The Bruce Dickinson Wellbeing Network

Skunkworks Live EP (1996)

Inertia

(B. Dickinson/ A. Dickson)
These are the pictures, these are the feelings from the front-line
Living in silence, feeling the deafness like heavy smoke
Smiling with strangers, counting the days, like a spring coiled up inside
Welcome to your future, welcome to your book of lies

Fingers crawl through pages, nothing changes, living here...

CHORUS:
Inertia, no wish to move at all
Inertia, everything's a stone wall
Inertia, history lets you die

A ragged pile of silent accusers
Smell the blood of strangers here
No eyes, no ears, no smell, no taste
The mouth of the maggot is full in this place

Murdered conscience, the pressure is crushing heads
like paper lanterns now
Unbreakable grip, a dead hand driving us forward to the end

Kicking through traces a thousand years from now

Inertia, no wish to think at all
Inertia, everything's a stone wall
Inertia, history lets you die

SOLO

REPEAT CHORUS (x2)


Faith

(B. Dickinson/ A. Dickson)
You knew I wouldn't go, that's why you threatened me
would I stay?
Said I was sick, I'd be alone, said my mind was at my own
I didn't run
You crawled up on your knees, a victims pretty please
Would I stay?  Would I stay?  ...and I stayed

CHORUS:
How many more times till I broke down
from my guilty mess
You taught me to hate to love you
That's because you love to hate yourself

I wish it had a happy end, like the fairy-tales pretend
there can be
But things are not the same when your life love was a game
of make believe
You get everything you want but not everything you need
and it's true, you receive what you achieve

How many screaming fights tears of rage
until it ended
How many more times till I say who I am
and don't pretend

SOLO

How many more times till I broke down
from that guilty mess
How many more times till I say who I am
and don't pretend


Innerspace

(B. Dickinson/ A. Dickson/ C. Dale)
I see the scars of action writhing round your face
Too much inactivity and home's a lonely place
Throw away your beauty cuz you know that it won't last
Throw away your present, you've been living in the past

Come on, take a trip with me across the bridge of lunacy
Fire up some beast and ride the skywaves
Don't wanna waste my time on you if you can't travel this way too
Fire up this beast, we'll ride the skywaves

I've thrown away my images, they're all so distant now
Discovery was a stranger then, welcome to my house
Whatever demons torture me I love them like a friend
Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change

I'd rather move around and be than figure out live and what it means
Fire up some beast and ride the skywaves
Don't wanna waste my time on you if you can't travel this way too
Fire up this beast, we'll ride the skywaves

SOLO

And when the fireballs work is done, and we are part of the nuclear one
The whole damn thing begins again
Our glory days have just begun, a fiery sideslip then we're gone
I'll see ya Monday morning

Any way I'm coming back
Any way I'm coming back


The prisoner

(A. Smith/ S. Harris)
I'm on the run, I kill to eat
You're starving now you're dead on your feet
Going all the way, a nature's beast
Do what I want, I'll do as I please

STICK:
Run fight to breathe it's tough
Now you see me now you don't
Break the walls I'm coming out

CHORUS I:
Not a prisoner I'm a free man
And my blood is my own now
Don't care where the past was
I know where I'm going ... out

If you kill me it's self defence
If I kill you then I call it vengeance
Spit in your eye I will defy
You'll be afraid when I call out your name

REPEAT STICK
PEPEAT CHORUS I

CHORUS II:
I'm not a number I'm a free man
I'll live my life how I want to 
You'd better scratch me from your black book
Cos I'll run rings round you

SOLO

REPEAT CHORUS I & II