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Run To The Hills

Run To The Hills

12th February 1982

1. Run To The Hills (Harris)
2. Total Eclipse (Harris, Murray, Burr)

 

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  Run To The Hills [3:50] (Harris) Commentary Lyrics Discuss this song in the forum
 

    The white man came across the sea
    He brought us pain and misery
    He killed our tribes he killed our creed
    He took our game for his own need
    We fought him hard we fought him well
    Out on the plains we gave him hell
    But many came too much for Cree
    Oh will we ever be set free?

    Riding through dust clouds and barren wastes
    Galloping hard on the plains
    Chasing the redskins back to their holes
    Fighting them at their own game
    Murder for freedom the stab in the back
    Women and children and cowards attack

      Run to the hills, run for your lives
      Run to the hills, run for your lives

    Soldiers blue in the barren wastes
    Hunting and killing the game
    Raping the women and wasting the men
    The only good Indians are tame
    Selling them whisky and taking their gold
    Enslaving the young and destroying the old

      Run to the hills, run for your lives
      Run to the hills, run for your lives

    (2:12 – Solo: Dave Murray)

      Run to the hills, run for your lives
      Run to the hills, run for your lives


 

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  Total Eclipse [4:28] (Harris, Murray, Burr) Commentary Lyrics Discuss this song in the forum
 

    Cold as steel the darkness waits its hour will come
    A cry of fear for our children worshipping the sun
    Mother nature's black revenge on those who waste her life
    War babies in the garden of Eden shall turn our ashes to ice

      Sunrise is gone, freezing up the fires
      Sunrise is gone, numbing all desires
      Sunrise is gone, sunrise is gone

    Around the world the people stop with terror-stricken eyes
    A shadow cast upon them all to crush them like a fly
    In the icy rain and whiplashed seas there's nowhere left to run
    The hammer blows of winter fall like a hurricane

      Sunrise is gone, freezing up the fires
      Sunrise is gone, numbing all desires

    Around the world the nations wait for some wise words from their leading light
    You know it's not only madmen who listen to fools
    "Is this the end?" the millions cried clutching their riches as they died
    Those who survive must weather the storm

    (Solo: Dave Murray)
    (Solo: Adrian Smith)

    Gone are the days when man looked down
    They've taken away his sacred crown
    To be so free it took so long
    It's not the journey's end it's just begun


 

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