Iron Maiden - Sign of the Cross

Best Of the Beast / 1996-03-21 1. Rime of the Ancient Mariner 2. Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son 3. Running Free 4. The Prisoner 5. Holy Smoke 6. Killers 7. Prowler 8. Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter 9. Sanctuary 10. Be Quick Or Be Dead 11. Revelations 12. Virus 13. The Evil That Men Do 14. Man on the Edge 15. The Trooper 16. 2 Minutes to Midnight 17. Wrathchild 18. Afraid To Shoot Strangers 19. Wasted Years 20. Invasion 21. Aces High 22. Heaven Can Wait 23. Fear Of The Dark 24. The Number of the Beast 25. Strange World 26. Iron Maiden 27. Run to the Hills 28. Can I Play With Madness 29. Where Eagles Dare 30. Hallowed Be Thy Name 31. Sign of the Cross 32. Phantom of the Opera 33. The Clairvoyant 34. Remember Tomorrow

Sign of the Cross

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
Caught 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 judgement 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

[Chorus]

Lost the love of heaven above
Chose the lust of the earth below
Eleven saintly shrouded men
Came to wash my sins away