Genius Meanings
|
|
Iron Maiden – El Dorado
|
This song, which won the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance (though Iron Maiden weren’t able to attend the ceremony) was the first single from the album and is narrated by a
|
|
Iron Maiden – Satellite 15... The Final Frontier
|
The opening track for Iron Maiden’s 2010 album has a doomed astronaut delivering his final messages. The first part of the title is a reference to how The Final Frontier is Iron
|
|
Genius Lists – Songs Based On Stories
|
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
|
|
Iron Maiden – The Alchemist
|
This song is about John Dee, who was a British mathematician and occultist from the 16th century. He advised Queen Elizabeth I and even coined the term ‘British Empire’ for her. He
|
|
Iron Maiden – The Man Who Would Be King
|
This song is about some man, who was supposed to be a king and who is in search for atonement for having killed someone in self-defence, although he seems to question the necessity
|
|
Iron Maiden – Starblind
|
This song is about breaking religion’s hold over you. Iron Maiden points out the hypocrisies and general problems of all religions in the song. If you are a good person, you don’t
|
|
Iron Maiden – Coming Home
|
Bruce Dickinson sings on how relieved he is to return to England after flying around the world in Maiden’s own jet.
|
|
Iron Maiden – The Talisman
|
This song is about a large group of people leaving their country of origin to find freedom and fortune in the New World. The narrator explains that this is a flight from whatever
|
|
Edu Falaschi (Ft. Adrian Oleas) – Eldorado
|
[Intro] / Died away into the words / The skies and seas, the claims not heard / Died away into the chest / The final screams, eternity or death / Died away into the myth / The lies
|
|
Iron Maiden – Isle of Avalon
|
This song is about the Celtic myth of the isle of Avalon, a magical place where the immortals dwell and where the departed spirits were preparing to go to the Otherworld. The myth
|
|
Iron Maiden – Mother of Mercy
|
This song is about war. Like an earlier Iron Maiden song, the story is told from the point of view of a soldier. He witnesses horrors and wonders if what he’s doing is the right
|
|
Iron Maiden – When the Wild Wind Blows
|
Keeping with Maiden’s tradition of film-based songs, this one is based on When the Wind Blows, an animation released in 1986 (based on a graphic novel) about an elderly couple who
|
|
Marty Robbins – El Paso
|
“El Paso” by Marty Robbins appears on his 1959 album, Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs.
This song won the Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording of 1960. It’s a story
|
|
Edu Falaschi – Sacrifice
|
[Verse 1] / Spirits sings a spell? Creatures from the moon / What's all that meaning? What's all that screaming? / The ocean brings the hell / Shadows in the night, strangers from
|
|
MC Lars (Ft. Wheatus) – Finite Jest
|
[Verse 1] / With so much drama at the ETA / It’s kind of hard being Hal Incandenza, hey / Because I’m not okay, and something’s wrong / I call my brother Orin and I quote Beatles
|
|
W.E.B. Du Bois – Darkwater (Chap. 2)
|
The Souls Of White Folk / High in the tower, where I sit above the loud complaining of the human sea, I know many souls that toss and whirl and pass, but none there are that
|