Hallowed Be Thy Name (Live '82)

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 five o'clock they take me to the gallows pole

The sands of time for me are running low

Running low, yeah

When the priest comes to read me the last rites

Take a look through the bars at the last sights

Of a world that has gone very wrong for me

Can it be that 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 easy to stop from screaming

But words escape me when I try to speak

Tears fall, but why am I crying?

After all, I'm not afraid of dying

Don't I believe that there never is an end?

As the guards march me out to the courtyard

Somebody cries from a cell, "God be with you"

If there's a God, why has He let me go?

As I walk, 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 seek the truth

When you know that your time is close at hand

Maybe then you'll begin to understand

Life down here is just a strange illusion

Yeah-yeah-yeah

Hallowed be thy name

Yeah-yeah-yeah

Hallowed be thy name

Yeah-yeah-yeah

Thank you, thanks very much

This is the song, we're going back to the "Iron Maiden" album for you now

Song you'll get your teeth into

It's a song about a gentleman who wears a mask

And hangs out in the corners of old theaters

Waiting for young ladies to come pass

So he can rip their knickers off and defile 'em

Disgusting, and probably very nice things too

In the dressing room after the show