Iron Maiden – The Book Of Souls (Guitar)

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 Sacrifices buried with kings

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 Accompany them on a journey with no end

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 To an afterlife that’s rich with fruit of all the gods

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 And to face the demons

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Of their underworld haunts

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 The sentient is sent to seek out all the truth

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 A flight to earth that is a given from his birth

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 To rise from ashes of the dead

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 Out of the fire is sent to fulfill man’s desire

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 By power day and night and death he ruled them

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 The sky and earth and the fires too

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 Two headed reptile, symbol of his reign

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 Universes of the underworld

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 A life that’s full of all the wealth and riches

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 Can never last for an eternity

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 After living in a golden paradise, that's the ultimate sacrifice

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 Prophecy of   sky gods,

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 The sun and moon

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 Passing of   old ways

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 Will come true soon

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Falling of   ages,

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Forest of   kings

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The search for the truth,

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The book of   souls

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 The rulers of planets and stars

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 The power of the kings of traders and the wars

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 Planetary cycles and the phases of the moon

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 Is in the document a kingdom they will learn

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 They were praying to the gods of nature

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 And were living in the cities of stone

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 Towers reaching upward to the heavens

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 Sacred wonders for the world unknown

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 Make their lives be a mystery no more

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 Records kept and the passing of laws

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 Sacred gods to the book of lies

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When a civilization dies

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 Prophecy of   sky gods,

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 The sun and moon

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 Passing of   old ways

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 Will come true soon

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 Falling of   ages,

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 Forest of   kings

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The lost book of souls,

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 Destruction begins

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Ascending the throne wearing feathers and shells

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He brought back their lives from the void

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Alien invasion brings nothing but death

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Mass exodus and plant life destroyed

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Domain of the Earth to the journey of truth

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The underworld caves, Mayan slaves

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Defeat of the dark Lords, the ultimate proof

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In the place where the ancestors rule

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The book of souls