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Iron Maiden - Remember Tomorrow

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Album: Iron Maiden
Released: 1980

Remember Tomorrow Lyrics

Unchain the colors before my eyes,
Yesterday's sorrows, tomorrow's white lies.
Scan the horizon, the clouds take me higher,
I shall return from out of fire.

Tears for remembrance, and tears for joy,
Tears for somebody and this lonely boy.
Out in the madness, the all seeing eye,
Flickers above us, to light up the sky.

Unchain the colours before my eyes,
Yesterday's sorrows, tomorrow's white lies.
Scan the horizon, the clouds take me higher,
I shall return from out of fire.

Writer/s: ANDREWS, PAUL / HARRIS, STEPHEN PERCY
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Remember Tomorrow

Written by bassist Steve Harris and lead singer Paul Di'Anno, this was Iron Maiden's first low-mid tempo ballad ever released, and it appeared on their debut album. It's a marked change from most power ballads witnessed on many other Iron Maiden songs such as "Revelations," "Hallowed Be Thy Name" and "Fear of the Dark."

According to Paul Di'Anno, the title and concept of this song came from his grandfather. Di'Anno told us : "I lost him in 1980, when I was on tour. He was a diabetic. They cut off his toe and his heel, then he lost his leg from the knee down, and he just sort of gave up.

'Remember Tomorrow,' that is what he always used to say - that was his little catch phrase. 'You never know what is going to happen, remember tomorrow, it might be a better day.'"

Iron Maiden - Sanctuary

Iron Maiden - Sanctuary Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Iron Maiden
Released: 1980

Sanctuary Lyrics

Out of the winter came a war horse of steel
I've never killed a woman before, but I know how it feels
I know you'd have gone insane if you saw what I saw
So now I've got to look for Sanctuary from the law

I met up with a stranger last night to keep me alive
He spends all his money on gambling and guns to survive
I know you'd gone insane if you saw what I saw
So now I've got to look for Sanctuary from the law

So give me sanctuary from the law and I'll be alright
Just give me sanctuary from the law and love me tonight, tonight
I know you'd have gone insane if you saw what I saw
So now I've got to look for sanctuary from the law
So give me sanctuary from the law and I'll be alright
Just give me sanctuary from the law and love me tonight, tonight

I can laugh at the wind, I can howl at the rain.
Down in the canyon or out in the plain.

I know you'd have gone insane if you saw what I saw
So now I've got to look for sanctuary from the law

So give me sanctuary from the law and I'll be alright
Just give me sanctuary from the law and love me tonight, tonight

Writer/s: HANSON, CHRISTOPHER / DEDMAN, GARY / ANDREWS, KEVIN / HARRIS, PAUL / HURR, JAMES
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Sanctuary

About a fugitive who needs "Sanctuary from the law." This is also the theme of Maiden songs like "Running Free," "Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Fugitive" and "Innocent Exile."

The only song from Iron Maiden's debut album released as a single.

First appeared on a 1979 compilation album called Metal for Muthas along with another Maiden song, "Wrathchild."

The single was a far better quality version of the song than that included on the album. It was the band's second single after "Running Free." The cover art of "Running Free" introduced the shock-haired, skeletal zombie known as Eddie, and the cover art for this song depicted him killing Margaret Thatcher, who was known as the "Iron Maiden." On the cover, she had been tearing down an "Iron Maiden- Live" poster off a wall before Eddie drew his knife and did the deed. The cover art for the single was actually the first installation of a story which was continued in the cover art of the next two singles. On the cover for "Women in Uniform," Margaret Thatcher is alive again, dressed as a soldier and carrying a gun. She has torn down another Iron Maiden poster and is waiting for Eddie, who is just around the corner with two young girls. On the cover art for "Twilight Zone," Eddie is a ghost attacking a girl in her bedroom.

Most of the singles had a black bar over the face of Margaret Thatcher as a response to controversy over it. According to Derek Riggs, who designed the cover, "the 'flak'... was invented by the band's management. They 'banned' it and they put the black square over her face and then they showed it to the press and cried 'censorship,' but there really wasn't any. The flak was all imaginary and self-generated for publicity. It's an old trick and it nearly always sells records... go and ask all the rappers who swear on their records all the time, if it depressed the record sales they would soon stop doing it." He also claims that the cover art was inspired by the lyric "Never killed a woman but I know how it feels," and remarks dryly, "Lovely state of mind..."

This was kept off the UK/European version of Iron Maiden until it was re-released in 1998.

Contained a startlingly realistic sound effect of a police siren, which appeared midway through the song. It was missing from Metal for Muthas.

Dennis Stratton (then the band's guitarist) performed a slightly different solo on the Iron Maiden version of this song than on the Metal for Muthas one.

There is an Iron Maiden tribute band from New York City called Sanctuary. Their logo uses the same font ("Metal Lord") as Maiden, and perform many songs from the Bruce Dickinson ("golden") era.

This was covered by Abattoir and included on the album Call to Irons II. The album is a tribute to Iron Maiden.

"Sanctuary" is also the name of a Madonna song. The band hates Madonna. (thanks, Brett - Edmonton, Canada, for all above)

Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Iron Maiden
Released: 1980

Iron Maiden Lyrics

Won't you come into my room, I want to show you all my wares.
I just want to see your blood, I just want to stand and stare.
See the blood begin to flow as it falls upon the floor.
Iron Maiden can't be fought, Iron Maiden can't be sought.

[Chorus]
Oh Well, wherever, wherever you are,
Iron Maiden's gonna get you, no matter how far.
See the blood flow watching it shed up above my head.
Iron Maiden wants you for dead.

Won't you come into my room, I want to show you all my wares.
I just want to see your blood, I just want to stand and stare.
See the blood begin to flow as it falls upon the floor.
Iron Maiden can't be fought, Iron Maiden can't be sought.

Writer/s: BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Iron Maiden

This became the band's trademark song and a concert favorite. They would typically close out their sets with it before returning for an encore.

The original demo of this song appeared on the raw tapes played at the Soundhouse, a metal club in London, when the band was just starting out. The demo was eventually released as an EP called The Soundhouse Tapes, but the song was re-recorded for their debut album.

The song is about the medieval torture device of the same name. It was a specifically shaped iron coffin that resembled a sarcophagus. The door was imbedded with long spikes. It was held vertically so the victim could be placed inside, and the door slammed shut under its own massive weight. The victim was skewered, as well as crushed. Steve Harris, who started the band, first saw the Maiden in an old film adaptation of The Man In The Iron Mask.

Maiden mainstay Steve Harris said of this song: "It's quite simple. The bass line is fairly straight forward as is the drumming. But the guitar is over the top with harmony, and the bass is descending behind it. I think this makes it pretty special."

Will Malone was the producer for the album, although the production was done primarily by the band and the recording engineer.

Derek Riggs designed the cover art, which depicted a shock-haired, skeletal zombie in an alley. When the album was re-mastered in 1998, a slightly edited version of the cover was used. It was darker, both colour-wise (it looked shadier) and emotionally (the zombie looked far less cartoonish and more horrific). Riggs slipped his logo- the symbol which features a reflected D and a right-hand R (his initials)- into the cover art. It appears on the second brick from the left, six rows down, on the shadier half of the wall. Also, a wastebasket on a street lamp by the wall reappeared on the cover art for Somewhere in Time, next to Eddie's left leg.

Only one song from the album was released as a single, "Sanctuary," and it was exclusively in the UK. Paul Di'Anno , who was the vocalist at the time of this album's release, was far less popular than Bruce Dickinson, whose air-raid siren voice was far more well received that Di'Anno's grittier singing. (Ironically, Bruce tried a grittier style in albums like No Prayer for the Dying).

The album was recorded in December 1979, and released on April 11, 1980. "Iron Maiden" was the last track.

The guitar riff was a heavy influence on their later, and far more successful song, "Aces High."

Steve Harris thought "Iron Maiden" could also be a description of a cold-blooded woman (Indeed, Margaret Thatcher's nickname was "Iron Maiden," she appeared on some single covers). The song describes such a damsel, who seduces men into her bedroom to show off her "wares" (torture devices) and proceeds to kill them in an Iron Maiden.

There is an all-female Los Angeles tribute band called the Iron Maidens, who have actually met the band and have a female Eddie as their mascot. (thanks, Brett - Edmonton, Canada, for all above)

The Heavy Metal band Trivium covered this in 2008. It was included as a bonus track on their Shogun album. (thanks, Nick - Cairns, Australia)

Iron Maiden - The Phantom of the Opera

Iron Maiden - The Phantom of the Opera Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Iron Maiden
Released: 1980

The Phantom of the Opera Lyrics

I've been looking so long for you now you won't get away from my grasp.
You've been living so long in hiding in hiding behind that false mask.
And you know and I know that you ain't got long now to last.
Your looks and your feelings are just the remains of your past.

You're standing in the wings, there you wait for the curtain to fall.
Knowing the terror and holding you have on us all.
Yeah, I know that you're gonna scratch me, maim me and maul.
You know I'm helpless from your mesmerizing cat call.

Keep your distance, walk away, don't take his bait.
Don't you stray, don't fade away.
Watch your step, he's out to get you, come what may.
Don't you stray, from the narrow way.

I'm running and hiding in my dreams you're always there.
You're The Phantom of the Opera, you're the devil, you're just out to scare.
You damaged my mind and my soul it just floats through the air.
Haunt me, you taunt me, you torture me back at your lair.

Writer/s: HARRIS, STEPHEN PERCY
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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The Phantom of the Opera

Running 7:22, this song was inspired by the 1910 novel by Gaston Leroux which was later turned into a popular musical adaptation for the stage and screen.

Bass player Steve Harris, who wrote this song, explained: "This is a very long song that was done in sections. The middle part was totally separate but it fit in very well. It felt right to go from the slow part into the middle section. Phantom is one of the best pieces I've ever written, and certainly one of the most enjoyable to play. It's got all these intricate guitar lines which keep it interesting. Then there's the slow middle part which creates quite a good mood. It's also got fast heavy parts which are really rockin'. And it's also got areas for crowd participation. It pretty much covers all the bases for the band. It was also a good example of what I wanted to get across."

Derek Riggs, yet again, hid his logo (his stylized initials) into some Maiden cover art. In this case, it's depicted clearly near the bottom of the stone in which the organ is imbedded, directly across from the Phantom Eddie's ankle/knee. Eddie is Iron Maiden's mascot.

On the back of the Somewhere in Time album, there is a "Phantom Opera House."

New Eden covered this for the 1998 compilation A Call to Irons: A Tribute to Iron Maiden.

In the Iron Maiden computer game Ed Hunter, this plays during Level 1, London. (thanks, Brett - Edmonton, Canada, for all above)