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From '' Meathook Lover ''
Label: Hangmen Records ‎– HMR005
Format: CD
Country: US
Released: 2006

Tracklist
01. All The Boppin' Crazies
02. Where Have You Been
03. House Up In The Woods
04. Meathook Lover
05. My Lonesome
06. At The End Of The Day
07. The Number Of The Beast
08. Sweet Whiskey
09. 100 Miles Away
10. Folsom Prison Blues
11. Remember What We Said
12. World Gone Mad
13. Slasher Rock N' Roll
14. Rockabilly Rebel
15. Buried / Treasure
16. Blood Lust Love
17. Thorazine Stomp

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(I'm re-uploading a few videos in better quality.
This one was uploaded originally in March 22, 2011-20k views)

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The Number of the Beast" is Iron Maiden's seventh single and the second single from Iron Maiden's 1982 album of the same name.
The song is inspired by both a nightmare bandleader and bassist Steve Harris had after watching the movie Damien: Omen II, and the storyline of the poem Tam o' Shanter.
"The Number of The Beast" is one of Iron Maiden's greatest hits, and is almost always performed during concert.
It reached 18 in the UK charts. The track is known for its very long, high-pitched and guttural wail by Bruce Dickinson at the end of the intro.
In the documentary on the album of the same name, as part of the Classic Albums series by the BBC, Dickinson said this was due to producer Martin Birch forcing Dickinson to sing the first four lines for several hours, over and over again.

Legacy

The song made it in at #7 on VH1's 40 Greatest Metal Songs.

"The Number of the Beast" was ranked #6 in Martin Popoff's book "The Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs of All Time". Popoff put together this book by requesting thousands of metal fans, musicians, and journalists to send in their favourite heavy metal songs. Almost 18,000 individual votes were tallied and entered into a database from which the final rankings were derived.

In January 2005, a new and updated version was released. It features live video renditions of "Number of the Beast" and "Hallowed Be Thy Name" that have never been officially released before.

It has since been covered by Iced Earth, Saints in Hell, Avulsed, Breed 77, Sinergy, Powderfinger, Zwan (whose version was used for the soundtrack of the cult film Spun), The Iron Maidens and many other bands. The song is also featured on The String Quartet Tribute to Iron Maiden.

This song was featured on the video game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 and is playable in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock as a master track. It is also available in Rock Band as a downloadable song, albeit a cover version. The master, however, became available for Rock Band on June 9, 2009, as part of the Iron Maiden pack.

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Lyrics

I lived alone
my mind was blank
I needed time to think to get the memories from my mind.

What did I see?
Could I believe?
That what I saw that night was real and not just fantasy.

Just what I saw
in my old dreams
were they reflections of my walk man staring back at me?

'Cause in my dreams
it's always there
the evil face that twists my mind and brings me to despair.

yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh

Night was black
there was no use holding back
I just had to see was someone watching me.

In the mist dark figures move and twist
was this all for real or just some kind of hell.

666 the Number of the Beast
Hell and fire was spawned to be released.

Torches blazed and sacred chants were phrased
as they start to cry hands held to the sky.

In the night the fires are burning bright
the ritual has begun Satan's work is done.

666 the Number of the Beast
Sacrifice is going on tonight.

This can't go on I gotta inform the law
Can this still be real or just some crazy dream?
Yeah but I feel drawn from the evil chanting hordes
it seem to mesmerize I can't avoid their eyes.

666 the Number of the Beast
666 the one for you and me.

I'm coming back, I will return
and I'll possess your body and I'll make you burn.

I got have the fire
I got have the force
I got have the power to make my evil take its course.