1. EL DORADO

Gotta tell you a story
On a cold winters 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 gave a lot to ya
Then I wouldn't exist

Greed, lust and angry 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 those over sold
You've got one last chance to try

So gone is the glory
And gone is the gold
Well if you need a story
I've 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 another 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 life boat sails away

El Dorado come and play
El Dorado step this way
Take a ticket for the ride
El Dorado streets of gold
See those shipmates over sold
You've got one last chance to try


2. RUN TO THE HILLS

White man came across the sea
He brought us pain and misery.
He killed our tribes
He killed our creep

He took our game for his own neecl.
We fought him hard
We fought him well

Out on the plains we gave him hell.
But many came
Too much for cree
Oh will we ever be set free.
Riding through dustclouds and barren wasted

Galloping hard on the plains

Chasing the red-skins back to their holes

Fighting them at their own game.
Murder for freedom the stab in the back

Woman and children and cowards attack
Run to the hills - run for your lives.
Run to the hills - run for your lives.

Soldier blue in the barren wastes

Hunting and killing their game

Raping the woman and wasting the man.
The only good indians are tame.
Selling them whiskey and taking their gold

Enslaving the young and destroying the old.
Run to the hills - run for your lives...
Run to the hills - run for your lives...


3. THE TROOPER

You take my life but I'll take yours too
You fire your musket but I run you through
So when you're waiting for the next attack
You'd better stand there's no turning back.

The bugle sounds - the charge begins
But on this battlefield no one wins
The smell of acrid smoke and horses breath
As I plunge on into certain death.

O-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ohhh!
O-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ohhh!

The horse he sweats with fear - we break to run
The mighty roar of the Russian guns
And as we race towards the human wall
The screams of pain as my comrades fall.

We hurdle bodies that lay on the ground
And the Russians fire another round
We get so near yet so far away
We won't live to fight another day.

O-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ohhh!
O-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ohhh!

We get so close near enough to fight
When a Russian gets me in his sights
He pulls the trigger and I feel the blow
A burst of rounds take my horse below.

And as I lay there gazing at the sky
My body's numb and my throat is dry
And as I lay forgotten and alone
Without a tear I draw my parting groan.

O-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ohhh!
O-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ohhh!


4. THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST

Woe to you, oh Earth and Sea,
For the Devil sends the beast with wrath,
Because he knows the time is short...

Let him who hath understanding reckon
The number of the beast
For it is a human number,
Its number is Six hundred and sixty six.

I left alone, my mind was blank
I needed time to think
To get the memories from my mind
What did I see? Can I believe
That what I saw that night
Was real and not just fantasy

Just what I saw in my old dreams
Were they reflections of my warped mind
Staring back at me
'Cause in my dreams it's always there
The evil face that twists my mind
And brings me to despair

Night was black, was no use holding back
'Cause I just had to see
Was someone watching me
In the mist
Dark figures move and twist
Was this all for real
Or just some kind of hell?

Six six six – the Number of the Beast
Hell and fire
Was spawned to be released

Torches blazed
And sacred chants were praised
As they start to cry
Hands held to the sky
In the night
The fires burning bright
The ritual has begun
Satan's work is done

Six six six – the Number of the Beast
Sacrifice is going on tonight

This can't go on
I must inform the law
Can this still be real
Or some crazy dream?
But I feel drawn
Toward the evil chanting hordes
Seem to mesmerize me
Can't avoid their eyes

Six six six – the Number of the Beast
Six six six – the one for you and me

I'm coming back, I will return
And I'll possess your body
And I'll make you burn
I have the fire, I have the force
I have the power to make
My evil take its course


5. HALLWED BE THY NAME

I'm waiting in my cold cell
When the bell begins to chime
Reflecting on my past life
And it doesn't have much time
'Cause at five o'clock
They'll take me to the gallows pole
The sands of time for me
Are running low...
Running low...

When the priest comes
To read me the last rites
I take a look through the bars
At the last sights
Of a world that has gone very wrong for me
Can it be there's been some kind 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
But words escape me when I try to speak
Tears they flow
But why am I crying?
After all I'm not afraid of dying
Don't I believe that there never is an end?

As the guards march me out to the courtyard
Someone calls from a cell "God be with you!"
If there's a god then why has he let me go?
As I walk all my life drifts before me
And though the end is near I'm not sorry
Catch my soul it's willing to fly away

Mark my words please believe my soul lives on
Please don't worry now that I have gone
I've gone beyond to see the truth
When you know that your time is close at hand
Maybe then you'll begin to understand
Life down here is just a strange illusion

Yeah! Hallowed be Thy name!
Hallowed be Thy name!


6. FEAR OF DARK

I am a man who walks alone
And when I'm walking a dark road
At night or strolling through the park
When the light begins to change
I sometimes feel a little strange
A little anxious when it's dark

Fear of the dark
Fear of the dark
I have a constant fear
That something's always near
Fear of the dark
Fear of the dark
I have a phobia
That someone's always there

Have you run your fingers down the wall
And have you felt your neck skin crawl
When you're searching for the light?
Sometimes when you're scared to take a look
At the corner of the room
You've sensed that something's watching you

Fear of the dark
Fear of the dark
I have a constant fear
That something's always near
Fear of the dark
Fear of the dark
I have a phobia
That someone's always there

Have you ever been alone at night
Thought you heard footsteps behind
And turned around and no-one's there?
And as you quicken up your pace
You find it hard to look again
Because you're sure there's someone there

Fear of the dark
Fear of the dark
I have a constant fear
That something's always near
Fear of the dark
Fear of the dark
I have a phobia
That someone's always there

Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark

Watching horror films the night before
Debating witches and folklore
The unknown troubles on your mind
Maybe your mind is playing tricks
You sense and suddenly eyes fix
On dancing shadows from behind

Fear of the dark
Fear of the dark
I have a constant fear
That something's always near
Fear of the dark
Fear of the dark
I have a phobia
That someone's always there

When I'm walking a dark road
I am a man who walks alone...


7. ACES HIGH

There goes the siren
That warns of the air raid
Then comes the sound
Of the guns sending flak
Out for the scramble
We've got to get airborne
Got to get up
For the coming attack

Jump in the cockpit
And start up the engines
Remove all the wheel blocks
There's no time to waste
Gathering speed
As we head down the runway
Got to get airborne
Before it's too late

Running, scrambling, flying
Rolling, turning, diving
Going in again
Running, scrambling, flying
Rolling, turning, diving...

Run, live to fly, fly to live
Do or die,
Won't you
Run, live to fly, fly to live
Aces high

Move in to fire
At the mainstream of bombers
Let off a sharp burst
And then turn away
Roll over, spin round
To come in behind them
Move to their blind sides
And firing again

Bandits at 8 O'clock
Move in behind us
Ten Me-109s
Out of the sun
Ascending and turning
Our spitfires to face them
Heading straight for them
I press down my guns

Rolling, turning, diving
Rolling, turning, diving
Going in again
Rolling, turning, diving
Rolling, turning, diving
Going in again

Run, live to fly, fly to live
Do or die,
Won't you
Run, live to fly, fly to live
Aces high


8. 2 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT

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
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

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

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 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

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

Midnight... midnight... it's all night
Midnight... midnight... all night!


9. POWERSLAVE

Into the Abyss I'll fall
The eye of Horus
Into the eyes of the night
Watching me go
Green is the cat's eye that glows
In this temple
Enter the risen Osiris
Risen again

Tell me why I had to be a Powerslave
I don't wanna die, I'm a God
Why can't I live on?
When the Life-Giver dies
All around is laid waste
And in my last hour
I'm a slave to the Power of Death

When I was living this lie
Fear was my game
People would worship and fall
Drop to their knees
So bring me the blood and red wine
For the one to succeed me
For he is a Man and a God
And He will die too

Tell me why I had to be a Powerslave
I don't wanna die, I'm a God
Why can't I live on?
When the Life-Giver dies
All around is laid waste
And in my last hour
I'm a slave to the Power of Death

Now I am cold but a ghost
Lives in my veins
Silent the terror that reigned
Marbled in stone
A shell of a man God preserved
For a thousand ages
But open the gates of my Hell
I will strike from the grave

Tell me why I had to be a Powerslave
I don't wanna die, I'm a God
Why can't I live on?
When the Life-Giver dies
All around is laid waste
And in my last hour
I'm a slave to the Power of Death

Slave to the Power of Death...
Slave to the Power of Death...


10. DANCE OF DEATH

Let me tell you a story to chill the bones,
About a thing that I saw
One night wandering in the Everglades
I'd one drink but no more

I was rambling, enjoying the bright moonlight,
Gazing up at the stars
Not aware of a presence so near to me,
Watching my every move

Feeling scared and I fell to my knees
As something rushed me from the trees
Took me to an unholy place
And that is where I fell from grace

Then they summoned me over to join in with them
To the dance of the dead
Into the circle of fire I followed them,
Into the middle I was led

As if time had stopped still I was numb with fear
But still I wanted to go
And the blaze of the fire did no hurt upon me
As I walked onto the coals

Then I felt I was in a trance
And my spirit was lifted from me
And if only someone had the chance
To witness what happened to me

And I danced and I pranced and I sang with them,
All had Death in their eyes
Lifeless figures they were undead all of them,
They had ascended from Hell

As I danced with the dead my free spirit
Was laughing and howling down at me
Below my undead body just danced
The circle of Death

Until the time came to reunite us both,
My spirit came back down to me
I didn't know if I was alive or dead
As the others all joined in with me

By luck then a skirmish started
And took the attention away from me
When they took their gaze from me
Was the moment that I fled

I ran like hell, faster than the wind,
But behind I did not glance
One thing that I did not dare
Was to look just straight ahead

When you know that your time has come around
You know you'll be prepared for it
Say your last goodbyes to everyone,
Drink and say a prayer for it

When you're lying in your sleep,
When you're lying in your bed
And you wake from your dreams
To go dancing with the dead
When you're lying in your sleep,
When you're lying in your bed
And you wake from your dreams
To go dancing with the dead

To this day I guess I'll never know
Just why they let me go
But I'll never go dancing no more
'Till I dance with the dead