As the sun breaks, above the ground,
An old man stands on the hill,
As the ground warms, to the first rays of light
A birdsong shatters the still.

His eyes are ablaze,
See the madman in his gaze.

Fly, on your way, like an eagle,
Fly as high as the sun,
On your way, like an eagle,
Fly and touch the sun.

Now the crowd breaks and a young boy appears
Looks the old man in the eye
As he spreads his wings and shouts at the crowd
In the name of God my father I fly.

His eyes seem so glazed
As he flies on the wings of a dream,
Now he knows his father betrayed
Now his wings turn to ashes to ashes his grave.

Fly, on your way, like an eagle,
Fly as high as the sun,

On your way, like an eagle,
Fly as high as the sun.
				

If you're looking for someone that you can keep
then, baby, pass me by
And if you wanted something that's twenty years deep
Baby, don't even try
And if you wanted someone to take your soul
I'll lift you up little bit higher

I've got the fire
I've got the fire

SOLO

So you think I'm skinny, don't you sell me cheap
I'm as wide as a country-mile
Some like it wide, I like it deep
Guess which one is my style
So you think you can beat me by my own game
Maybe I call you a liar

I've got the fire
I've got the fire
				

You'll take my life but I'll take yours too
You'll fire your musket but I'll run you through
So when you're waiting for the next attack
You'd better stand there's no turning back.

The bugle sounds and the charge begins
But on this battlefield no one wins
The smell of acrid smoke and horses breath
As I plunge on into certain death.

The horse he sweats with fear we break to run
The mighty roar of the Russian guns
And as we race towards the human wall
The screams of pain as my comrades fall

We hurdle bodies that lay on the ground
And the Russians fire another round
We get so near yet so far away
We won't live to fight another day.

We get so close near enough to fight
When a Russian gets me in his sights
He pulls the trigger and I feel the blow
A burst of rounds take my horse below.

And as I lay there gazing at the sky
My body's numb and my throat is dry
And as I lay forgotten and alone
Without a tear I draw my parting groan
				

Who would be a poor man  a beggerman, a thief
if he had a rich man in his hand
Who would steal the candy from a laughing baby's mouth
if he could take it from the money man

Cross-eyed Mary goes jumping in again
She signs no contract but she always plays the game
She dines in Hampstead village on expense accounted gruel
and the jack knife barber drops her off at school

Laughing in the playground gets no kicks from little boys
would rather make it with a letching gray
Or maybe her attention is drawn by Aqualung
who watches through the railings as they play

Cross-eyed Mary finds it hard to get along.
She's a poor man's rich girl and she'll do it for a song
She's a rich man's stealer but her favour's good and strong
She's the Robin Hood of Highgate helps the poor man get along
				

What ho.... sed de ting!

Welcome to "not alot of people know that, part 5." Yes, you lot out there, ah you're so
lucky! How can you be getting so lucky, my God! Flight of Icarus in those grubby dirty by
now horribly sticky little fingers and hands and grubby palms, and oh what else is grubby, I
don't know. Flight Of Icarus, I've Got The Fire! Wooo, I have right now thinking about
this, oh my goodness the memories for this, my very first exotic jaunt over to the island of
Jersey, followed by a swift little airplane ride 3000 kilometres due...east of ah...well no, no,
got that wrong, due west of Watford. My goodness, I go the wrong way and get to bleedin
Russia, it'd be all over. Yes, due west of Watford, 3000 odd bloody miles -- forget this
kilometre stuff, what do you think you are, bleedin France? No thanks very much, I'm right
here! 

Anyway, Flight of Icarus, doo doo doo! Flight Of Icarus, my first single, released the 11th
of April 1983, chart position number eleven...da de de da! Didn't quite get to number ten,
did it? Anyway, my first record with the band...I starred in the video! Did you see that? Did
you see that handsome geezer with the blue chops? Wasn't half cold out there! Anyway no!
We did this...ah, fantastic! First trip from Jersey to Nassau to do the album, we had five
weeks rehearsal in Jersey....well, we had two weeks really because ended up three weeks
partying at the bar. My goodness, we had the only 24-hour bar on the island, and we
ah...funnily enough we managed to cram 25 hours in a day, hahaha! So there we are, fifteen
days before we're supposed to leave....fifteen days! We hadn't even written any...well, the
boys had written some....but we really hadn't rehearsed anything cause we was partying to
much and having a good time, and all that good stuff. So there you are, we get this....most of
the song's written, get to Jersey, boom! 

Oh, by the way, when we first arrived in Jersey, the first place we went to was a place called
The Traveller's Rest. Dear Tony Wiggins our tour manager, he told us all about this place
because he checked it out before us. Said "here look, you've got to come in this place before
we go" and that's the first thing we did, got of the plane, picked the suitcase up, "HILLO!"
they said, "HOWWYOU!", "we're fine", "Ok you can come through". So we go through, get
in the cabs...off we go, Traveller's Rest. Stopped in the Traveller's Rest. "You've gotta have
a banana daquery" says Tony Wiggens. Well allright, lets have a drop.. banana... we says,
bananna... it's a poof drink! So, fair enough, so there we are sitting at the bar, and there's five
poofs sitting at the bar, us! Hahaha! Drinking these daqueries. Hahaha, no! So, the first one
goes down, we thought "f'king great, nothing to it, lets have another one!" F'king second one
goes down... fifteen minutes later we're on our third banana daquery. Now, we're talking
serious alcohol here but you don't taste it because it's a frozen drink, it's bunged in a blender,
loads of ice, (unintelligable) banana liqueur, na...bananna (unintelligable), and lots of wizzing
around of varous parts, and you stick it in a glass and suck it up with a straw. For
about...three of these as I said later, ...quarter of an hour goes by ... half an hour, we try to
stand up and leave. I mean, it was like, you know, "Gaaaahh, where we goin?" Ah, we were
gone! We, we, we spent many a night down in that place, but only after an hour...we did
have a party after we actually recorded Flight of Icarus... we went down to the pub and ah,
tried to get it and gave up. The next day it weren't happening, but we went after we
celebrated... we went out and celebrated the first single being recorded. 
But just before we did this, recorded the song. Steve said to me, he said, "don't you think we
ought to speed it up a bit?" I said, "Yeah, I think it should be a bit faster." And Dave and
H....um, Bruce and H, sorry, had written this song. And they were like very adamant about
the tempo of this thing, they didn't want it sort of speeding up or anything like this. So 'Arry
said "play it a bit faster." I said "yes, I'll (intelligable) it up, don't worry" So we get in the
studio and rehearsed it, we done it once or twice and it was, you know, happening. But not
so...f'king hell, I'll boost it up a tad... I'll pump it... you know. So I'm out there, "boom do do
da do do doom do do da! do do doom..." you know, allright we go... hah! and ah Bruce,
Dave and H going "aah Nick, what you.. f'king... what'd you doing?" You know, I said
"Nothing!", and I thought to myself, "Ah there we go, the new boy in the band, and they think
he's only been in the band f'king two months and he's speeding everything up, you know."
Anyway, as it turned out, it's great, wasn't it? It was really a good song. 
So, they asked me to do the video. So out we are, and they said, "look do you want to do
the video? You can be the old man in it." I said, "Old man? Look here, look here who do
you think you're talking to... old man! Give us a break!" They said, "well you are, aren't ya."
F'king cheek! Swift kick up the jackseat for that! ah boof! (mumbles something) So there I
am, I'm out there, they said...I said, allright I'll do the video. And they said, yeah but
ahhh.....we gotta blue your chops. I said "what?" They said, "we gotta put blue makeup on
your face." I said, "you can piss off! I ain't having none of that!" They said, "You f'king will, if
you wanna star in the video!" Neeah! So there! You wanna do it or not? I thought,
"well....f'king I'm the new boy, and I should do it really, it'll be a bit fun." And it was, it turned
out to be the most amazing... fun... I tell ya, we really had a good time. Couple of dodgy
moments when I was standing on the edge of this little cliff looking down at the...or looking
out to the ocean. The wind was blowing, no the wind. I mean, I was (farting noise) as well,
certainly, but nevertheless. It was... I was (uningelligable) sixty... fifty... sixty feet down to the
ocean! F'king great big waves rolling in there, I mean I only needed to fall over and that was
it! Goodbye, no f'king Icky to help me out with the wings....c'mon dad, watch this! 

Anyway, that leads me on to I've Got The Fire, which is on the b-side as you know, of
Flight Of Icarus. Now, for you boys and girls out there who've been paying attention and
doing your homework, and buying the first, second, third, and fourth box set of the new
singles, et cetera, or the old new singles. I've Got The Fire was recorded on the very very
first Maiden single which was Running Free, now we've already talked about that. But the
boys decided to do it. Steve said, "I'd like to have the penultimate... or not the penultimate,
the definive... de... DEFINITIVE version of this, studio version wise, lets do it again." So
that's why we burned that one on the Icarus single. 
Now moving on slowly but surely to The Trooper. Now that's a great old.... thats a song to
play, man! (hums and drums in the background).... All that, yeah! Gosh! Bringing back
some.... I wanna go out and do it. Based on a charge of the light brigade! Watch out! My
goodness, woah, never has there been so many to fight so few! Or whatever, I don't know,
that was Winnie, the wrong one. Aces High, that's coming up next kids. Yeah, well that's
you know, in the next box set if you go out and buy it, you'll hear it on the next "Nicko's uuh,
you didn't know... not alot of people knew that..." Right? Number six I guess it'll be then. But
anyway, yeah, oh I remember.... in.... what was it? What was it? Into the valley of death
rode the however many it was, that was what I was trying to think of and I got the Winnie
quote down the wrong way. Nevertheless! Yes, great song. 

Cross-eyed Mary. Ian Anderson wrote this song, Jethro Tull played it. We recorded it... the
b-side. Did I tell you it was released the 28th of June 1983? Chart position 12? Well if I told
you that once already, f'king too bad! So what! Nyah! See. Had to get that one in. And as a
matter of fact, Cross-eyed Mary recieved.... gosh, I mean, ulitmates ultimates lots of loads of
and indies and outsies of U.S. airplay, I tell ya, this was one of the biggest... the song to be
played the most on U.S. airplay from Iron Maiden. Ain't that funny. It's the best one that they
ever played. Well I guess their answer would say that's f'king life, isn't it. 
Oh by the way, just before I sign off... because I've gotta go now... you know, there's a beer
waiting for me down the road in the bar. So I thought I'd better go in and have myself a little
liquid libation, being I'm half way throught these little box sets here. Did you hear the one
about the queer shepherd? No? Well, he kept mounting goats! Hahahahahaha! It's stupid,
isn't it? I love it though... oh gosh! Ok, take care of yourselves, see you later allright? Bye.