Album: Iron Maiden
Produced by Will Malone
Recorded at Kingsway Studios, London
Engineered by Martin Levan
Mixed at Morgan Studios, London
Re-mastered by Simon Heyworth at Chop 'Em Out
  Band members:

Steve Harris - Bass & Vocals
Dave Murray - Guitar
Paul Di'anno - Lead Vocals
Clive Burr - Drums
Dennis Stratton - Guitar & Vocals
  Released: 14 April 1980   Chart Position: 4
Singles: Running Free & Sanctuary

Prowler
Sanctuary
Remember Tomorrow
Running Free
Phantom Of The Opera
Transylvania
Strange World
Charlotte The Harlot
Iron Maiden

Prowler

(Harris)

Walking through the city
Looking oh so pretty
I've just got to find my way,
See the lights flashing
All their legs and lashes
I've just got to find a way

Well you see me crawling through
the bushes with it open wide
What you seeing girl?
Can't you believe that feeling
Can't you believe it
Can't you believe your eyes?
It's the real thing girl

Got me feeling myself
And reeling around
Got me talking, but feel like
walking around

Repeat

Sanctuary

(Harris / Murray / Di'anno)

Out of winter came a warhorse of steel
I've never killed a woman before
but I know how it feels
I know you'd have gone insane
if you saw what I saw
So now I've got to look for
Sanctuary from the law

I met up with a stranger last night
To keep me alive
He spends all his time on gambling and guns
to survive
I know you'd have gone insane if you saw what I saw
So now I've got to look for Sanctuary from the law

*Chorus*
So give me Sanctuary from the law
And I'll be alright
Just give me Sanctuary from the law
And love me tonight . . . . . . . tonight

I know you'd have gone insane if you saw what I saw
so now I've got to look for Sanctuary from the law

*Chorus*

I can laught at the wind
I can howl at the rain
Down in the Canyon or out in the plain

I know you'd have gone insane if you saw what I saw
so now I've got to look for Sanctuary from the law

*Chorus*

Remember Tomorrow

(Harris / Di'anno)

Unchain the colours before my eyes
Yesterdays sorrows tomorrows white lies
Scan the horizon the clouds take me higher
I shall return from out of the fire

Tears for remembrance and tears for joy
Tears for somebody and this lonely boy

Out in the madness the all seeing eye
Flickers above us to light up the sky

Unchain the colours before my eyes
Yesterday's sorrows tomorrows white lies
Scan the horizon the clouds take me higher
I shall return from out of the fire

Oh oh yeah, oh oh yeah, oh oh yeah

Running Free

(Harris / Di'anno)

Just sixteen a pickup truck
Out of money, out of luck
I got no place to call my own
Hit the gas and here I go

I'm Running Free yeah, I'm Running Free
I'm Running Free yeah, I'm Running Free

Spent the night in an L.A. jail
Listened to the sirens wail
But they ain't got a thing on me
I'm running wild, I'm Running Free

I'm Running Free yeah, I'm Running Free
I'm Running Free yeah, I'm Running Free

Pulled her at the Bottle Top
Whiskey dancing disco hop
And all the boys are after me
And that's the way it's gonna be

I'm Running Free yeah, I'm Running Free
I'm Running Free yeah, I'm Running Free

Phantom Of The Opera

(Harris)

I been looking so long for you now
You won't get away from my grasp
You've been living so long in hidding,
Hidding behind that false mask

You know and I know that you ain't got
that long tu last
Your looks and your feelings are just the
remains of your past.

Standing in the wings there,
you wait for the curtain to fall
Knowing the terror and holding
you have on us all

I know that you're going to scratch me
and maim me and maul
You know I'm helpless from you
mesmerising cat call

Keep your distance,
walk away don't take it bait
Don't you stay, don't youl fade away.

Watch your step, he's out to get you
Come what may
Don't you stay, from the narrow way

I'm running and hiding,
in my dreams you're always there
You're the Phantom of the Opera,
you're the devil you're just out to scare.

You damaged my mind and my soul
it just floats through the air
You haunt me, you taunt me, you torture me
back at your lair.

 

Transylvania

(Instrumental)

Strange World

(Harris)

The only place where you can dream
Living here is not what it seems
Ship of white light in the sky
Nobody there to reason why.

Here I am, I'm not really there
Smiling faces ever so rare
Let's walk in deepest space
Living here just isn't the place

Repeat

Leaves of green grasses twine
Girls drinking plasma wine
Look at love a dream unfolds
Living here you'll never grow old.

Stalks of light grow from the ground
When I cry there isn't a sound
All my feelings cannot be held
I'm happy in my new strange world.

Charlotte The Harlot

(Harris)

Giving a swish with your arse in the air,
Don't you know what they're saying?
Charlotte you're so refined,
When you take all the love that you're giving.

Sticking with every man you find,
Don't you know what they're after?
Charlotte you got your legs in the air
Don't you hear all their laughter?

Charlotte the harlot - show me your leg
Charlotte the harlot - Take me to bed
Charlotte the harlot - Let me see blood
Charlotte the harlot - Let me see love

There was a time when you left me
standing there
Picking up pieces of love from the floor.
Well Charlotte you left me alone in there,
To make your ends as a bloody whore.

Well Charlotte you told me you loved me true.
Picking up pieces of love yesterday.
Well Charlotte your drawers are off color too
'Cause you're making love all day.

Taking so many men to your room,
Don't you feel no remorse.
You charge them a fiver only for starters,
And ten the main course.
You've got no feelings,
They died long ago.
Don't you care who you let in
Don't you know you're breaking the law,
With the service you're giving.

Charlotte the harlot - show me your leg
Charlotte the harlot - Take me to bed
Charlotte the harlot - Let me see blood
Charlotte the harlot - Let me see love

Iron Maiden

(Harris)

Won't you come into my room
I want show you all my wares
I just want to see your blood
I just want to stand and stare

See the blood begin to flow,
As it falls upon the floor,
Iron Maiden can't be fought
Iron Maiden can't be sought

Oh well, wherever, wherever you are,
Iron Maiden's gonna get you
No matter how far,
See the blood flow, watching it shed
Up above my head
Iron Maiden wants you for dead.

Won't you come into my room
I want show you all my wares
I just want to see your blood
I just want to stand and stare

See the blood begin to flow,
As it falls upon the floor,
Iron Maiden can't be fought
Iron Maiden can't be sought

Oh well, wherever, wherever you are,
Iron Maiden's gonna get you
No matter how far,
See the blood flow, watching it shed
Up above my head
Iron Maiden wants you for dead.

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