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Singl při příležitosti vydání alba: Virtual XI
Datum vydání: 9. 3. 1998
track 1 & 4 produced and mixed by Steve Harris & Nigel Green At Barnyard Studios, Essex
track 2 & 3 produced by Steve Harris
Mastered At Chop Em Out
Keyboard On The Angel And The Gambler Played by Steve Harris
Eddie Apeears Courtesy Of Ed Hunter
Cover by Synthetic Dimensions
Layout by Hugh Gilmour @ diablo design
Součástí singlu je plákát kapely s fotbalovými hvězdami
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Sestava
Blaze Bayley- zpěv
Dave Murray - kytara
Janick Gers - kytara
Steve Harris - basykata
Nicko McBrain- bicí
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Seznam skladeb
part I
1. The Angel And The Gambler - full album version (Harris)
2. Blood On The World's Hands - live version (Harris), recorded live in Gothenburg 1. 11. 1995
3. Afraid To Shoot Strangers - enhanced multimedia section (Harris)
jednodisková verze
1. The Angel And The Gambler - edited version (Harris)
2. Blood On The World's Hands - live version (Harris), recorded live in Gothenburg 1. 11. 1995
3. The Aftermath - live version (Harris, Bayley, Gers), recorded live in Gothenburg 1. 11. 1995
4. Man On The Edge - enhanced video (Bayley, Gers), live video filmed in Malada, Israel, On The X-Factour
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Texty
The Angel And The Gambler (Harris)
Roll of the dice, take a spin of the wheel
Out of your hands now, so how do you feel
But you're not gonna win, you'd better go back again
Do you feel lucky or do you feel scared
Take what luck brings and be devil may care
But you're down on your luck and what will the next day bring
Adrift on the ocean, afloat in a daydream
Or lost in a maze, or blind in the haze
So what does it matter, so why don't you answer
So why did you send an angel to mend
Best make decisions before it's too late
Take all your chances take hold of the reins
A roll of the dice, ahead of the game again
Nothing to lose but so much to gain
A little danger, it goes without saying
But what do you care, you're gonna go in the end
Gate open to heaven is ready and waiting
Or straight down to hell, can go there as well
I'll suffer my craving, my soul's not worth saving
So why don't you go, just leave well alone
Don't you think I'm the saviour
Don't you think I could save you
Don't you think I could save your life
There's like a hunger that knocks on your door
You've had a taste of it, still you want more
You've made your mistakes, won't play it the same again
You have been warned but still you plunge in
You play high stakes but there's nothing to win
You've only one life and so many things to learn
The Angel on one side, the Devil the other
Which path do you take? Decisions to make
Arrive at the crossroads, you know where you're going
And what if you wait, it may be too late
Don't you think I'm the saviour
Don't you think I could save you
Don't you think I could save your life
Don't you think I'm the saviour
Don't you think I could save you
Don't you think I could save your life
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Blood On The World's Hands (Harris)
Sometimes it makes me wonder, sometimes it makes me question
Sometimes it makes me saddened, always it makes me angry
But when you can see it happening, the madness that's all around you
Nobody seems to worry, the world seems so powerless to act
It's out of control, blood on the world's hands
Each day a new toll
Another assassination, the same day a new creation
What are they coming into, security of a world that brings
One day another killing, somewhere there's someone starving
Another a savage raping, meanwhile there's someone laughing at us
It's out of control, blood on the world's hands
Each day it goes on
Blood on the world's hands, blood on the world's hands
Blood on the world's hands, blood on the world's hands
Blood on the world's hands, blood on the world's hands
Blood on the world's hands, blood on the world's hands
Brutality and aggression, tomorrow another lesson
Expecting another air raid, praying for a cease fire
They say things are getting better, no need to be complacent
There's chaos across the border and one day it could be happening to us
It's out of control, blood on the world's hands
It's our epitaph
It's out of control, someone should know
Blood on the world's hands
Someone should
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The Aftermath (Harris, Bayley, Gers)
Silently to silence fall
In the fields of futile war
Toys of death are spitting lead
Where boys that were our soldiers bled
war horse and war machine
Curse the name of liberty
Marching on as if they should
Mix in the dirt our brothers' blood
In the mud and rain
What are we fighting for
Is it worth the pain is it worth dying for
Who will take the blame
Why did they make a war
Questions that come again
Should we be fighting at all
Once a ploughman hitched his team
Here he sowed his little dream
Now bodies arms and legs are strewn
Where mustard gas and barbwire bloom
Each moment's like a year
I've nothing left inside for tears
Comrades dead or dying lie
I'm left alone asking why
In the mud and rain
What are we fighting for
Is it worth the pain is it worth dying for
Who will take the blame
Why did they make a war
Questions that come again
Should we be fighting at all
After the war,Left feeling no one has won
After the war,What does a soldier become
After the war,Left feeling no one has won
After the war,What does a soldier become
What is at home when the battles are done
After the war when no one has won
I'm just a soldier
After the war,Left feeling no one has won
After the war,What does a soldier become
After the war,Left feeling no one has won
After the war,What does a soldier become
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Man On The Edge (Bayley, Gers)
The freeway is jammed and it's backed up for miles
The car is an oven and baking is wild
Nothing is ever the way it should be
What we deserve we just don't get you see
A briefcase, a lunch and a man on the edge
Each step gets closer to losing his head
Is someone in heaven are they looking down
'Cause nothing is fair just you look around
Falling down, falling down, falling down
Falling down, falling down, falling down
He's sick of waiting of lying like this
There's a hole in the sky for the angels to kiss
Branded a leper because you don't fit
In the land of the free you just live by your wits
Once he built missiles a nation's defence
Now he can't even give birthday presents
Across the city he leaves in his wake
A glimpse of the future a cannibal state
Falling down, falling down, falling down
Falling down, falling down, falling down
The freeway is jammed and it's backed up for miles
The car is an oven and baking is wild
Nothing is ever the way it should be
What we deserve we just don't get you see
A briefcase, a lunch and a man on the edge
Each step gets closer to losing his head
Is someone in heaven are they looking down
'Cause nothing is fair just you look around
Falling down, falling down, falling down
Falling down, falling down, falling down
Falling down, falling down, falling down
Falling down, falling down, falling down
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Afraid To Shoot Strangers (Harris)
Lying awake at night I wipe the sweat from my brow
But it's not the fear 'cause I'd rather go now
Trying to visualise the horrors that will lay ahead
The desert sand mound a burial ground
When it comes to the time, are we partners in crime?
When it comes to the time, we'll be ready to die
God let us go now and finish what's to be done
Thy Kingdom come, thy shall be done... on Earth
Trying to justify to ourselves the reasons to go
Should we live and let live, forget or forgive?
But how can we let them go on this way?
The reign of terror corruption must end
And we know deep down there's no other way
No trust, no reasoning, no more to say
(4:01 – Solo: Janick Gers)
Afraid, afraid to shoot strangers
Afraid, afraid to shoot strangers
Afraid, afraid to shoot strangers
Afraid, afraid to shoot strangers
Afraid, afraid to shoot strangers
Afraid, afraid to shoot strangers
(5:25 – Solo: Dave Murray)
Afraid to shoot strangers
Afraid to shoot strangers
Afraid to shoot strangers
Afraid to shoot strangers
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