piece of mind

WHERE EAGLES DARE (Harris)

 It's snowing outside the rumbling sound

 of engines roar in the night.

 The mission is near the confident men

 are waiting to drop from the sky.

 The Blizzard goes on but still they must fly

 No one should go where eagles dare.

 Bavarian alps that lay all around

 they seem to stare from below.

 The enemy lines a long time passed

 are lying deep in the snow.

 Into the night they fall through the sky

 No one should fly where eagles dare.

 They're closing in the fortress is near

 it's standing high in the sky.

 The cable car's the only way in

 it's really impossible to climb.

 They make their way but maybe too late

 They've got to try to save the day.

 The panicking cries the roaring of guns

 are echoing all around the valley.

 The mission complete they make to escape

 away from the Eagles Nest.

 They dared to go where no one would try

 they chose to fly where eagles dare.

REVELATIONS (Dickinson)

 "O God of Earth and Altar,

 Bow down and hear our cry,

 Our earthly rulers falter,

 Our people drift and die,

 The walls of gold entomb us,

 The swords of scorn divide,

 Take not thy thunder from us,

 But take away our pride."

 (G. K. Chesterton; English Hymnal)

 Just a babe in the black abyss,

 No reason for a place like this,

 The walls are cold and souls cry out in pain,

 An easy way for the blind to go,

 A clever path for the fools who know

 the Secret of the Hanged Man-the smile on his lips.

 The light of the Blind-you'll see,

 The venom that tears my spine,

 The Eyes of the Nile are opening-you'll see.

 She came to me with a serpent's kiss,

 As the Eye of the Sun Rose on her lips,

 Moonlight catches silver tears I cry,

 So we lay in the black embrace,

 And the Seed is sown in a holy place

 And I watched, and I waited for the dawn.

 The light of the Blind-you'll see,

 The venom that tears my spine,

 The Eyes of the Nile are opening-you'll see.

 Bind all of us together,

 Ablaze with Hope and Free,

 No storm or heavy weather

 Will rock the boat you'll see.

 The time has come to close your eyes

 And still the wind and rain,

 For the one who will be King

 Is the Watcher in the Ring,

 It is You.

FLIGHT OF ICARUS (Smith/Dickinson)

 As the sun breaks, above the ground,

 An old man stands on the hill,

 As the ground warms, to the first rays of light

 A birdsong shatters the still.

 His eyes are ablaze,

 See the madman in his gaze.

 Fly, on your way, like an eagle,

 Fly as high as the sun,

 On your way, like an eagle,

 Fly and touch the sun.

 Now the crowd breaks and a young boy appears

 Looks the old man in the eye

 As he spreads his wings and shouts at the crowd

 In the name of God my father I fly.

 His eyes seem so glazed

 As he flies on the wings of a dream,

 Now he knows his father betrayed

 Now his wings turn to ashes to ashes his grave.

 Fly, on your way, like an eagle,

 Fly as high as the sun,

 On your way, like an eagle,

 Fly as high as the sun.

DIE WITH YOUR BOOTS ON (Smith/Dickinson/Harris)

 Another Prophet of Disaster

 Who says the ship is lost,

 Another Prophet of Disaster

 Leaving you to count the cost.

 Taunting us with Visions,

 Afflicting us with fear,

 Predicting War for millions,

 In the hope that one appears.

 No point asking when it is,

 No point asking who's to go,

 No point asking what's the game,

 No point asking who's to blame.

'cos if you're gonna die, if you're gonna die,

'cos if you're gonna die, if you're gonna die,

 If you're gonna die, die with your boots on.

 If you're gonna try, just stick around,

 Gonna cry, just move along,

 If you're gonna die, you're gonna die.

 In 13 the Beast is rising,

 The Frenchman did surmise,

 Through earthquakes and starvation,

 The warlord will arise.

 Terror, Death, Destruction,

 Pour from the Eastern Sands,

 But the truth of all predictions,

 Is always in your hands.

 If you're gonna die, die with your boots on,

 If you're gonna try, just stick around,

 Gonna cry, just move along,

 If you're gonna die, you're gonna die.

THE TROOPER (Harris)

 You'll take my life but I'll take yours too

 You'll fire your musket but I'll run you through

 So when you're waiting for the next attack

 You'd better stand there's no turning back.

 The bugle sounds and 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.

 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.

 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

STILL LIFE (Murray/Harris)

 Take a look in the pool and what do you see

 In the dark depths there faces beckoning me

 Can't you see them it's plain for all to see

 They were there oh I know you don't believe me.

 Oh...I've never felt so strange

 But...I'm not going insane.

 I've no doubt that you think I'm off my head

 You don't say but it's in your eyes instead

 Hours I spend out just gazing into that pool

 Something draws me there I don't know what to do.

 Oh...they drain my strength away

 Oh...they're asking me to stay.

 Nightmares...spirits calling me

 Nightmares...they won't leave me be.

 All my life's blood is slowly draining away

 And I feel that I'm weaker every day

 Somehow I know I haven't long to go

 Joining them at the bottom of the pool.

 Now...I feel they are so near

 I...begin to see them clear

 Nightmares...coming all the time

 Nightmares...Will give me peace of mind.

 Now it's clear and I know what I have to do

 I must take you down there to look at them too

 Hand in hand then we'll jump right into the pool

 Can't you see not just me they want you too.

 Oh...we'll drown together

 It...will be forever.

 Nightmares...forever calling me

 Nightmares...Now we rest in peace.

QUEST FOR FIRE (Harris)

 In a time when dinosaurs walked the earth

 When the land was swamp and caves were home

 In an age when prize possession was fire

 To search for landscapes men would roam.

 Then the tribes they came to steal their fire

 And the wolves they howled into the night

 As they fought a vicious angry battle

 to save the power of warmth and light.

 Drawn by quest for fire

 They searched all through the land

 Drawn by quest for fire

 Discovery of man.

 And they thought that when the embers died away

 That the flame of life had burnt and died

 Didn't know the sparks that made the fire

 Were made by rubbing stick and stone.

 So they ploughed through the forest and swamps of danger

 And they fought the cannibal tribes and beasts

 In the search to find another fire

 To regain the power of light and heat.

 Drawn by quest for fire

 They searched across the land

 Drawn by quest for fire

 Discovery of man.

SUN AND STEEL (Dickinson/Smith)

 You killed your first man at 13,

 Killer instinct, Animal supreme,

 By 16 you had learned to fight

 The way of the warrior, you took it as your right.

 Sunlight, falling on your steel,

 Death in life is your ideal,

 Life is like a wheel, rolling on and on.

 Through earth and water, fire and wind,

 you came at last-nothing was the end,

 Make a cut by fire and stones,

 Take you and your blade and break you both

 in two-break you both in two.

 Sunlight, falling on your steel,

 Death in life is your ideal,

 Life is like a wheel-and it's rolling still.

TO TAME A LAND (Harris)

He is the king of all the land

 In the Kingdom of the sands

 Of a time tomorrow.

 He rules the sandworms and the Fremen

 In a land amongst the stars

 Of an age tomorrow.

 He is destined to be a King

 He rules over everything

 On the land called planet Dune.

 Bodywater is your life

 And without it you would die

 On the desert the planet Dune.

 Without a stillsuit you would fry

 On the sands so hot and dry

 In a world called Arrakis.

 It is a land that's rich in spice

 The sandriders and the "mice"

 That they call the "Muad'Dib".

 He is the Kwizatz Haderach.

 He is born of Caladan

 And will take the Gom Jabbar.

 He has the power to foresee

 Or to look into the past

 He is the ruler of the stars

 The time will come for him

 to lay claim his crown,

 And then the foe yes

 they'll be cut down,

 You'll see he'll be the

 best that there's been,

 Messiah supreme

 true leader of men,

 And when the time

 for judgement's at hand

 Don't fret he's strong

 and he'll make a stand,

 Against evil and fire

 That spreads through the land,

 He has the power

 to make it all end.

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