Guess The Iron Maiden Song!

Clue 1: Still Life '88.
Clue 2: In the chorus of the song there is a prominent example of a grammatical mode that is rarely used in present-day English (especially in spoken English).
Clue 3: The lyrics present the listener both with a number of questions (that remain unanswered), but also with a very definitive assertion.
Clue 4: David Brent once made a song about a person whose name is similar to the name given to a phenomenon that appears in (and given the timing of its creation, might have inspired) the lyrics.


Incorrect guesses: Still Life, Prowler, Black Bart Blues, Infinite Dreams, Die With Your Boots On, If Eternity Should Fail, No Prayer for the Dying, Hallowed be thy Name, The Apparition, For The Greater Good of God
 
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The_7th_one said:
Charlotte the Harlot '88 LOL
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Jmaster said:
Clue 1: Still Life '88.
Clue 2: In the chorus of the song there is a prominent example of a grammatical mode that is rarely used in present-day English (especially in spoken English).
Clue 3: The lyrics present the listener both with a number of questions (that remain unanswered), but also with a very definitive assertion.
Clue 4: David Brent once made a song about a person whose name is similar to the name given to a phenomenon that appears in (and given the timing of its creation, might have inspired) the lyrics.

Clue 5: The title of the song might be inspired by another band's name. This other band, in turn, has a song with the same title as another Maiden song.


Incorrect guesses: Still Life, Prowler, Black Bart Blues, Infinite Dreams, Die With Your Boots On, If Eternity Should Fail, No Prayer for the Dying, Hallowed be thy Name, The Apparition, For The Greater Good of God, Charlotte The Harlot '88, When Two Worlds Collide, The Clairvoyant
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Black Bart said:
Fates Warning
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Correct!

Clue 1: Still life ‘88
"Still Life" was played live on the Maiden England tour. "Still Life" is also the name of a live album by Fates Warning.

Clue 2: In the chorus of the song there is a prominent example of a grammatical mode that is rarely used in present-day English.
"Be it the devil or be it him". It is quite correctly a subjunctive, as pointed out in one of the answers.

Clue 3: The lyrics present the listener both with a number of questions that remain unanswered, but also with a very definitive assertion.
Rather self-explanatory. Questions in the first verse, "you can count on just one thing" in the chorus.

Clue 4: David Brent once made a song about a person whose name is similar to the name given to a phenomenon that appears in (and given the timing of its creation, might have inspired) parts of the lyrics.
Princess Diana (the song was later re-used as Dawn's consolation song in the series). Hurricane Diana swept over Mexico and the Caribbean in August 1990, devstating several "cities in its way".

Clue 5: The title of the song might be inspired by another band's name. This other band, in turn, has a song with the same title as another Maiden song.
Fates Warning, obviously. They also have a song called "The Apparition".
 
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