Bruce Dickinson - Real World

Real World is a bonus track by Bruce Dickinson from his album, The Chemical Wedding. (1998)

Track 12

Lyrics:

How many lifetimes, how many beginnings
How many lovers, how many threats
How many religions to keep us all guessing
Give me a reason. Why? Hell is a reason. Why?

The real world, you've got to fight to see it through
The real world, it's not the cages in the zoo
The real world, is buried underneath your feet
The real world, the real world

Too many people try to sell you their cages
Gilding the bars 'til the jailer arrives
If living in zoos is your idea of outrageous
Don't pick any animal, I'll be the wild one

The real world, you've got to fight to see it through
The real world, it's likes the cages in the zoo
The real world can leave you hanging by a thread
The real world, the real world

The real world, you've got to fight to see it through
The real world, it's likes the cages in the zoo
The real world can leave you hanging by a thread
The real world, the real world
[x2]

The real world, the real world [x2]

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Bruce
• Dickinson
• The
• Chemical
• Wedding
• Real
• World
• Bonus
• Track
• 1998

[Scraeter]

Bruce Dickinson trivia: This song also appears on the 2 disc version of the "best of bruce dickinson" album. If you listen to his "talking" track, he explains that when they mixed this song, they accidentally very-speeded it, and it came out about half an octave higher than it should have, and made bruce's vocals go very high (he describes it as if it sounds like someone's "Biting his nuts" while he sings)

Still a fantastic song, one of my favorite bruce tracks

[LauroLicce]

Bruce Dickinson...

Perfect!

[spaciee89]

bruce is one of the most inspiring people on this planet :D

[ricardoleony]

roy z is a genius



[spaciee89]

not only great music, also great lyrics, as usual..

[omarmusictube]

@leandroprete Not unless the instruments and vocals are recorded separately. That technique is done often these days, and I'm fairly certain it was used in Number of the Beast. Agreed, I'm always learning something new about metal!

[leandroprete]

@omarmusictube If the vocals were half step higher, the instruments would have to be as well, or the pitch difference would make you vomit when you hear it. Flight of Icarus is tuned to F#m, and that's how they play it live!

Heavy Metal is really full of myths...

[leandroprete]

Even I bite my own nuts when I hear this song!!!

[omarmusictube]

@Scraeter The song "Flight of Icarus" was fixed one octave higher than the recording, so Bruce Dickinson has to get to that octave whenever they play it live. I think I read it in a book or saw it in one of their documentaries once.. maybe their Number of the Beast documentary. It's not on wikipedia so... I can't really link it to you. Sorry.

[Scraeter]

@omarmusictube actually im not sure what you mean. care to enlighten me?

[omarmusictube]

@Scraeter Just like Flight of Icarus, huh? lol

[Scraeter]

@aezeon yup, i messed up. i meant to say half a step, accidentally said half an octave. whoops. Sorry, my mistake. if possible, i'll try to find the "talking" track i mentioned earlier (two years ago...wow) and post it as a reply.