
Can it be growing all the Time?
 
Now I can't believe its true
And I don't know what to do
For the hundredth time
I check the declination
 
Now the fear starts to grow
Even my computer shows
There are no errors in the calculations
 
Now it's happened take no other view
Collision course, you must believe it's true
Now there's nothing left that we can do
 
When Two Worlds collide
The anger and the pain
Of all those who remain
Two worlds collide
Who will be left alive
No place to hide
 
When Two Worlds Collide
The anger, the pain
Of those who remain
When two worlds collide
When two worlds collide
So who will survive
There's No place to hide
When Two Worlds collide
 

"Brave New World" (1999)

"The Wicker Man" (Harris/Dickinson/Smith) :

Inspiré du film d'horreur Britannique The Wicker Man (Le Dieu d'Osier en VF) de Robin Hardy avec Christopher Lee sorti en 1973.



Les paroles :

Hand of fate is moving and the finger points to you
He knocks you to your feet and so what are you gonna do
Your tongue has frozen now you've got something to say
The piper at the gates of dawn is calling you his way
 
You watch the world exploding every single night
Dancing in the sun a newborn in the light
Say goodbye to gravity and say goodbye to death
Hello to eternity and live for every breath
 
Your time will come, your time will come
Your time will come, your time will come
 
The ferryman wants his money you ain't going to give it back
He can push his own boat as you set up off the track
Nothing you can contemplate will ever be the same
Every second is a new spark, sets the universe aflame
 
You watch the world exploding every single night
Dancing in the sun a newborn in the light
Brothers and their fathers joining hands and make a chain
The shadow of the Wicker Man is rising up again
 
Your time will come, your time will come
Your time will come, your time will come
 
Your time will come, your time will come
Your time will come, your time will come
Your time will come, your time will come
Your time will come, your time will come



"Brave New World" (Harris/Dickinson/Murray) :

Inspiré du roman de science-fiction Brave New World (Le Meilleur des Mondes en VF) du Britannique Aldous Huxley paru en 1932.



Les paroles :

Dying swans twisted wings, beauty not needed here
Lost my love, lost my life, in this garden of fear
I have seen many things, in a lifetime alone
Mother love is no more, bring this savage back home
 
Wilderness house of pain, makes no sense of it all
Close this mind dull this brain, Messiah before his fall
What you see is not real, those who know will not tell
All is lost sold your souls to this brave new world
 
A brave new world, in a brave new world
A brave new world, in a brave new world
In a brave new world, a brave new world
In a brave new world, a brave new world
 
Dragon kings dying queens, where is salvation now
Lost my life lost my dreams, rip the bones from my flesh
Silent screams laughing here, dying to tell you the truth
You are planned and you are damned in this brave new world
 
A brave new world, in a brave new world
A brave new world, in a brave new world
In a brave new world, a brave new world
In a brave new world, a brave new world
 
A brave new world, in a brave new world
A brave new world, in a brave new world
In a brave new world, a brave new world
In a brave new world, a brave new world
 

"Out Of The Silent Planet" (Harris/Dickinson/Gers) :

Inspiré du roman de science-fiction Out Of The Silent Planet (Au-delà de la Planète Silencieuse en VF) du Britannique C. S. Lewis paru en 1938, et faisant parti de la trilogie Le Silence de la Terre.



Les paroles :

Out of the silent planet, out of the silent planet we are
Out of the silent planet, out of the silent planet we are
Out of the silent planet, out of the silent planet we are
Out of the silent planet, out of the silent planet we are
 
Withered hands, withered bodies begging for salvation
Deserted by the hand of gods of their own creation
Nations cry underneath decaying skies above
You are guilty, the punishment is death for all who live
The punishment is death for all who live
 
Out of the silent planet, dreams of desolation, 
Out of the silent planet, Come the demons of creation.
Out of the silent planet, dreams of desolation, 
Out of the silent planet, Come the demons of creation.
 
The killing fields, the grinding wheels crushed by equilibrium.
Separate lives, no more disguise, no more second chances.
Haggard wisdom spitting out the bitter taste of hate.
I accuse you before you know the crime it's all too late.
Before you know the crime it's all too late.
 
Out of the silent planet, dreams of desolation, 
Out of the silent planet, Come the demons of creation.
Out of the silent planet, dreams of desolation, 
Out of the silent planet, come the demons of creation.
 
Out of the silent planet, out of the silent
Planet we are.
Out of the silent planet, out of the silent planet we are.
 
Out of the silent planet, dreams of desolation, 
Out of the silent planet, Come the demons of creation.
Out of the silent planet, dreams of desolation, 
Out of the silent planet, Come the demons of creation.
 
Out of the silent planet, out of the silent planet we are.
Out of the silent planet, out of the silent planet we are
Out of the silent planet, out of the silent planet we are.
Out of the silent planet, out of the silent planet we are.
Out of the silent planet, out of the silent planet we are, 
Out of the silent planet, out of the silent planet we are.


"The Final Frontier" (2011) 

"El Dorado" (Harris/Smith/Dickinson) :

Le titre est un hommage aux couvertures de comic-book réalisées par Willam Gaines pour EC Comics (Tales From The Crypt, Creepshow, Weird Tales).



Les paroles :

Gotta tell you a story
On a cold winter's night
You'll be sailin' for glory
Before you know what is right
 
So come over here now
I got a vision for you
It's my personal snake oil
It's just something I do
 
I'm the jester with no tears
And I'm playing on your fears
I'm a trickster smiling underneath this mask of love and death
The eternal lie I've told
About the pyramids of gold
I've got you hooked at every turn your money's left to burn
 
You'll be wanting a contract
You'll be waiting a while
I'd like to give you my contact
But that isn't my style
 
Well you only get one chance
And it's too good to miss
if i didn't lie to ya
Then I wouldn't exist
 
Greed, lust and anvy pride
It's the same old, same old ride
The smoke and mirrors visions that you see are just like me
I'm a banker's face
With just a letter out of place
I know someone just like you knows someone just like me
 
El Dorado come and play
El Dorado step this way
Take a ticket for the ride
El Dorado streets of gold
See my ship is oversold
You've got one last chance to try
 
So gone is the glory
And gone is the gold
Well if you knew the story
How come, it has to be told
 
Well you can say I'm a devil
And I wouldn't say no
But out here on the dark side
Hey, on with the show
 
So now my tale is told
Big and bad and twice as bold
This ship of fools is sinking as the cracks begin to grow
There is no easy way
For an honest man today
Which is something you should think of as my lifeboat sails away
 
El Dorado come and play
El Dorado step this way
Take a ticket for the ride
El Dorado streets of gold
See my ship is oversold
You've got one last chance to try
 
El Dorado come and play
El Dorado step this way
Take a ticket for the ride
El Dorado streets of gold
See my ship is oversold
You've got one last chance to try
 

"When The Wild Wind Blows" (Harris) :

Inspiré du pamphlet d'animation Britannique When The Wind Blows (Quand Souffle le Vent en VF) de Jimmy T. Murakami sorti en 1986.



Les paroles :

Have you heard what they said on the news today
Have you heard what is coming to us all?
That the world as we know it will be coming to an end
Have you heard, have you heard?
 
He sees them in the distance when the darkened clouds roll
He could feel tension in the atmosphere
He would look in the mirror, see an old man now
Does it matter they survive somehow
 
They said there's nothing can be done about the situation
They said there's nothing you can do at all
To sit and wait around for something to occur
Did you know, did you know?
 
As he stares across the garden looking at the meadows
Wonders if they'll ever grow again
The desperation of the situation getting graver
Getting ready when the wild wind blows
 
Have you seen what they said on the news today
Have you heard what they said about us all
Do you know what is happening to just every one of us
Have you heard, have you heard?
 
There will be a catastrophe the like we've never seen
There will be something that will light the sky
That the world as we know it, it will never be the same
Did you know, did you know?
 
He carries everything into the shelter not a fuss
Getting ready when the moment comes
He has enough supplies to last them for a year or two
Good to have because you never know
 
They tell us nothing that we don't already know about
They tell us nothing that is real at all
They only fill us with the stuff that they want
Did you know, did you know?
 
He's nearly finished with the preparations for the day
He's getting tired; that'll do for now
They are preparing for the very worst to come to them
Getting ready when the wild wind blows
 
He sees the picture on the wall, it's falling down
Upside down
He sees a teardrop from his wife roll down her face
Saying Grace
 
Remember times they had, they flash right through his mind
Left behind
Of a lifetime spent together long ago
Will be gone
 
They've been preparing for some weeks now
For when the crucial moment comes
To take their refuge in the shelter
Let them prepare for what will come
 
They make a tea and sit there waiting
There in the shelter feeling snug
Not long to wait for absolution
Don't make a fuss just sit and wait
 
Can't believe all the lying, 
All the screens are denying
That the moments of truth have begun
 
Can't you see it on the T.V.?
Don't believe them in the least bit
Now the days of our ending have begun
 
Say a prayer when it's all over
Survivors unite, all as one
Got to try and help each other
Got the will to overcome
 
I can't believe all the lying
All the screens are denying
That the moments of truth have begun
 
Can't you see it on the T.V.?
Don't believe them in the least bit
Now the days of our ending have begun
 
When they found them, had their arms wrapped around each other
The tins of poison laying near by their clothes
The day they both mistook an earthquake for the fallout
Just another when the wild wind blows


"The Book Of Souls" (2015)

"The Red And The Black" (Harris) :

Inspiré librement du roman Le Rouge et le Noir de Stendhal paru en 1830.



Les paroles :

The morals of life and the perils of death
Take the wrong way out running out of breath
Meet my match in the afterlife
Suppress the demons that plague the night
A tortured mind is a safe place to go
But the truth lurks down in the dark below
Step inside my inquisitive mind
Are you scared at what you just might find
 
See myself in the hall of mirrors
A different shape every step I take
A different mind every step of the line
But in the end they are all mine
Laughing sorrow inside your head
Can't get out just a feeling of dread
I know this burden's a heavy load
A dark mistake never ending road
 
The black jack king and the red queen clash
The artful dodger he counts his stash
The joker's wild like an impish child
While madame fortune she waits inside
The good luck charm is overkill
The tired old soldier says fire at will
Planes overhead go search destroy
The ones below human decoy
 
I need somebody to save me
 
Meanwhile we play the waiting game
The clock is struck the horse is lame
And when we think that this is done
Chance your luck a four leafed one
You hedge your bets the battle lost
To wait in vain and count the cost
The thin edged line
Between good and bad
And cast the luck be happy sad
 
I need somebody to save me
 
The red and the black
People don't want the truth
Look in their eyes and you send them away
The red and the black
Fate and hypocrisy
Burden's a heavy load there is no doubt
The red and the black
All out of luck again
How many chances can anyone have
The red and the black
Treachery out to win
There in the wrong place and at the wrong time
 
I need somebody to save me



"The Book Of Souls" (Harris/Gers) : 

Inspiré du film Apocalypto de Mel Gibson sorti en 2006. 



Les paroles : 

Sacrifices buried with kings
Accompany them on a journey with no end
To an afterlife that’s rich with fruit of all the gods
And to face the demons
Of their underworld haunts
 
The sentient is sent to seek out all the truth
A flight to earth that is a given from his birth
To rise from ashes of the dead
Out of the fire is sent to fulfil man’s desire
By power day and night and death he ruled them
The sky and earth and the fires too
Two headed reptile symbol of his reign
Universes of the underworld
A life that’s full of all the wealth and riches
Can never last for an eternity
After living in a golden paradise
The ultimate sacrifice
 
Prophecy of sky gods, the sun and moon
Passing of old ways will come true soon
Falling of ages, forest of kings
The search for the truth, the book of souls
 
The rulers of planets and stars
The power of the kings of traders and the wars
Planetary cycles and the phases of the moon
Is in the document a kingdom they will learn
They were praying to the gods of nature
And were living in the cities of stone
Towers reaching upward to the heavens
Sacred wonders for the world unknown
Make their lives be a mystery no more
Records kept and the passing of laws
Sacred gods to the book of lies
When a civilization dies
 
Prophecy of sky gods, the sun and moon
Passing of old ways will come true soon
Falling of ages, forest of kings
The lost book of souls, destruction begins
 
Ascending the throne wearing feathers and shells
He brought back their lives from the void
Alien invasion brings nothing but death
Mass exodus and plant life destroyed
 
Domain of the Earth to the journey of truth
The underworld caves, Mayan slaves
Defeat of the dark Lords
The ultimate proof
In the place where the ancestors rule
 
The book of souls



"Tears Of A Clown" (Harris/Smith) :

Le titre est un hommage au comédien Américain Robin Williams (Le Cercle des Poètes Disparus, Une Nuit au Musée, Will Hunting ...) décédé le 11 Aout 2014. 



Les paroles :

All alone in a crowded room
He tries to force a smile
The smile it beamed or so it seemed
But never reached the eyes, disguise
Masquerading as the funny man do they despise
 
The false smile maketh of the man
Glass empty or half full
Try to make some sense or sorrows drown
All looks well on the outside
Underneath the solemn truth
There’s something that inside has died
Tomorrow comes tomorrow goes
But the cloud remains the same
Wonder why he’s feeling down
Tears of a clown
Maybe it’s all just for the best
Lay his weary head to rest
Was forever feeling drowned
Tears of a clown
 
Who motivates the motivator
Facade it has to go
He knows it sooner or later
Smile for cameras all ok
But tomorrow is another day he must get through
 
He had a longer way to run
Or so the story goes
Life full of fun where did it go
We saw the sadness in his eyes
It came as no surprise
And now of course we’ll never know
Tomorrow comes tomorrow goes
But the cloud remains the same
Wonder why he’s feeling down
Tears of a clown
Maybe it’s all just for the best
Lay his weary head to rest
Was forever feeling drowned
Tears of a clown
 
Tomorrow comes tomorrow goes
But the cloud remains the same
Wonder why he’s feeling down
Tears of a clown
Maybe it’s all just for the best
Lay his weary head to rest
Was forever feeling down
Tears of a clown
Tears of a clown..
 
 

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