Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes to Midnight

Live After Death / 1985-04-24 1. The Trooper 2. 22, Acacia Avenue 3. Wrathchild 4. Rime of the Ancient Mariner 5. Revelations 6. Hallowed Be Thy Name 7. Iron Maiden 8. Phantom of the Opera 9. Aces High 10. Die With Your Boots On 11. The Number of the Beast 12. Children of the Damned 13. Running Free 14. Run to the Hills 15. 2 Minutes to Midnight 16. Powerslave 17. Flight Of Icarus

2 Minutes to Midnight

(Adrian Smith/Bruce Dickinson)

Kill for gain or shoot to maim
But we don't need a reason
The Golden Goose is on the loose
And never out of season
Some blackened pride still burns inside
This shell of bloody treason
Here's my gun for a barrel of fun
For the love of living death.

CHORUS
The killer's breed or the demon's seed,
The glamour, the fortune, the pain,
Go to war again, blood is freedom's stain,
But don't you pray for my soul anymore.
2 minutes to midnight
The hands that threaten doom.
2 minutes to midnight
To kill the unborn in the womb.

The blind men shout let the creatures out
We'll show the unbelievers
The napalm screams of human flames
Of a prime time Belsen feast...YEAH!
As the reasons for the carnage cut their meat and lick the gravy,
We oil the jaws of the war machine and feed it with our babies.

CHORUS

The body bags and little rags of children torn in two
And the jellied brains of those who remain to put the finger right on you.
As the madmen play on words and make us all dance to their song,
To the tune of starving millions to make a better kind of gun.

CHORUS

Midnight, midnight, midnight
It's all night

Midnight, midnight, midnight
It's all night

Midnight
All night