A time when guitars spoke a language,
poems, tales, dramas and plays.
Iron Maiden wrote it all.
Stories in guitar licks and riffs,
conversing bass and lead.
Opening soliloquies and narrating 16ths,
Eddie's metal brought literature into music.

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Was it the 'Fear of the dark',
or the lightning gallop of Nicko McKnight,
that made me make the 'Sign of the cross'.

Was it the soaring dorkiness of Bruce,
or the heart-to-heart of Steve and Bruce,
that made 'Revelations' a chef-d-oeuvre.

Iron Maiden, told 'No more lies',
legions of riffs, tempo changes, key progressions and key signature movements,
was the naked truth of the
British heavy metal group.

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ji haan main bahut bura aur galat hu
kya karu kuch haalat toh kuch kismat...

i am waiting in my cold cell
as the bell begins to chime
reflecting on my past life,and it doesnt have much time
cause at 5 o clock they take me to the gallows
and the sands of time for me are running low
When the priest comes to read me the last rites
Take a look through the bars at the last sights
Of a world that has gone very wrong for me
Can it be that 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 easy to stop from screaming
The words escape me when I try to speak
Tears flow, but why am I crying?
After all, I'm not afraid of dying
Don't I believe that there never is an end?

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A whole 14 minutes of Steve Harris.
The spell starts to break,
The albatross falls from his neck as
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner reverberates the chords of Bruce.

Drama, Play, Symphony or Heavy Metal,
difficult to tell, like an abstract painting, limned
from 1978 Samuel Coleridge poem.
Dickinson set the tempo to
the inhuman precision
and aggression of Iron Maiden.

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