Iron Maiden - The Talisman (Lyrics) [NOT HIGH PITCHED!]

The Final Frontier is English band Iron Maiden's 15th full lenght album and it is the longest studio album to date. It is their first studio album since A Matter Of Life And Death (2006), marking the longest gap between two consecutive Maiden Studio album (nearly 4 years).


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Lyrics:

When I stand and look
About the port
And contemplate my life
Will I Ever see my countrymen again?
As the captain calls us on the deck
I take my things and walk
To the harbourside
I glance back
One last time

Fleeing our nation
Our problems we leave behind
Ships by the tenfold sail
Out on the tide
We are pleased to be out
And embracing the open sea
Free from our troubles
And more free from thee

Inheritors unfulfilled reason
Behind us
We flee from what is not
What is will be
We flee the earth
And face our harsh reality
Will death be low mist
That hangs on the sea?

We run from the evil tongues
Rash judgements, selfish men
Never to be seen
On these shores again

As we sail into oceansize
And lose sight of land
A face of contentment
Around in the air
We're off now to
Seek all our fortunes
To the land
Of our dreams

Riding the waves
And the storm is upon us
The winds lash the sails but
The ropes keep them tight

Off in the distance
A dark cloud approaching
None could imagine
What there was to come

No, there's no one going back
No, there's no second chance
As we strap onto the side
We pray to God that we won't die

As we ride the rough seas
As we soak from the ocean waves
I just hope for all our lives
And pray that I survive

Four ships are lost
In the stormy conditions
The spirits of the sunken crews
Their phantoms follow us

Spirits, sails, they drive us on
Through the all consuming waves.
Cold mortality, no weapon
Against these ever raging seas.

Four leagues and ten and we
Hit storms again
We just can't get away from
The eye of the storm

The birds outsoar the raging storm
But we cannot escape it
Abandoned earth that we now crave
Is many leagues from safe

Holding on for our dear lives
And we're praying once again
Rotten luck or just jonahed?
The talisman is in my hand

Limbs fatigued, trembling with cold
Blinded from the sea spray salt
Clasping anything we can hold
Heaven's rain upon us falls

Twenty days without a meal
And ten without fresh water still
Those that didn't die in storms
The scurvy rest did slaughter

Westwards the tide
Westwards we sail on
Westwards the tide
Sail by the talisman

We approach the other side
Of the ocean with the tide
In our favour just for once
Welcome greeting our new land

The elation in our hearts
The excitement in our veins
As we sail towards the coastlines
Of our golden promised land

Weary limbs fatigued away
I have no life left in me
No more strength and nothing left to give
Must find the will to live

Never thought that we could make it
Truly sights of shores divine
The sickness I am dying from
Never wanted it to end this way

Westwards the tide
Westwards we sail on
Westwards the tide
Sail by the talisman

Westwards the tide
Westwards we sail on
Westwards the tide
Sail by the talisman

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[DerekShiller]

I'm intrigued by the "Not high-pitched" part in the title... anybody got more info on this? It sounds pretty much like the version I've got on my CD.

[psychomurderguitaris]

@DerekShiller It is the same as the CD version. I just put that there because every other video on Youtube have a higher pitch (people do that to avoid having trouble with copyrights). I just put that there so that people see that this video, unlike every other, is not high-pitched (CD original).

[ZurkonTheDestroyer]

where did you get the full cover art? Is it in one of the special editions?

[psychomurderguitaris]

@ZurkonTheDestroyer

No, lol, it's the last unlockable wallpaper on the Final Frontier's game.

thefinalfrontiergame(dot)com

[character8]

BEST SONG on the album in my opinion.

[fade2black20]

Great job thanks for your hard work. Yes this is my fav off the new album UP the IRON"S

[FRMmega]

I swear that when I hear this song I could draw every scene on a paper. I could film this song without making any effort. It is SO visual.

[DerekShiller]

@psychomurderguitaris This explains it all, thanks ;)

[bengativo6]

this album is great .it has that feeling that it belongs to the classic saga of iron maiden's albums.such as piece of mind,powerslave,s in time,and 7th son ..the talisman is the song that gives this album a touch of unique .this is my opinion ....

[evan32cooper]

@DaveyMurray1 Yeah Out of the Shadows didn't really impress me, and some of the other songs weren't the best but how about The Legacy and The Longest Day?

[DaveyMurray1]

@evan32cooper

I don't know, other than brighter than a thousand suns and Dave and Steve's beautiful work of Benjamin Breeg, the rest just didn't grab me. To be honest im not a fan of the material that Adrian writes, lately of course.

[evan32cooper]

@DaveyMurray1 You thought A Matter of Life and Death was a weak album? Why? I mean I know your entitled to an opinion but WHY?

[paintballlwars28]

this songs powerfull...



[DaveyMurray1]

Fuck anyone who disses Janick on his writing or his playing. He's a better song writer than Adrian. THERE I SAID IT! A matter of life and death was a weak album minus the songs dave, steve, and janick had major parts in. Although, Paschendale is bloody beautiful! Up the irons!