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LYRICS

BEST OF THE BEAST

Songs:
CD 1
CD 2
Virus
Rime Of The Ancient Mariner (Live)
Sign Of The Cross
Running Free (Live)
Man On The Edge
2 Minutes To Midnight
Afraid To Shoot Strangers (Live)
Aces High
Be Quick Or Be Dead
Where Eagles Dare
Fear Of The Dark (Live)
The Trooper
Bring Your Daughter...
...To The Slaughter

The Number Of The Beast
Holy Smoke
Run To The Hills
The Clairvoyant
Hallowed Be Thy Name
Can I Play With Madness
Wrathchild
The Evil That Men Do
Phantom Of The Opera
Heaven Can Wait
Sanctuary
Wasted Years
Strange World
Iron Maiden
  • Virus (Harris/Gers/Murray/Bayley) [6.30] There’s an evil virus that’s threatening mankind Not state of the art, a serious state of the mind The muggers, the backstabbers, the two faced elite A menace to society, a social disease Rape of the mind is a social disorder The cynics, the apathy oneupmanship order Watching beginnings of social decay Gloating or sneering at life’s disarray Eating away at your own self esteem Pouncing on every word that you might be saying Rape of the mind is a social disorder The cynics, the apathy oneupmanship order Superficially smiling a shake of the hand As soon as the back is turned treachery is planned Rape of the mind is a social disorder The cynics, the apathy oneupmanship order Watching beginnings of social decay Gloating or sneering...at life’s disarray When every good thing’s laid to waste By all the jealously and hate By all the acid wit and rapiers lies And every time you think you’re safe And when you go to turn away You know they’re sharpening all their paper knives All in your mind All in your head Trying to relate it All in your mind All in your head Trying to escape it Without a conscience they destroy And that’s a thing that they enjoy They’re a sickness that’s in all our minds They want to sink the ship and leave The way they laugh at you and me You know it happens all the time All in your mind All in your head Trying to relate it All in your mind All in your head Trying to escape it The rats in cellar you know who you are.... Or do you? Watching beginnings of social decay.....