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CD vyšlo v rámci edice The First Ten Years 16. 4. 1990
Obsahuje dva původní singly + bonus
The Clairvoyant
Původní datum vydání: 7. 1. 1988
Singl při příležitosti vydání alba: Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
Produced by Tony Wilson & Martin Birch
Sleeve Illustration Derek Riggs
Photography Ross Halfin
Všechny skladby nahrány na živo na festivalu Monsters Of Rock, Donington Park, 20. 8. 1988
Infinite Dreams
Původní datum vydání: 6. 11. 1989
Singl při příležitosti vydání alba: Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
Produced, Engeneered & Mixed by Martin Birch
Illustration Derek Riggs
Všechny skladby nahrány na živo v Birminghanu 27. a 28. 11. 1988
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Sestava
Bruce Dickinson- zpěv
Dave Murray - kytara
Adrian Smith - kytara
Steve Harris - basykata
Nicko McBrain- bicí
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1. The Clairvoyant (Live) (Harris)
2. The Prisoner (Live) (Smith, Harris)
3. Heaven Can Wait (Live) (Harris)
4. Infinite Dreams (Live) (Harris)
5. Killers (Live) (Di'Anno, Harris)
6. Still Life (Live) (Murray, Harris)
7. Listen With Nicko! Part X
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The Clairvoyant [4:24] (Harris)
Feel the sweat break on my brow
Is it me or is it shadows that are dancing on the walls?
Is this a dream or is it now?
Is this a vision or normality I see before my eyes?
I wonder why I wonder how
That it seems the power's getting stronger every day
I feel a strength an inner fire
But I'm scared I won't be able to control it anymore
There's a time to live and a time to die when it's time to meet the maker
There's a time to live but isn't it strange that as soon as you're born you're dying
There's a time to live and a time to die when it's time to meet the maker
There's a time to live but isn't it strange that as soon as you're born you're dying
Just by looking in through your eyes
He could see the future penetrating right in through your mind
See the truth and see your lies
But for all his power couldn't foresee his own demise
There's a time to live and a time to die when it's time to meet the maker
There's a time to live but isn't it strange that as soon as you're born you're dying
There's a time to live and a time to die when it's time to meet the maker
There's a time to live but isn't it strange that as soon as you're born you're dying...
...and reborn again?
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The Prisoner [6:07] (Smith, Harris)
We want information... information... information...
Who are you? – The new number two.
Who is number one? – You are number six.
I am not a number! I am a free man!
I'm on the run I kill to eat
I'm starving now feeling dead on my feet
Going all the way I'm nature's beast
Do what I want I'll do as I please
Run, fight, to breathe it's tough
Now you see me now you don't break the walls I'm coming out
Not a prisoner I'm a free man and my blood is my own now
Don't care where the past was I know where I'm going... Out!
If you kill me it's self defence
If I kill you then I call it vengeance
Spit in your eye I will defy
You'll be afraid when I call out your name
Run, fight, to breathe it's gonna be tough
Now you see me now you don't break the walls, I'm coming out
Not a prisoner I'm a free man and my blood is my own now
Don't care where the past was I know where I'm going
Not a number I'm a free man I'll live my life how I want to
You'd better scratch me from your black book 'cause I'll run rings around you
Not a prisoner I'm a free man and my blood is my own now
Don't care where the past was I know where I'm going
Not a number I'm a free man live my life where I want to
You'd better scratch me from your black book 'cause I'll run rings around you
Not a prisoner I'm a free man and my blood is my own now
Don't care where the past was I know where I'm going
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Heaven Can Wait [7:08] (Harris)
Can't understand what is happening to me
This isn't real this is only a dream
But I never have felt, no I never have felt this way before
I'm looking down on my body below
I lie asleep in the midst of a dream
Is it now could it be the Angel of Death has come for me
I can't believe that really my time has come
I don't feel ready there's so much left undone
And it's my soul and I'm not gonna let it get away
Heaven can wait, heaven can wait, heaven can wait
Heaven can wait 'til another day
Heaven can wait, heaven can wait, heaven can wait
Heaven can wait 'til another day
I have a lust for the earth below
And hell itself is my only foe
'Cause I've no fear of dying, I'll go when I'm good and ready
I snatch a glimpse of the light's eternal rays
I see a tunnel I stand amazed
At all of the people standing there in front of me
Into the paths of rightness I'll be led
Is this the place where the living join the dead?
I wish I knew this was only just a nightmare
Heaven can wait, heaven can wait, heaven can wait
Heaven can wait 'til another day
Heaven can wait, heaven can wait, heaven can wait
Heaven can wait 'til another day
Take my hand I'll lead you to the promised land
Take my hand I'll give you immortality
Eternal youth I'll take you to the other side
To see the truth the path for you is decided
My body tingles and I feel so strange
I feel so tired I feel so drained
And I'm wondering if I'll ever be the same again
Is this in limbo or Heaven or Hell?
Maybe I'm going down there as well
I can't accept my soul will drift forever
I feel myself floating back down to Earth
So could this be the hour of my rebirth?
Or have I died or will I wake from dreaming?
Heaven can wait, heaven can wait, heaven can wait
Heaven can wait 'til another day
Heaven can wait, heaven can wait, heaven can wait
Heaven can wait 'til another day
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Infinite Dreams (live) (Harris)
This is a song called 'Infinite Dreams', this one.
Infinite dreams I can't deny them, infinity is hard to comprehend
I couldn't hear those screams even in my wildest dreams
Suffocation waking in a sweat, scared to fall asleep again
In case the dream begins again
Here we go!
Someone chasing I cannot move, standing rigid a nightmare's statue
What a dream when will it end and will I transcend?
Restless sleep the minds in turmoil, one nightmare ends another fertile
Getting to me so scared to sleep but scared to wake now, in too deep
Even though its reached new heights I rather like the restless nights
It makes me wonder it makes me think there's more to this I'm on the brink
It's not the fear of what's beyond it's just that I might not respond
I have an interest almost craving but would I like to get too far in?
It can't all be coincidence too many things are evident
You tell me you're an unbeliever, spiritualist? Well me I'm neither
But wouldn't you like to know the truth of what's out there to have the proof
And find out just which side you're on, where would you end in Heaven or in Hell?
Help me – help me to find my true self without seeing the future
Save me – save me from torturing myself even within my dreams
(Solo: Dave Murray)
(Solo: Adrian Smith)
There's got to be just more to it than this or tell me why do we exist
I'd like to think that when I die I'd get a chance another time
And to return and live again, reincarnate, play the game
Again and again and again and again
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Killers (live) (Di'Anno, Harris)
Alright, a song called 'Killers', this one. Yeah! It gives me some bad dreams, this one.
You walk through the subway his eyes burn a hole in your back
A footstep behind you he lunges prepared for attack
Scream for mercy he laughs as he's watching you bleed
Killer behind you his blood lust defies all his needs
My innocent victims are slaughtered with wrath and despise
The mocking religion of hatred that burns in the night
I have no one I'm bound to destroy all this greed
A voice inside me compelling to satisfy me
I can see what a knife's meant to be
And you'll never know how I came to foresee, see, see
(Solo: Dave Murray)
(Solo: Adrian Smith)
My faith in believing is stronger than lifelines and ties
With the glimmer of metal my moment is ready to strike
Death call arises a scream breaks the still of the night
Another tomorrow remember to walk in the light
I have found you and now there is no place to run
Excitement shakes me oh God help me what have I done?
Ooh yeah I've done it again!
You walk through the subway my eyes burn a hole in your back
A footstep behind you he lunges prepared for attack
Scream for mercy he laughs as he's watching you bleed
Killer behind you my blood lust defies all my needs
Oooh look out I'm coming for you
Hahahahahah!
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Still Life (live) (Murray, Harris)
Thank you!
(Solo: Dave Murray)
Take a look in the pool and what do you see
In the dark depths their faces beckoning me
Can't you see them it's plain for all to see
They were there oh I know you don't believe me
Oh... I've never felt so strange
But... I'm not going insane
I've no doubt that you think I'm off my head
You don't say but it's in your eyes instead
Hours I spend out just gazing into that pool
Something draws me there I don't know what to do
Oh... they drain my strength away
Oh... they're asking me to stay
Nightmares... spirits calling me
Nightmares... they won't leave me be
All my life's blood is slowly draining away
And I feel that I'm weaker every day
Somehow I know I haven't long to go
Joining them at the bottom of the pool
Now... I feel they are so near
I... begin to see them clear
Nightmares... coming all the time
Nightmares... will give me peace of mind
(Solo: both together)
(Solo: Adrian Smith)
(Solo: Dave Murray)
Now it's clear and I know what I have to do
I must take you down there to look at them too
Hand in hand then we'll jump right into that pool
Can't you see not just me they want you too
Oh... we'll drown together
It... will be forever
Nightmares... forever calling me
Nightmares... now we rest in peace
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Listen With Nicko! Part X
Ah Ha! Ha! Ha! Haaaa! Maybe I can get out of here now! Oh, this is Nicko's "not a lot of people know that, number ten". When I finish this I can go home! Ahahaha! Ah oh, why do I want to go home? Oh I don't know, I've been in here so long, oh I'm stuck to the chair and all that kind of good stuff... And I've had so much fun mumbling on to you guys and telling you jokes and all that stuff, and this is the last one! Well at least I can go and have a bath. Hmmmmm, it's about that time of the year anyway. Hahahaha!
Well! You despicable heathenistic civilictic God knows what else... mumbling jumbling oooh big single buying public have got in your greasy sweaty horrible... oooh! How is your stereo still spinning around and that little needle bouncing up and down in all that grime? You have got 'The Clairvoyant', 'Prisoner', 'Heaven Can Wait', released the 7th of November 1988 chart position number six! Yes! And on the other side you've got 'Infinite Dreams', 'Killers', 'Still Life' – Harris and Murray wrote that song, debuted number twelve, got to number six again! My goodness! And that was released the 6th of November 1989! Oh, here, have you just noticed something... something a bit weird about that? Yeah, I don't know whether that Eddie's got anything to do with that Seventh Son business, but those were both released... those singles, within one year of each other to the day almost. Released 7th of November '88, Infinite Dreams released 6th of November '89. A bit strange and all that...
Well look at that! Let's go on, I don't really... I started getting tingles up the back, I don't like that. Dave? Oh, get out of here. Anyway, no. Hahaha! Gee, four top ten singles in a year to two years actually. By the time you lot are listening to this, which is February, I mean as we know Can I Play With Madness was released the 2nd of March '88 and we're at the sort of end of February. That's close to two years, innit? That's bloody good I think, considering we had a year off. I mean, God bless you lot out there, I mean, you know, to not actually have done anything in a year and we pulled out like a single, you know, Infinite Dreams... And by the way that was off the new Maiden England video which we shall talk about in a minute... you know, after a year you pushed it up to number six for us, and God bless you all, because that's nice to know that you ain't forgotten us. You know.
Anyway! 'The Clairvoyant', 'Prisoner'... all live renditions, my goodness, of the most severe kind! I should know, I was there, wasn't I? Sooty was there too, did you notice? Anyway, enough of him, stupid soddy bear, he doesn't know even how to talk or anything else, stupid git! Anyway! 'The Clairvoyant', 'Prisoner', and 'Heaven Can Wait' were recorded in front of you lot as I said I believe earlier on. If I didn't, as I said again on previous "not a lot of people knows that" f'kin' too f'kin' bad! A hundred and seven thousand of ya! Wooah! At Donington on August the 20th 1988, you f'kin' lucky people, you have not only got the live renditions, you were there, probably! And there was Kiss, David Lee Roth, all kinds of people. My goodness, what a great day. Anyway, those as I say were recorded and were a special little single release for you from us lot celebrating the 20th of August for us, because that was... I told you this, we got on stage 20 minutes early for that gig. We got a guy called Dicky Bell, my goodness the... Das Fuhrer Bell we called him because he's like Hitler – right arsehole! Anyway hah! He comes in the dressing room and he goes, "right you horrible lot, you musician slime, you scumbags, you sleazeballs, get on that stage now, it's time to do your show, you lazy bastards!" All that sort of stuff, right? "Oh good afternoon Dick, or good evening Dick..." you know, yes you are on the other side of me head... off we go. We were convinced that he'd actually come in the dressing room at Donington that evening and told us to get on stage. But he actually didn't. And we got on stage and he goes, "Oi! What the f'kin' hell are you lot doing up here? Piss off my stage, get up there when I tell ya!" We said, "Look! Rumour has it we're supposed to be doing a gig. Anyway you stupid prat, you told us to get up here." "No I f'kin' didn't!" he said. We said, "You f'kin' did!" He said "I f'kin' didn't!" Boof! Stuck us in the eyeballs! Take that for openers! "Look here Dick, why the hell we up here for if somebody didn't come around..." He said, "You fucking show him off to me, I'll have a word with him... tell my band to come up here when I ain't ready!" So, we get on stage, as I said. There we are, ten minutes early and we had ten minutes before we had to get, you know, actual showtime. So! 'Cause we get up there and get warmed up the various bits, twiddly old exercises, Steve checks his bass, all the boys and that out... and Bruce goes round the back and does the various gobbing in the old facial mask thing and all that, and ah ha! Oh we all do the bits, you know.
So we actually had an extra ten minutes on stage looking at you lot standing out there waiting for us lot to come up and do it, and so... <farting noises>... "You nervous?" "No." "What was that? Loose floorboard?" "Somebody step on a duck?" "I dunno!" Cor! The air turned blue! We had all these film crews around there trying to film us, and they soon left, hahaha! They got out of there quick, they knew how to get out while the going was good, you know what I mean.
So what can I say man, what a fantastic experience! Something that will live with me for the rest of my life, no doubt about that. And, I mean we played like a cat on a tin roof, and we all thought it was a blazing gig. But we later found out and we thought the tape was running slow when we recorded it but nevertheless... enough said about that! Hahaha!
Mooooving on to 'Infinite Dreams', 'Killers', and 'Still Life'! Ohh God it's tormenting me! I'm sitting here, I'm strapping myself into this chair with the lead and cable from these headphones trying to restrain myself! My goodness! It was only a year ago that I played these songs for you with the band and all! I miss it so much! Oh gosh, it debuted at twelve and it got to number six, didn't it, not so many weeks ago! Released the 6th of November 1989, my gosh, one year to the day of The Clairvoyant's release. A bit uncanny, as I say.
Nevertheless! These three songs were taken from the band's gig at the NEC in Birmingham, which was recorded around I think November the 28th, 1988... and er... 27th I think it was... and the 28th, we did two gigs! Hah ha ho! So! What can I say? We listened... now actually Steve... let me say this, Steve directed and edited this here Maiden England video, and he set up all the camera angles and told the guys what he wanted, and it took six months to edit this piece of work, 90 minutes worth of music. And I've got to say this, he done the most stunning job I think I've ever seen, and I'm saying that... I'm saying that because... I didn't have to crawl to him because I did that last week, I've got a brown tongue and warm kneepads! Hahahah! No, serious piece of work! No, as you will agree with me, it is, isn't it? I mean, I haven't seen a music video that's so clear, so good, and well put together. It's really... I'm proud to have been on that, because it's f'kin' great. And we decided actually, when we heard the soundtrack we were really so tempted to release it as a live album again, cause it was really good and Martin recorded the band so well in that room, it was really nice. But we settled for taking a single off of it, because we thought, you know, it wasn't the right time to do another set, you know, a second live album. But you know, it means it's well... I guess for the fans without access to the video will have a souvenir of the '88 tour won't you? Because you can stick this lot on your f'kin' stereo, as long as it ain't screwed up with all the sticky horrible debauched singles you stuck on prior to this, as long as your stylus still bounces over the grooves and does all that good stuff it'll be alright won't it?
Hey, by the time you've got this lot in your hands, by the way, we shall have been in the studio working on a brand new album! Yes! Oooh, it's gonna be out later this year. And we may, or we may not, you never know, have another four top ten singles, thanks to you lot. And I'm going to work it out and say to them... say to you lot, it's about that time to wind this up. I mean, I've had such a great time speaking to you.... you... you lot! F'kin' hell! Oh dear, we'll have to do this again sometime, I'd like to. But I've got to say a few farewells to people. That's it! No, and... basically, say... thanking you lot... you greasy slugs! You... you grubby lucky little people! No I'm kidding, hahaha! Thanks for ten great fantastic Maidenesque years of boogalooing through the, you know, the lunchaloms of this business... getting up there and giving it all the good old heavy metal welly, which we need more of! Lots of big heavy metal wellies everywhere, squashing all that grief stuff, all that rap shit and all that good crap that's out there that that Bleedin Bojack Company play all the time and that fucking Mighty Tight Veg 'cause they haven't got a clue anymore have they? Anyway! Toodle-do to you lot! Thanks a lot to the guv'nor, 'Arry Harris, and Dave Murray, Adrian Smith and Bruce Dickinson, and the guv'nor Rod Smallwood, Andy Taylor, and all the boys... Tony Wiggins, Dick Bell, and everybody else who's involved, my drum tech especially, Gadsy! And EMI, for whom without them I wouldn't be here talking to you lot, mumbling and jumbling, and you wouldn't have had f'kin' half a dozen, seven or eight, f'kin' albums of the band, all that good stuff, to be mumbling jumbling and listening to. So, as I said... oh yeah, is it, no... I was going to tell you a joke, but I've decided I've run out of them, and they ain't very funny anyway, so bollocks! That's all I can say to that! And as I say, and as 'Arry Harris says, as he says it very well, "there's only one 'um, and that's fuck'um!" So, God bless ya, and I'll see ya... if I don't see you in the spring, as I said on one of the other "not alot of people know that", I'll see you in the mattress!
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