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Hallowed Be Thy Name Lyrics

Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Band
Album

The Number of the Beast

(1982)
TypeAlbum (Studio full-length)
GenresHeavy Metal, NWOBHM
LabelsEMI Records, Harvest
Ranked#1 for 1982 , #9 all-time
Album rating :  94.9 / 100
Votes :  124
9. Hallowed Be Thy Name (7:13)
Track rating :  98.5 / 100       Votes :  53       [ ]
I'm waiting in my cold cell, when the bell begins to chime.
Reflecting on my past life and it doesn't have much time.
'Cause at 5 o'clock they take me to the Gallows Pole,
The sands of time for me are running low...

Running low--ooohhh...
When the priest comes to read me the last rites,
I take a look through the bars at the last sights,
Of a world that has gone very wrong for me.

Can it be that there's some sort of error?
Hard to stop the surmounting terror.
Is this really the end, not some crazy dream?

Somebody please tell me that I'm dreaming,
It's not easy to stop from screaming,
But words escape me when I try to speak.
Tears flow but why am I crying?
After all I'm not afraid of dying.
Don't I believe that there never is an end?

As the guards march me out to the courtyard,
Somebody cries from a cell "God be with you".
If there's a God then why does he let me go?

As I walk my life drifts before me.
Though the end is near I'm not sorry.
Catch my soul, it's willing to fly away.

Mark my words believe my soul lives on.
Don't worry now that I have gone.
I've gone beyond to see the truth.

When you know that your time is close at hand,
Maybe then you'll begin to understand
Life down here is just a strange illusion.

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah...Hallowed be Thy name
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah...Hallowed be Thy name
Yeah..................................
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Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
The Number of the Beast - Album Credits
Members
Additional musicians
  • Barry Clayton : Narration (track 5)
Other staff
  • Martin "Farmer" Birch : Producer, Engineer
  • Nigel Hewitt-Green : Second Engineer
  • Derek Riggs : Cover Art, Illustration
  • Rod Smallwood : Cover Concept
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