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Iron Maiden – Murders in the Rue Morgue
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This song is one of many by Iron Maiden that draws on literature for inspiration. In this case, it is an Edgar Allan Poe story of the same name.
The Poe story is one of three
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Iron Maiden – Innocent Exile
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One of many songs in the Iron Maiden catalogue that builds on a previous track, this is a sequel to Murders In The Rue Morgue, from earlier on in the Killers album.
This song
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In Flames – Murders in the Rue Morgue
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[Verse 1] / I remember it as plain as day / Although it happened in the dark of the night / I was strolling through the streets of Paris / And it was cold it was starting to rain
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Edgar Allan Poe – The Murders in the Rue Morgue
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What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. / —Sir Thomas Browne. /
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Iron Maiden update thread
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I am officially making it my mission to flesh out the Maiden offerings here. I added Killers two days ago, and sticking with that album I just added The Murders In The Rue Morgue. I will keep doing Killers tracks until I’ve got them all in, then I will do Iron Maiden, and after that I will go chronologically until I get to at least 7th Son.
https://genius.com/Iron-maiden-murders-in-the-rue-morgue-lyrics/
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Iron Maiden – I've Got the Fire
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[Verse 1] / If you're looking for something that you can keep / Well baby, pass me by / But if you want something that's twenty years deep / Oh baby, don't even try / But you want
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Iron Maiden – Rainbow's Gold
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[Intro] / [?] / [Instrumental] / [Verse 1] / In the heat of the morning / When your day is still dawning / And your bird, he's singing / Catch your soul, he's willing to fly away
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Iron Maiden – Live After Death - Art and Tracklist
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VHS\DVD (Show Setlist) / "Churchill Speech"/"Aces High" (Harris) / "2 Minutes to Midnight" (Smith, Dickinson) / "The Trooper" (Harris) / "Revelations" (Dickinson) / "Flight of
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Six Feet Under – Murders in the Rue Morgue
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[Verse 1] / I remember it as plain as day / Although it happened in the dark of the night / I was strolling through the streets of Paris / And it was cold it was starting to rain
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Iron Maiden – Burning Ambition
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“Burning Ambition” is one of Iron Maiden’s first songs. It only appeared as a B side for “Running Free” and later on the B-side compilation album Best of the ‘B’ sides and the
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Iron Maiden – Invasion
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This song appeared on The Soundhouse Tapes as the result of the band’s first ever studio experience, in which they also recorded Prowler, Strange World and, of course, Iron Maiden
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Genius Lists – Songs Based On Stories
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The perfect way for Lit Geniuses to get in on the music scene, or vice versa. Let us know if you work on any of these songs by making an annotation.
– Album cover to Leviathan
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Iron Maiden – Women in Uniform
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This song is a cover, originally performed by Skyhooks on the 1978 album Guilty Until Proven Insane. It was released as a single, with Invasion as a B-side.
The band was advised
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Iron Maiden – Wrathchild
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Although not released as a single, this track is included on several “best of” and live compilations from Iron Maiden including Somewhere Back In Time, Live After Death, and The
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Iron Maiden – Genghis Khan
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The second of two instrumental tracks on Iron Maiden’s Killers album (the other being “The Ides of March”). Interestingly, both instrumentals are named after aspects of two of the
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Iron Maiden – Another Life
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Another track about madness and death, fitting in the theme of Iron Maiden’s sophomore album. This one has only one verse, with three repetitions. The narrator hears voices in his
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Iron Maiden – Drifter
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This song has a much more positive message than the rest of the Killers album. The lyrics can be interpreted as this being a new beginning and a good look towards the future. They
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Iron Maiden – Killers
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The title track to Iron Maiden’s second album, this became a signature song for Paul Di'Anno, the band’s original singer.
The song describes a madman who stalks people in the
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Iron Maiden – Cross-Eyed Mary
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This song is a cover, originally performed by Jethro Tull on the 1971 album Aqualung. It was the B-side song on the single for The Trooper.
Cross-Eyed Mary is a song about another
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Iron Maiden – Purgatory
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“Purgatory” refers to the Catholic concept of a place in the afterlife where people’s souls can atone for their sins without going to Hell. Spend enough time in purgatory, and you
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Iron Maiden – Prodigal Son
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This song is about someone who has dabbled in black magic and summoning, but now is being consumed by the powers he was using.
The title comes from the biblical tale of the
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Iron Maiden – King of Twilight
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The B-side of the Aces High single. It’s a cover of Nektar’s “King of Twilight”, from their 1972 album A Tab in the Ocean. Iron Maiden’s cover is actually a medley of the songs “
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Naglfar – The Evil That Men Do (Iron Maiden Cover)
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Love is a razor and I walked the line on that silver blade / Slept in the dust with his daughter, her eyes red with / The slaughter of innocence / And I will pray for her / I will
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Iron Maiden – Twilight Zone
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In fitting with the album’s theme of death, this 10th track on Killers is from the perspective of a dead man’s ghost. He is hanging around his still living lover as a ghost and
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Iron Maiden – The Evil That Men Do
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The title of this song is from William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Specifically, it is the lines spoken by Marcus Antonius (Mark Anthony) as he addresses a crowd of Romans after
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