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Iron Maiden - If Eternity Should Fail (The Book Of Souls: Live Chapter)
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[Verse 1]
Here is the soul of a man
Here in this place for the taking
Clothed in white, stand in the light
Here is the soul of a man
[Verse 2]
Time to speak with the shaman again
Conjure the jester again
Black dog in the ruins is howling my name
So here is the soul of a man
[Verse 3]
When the world was virgin
Before the coming of men
Just a solar witness
The beginning of the end
[Verse 4]
From a world of magma
To a cold rock face
The ascent of madness
And a human race
[Verse 5]
We are strange believers, all of us
There are stranger truths and mortal lust
We rise from slumber, he calls our name
Recalls our number, abide with pain
[Verse 6]
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
If eternity should fail
Waiting in line for the ending of time
If eternity should fail
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
If eternity should fail
Waiting in line for the ending of time
If eternity should fail
[Verse 7]
To God's illusion which I recall
Was our delusion before the fall
The angels come and the angels go
But the Lord of Light shining below
[Verse 8]
Eternal blackness beyond the stars
We think our wisdom will get that far
At the master's table, the table's bare
No land of plenty, devastation, despair
[Verse 9]
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
If eternity should fail
Waiting in line for the ending of time
If eternity should fail
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
If eternity should fail
Waiting in line at the ending of time
If eternity should fail
[Verse 10]
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
If eternity should fail
Waiting in line for the ending of time
If eternity should fail
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
If eternity should fail
Waiting in line at the ending of time
If eternity should fail
[Verse 11]
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
If eternity should fail
Waiting in line at the ending of time
If eternity should fail
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
If eternity should fail
Waiting in line at the ending of time
If eternity should fail
[Verse 12]
Good day, my name is Necropolis
I am formed of the dead
I am the harvester of the soul meat
And I suck the lives from around my bed
My own two sons, I gave them breath
And I filled their living corpses with my bile
What humanity I knew
I have long forgotten
For me eternity is nothing
But a short while
Written by: Bruce Dickinson

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