Listen to If Eternity Should Fail by Iron Maiden

If Eternity Should Fail

Iron Maiden

Metal

Apple Music Note

OVERVIEW

LYRICS

Music Video

Iron Maiden - If Eternity Should Fail (The Book Of Souls: Live Chapter)

Watch Iron Maiden - If Eternity Should Fail (The Book Of Souls: Live Chapter) on YouTube

Upcoming Concerts for Iron Maiden

See All Concerts

See All Concerts

Featured In

Listen to The Book of Souls by Iron Maiden

ALBUMThe Book of SoulsIron Maiden

Listen to Iron Maiden Halloween Essentials featuring Iron Maiden

PLAYLISTIron Maiden Halloween EssentialsApple Music Metal

Listen to Metal Deep Cuts featuring Iron Maiden

PLAYLISTMetal Deep CutsApple Music Metal

Listen to Iron Maiden: Deep Cuts featuring Iron Maiden

PLAYLISTIron Maiden: Deep CutsApple Music Metal

Listen to Ep. 4 A Series of Bleeps Playlist featuring Iron Maiden

PLAYLISTEp. 4 A Series of Bleeps PlaylistA Series of Bleeps

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Iron Maiden

Bass Guitar

Bruce Dickinson

Bruce Dickinson

Vocals

Steve Harris

Bass Guitar

Nicko McBrain

Drums

Adrian Smith

Guitar

Dave Murray

Guitar

Janick Gers

Guitar

Jeff Bova

Other Instrument

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Bruce Dickinson

Bruce Dickinson

Songwriter

Jeff Bova

Orchestrator

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Steve Harris

Co-Producer

Denis Caribaux

Engineer

Kevin Shirley

Producer

Ade Emsley

Mastering Engineer

Lyrics

[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