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| "History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells "Can't you remember anything I told you?" and lets fly with a club." - John W. Campbell |
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"One Winged Angel" by The Black Mages
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| Favorite Bands & Songs |
My Top 3:
- Iron Maiden
Sign of the Cross
Hallowed Be Thy Name
Blood Brothers
Fear of the Dark
New Frontier
- Dream Theater
Take the Time
The Glass Prison
Home
Octavarium
In The Name of God
- Judas Priest
Between the Hammer & The Anvil
Painkiller
Lochness
Hellrider
Cathedral Spires
- Megadeth
Holy Wars
Scorpion
Hangar 18
- Vader
Angel of Death (Thin Lizzy Cover)
Dark Transmission
Epitaph
- Iced Earth
Attila
My Own Savior
The Reckoning
- Symphony X
King of Terror
Sea of Lies
Of Sins & Shadows
- Arch Enemy
Lament of a Mortal Soul
Nemesis
Shadows & Dust
- Liquid Tension Experiment
Paradigm Shift
Acid Rain
Another Dimension
- Anthrax
Indians
I'm The Man
Caught in a Mosh
- Stratovarious
Soul of a Vagabond
Eagleheart
Speed of Light
- Nevermore
Final Product
Enemies of Reality
I, Voyager
- Rush
Spirit of the Radio
YYZ
Free Will
- Queensryche
Empire
Revolution Calling
Operation Mindcrime
- Corrosion of Conformity
Stone Breakers
King of the Rotten
Paranoid Opioid
- The Black Mages
Zeromus
Clash on the Big Bridge
Maybe I'm a Lion
- Vomitron
Ghostbusters
Contra
Eye of the Tiger (Survivor Cover)
- Stemage
Metroid Theme
Brinstar
Ridley
- Van Halen
Hot For Teacher
Jump
Panama
- Faith No More
Land of Sunshine
Midlife Crisis
Epic
- Mr. Bungle
Squeeze Me Macaroni
Air-Conditioned Nightmate
Goodbye Sober Day
- Metallica (Pre-Black Album)
Battery
Master of Puppets
Blitzkrieg
- Armored Saint
Reign of Fire
Hanging Judge
Warzone
- Pantera
Mouth For War
Cowboys from Hell
Domination
- Alice in Chains
Them Bones
Man in the Box
Rooster
- Opeth
The Moor
The Leper Affinity
Harvest
- Living Colour
Cult of Personality
Go Away
Money Talks
- Testament
Electric Crown
Over the Wall
Alone in the Dark
- Mastodon
Blood & Thunder
March of the Fire Ants
Hearts Alive
- In Flames
Embody the Invisible
Trigger
Dialogue with the Stars
- The Iron Maidens
- Esqarial
- Blind Guardian
- Slayer
- Guns N' Roses
- Dead Kennedys
- Queen
- Racer X
- Rhapsody
- 4Front
- Children of the Bodom
- Sepultura
- The NESkimos
- The Advantage
- Dire Straits
- Motorhead
- Fate's Warning
- Therion
- Soundgarden
- Spinal Tap
- Stormtroopers of Death
- GWAR
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| Hallowed Be Thy Name - Iron Maiden |
| Sunday, October 22, 2006 |
(Quicktime is Needed)
This is one of my favorite songs from another favorite metal band of mine, Iron Maiden. This is off the third Iron Maiden studio album, and was the first album for the second Iron Maiden vocalist, Bruce Dickinson (He went from 1982-1993, and then rejoined the band in 1999 and is their vocalist to this day, Thank God).
Anyway, the song is about a prisoner being sentenced to execution. He describes the array of emotions he feels as he nears his final moments. He finds it really difficult to accept his fate and wishes that this was all just a dream. In the end, he finally acceptsh is fate, perhaps it's because he is guilty of his crimes. The song refers to God a lot, and the prisoner speaks of him in a desperate and mocking tone, so he's basically implying that God will "save" him, even though he's committed whatever crime he's being hanged for, hence the line, "And though the end is near, I'm not sorry." He's going to "see the truth," which is supposed to be better than his life in prison, or anywhere on earth for that matter. "Hallowed Be Thy Name" is a line in the Christian prayer, the "Lord's Prayer/Our Father."
Hallowed Be Thy Name - Iron Maiden
1982 - "The Number of the Beast" Album
[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
'Cause at 5 o'clock they take me to the Gallow's 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 been some sort of an 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 am I not afraid of dying
Don't 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 die?
As I walk all my life drifts before me
And though the end is near I'm not sorry
Catch my soul 'cause it's willing to fly away
Mark my words believe my soul lives on
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
Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Hallowed be Thy name
Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Hallowed be Thy name
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