Balls to Picasso (1994)
Cyclops
(B. Dickinson/ Roy Z)We all have secret lives in our secret rooms Living in our movies humming our own tunes Living life in camera When the night is closing down Sliding into darkness You could be like me CHORUS: Where are you going? What are you doing? Why are you looking at the cameras eye? Where are you staying? Why are you leaving? We watch you breathing through the cameras eye We all make up our faces The make up of the clown Happy leaving traces of our childish background, Pointing at the sky We can watch the stars You think you're all alone but you never are REPEAT CHORUS BRIDGE: They ain't watching you, they ain't watching you now (x2) SOLO REPEAT BRIDGE Where are you going? What are you doing? Why are you looking at the cameras eye? Political sleazers Sexual divas We watch your heart beat through the cameras eye. (x2) REPEAT CHORUS
Hell no
(B. Dickinson/ Roy Z)There's a secret that we all share in the darkest hours of the night You can swear on your bible Cut the throat of your rival BRIDGE: I've been taking my life in my hands and I'm making new plans, yeah Now I'm starting my life on my own in the virgin unknown Hell, hell no Oh, were do we belong? In this place where we fight Oh, were do we belong? There's a place in the misty air not a million miles from here You can make it your own place You can change your own face REPEAT BRIDGE Hell, hell no Oh, were do we belong? In this place where we fight Oh, were did we go wrong? Screaming hell, hell no Oh, were do we belong? In this place where we fight Oh, were do we go wrong? SOLO If you can't really say what you don't really know, then you don't really know what you can't really say (x4) Screaming out hell no Shouting out hell no On his knees singing hell no Defiant as hell no On the streets singing hell no Still looking for hell no On his knees saying hell no, hell no one, two, three, four Hell, hell no Oh, were do we belong? In this place where we fight Oh, were did we go wrong? Screaming hell, hell no Oh, were do we belong? In this place where we fight Oh, were did we go wrong?
Gods of war
(B. Dickinson/ Roy Z)When I was younger I thought that to kill or be killed was a thing to be proud of Victim of chance, prisoner of hope, hang by the neck on the end of a rope I don't know, I don't care CHORUS: Oh, one of the damned Oh, part of the plan Cry oh-oh-oh, the gods of war They'll howl and cry for more Cry oh-oh-oh, the gods of war They'll howl and cry for more Now taking both sides at a time on the front line You can join in their fear share in the bloodshed Investing your money in guns, the infinite fun of the warlord you saved from a rusty grave REPEAT CHORUS SOLO Cry oh-oh-oh, the gods of war They'll howl and cry for more Cry oh-oh-oh, the gods of war They howl and cry for more
1000 points of light
(B. Dickinson/ Roy Z)You can sail in the desert with a ship of fools You can smuggle in Moses and his book of rules But you can't take mother and give her back her son What kind of freedom is bought with a gun People like to build their prison walls when they're afraid to look inside CHORUS: A thousand points of light are the muzzle flashes in the night And the freedoms you profess to hold won't bring the dead back from the cold Political speeches, they're lying in the mud Nothing else matters but money and blood Tyranny of freedom is do what you like There's a world gone crazy cause it can't say no People like to build their prison walls when they're afraid to look inside REPEAT CHORUS A thousand points of light are the muzzle flashes in the night And the freedoms you profess to hold won't bring the dead back from the cold [Spoken] "What is it that produces the light? What is it that makes these thousand points of light shine? What is it that will make America a kinder and gentler nation? Perhaps I should ask who, who is it?" SOLO There should be time for love but there's too much room for hate Too much sliding of the truth Too much abuse of wasted youth There's a time for dying and a time for living to Had enough of media lies Had enough of your alibis REPEAT CHORUS (x2)
Laughing in the hiding bush
(B. Dickinson/ Roy Z/ A. Dickinson)There's a sinister game that children play when they get to the end of each school day They spend their lives getting ready for the kill CHORUS: Laughing in the hiding bush The joker is back Laughing in the hiding bush The joker is back Who remembers the names of fallen heroes? Who remembers today to fly their flags? I couldn't say I loved you like I did before Laughing in the hiding bush The joker is back Laughing in the hiding bush It's a laughing attack The joker is back He's wild in the pack The joker is back Laughing in the hiding in the kicking in the bush SOLO REPEAT CHORUS Laughing in the hiding bush He's wild in the pack Laughing in the hiding bush The joker is back
Change of heart
(B. Dickinson/ Roy Z)Here I sit, alone at a window The rain falls down on the glass in the cold All my life I've been waiting for a moment It never came, maybe never will Sometimes I don't know Those days are gone Lord I hide where I just can't say I'm still there catching your tears before they fall to the ground CHORUS: You, you're walking away You couldn't stay You need a change of heart You, you're walking away You couldn't stay You need a change of heart Trees are bare, the earth it is hard I wait for winter, soft winter and snow Those days are gone Now I hide where I just can't say I'll be there catching your tears before they fall to the ground REPEAT CHORUS And I know, wherever you go I'l be around I'll be there catching your tears before they fall to the ground SOLO Those days are gone Now I hide where I just can't say I'm still there watching your tears as they fall to the ground REPEAT CHORUS (fade out)
Shoot all the clowns
(B. Dickinson/ Roy Z)CHORUS: Shoot, shoot, shoot all the clowns (x2) I've been down at the crazy house I've been playing with the cat and the mouse Up and down, up and down I've seen the crazy people running around BRIDGE: Shoot all the clowns Shoot 'em down, shoot 'em down, shoot 'em down (x2) Welcome to the circus where I fool around I got the killer smile, I'm a killer clown Cover up your face, you've been found out You laugh when there's nothing to smile about REPEAT BRIDGE REPEAT CHORUS SOLO Wanna gimme money, well you better get ready I'm a certified friend of John Paul Getty I'm a fat stargazer, I'm an all night raver I'm an anything you wanna be, If I can get your sympathy Welcome to the circus, I'm the killer clown Welcome to the circus, hey, gather round Two sides to life, two sides to fun The one who does it and the one who gets done REPEAT BRIDGE REPEAT CHORUS (fade out)
Fire
(B. Dickinson/ Roy Z/ E. Casillas)Always let you down Always fooled around Always stealing your own way Life just seems too short Life lived in the dirt Kicked in the teeth, is that what you meant to say? Fighting battles, never fired a shot CHORUS: If you step into the fire you're gonna get burned Hide all the money you saved Money won't pay for the trouble you cause Trouble's coming back for more Living on the edge A blind man kneels on broken class Building the bars of his own cage Run in circles till you drop Hating life until it stops Kicked in the teeth, is what you meant to say? Fighting battles, never fired a shot REPEAT CHORUS (x2) SOLO Run in circles till you drop Hating life until it stops Kicked in the teeth, is what you meant to say? Fighting battles, never fired a shot REPEAT CHORUS (fade out)
Sacred cowboys
(B. Dickinson/ Roy Z)With a sense of irony everyone you see is chasing their illusions Take a drive and sink or swim, but in the end you're in the same pollution In your world escape is swift, the nonsense list is all you need to know In the land of dreams, you make the right connections, then you'll be the hero Ecstasy, the cult of me provides our institutions You can live forever with a grave that stand where people used to function You can join the saviours of our culture, vultures circling overhead my sky Like the sin of gluttony won't set you free, but Betty Ford can help you try You can get all the things you never needed You can sell people crap and make them eat it CHORUS: Where is our John Wayne? Where is our sacred cowboys now? Where are the indians on the hill? There's no indians left to kill People die with oxygen and all their money can't afford a breath People starving everywhere and staring in the face of death Prostitutes and politicians laying in the bed together You can be the saviour of the poor making up the policies to open the back door You can get all the things you never needed You can sell people crap and make them eat it REPEAT CHORUS (x2) SOLO You can get all the things you never needed You can sell people crap and make them eat it REPEAT CHORUS (x2)
Tears of the dragon
(B. Dickinson)For too long now there were secrets in my mind For too long now there were things I should have said In the darkness I was stumbling for the door To find a reason, to find the time, the place, the hour Waiting for the winter sun, and the cold light of day The misty ghosts of childhood fears The pressure is building and I can't stay away CHORUS: I throw myself into the sea Release the wave, let it wash over me To face the fear I once believed The tears of the dragon, for you and for me Where I was I had wings that couldn't fly Where I was I had tears I couldn't cry My emotions frozen in an icy lake I couldn't feel them until the ice began to break I have no power over this, you know I'm afraid The walls I built are crumbling The water is moving, I'm slipping away REPEAT CHORUS SOLO Slowly I awake Slowly I rise The walls I built are crumbling The water is moving, I'm slipping away REPEAT CHORUS (x2)