Flash Of The Blade

Album: Powerslave (1984)
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  • As a young boy chasing dragons
    With your wooden sword so mighty
    You're St. George or you're David and you always killed the beast
    Times change very quickly and you had to grow up early
    A house in smoking ruins and the bodies at your feet

    You'll die as you lived
    In a flash of the blade
    In a corner forgotten by no one
    You lived for the touch
    For the feel of the steel
    One man and his honor

    The smell of resined leather, the steely iron mask
    As you cut and thrust and parried at the fencing master's call
    He taught you all he ever knew, to fear no mortal man
    And now you'll wreak your vengeance in the screams of evil man

    You'll die as you lived
    In a flash of the blade
    In a corner forgotten by no one
    You lived for the touch
    For the feel of the steel
    One man and his honor

    You'll die as you lived
    In a flash of the blade
    In a corner forgotten by no one
    You lived for the touch
    For the feel of the steel
    One man and his honor

    You'll die as you lived
    In a flash of the blade
    In a corner forgotten by no one
    You lived for the touch
    For the feel of the steel
    One man and his honor Writer/s: Bruce Dickinson
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

  • Dan Gillespy from Courtenay BcMy favorite Iron Maiden song.
  • Shantell from Tijuana, Mexicowow!!,i was looking for the name of the movie where this tune iis used as soundtrack,thnx!!!
  • Charlie from Bozeman, Mti dont think that there was a bad track on powerslave.i wore out at least 3 copies of it on cassette.worth every penny and then some
  • Ashley from City, IaA7X covered this? Really? Excuse me while I go bomb one of their concerts.
  • Alex from Paphos, Cyprusthis song is amazing. one of my favourites, beaten only by Hallowed Be Thy Name, Ghost of the Navigator, and Fear of the Dark i especially like the intro.
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