Bruce Dickinson - Book of Thel

An amazing song by Bruce Dickinson's (from Iron Maiden) solo career. The riffs in this one are golden! Buy his album 'The Chemical Wedding'. His best, and one of THE best.

Paul Bruce Dickinson (born August 7, 1958 in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England) is a British singer, airline pilot, radio show host, DJ, Historian, television presenter, fencer and songwriter, best known as the lead singer in the iconic heavy metal band Iron Maiden. According to All Music Guide, Dickinson "was the most acclaimed and instantly recognizable vocalist to emerge from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement of the early-'80s".

The Chemical Wedding, a semi-concept album on alchemy and the writings of William Blake followed. This record proved to be even more successful than his previous album, Accident of Birth, with engaging lyrics and powerful songs. Scream for Me Brazil was a live album that documented a show of the Chemical Wedding tour, and featured songs from the last two albums and two from Balls to Picasso.

LYRICS:

The mark is on you now
The furnace sealed inside your head
Melting from the inside now
Waxy tears run down your face

The whore that never told her tale
Relives it every night with you
Far off stands the lamb and waits
For the wolf to come and end its life

Stand inside the temple
As the book of Thel is opening
The priestess stands before you
Offering her hand out, she's rising

Come the dawning of the dead
In famine and in war
Now the harlot womb of death
Spits out its rotten core

Serpent on the altar now
Has wrapped itself around your spine
So you look into its mouth
And you kiss the pearly fangs divine

Happy that your end is swift
The weeping virgin cries in bliss
The snake and priestess, they are one
The veil of flesh is ripped undone

Stand inside the temple
As the book of Thel is opening
The priestess stands before you
Offering her hand out, she's rising

Come the dawning of the dead
In famine and in war
Now the harlot womb of death
Spits out its rotten core
By the pricking of my thumbs
Something wicked this way comes
And when sleep takes you tonight
Will you wake to see the light...?

(woah-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
(woah-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
(oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
(oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)

The burning sweat of poison tears
The river flowing red with blood
The cradle - robbing hand of death
Caresses every dreaming head

Waiting for the marriage hearse
To take you to the funeral pyre
So you burn the family tree
The generations burning higher

Stand inside the temple
As the book of Thel is opening
The priestess stands before you
Offering her hand out, she's rising

Come the dawning of the dead
In famine and in war
Now the harlot womb of death
Spits out its rotten core
By the pricking of my thumbs
Something wicked this way comes
And when sleep takes you tonight
Will you wake to see the light

By the dawning of the dead...
By the dawning of the dead...
By the dawning of the dead...
By the dawning of the dead...

[ Spoken: ]

"What demon hath formed this
abominable void...
This soul-shuddering vacuum?"

"Some said it is Urizen -
But unknown, abstracted, brooding secret
The dark power hid"

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• Metal
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• Dickinson
• Book
• of
• Thel
• The
• Chemical
• Wedding
• ballstomping
• riffs

[MattC10C]

Real maiden fans listen to bruces solo career aswell as MAIDEN

[nessamorgoth]

William Blake + Bruce Dickinson = Orgasmic

[elkikeman882]

@verythrax no... ...Iron Maiden live on!!!

[verythrax]

Sad that's no Iron Maiden song capable of holding a candle near the heaviness of this song.

[kidinago]

Nice song, greethings from chile

[AssassinBR96]

3:25 Epic bass

[infernorock11]

I now know where that jizz my pants song got its inspiration from

[DonDinasAirey]

Is there any version with better quality?

[andre57373]

1 GUY WAS THE WHORE THAT NEVER TOLD THE TALE

[slipp3rysnake]

I think i like his solo stuff more than when hes with Maiden.

[madj723]

One of the best songs of all time...a truly classic song that not too many people have heard but they should have if they're truly fans of metal or rock. I listen to this constantly...never gets old. Bruce's first two solo albums just kicked ass..pure and simple.

[MournYouTilIJoinU]

Totally underestimated artist as for his solo albums.