Performed by IRON MAIDEN.
Taken from the album PIECE OF MIND.
Opening-riff:
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Verse:
You killed your first man at 13
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Killer instict, animal supreme
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Riff 2:
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Chorus:
Sunlight, falling on your steel. Death in life is…
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..your ideal, life is like a wheel
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End of chorus.
Riff 3:
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End of riff 3.
Solo-riff:
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Riff 4:
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End of riff 4.
Song-structure:
Opening-riff
Verse
Riff 2
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Chorus (2 times)
Riff 2
Verse
Riff 2
Verse
Riff 2
Chorus (2 times)
Riff 3 (2 times)
Solo-riff (3 times)
Riff 4
Chorus (4 times)
END
Lyrics:
You killed your first man at 13,
Killer instinct, animal supreme,
By 16 you had learned to fight
The way of the warrior, you took it as your right.
Chorus:
Sunlight, falling on your steel,
Death in life is your ideal,
Life is like a wheel, rolling on and on
Through earth and water, fire and wind,
You came at last-nothing was the end,
Make a cut by fire and stones,
Take you and your blade and brake you both
in two-break you both in two