Livin’ easy
Lovin’ free
Season ticket on a one way ride
Askin’ nothin’
Leave me be
Takin’ everythin’ in my stride
Don’t need reason
Don’t need rhyme
Ain’t nothin’ that I’d rather do
Goin’ down
Party time
My friends are gonna be there too
I’m on the highway to hell
On the highway to hell
Highway to hell
I’m on the highway to hell
Princess of the Night-Saxon.
Love the lyrics they really do invoke memories of steam trains.
She used to be an iron horse
Twenty years ago
Used to bring the mail to me
Through the ice and snow
I’ve sat alone and watched her
Steaming through the night
Ninety tons of thunder
Lighting up the sky
She was a princess of the night
I saw the writing on the wall
She was a princess of the night
I take a ride across the sky
Speeding, sparks like lightning
Engine working hard
Furnace on the foot plate
Shining in the night
Iron striking metal
The sound of racing steel
It’s all I ever want to hear
It’s music to my ears
She was a princess of the night
I saw the writing on the wall
She was a princess of the night
I take a ride across the sky
She was a princess of the night
I saw the writing on the wall
She was a princess of the night
I take a ride across the sky
Ninety tons of thunder
Lighting up the sky
Steaming red hot pistons
See the wheels flash by
Hear the whistle blowing
Streaking down the track
If I ever had my way
I’d bring the princess back one day
She was a princess of the night
I saw the writing on the wall
She was a princess of the night
I take a ride across the sky
(sky, sky, sky)
Once in a while, two people meet
Seemingly for no reason,
they just pass on the street
Suddenly thunder showers everywhere
Who can explain the thunder and
rain, but there’s something in the air
Don’t get me wrong
If I come and go like fashion
I might be great tomorrow
But hopeless yesterday
Under A Glass Moon-Dream Theater
Tell me, remind me
Chase the water racing from the sky
Always beside me
Taste the memories running from my eyes
Nervous flashlights scan my dreams
Liquid shadows silence their screams
I smile at the moon, chasing water from the sky
I argue with the clouds, stealing beauty from my eyes
Outside the soundness of your mind
Bathing your soul in silver tears
Beneath a blackened summer sky
Praying for time to disappear
Beneath a summer sky
Under glass moonlight
Night awaits the lamb’s arrival
Liquid shadows crawl
Silver teardrops fall
The bride subsides to her survival
By your hand I’ve awakened
Bear this honor in my name
Outside the soundness of your mind
Bathing your soul in silver tears
Beneath a blackened summer sky
Praying for time to disappear
Outside the soundness of your mind
Bathing your soul in silver tears
Beneath a blackened summer sky
Praying for time to disappear
o all the girls I’ve loved before
Who traveled in and out my door
I’m glad they came along
I dedicate this song
To all the girls I’ve loved before
To all the girls who shared my life
Who now are someone else’s wife
I’m glad they came along
I dedicate this song
To all the girls I’ve loved before
45 years later and still relevant.
Crazy, but that’s how it goes
Millions of people living as foes
Maybe it’s not too late
To learn how to love and forget how to hate
Mental wounds not healing
Life’s a bitter shame
I’m going off the rails on a crazy train
I’m going off the rails on a crazy train
(Let’s go)
I’ve listened to preachers, I’ve listened to fools
I’ve watched all the dropouts, who make their own rules
One person conditioned to rule and control
The media sells it and you live the role
Mental wounds still screaming
Driving me insane
I’m going off the rails on a crazy train
I’m going off the rails on a crazy train
I know that things are going wrong for me
You gotta listen to my words, yeah, yeah
Heirs of a cold war, that’s what we’ve become
Inheriting troubles, I’m mentally numb
Crazy, I just cannot bear
I’m living with something that just isn’t fair
Mental wounds not healing
Who and what’s to blame?
I’m going off the rails on a crazy train
I’m going off the rails on a crazy train
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
The ledge, ha-ha, the edge, edge
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight…The Jam
Fab lyrics
Sun is shinin’ in the sky
There ain’t a cloud in sight
It’s stopped rainin’, everybody’s in the play
And don’t you know
It’s a beautiful new day? Hey
Runnin’ down the avenue
See how the sun shines brightly in the city
On the streets where once was pity
Mr Blue Sky is living here today, hey
Distant Early Warning-Rush
An ill wind comes arising
Across the cities of the plain
There’s no swimming in the heavy water
No singing in the acid rain
Red alert
Red alert
It’s so hard to stay together
Passing through revolving doors
We need someone to talk to
And someone to sweep the floors
Incomplete
Incomplete
The world weighs on my shoulders
But what am I to do?
You sometimes drive me crazy
But I worry about you
I know it makes no difference
To what you’re going through
But I see the tip of the iceberg
And I worry about you…
Cruising under your radar
Watching from the satellites
Take a page from the red book
Keep them in your sights
Red alert
Red alert
Left and rights of passage
Black and whites of youth
Who can face the knowledge
That the truth is not the truth?
Obsolete
Absolute
The world weighs on my shoulders
But what am I to do?
You sometimes drive me crazy
But I worry about you
I know it makes no difference
To what you’re going through
But I see the tip of the iceberg
And I worry about you
The world weighs on my shoulders
But what am I to do?
You sometimes drive me crazy
But I worry about you
I know it makes no difference
To what you’re going through
But I see the tip of the iceberg
And I worry about you
I feel unhappy
I feel so sad
I’ve lost the best friend
That I ever had
She was my woman
I love her so
But it’s too late now
I’ve let her go
I’m going through changes
I’m going through changes
We shared the years
We shared each day
In love together
We found a way
But soon the world
Had its evil way
My heart was blinded
Love went astray
Bravado-Rush
If we burn our wings flying too close to the sun
If the moment of glory is over before it’s begun
If the dream is won, though everything is lost
We will pay the price, but we will not count the cost
We will pay the price, but we will not count the cost
When the dust has cleared and victory denied
A summit too lofty, river a little too wide
If we keep our pride, though paradise is lost
We will pay the price, but we will not count the cost
We will pay the price, but we will not count the cost
Oh
And if the music stops, there’s only the sound of the rain
All the hope and glory, all the sacrifice in vain
And if the love remains, though everything is lost
We will pay the price, but we will not count the cost
We will pay the price, but we will not count the cost
And if the love remains, though everything is lost
We will pay the price (We will pay the price)
But we will not count the cost (We will not count the cost)
And if the love remains (If the love remains)
Though everything is lost (Though everything is lost)
We will pay the price (We will pay the price)
But we will not count the cost (We will not count the cost)
And if the love remains
Romeo and the Lonely Girl-Thin Lizzy…
Romeo and the lonely girl
They seemed to hit it off
Till Romeo told the lonely girl
“I must take my leave, my love”
It was these few words I overheard
And thought, I should move in
But before I could
The lonely girl had fallen in love again
Oh poor Romeo
Sitting out on his own-ee-oo
Oh poor Romeo
Romeo he had it rough
The guy you’d like to burn
But everything that Romeo had
You can bet it was well earned
For all his good looks
There were scars that he took
And there is a lesson
To be learned
Never judge a lover
By a good looking cover
Because the story
Might be spurned(or… the lover might just burn)
Oh poor Romeo
Sitting out on his own-ee-oo
Oh poor Romeo
Romeo he like to put it around
He was everybody’s friend
But in the end even Romeo found
On no one could he depend
For all his charms
In someone else’s arms
Lonely girl
Safely lay
When the train pulled in
It had to leave again
And Romeo
Pulled away
Oh poor Romeo
Sitting all on his own-ee-oh
Oh poor Romeo
Bitter Suite-Marillion. Always such meaningful poetry in a Fish lyric…
I. Brief Encounter.
A spider wanders aimlessly within the warmth of a shadow
Not the regal creature of border caves
But the poor, misguided, directionless familiar
Of some obscure Scottish poet
The mist crawls from the canal
Like some primordial phantom of romance
To curl, under a cascade of neon pollen
While I sit tied to the phone like an expectant father
Your carnation will rot in a vase.
II. Lost Weekend.
A train sleeps in a siding
The driver guzzles another can of lager
To wash away the memories of a Friday night down at the club
She was a wallflower at sixteen
She’ll be a wallflower at thirty four
Her mother called her beautiful
Her daddy said, “A whore”.
III. Blue Angel.
The sky was Bible black in Lyon
When I met the Magdalene
She was paralysed in a streetlight
She refused to give her name
And a ring of violet bruises
They were pinned upon her arm.
Two hundred francs for sanctuary and she led me by the hand
To a room of dancing shadows where all the heartache disappears
And from glowing tongues of candles I heard her whisper in my ear
“'J’entend ton coeur”
I can hear your heart
IV. Misplaced Rendezvous.
It’s getting late, for scribbling and scratching on the paper
Something’s gonna give under this pressure
And the cracks are already beginning to show
It’s too late
The weekend career girl never boarded the plane
They said this could never happen again
So wrong, so wrong
This time it seems to be another misplaced rendezvous
This time, it’s looking like another misplaced rendezvous
With you
The parallel of you, you
V. Windswept Thumb.
On the outskirts of nowhere
On the ring road to somewhere
On the verge of indecision
I’ll always take the roundabout way
Waiting on the rain
For I was born with a habit, from a sign
The habit of a windswept thumb
And the sign of the rain
It’s started raining.
I come awake
With a gift for womankind
You’re still asleep
But the gift don’t seem to mind
Rise on this occasion
Halfway up your back
Sliding down your body
Touching your behind
You look so self-possessed
I won’t disturb your rest
It’s lovely when you’re sleeping
But wide awake is best
Wake up and make love with me
Wake up and make love
Wake up and make love with me
I don’t want to make you
I’ll let the fancy take you
And you’ll wake up and make love
You come awake
In a horny morning mood
And have a proper wriggle
In the naughty naked nude
Roll against my body
Get me where you want me
What happens next is private
It’s also very rude
I’ll go and get the post
And make some tea and toast
You have another sleep, love
It’s me that needs it most
Wake up and make love with me
Wake up and make love
Wake up and make love with me
I don’t want to make you
I’ll let the fancy take you
And you’ll wake up and make love
Wake up and make love with me
Wake up and make love
Wake up and make love with me
Wake up and make love
Wake up
Wake up
Wake up
Wake up
Life, it seems, will fade away
Drifting further every day
Getting lost within myself
Nothing matters, no one else
I have lost the will to live
Simply nothing more to give
There is nothing more for me
Need the end to set me free
Things not what they used to be
Missing one inside of me
Deathly lost, this can’t be real
Cannot stand this hell I feel
Emptiness is filling me
To the point of agony
Growing darkness taking dawn
I was me, but now he’s gone
You can’t imagine what your image means
The pages come alive
Your magic greets everyone who reads
Heartbreak in overdrive
Are you for real, it’s so hard to tell
From just a magazine
Yeah, you just smile and the picture sells
Look what that does to me
Flash Of The Blade - Iron Maiden
As a young boy chasing dragons
With your wooden sword so mighty
You’re St. George or you’re David and you always killed the beast
Times change very quickly and you had to grow up early
A house in smoking ruins and the bodies at your feet
You’ll die as you lived
In a flash of the blade
In a corner forgotten by no one
You lived for the touch
For the feel of the steel
One man and his honor
The smell of resined leather, the steely iron mask
As you cut and thrust and parried at the fencing master’s call
He taught you all he ever knew, to fear no mortal man
And now you’ll wreak your vengeance in the screams of evil man
You’ll die as you lived
In a flash of the blade
In a corner forgotten by no one
You lived for the touch
For the feel of the steel
One man and his honor
You’ll die as you lived
In a flash of the blade
In a corner forgotten by no one
You lived for the touch
For the feel of the steel
One man and his honor
You’ll die as you lived
In a flash of the blade
In a corner forgotten by no one
You lived for the touch
For the feel of the steel
One man and his honor
Love this song 
Especially this part - Times change very quickly and you had to grow up early.
Kind of hits home.
@Stacy2 @wildflower love both those songs, so very different! Coincidentally both from 1984, i know cos i bought both albums at the time! (also Van Halen’s is called 1984!)
I don’t think Iron Maiden get enough appreciation for their lyrics.
IRON MAIDEN-EMPIRE OF THE CLOUDS.
Love this track about The R101 airship disaster. A nice little touch is when the airship goes down the rhythm is Morse code for SOS.
To ride the storm, to an empire of the clouds
To ride the storm, they climbed aboard their silver ghost
To ride the storm, to a kingdom that will come
To ride the storm, and damn the rest, oblivion
Royalty and dignitaries, brandy and cigars
Grey lady giant of the skies, you hold them in your arms
The millionth chance they laughed, to take down his majesty’s craft
To India they say, magic carpet float away, an October fateful day
Mist is in the trees, stone sweats with the dew
The morning sunrise, red before the blue
Hanging at the mast, waiting for command
His majesty’s airship, the R101
She’s the biggest vessel built by man, a giant of the skies
For all you unbelievers, the Titanic fits inside
Drum rolled tight, her canvas skin, silvered in the sun
Never tested with the fury, with a beating yet to come
The fury yet to come
In the gathering gloom, a storm rising in the west
The coxswain stared into the plunging weather glass
We must go now, we must take our chance with fate
We must go now, for a politician he can’t be late
The airship crew awake for thirty hours at full stretch,
But the ship is in their backbone, every sinew, every inch
She never flew at full speed, a trial never done
Her fragile outer cover, her Achilles would become
An Achilles yet to come
Sailors of the sky, a hardened breed
Loyal to the king, and an airship creed
The engines drum, the telegraph sounds
Release the cords that bind us to the ground
Said the coxswain, sir, she’s heavy, she’ll never make this flight
Said the captain, damn the cargo, we’ll be on our way tonight
Groundlings cheered in wonder, as she backed up from the mast
Baptizing them her water, from the ballast fore and aft
Now she slips into our past
Fighting the wind as it rolls you
Feeling the diesels that push you along
Watching the channel below you
Lower and lower, into the night
Lights are passing below you
Northern France, asleep in their beds
Storm is raging around you
A million to one, that’s what he said
Reaper standing beside her
With his scythe cuts to the bone
Panic to make a decision
Experienced men, asleep in their graves
Her cover is ripped and she’s drowning
Rain is flooding into the hull
Bleeding to death and she’s falling
Lifting gas is draining away
We’re down lads, came a cry, bow plunging from the sky
Three thousand horses silent as the ship began to die
The flares to guide her path ignited at the last
The empire of the clouds, just ashes in our past
Just ashes at the last
Here lie their dreams as I stand in the sun
On the ground where they built, and the engines did run
To the moon and the stars, now what have we done?
Oh the dreamers may die, but the dreams live on
Dreams live on
Dreams live on
Oh
Now a shadow on a hill, the angel of the east
The empire of the clouds may rest in peace
And in a country churchyard, laid head to the mast
Eight and Forty souls who came to die in France