Go to war again, blood is freedoms stain,Iron Maiden's powerful, classic anti-war song from the Powerslave album. As a child this had a deep impact on me, not so much the words which I knew were related to the then ongoing Cold War but the image of Eddie and Nuclear War (right).
But dont you pray for my soul anymore.
According to many commentators we are closer to Nuclear War now (well it keeps proliferating and we keep trying to arm ourselves to the teeth) than we were back in the 1980's. We also had America threaten to use Nuclear Weapons (the small ones that no one ever really gets hurt by, they are Nice Nukes) in the Iraq war. WTF!?
As always if this doesn't play, there are more live videos (and the lyrics) after the jump:
Kill for gain or shoot to maim
But we dont need a reason
The golden goose is on the loose
And never out of season
Some blackened pride still burns inside
This shell of bloody treason
Heres my gun for a barrel of fun
For the love of living death.
Chorus
The killers breed or the demons seed,
The glamour, the fortune, the pain,
Go to war again, blood is freedoms stain,
But dont you pray for my soul anymore.
2 minutes to midnight
The hands that threaten doom.
2 minutes to midnight
To kill the unborn in the womb.
The blind men shout let the creatures out
Well show the unbelievers
The napalm screams of human flames
Of a prime time belsen feast...yeah!
As the reasons for the carnage cut their meat and lick the gravy,
We oil the jaws of the war machine and feed it with our babies.
Chorus
The body bags and little rags of children torn in two
And the jellied brains of those who remain to put the finger right on you.
As the madmen play on words and make us all dance to their song,
To the tune of starving millions to make a better kind of gun.
Chorus
Midnight...all night...
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