Genius Meanings
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Iron Maiden – The Prophecy
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This song is about the Seventh Son foreseeing a disaster coming to the village. Nobody believes him however, and when the disaster happens, everyone blames him.
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Iron Maiden – The Great Unknown
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“The Great Unknown” is the 3rd song from Iron Maiden’s album The Book of Souls.
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Iron Maiden – The Book of Souls [Live Chapter]
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / Sacrifices buried with kings / Accompany them on a journey with no end / To an afterlife that’s rich with fruit of all the gods / And to face the
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Iron Maiden – Moonchild
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“Moonchild” is loosely based on the Aleister Crowley’s novel of the same name. This is track one from Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. Released in 1988, it was the first album where
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Iron Maiden – Infinite Dreams
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This song is about someone who is tormented by paranormal dreams and nightmares. He seems to have some clairvoyant powers, but he he’s scared by what he sees in his visions, which
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Iron Maiden – Only the Good Die Young
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This song is about the Seventh Son having his doubts. He can look into the future and feels the responsibility to influence it, but he knows to do so will end his life. He has no
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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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Iron Maiden – The Red and the Black [Live Chapter]
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The morals of life and the perils of death / Take the wrong way out running out of breath / Meet my match in the afterlife / Suppress the demons that plague the night / A tortured
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Iron Maiden – The Clairvoyant
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This song was the album’s third single.
The lyrics are about the Seventh Son being clairvoyant. He is now a fully-fledged seer and can control his visions. However, these visions
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Iron Maiden – Can I Play with Madness
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Published as first single off Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, “Can I Play with Madness” is the third song on the album.
The Seventh Son confronts a prophet to learn what is
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Iron Maiden – Black Bart Blues
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“Black Bart Blues” is one of the B-sides to the Can I Play With Madness single.
The song is about the suit of armour that rode in the back lounge of Iron Maiden’s tour buses (
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Iron Maiden – Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
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The birth of the prophesied one, the chosen one, the seventh son of the seventh son. His family are all watching him to see what path he chooses in life.
This song, and album in
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Iron Maiden – The Book of Souls
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“The Book Of Souls” is the title track from Iron Maiden’s sixteenth album. It draws inspiration from the Mayans, which subsequently led to the Mesoamerican artwork of the album. Co
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Powerwolf – Dancing with the Dead
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[Intro] / Dies Irae / Dies Illa / [Verse 1] / Long ago in a time of twilight / Seven sins, seven hearts on strife / Lost her way in a storm of rivals / Stay safe at night, come
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Cradle of Filth – The Death of Love
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Her penultimate sighs called softly on the kindling wind / Her saintly eyes filling with tears, lifting with truth / And then a golden flash like the onset of heaven / Leaving her
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Iron Maiden – Prowler '88
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[Verse 1] / Walking through the city / Lookin', oh, so pretty / I've just got to find my way / See the ladies flashing / All their legs and lashes / I've just got to find my way
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Black Sabbath – Paranoid
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This song by Black Sabbath is consistently ranked as one of the greatest heavy metal songs of all time. Maybe the biggest hit of Ozzy’s group, along with “Iron Man.”
The lyrics
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Iron Maiden – Massacre
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[Verse 1] / At a point below zero / There's no place left to go / Six hundred unknown heroes / Were killed like sleeping buffalo / [Verse 2] / Through the devil's canyon / Across
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Candlemass – The Prophecy
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"Holy was the star from which you were born / To a world where darkness and fear take form / A lonely soul with a heart of light to find / Beyond reality, forgotten in time / Seek
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Iced Earth – Prophecy
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This is the song that started the Something Wicked Saga, a story by guitarist Jon Schaffer. On this album, it is part of a trilogy of songs, along with Birth of the Wicked and The
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Megadeth – Peace Sells
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This song is the Mustaine’s way of dispelling many of the stereotypes about the band and heavy metal fans in general. More specifically, that they are lazy, anti-government, and
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Ozzy Osbourne – Crazy Train
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“Crazy Train” is the first single from British heavy metal vocalist Ozzy Osbourne’s debut solo album, Blizzard of Ozz, released in 1980. A live version of the song recorded in 1981
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