iron maiden - hallowed be thy name

[Ancient Mariner]

best song ever

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.

[Pure_Evil]

i love this song it makes you imagine that your the person who is goin to be exectued, another song i find does this is Ride the Lightning by MetallicA (Dave Mustaine):

Guilty as charged
But damn it, it ain't right
There is someone else controlling me

Death in the air
Strapped in the electric chair
This can't be happening to me

Who made you God to say
"I'll take your life from you!"

Flash before my eyes
Now it's time to die
Burning in my brain
I can feel the flames

Wait for the sign
To flick the switch of death
It's the beginning of the end

Sweat, chilling cold
As I watch death unfold
Consciousness my only friend

My fingers grip with fear
What I am doing here?

Flash before my eyes
Now it's time to die
Burning in my brain
I can feel the flames

Someone help me
Oh please God help me
They are trying to take it all away
I don't want to die

Time moving slowly
The minutes seem like hours
The final curtain call I see

How true is this?
Just get it over with
If this is true, just let it be

Wakened by the horrid cream
Freed from the frightening dream

Flash before my eyes
Now it's time to die
Burning in my brain
I can feel the flames

[pessimistic_turtle]

God, I hate Iron Maiden.

[Joeykid]

OLOLOL i dont hate em but they kinda suck these days lol

[Graphic4291]

Wow! both those songs are fukin awesome even tho 'Hallowed be thy name' is not on iron maiden - greatest hits album! very dissapointing its such a classic! but iron maiden does not beat Metallica sorrrry!

[Ancient Mariner]

Originally posted by Graphic4291
Wow! both those songs are fukin awesome even tho 'Hallowed be thy name' is not on iron maiden - greatest hits album! very dissapointing its such a classic! but iron maiden does not beat Metallica sorrrry!ermmmm....
hallowed be thy name was on best of the beast which is the only best of from maiden i think of as best of

[Fenrir]

Originally posted by Graphic4291
Wow! both those songs are fukin awesome even tho 'Hallowed be thy name' is not on iron maiden - greatest hits album! very dissapointing its such a classic! but iron maiden does not beat Metallica sorrrry!
i never said they did