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Iron Maiden - 2 A.M.
Iron Maiden - 2 A.M.


Iron Maiden - 2 A.M. Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The X Factor
Released: 1995

2 A.M. Lyrics


I get in from work at 2a.m.
And sit down with a beer
Turn on the late night t.v.
And then wonder why I'm here
It's meaningless and trivial
And it washes over me
And once again I wonder
Is this all there is for me

Here I am again
Look at me again
Here I am again
On my own
Trying hard to see
What there is for me
Here I am again
On my own

Life seems so pathetic
I wish I could live it all behind
This canvas chair, this bed,
These walls that fall in on my mind
Hold on for something better
That just drags you trough the dirt
Do you just let go or carry on
And try to take the hurt

Writer/s: BAYLEY COOKE, JANICK GERS, STEPHEN PERCY HARRIS
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

2 A.M.
  • Written by Blaze Bayley, Jannick Gers and Steve Harris, this song has very pessimistic lyrics which are referring to a man who is living alone with nothing better to do with his life and no hope for the future.
  • Around 1993 Steve Harris got a divorce from his wife Lorraine and in an interview with Greek Metal Hammer Magazine said he was not having the best days of his life, both because Bruce Dickinson left the band and his personal problems with his family. So,it's easy to say the song presents the psychological situation that Harris had at that period of his life.

  • Iron Maiden - Lord Of The Flie
    Iron Maiden - Lord Of The Flies


    Iron Maiden - Lord Of The Flies Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: The X Factor
    Released: 1995

    Lord Of The Flies Lyrics


    I don't care for this world anymore
    I just want to live my own fantasy
    Fate has brought us to these shores
    What was meant to be is now happening

    I've found that I like this living in danger
    Living on edge it makes feel as one
    Who cares now what's right or wrong,
    It's reality
    Killing so we survive
    Wherever we may roam
    Wherever we may hide
    We've got to get away

    I don't want existence to end
    We must prepare ourselves for the elements
    I just want to feel like we're strong
    We don't need a code of morality

    I like all the mixed emotion and anger
    It brings out the animal the power you can feel
    And feeling so high on this much adrenalin
    Excited but scary to believe what we've become

    Saints and sinners
    Something within us
    We are lord of flies

    Saints and sinners
    Something willing us
    To be Lord Of The Flies

    Writer/s: GERS, JANICK / HARRIS, STEPHEN PERCY
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Lord Of The Flies
  • This was inspired by the novel Lord Of The Flies by William Golding, which was made into two movies: one in 1963 and one in 1990 (neither were great critical successes). It's about a group of boys who are shipwrecked and begin embracing their primal side. (thanks, Brett - Edmonton, Canada)
  • Lord Of The Flies is the literal translation of the Greek word Beezelbub. In the Bible, Beezelbub is the name given for Satan by Jesus (this occurs in the episode where he casts demons out of a crazy man and into a pig. There's also a line in there from which Lincoln derived his phrase about the Civil War- a house divided upon itself can not stand). While most songs dealing with Golding's novel deal with the more good guy characters in the novel - Ralph and Piggy, or with the kinda psychic kid (Simon) who actually talks to the beast, this song is unique in that it's told from the point of view of the most savage boys - Jack and his crew. It's kind of like The Rolling Stones' Sympathy For The Devil in that it's a sort of exoneration for evil behavior, and cautions that everyone is called to be evil. (thanks, Jackie - Dallas, TX)
  • This is the most guitar-driven song on the album.
  • The artwork on the single depicted Iron Maiden's mascot Eddie as literally a lord of the flies. He sits, dressed as a monarch, on an electric chair (serving as a throne) with a swarm of flies around him.
  • The two songs on the B-side were a cover of the Who's "My Generation" and a cover of UFO's "Doctor, Doctor." (thanks, Brett - Edmonton, Canada, for above 3)

  • Iron Maiden - The Aftermat
    Iron Maiden - The Aftermath


    Iron Maiden - The Aftermath Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: The X Factor
    Released: 1995

    The Aftermath Lyrics


    Silently to silence fall
    In the fields of futile war
    Toys of death are spitting lead
    Where boys that were our soldiers bled
    war horse and war machine

    Curse the name of liberty
    Marching on as if they should
    Mix in the dirt our brothers' blood

    In the mud and rain
    What are we fighting for
    Is it worth the pain is it worth dying for
    Who will take the blame
    Why did they make a war
    Questions that come again
    Should we be fighting at all

    Once a ploughman hitched his team
    Here he sowed his little dream
    Now bodies arms and legs are strewn
    Where mustard gas and barbwire bloom
    Each moment's like a year
    I've nothing left inside for tears
    Comrades dead or dying lie
    I'm left alone asking why

    After the war
    Left feeling no one has won
    After the war
    What does a soldier become

    Writer/s: GERS, JANICK / HARRIS, STEPHEN PERCY / COOKE, BAYLEY
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    The Aftermath Song Chart
  • This song is one of Blaze Bayley's most significant contributions to Iron Maiden. The former Wolfsbane lead singer took over on vocals for Maiden starting with the The X Factor album and continuing through their 1998 release Virtual XI. He wrote the song with bassist Steve Harris and guitarist Janick Gers.
  • The song deals with World War I, and is written from the perspective of a soldier in the trenches. Blaze Bayley's great-grandfather fought and died in that war; Blaze had a photo of him in his notebook which triggered the memory and led to this song.

    By all accounts, World War I battles were horrific. That's reflected in the lyric as we hear about the carnage and the soldier questions why he is there in the first place.
  • Blaze Bayley had been reading a lot of poetry from the World War I era when he composed this song. In particular, Bayley read the work of Siegfried Sassoon, a British poet who fought on the front lines in France and later became disillusioned with the war. Sassoon gained widespread acclaim in America for his novel, Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man.
  • Blaze Bayley has a very emotional connection with this song, which hits him hard when he performs it. In our 2014 interview with Bayley , he said: "It's a song that I occasionally do in my setlist, but it's heavy in a very emotional way, so I find myself getting very bound up with that song and sometimes mentally it's a dark place to go. So I don't always do it in my set."

  • Iron Maiden - The Edge Of Darknes
    Iron Maiden - The Edge Of Darkness


    Iron Maiden - The Edge Of Darkness Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: The X Factor
    Released: 1995

    The Edge Of Darkness Lyrics


    I've looked into the heart of darkness
    Where the blood red journey ends
    When you've faced the heart of darkness
    Even your soul begins to bend

    For a week I have been waiting
    Still I am only in Saigon
    The walls move in a little closer
    I feel the jungle call me on

    Every minute I get weaker
    While in the jungle they grow strong
    What I wanted was a mission
    And for my sins they gave me one

    They brought it up just like room service
    Cause everyone gets what they want
    And when that mission was all over
    I'd never want another one

    I know, captain that you've done this work before
    We've got a problem you can help us all I'm sure
    The colonel's gone rogue
    and his methods are unsound
    You'll take a PBR up river track him down

    There's a conflict in every human heart
    And the temptation is to take it all too far
    In this war things get so confused
    But there are some things which can not be excused

    He's acting like a god an insane lunatic
    Your mission, exterminate with extreme prejudice
    The route is dangerous and your progress may be slow
    Here is the file and it's all you need to know

    Here I am the knife in my hand
    And now I understand why the genius must die

    Now I stand alone in darkness
    With his blood upon my hands
    Where sat the warrior the poet
    Now lie the fragments of a man

    Writer/s: GERS, JANICK / HARRIS, STEPHEN PERCY / COOKE, BAYLEY
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    The Edge Of Darkness Song Chart
  • Written by lead singer Blaze Bayley, bassist Steve Harris and guitarist Janick Gers, this song was based on the move Apocalypse Now. The 1979 film takes place during the Vietnam War, and shows how ordinary men can compromise their beliefs in the face of atrocity. Both the movie and the song examine this conflict.
  • Like many Iron Maiden songs, this one doesn't have a standard chorus. In our interview with Blaze Bayley, he explained: "There's quite a few Iron Maiden songs that don't have conventional chorus or conventional fallouts, but they make sense as musical pieces. We call them 'songs' as a convenient name. That was a big part of the experience in Iron Maiden."

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