The Number Of The Beast

歌词

Iron Maiden

 Hallowed Be Thy Name (Harris)

 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

 Cos at 5 o'clock they take me to the Gallows Pole

 The sands of time for me are 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 some sort 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 so 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 am not afraid of dying

 Don't believe that there is never 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 die?

 As I walk all my life drifts before me

 And though the end is near I'm not sorry

 Catch my soul cos 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 there is just a strange illusion.