TREASURE ISLAND - New Maiden Album (June 6)

Diesel 11 said:
Steve doesn’t have much to add here. “It’s got everything I love about Janick’s songwriting wrapped up into one fantastic song.”
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That's just The Time Machine
AncientMariner_Essex said:
I really doubt anyone fell for a new maiden album coming called treasure island announced on the 1st of April.
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My train of thought summarized in three seconds:
OH SHIT! NEAT! Well, that's an odd title... oh wow, this looks like a mock-up... oohhhh ofcourse, it's April 1st today. I frowned and slow clapped.
 
Abas said:
That's just The Time Machine
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I know I must have made this joke several times on this forum already, but there are two immense disappointments I'd ever felt in rock music:

1.) After I first saw the title of AC/DC's "Snowballed", its actual lyrical content
2.) After I first saw the title of The Time Machine, the fact the chorus didn't go

A time machine
In a time machine!
A time machine
In a time machine!

In a time machine
A time machine!
In a time machine
A time machine!
 
Jesus Diesel.

I am shocked, offended, and appalled. This is so obviously fake you must think we’re real idiots to fall for something this stupid. Well maybe take a look in the mirror and see who the real dumbass is. I honestly can’t believe it.

This is the last straw Diesel. I’ll have you know I graduated -
 
Swashbuckler
(Gers/Harris) • 4:45

The cannons light up the sea
Firing straight towards foe
Through the carnage
Emerges a figure, eyes ablaze with his soul
The open sea is my home
Through the wake I plow forever on
Searching for those who do me wrong
The journey never ends, the battle must go on

Where is the heartbreak? Where's the scorn?
Where is the man who will cut me to the bone?
With the swing of my cutlass I make the sea my home

Where is the nightmare that never fades?
Where are the memories I have locked away?
Survey those who have crossed blades
They'll tell you they know my name

Those you dare fight me
Dead men I'll fill their graves
Let their cries sink down deep into the waves

Now as the smoke clears
Who is the victor? Who has been cleared?
I sail onwards through the coming storm
With the stars as my guide
No mercy from the gods that I decry
Let hell itself be my only judge

Those who dare fight me
Dead men I'll fill their graves
Let their cries sink down deep into the waves

Where is the heartbreak? Where's the scorn?
Where is the man who will cut me to the bone?
With the swing of my cutlass I make the sea my home

Where is the nightmare that never fades?
Where are the memories I have locked away?
Survey those who have crossed blades
They'll tell you they know my name

So never cross blades with me
I am master of the sea
Swearing no allegiance and forever free
I am the swashbuckler
 
Know what I wish Maiden would do some time? Issue an elaborate "April Fool hoax" that turns out to be true: or part of it turns out to be true. Kind of like Alestorm did with the barking dogs.

Speaking of which, I know what this one is crying out for - a joint headline tour with Alestorm :lol:
 
Tempting Evil
(Smith/Dickinson) • 7:19

From the dark night, scheming
I wander back into view
With visions of death on the mind
Some would say of treachery
I make my choices here and now
I must forge the fires of hell itself
To thrust you towards your destiny
Must not be subdued

By the pricking of my thumbs
Something wicked this way comes

The daggers laid out for thee
Wash your face, your hands, the blood
If it stains thee, let it
It will cast your fate's long shadow
And fear nothing of the night
The night will hide our sins
Let evil do what must be done
What must be done begins

By the pricking of my thumbs
Something wicked has been done

So you take the bloody daggers
And you make your wretched rites
Now all of Neptune's oceans
Cannot save you tonight

Faces I see, voices are calling out to me
Fear was my friend, now the fear has become my enemy
In the night I was safe, now the darkness has riddled me
With all the fears of the world, beset upon me

What have we done
What we have done cannot be undone
We sowed a whole chunk of hell
For just a little bit of heaven

I cannot see what's in front of me now
All I see is the blood that stains my soul
Calling out to me
They're crying unto me
And I let them go

We took up the daggers
And we wrote some Scottish play
And all of Neptune's oceans
Cannot wash that blood away

Now I take again the dagger
And I'll wash their blood with mine
Our sins too many to count
Would make Jupiter go blind

There could have been another path
But I trode the one of sorrow
We could have had tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
 
Diesel 11 said:
5. Children Of The Stars (Harris) 4:47
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Gotta say I'm shocked that a band of Maiden's caliber would let such a sloppy typo slip into an official PR statement. The song is 14:47 long, since we all know Steve is physically incapable of writing short songs by himself anymore.

Ooor this song is just a short interlude that consists of a single riff with clean guitars, acoustic bass and a guitar melody on top repeated for almost 5 minutes.

Those are the only explanations.

Great thread and I appreciate the effort! :)
 
Treasure Island
(Gers/Harris) • 11:22

Sworn to an oath on a dead man’s grave
Here is the secret he had to keep safe
Wild wonders of worlds far outside of reach
Dreamt up by madmen and villains apiece
The sacred book that holds free the rime
Will cast out all unworthy this time
Lend me your ear and I’ll unlock your soul
For I have gone where mortals never dared go

Plotted a course through last night’s great storm
Glided past sunrises where eagles were born
Heart on the wind, soul in the sail
Courage, valour, destiny will make me prevail

The sky is wide open, horizons unchained
Look out yonder, and see what remains
We have but one compass, we have but one goal
Seek out the journey that will make us whole

I outrun the wind
I outrun the sea
No mortal man will ever capture me
I outrun the wind
I outrun the sea
I swear oath to no nation
I’m forever free

The deeds I have done, the battles I did wage
Those who defy me kindled my rage
My map, a destination, my pride a fire that burns
The taste of fortunes and wealth do I yearn

Fly high the flags, keepers of the divine
Sailing through rough seas, blasted by the brine
Swearing no allegiance, swearing no oath
Inside the book just the conquest we boast

I outrun the wind
I outrun the sea
No mortal man will ever capture me
I outrun the storm
I outrun the waves
A roll of the dice casting fate
And ever the search remains

Treasure Island
Treasure Island
Treasure Island
Treasure Island

Treasure Island
The legends hold true
Of a land beyond the blue
Treasure Island
Laying in wait
To come and test your fate
Treasure Island
Far, far away
Many won’t return again
Treasure Island
Breeding our sin
Avarice awakens, the killings begin

Smoke on the wind
Sun on the sea
I hear the sirens are calling for me
Flash of the blade
Blasting of guns
Our greatest adventure has only begun

I outrun the wind
I outrun the sea
No mortal man shall ever capture me
I outrun the storm
I outrun the waves
A roll of the dice casting fate
And ever the search remains

Treasure Island
Treasure Island
Treasure Island
Treasure Island

From the dead man’s words, a lifetime we once wrote
The smoke revealing all the lives that were smote
Hidden in the chest, the secret we had gained
Written inside it, the suffering and the pain
Far beyond the sea, a civil life we lived
Now the time has come to put away the gift
My tale is but a bitter one, without any doubt
For in my hour of darkness, my blood has all run out
Take away your ear, and take back your soul
For I have gone where mortals should never go
 
Reading the lyrics and making up a, albeit blurry, rendition in ones head is fun. I WANT MY SWASHBUCKLER SONG FOR REAL NOW, DAMNIT.
 
Invisible Man
(Murray/Harris) • 8:46

Blown in from the cold winds that blow
Chilled to the bone
My heart stopped feeling
Aeons ago

My eyes, they see what’s before me
My life’s meaning beheld in my hands
The tools of destruction
The unmaking of a man

I look in the mirror and try to see the real me
But all I see are the shadows reflecting through me
No one sees me

Wherever I go, wherever I turn
Nobody bats an eye
Shadows follow and the dark clouds coming
Tearing me up inside

I submit to my darkest fantasies
To my deepest fears
There is no blood that flows through my veins
The hollow is within me

I look in the mirror and try to see the real me
But all I see are the shadows reflecting through me
No one sees me

I am the invisible man
And I walk the streets alone
Nobody cares for me wherever I may roam
I am the invisible man
Cast out by my kin
The others they have forgotten who I even am
I am the invisible man
The nights leer long and black
From this madness there is no going back
I am the invisible man
Lone wolf of the pack
Now your deepest fears stare you down the back

They will all see me
When they’ve gleaned the horrors I have done
There will be time for them
Time enough at last
Bare-faced horrors under the sun

My tools of destruction will help them understand
One more invisible man taking the reaper’s scythe in his own two hands
 
Heh, and here I was thinking it would go

Invisible man
Tries to see what he can
Got stuck in a can
Fallen through the pen
Invisible man
Got a place of his own
Where he'll never be known
Inward he's grown

Just in case.
 
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