Black Abyss Babe
I live for my dreams and a pocket full of gold
Your stock reply is incorrect on this occasion, Mr 11
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Iron Maiden Picture Game
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Black Bart
Ancient Mariner
Do you mean "When the Wild Wind Plows"?
Flash of the Blade? (though the blade here looks more rusty than flashy)
Black Abyss Babe
I live for my dreams and a pocket full of gold
Not sure how you got to this but the only connection I can see is the bit about wondering if the meadows will ever grow again. The reference is much more specific than this.
Do you mean "When the Wild Wind Plows"?
Rustic rather than rusty, since what you are interpreting as the "blade" is actually a mouldboard and is probably made of wood. But this is not an important detail. What is actually happening in the picture?
Diesel 11
As you scream into the web of silence...
They're werkin' yer arse off!
It looks like the guy behind the plow might be a slave. Could it be Powerslave?
Black Abyss Babe
I live for my dreams and a pocket full of gold
At the time the picture was made there would be a good chance both were serfs but that's not significant either.
Not Powerslave, but you're along the right lines by thinking about the people. Who are they? What is their "job title"?
Black Abyss Babe
I live for my dreams and a pocket full of gold
No they're not pilgrims! They are in the process of doing their day job - what is that, in this instance?
Black Abyss Babe
I live for my dreams and a pocket full of gold
I like your creative thinking - "Gangland" is particularly clever since land ploughed by those beasts could well have been designated in terms of areas known as "oxgangs", at least where I come from. But neither of these is the correct answer: the picture is a direct clue to a song lyric.
What are the people in the picture actually doing, and thus how might they be described?
Black Abyss Babe
I live for my dreams and a pocket full of gold
Full marks for spotting that there is in fact an oblique reference to ploughing in that song, but no - I'd never give you anything that vague and then claim it was a direct clue to a song lyric!
They are nowhere near the reaping stage, since they've still got the plough in the ground ...
Who are the people in the picture, and what would they need to have done to enable them to be doing what you see them doing in the picture? This should take you direct to a specific song lyric.
Black Bart
Ancient Mariner
"Celebration, sow the seeds of the born (...)
The sheaf of the corn is broken
End the harvest" Isle of Avalon?
The sheaf of the corn is broken
End the harvest" Isle of Avalon?
Black Abyss Babe
I live for my dreams and a pocket full of gold
Black Bart
Ancient Mariner
There is a passage called "The killing of the sow" in Lord of the Flies, but I guess it is not that linguistically twisted.No, but you're along the right lines with "sow" ...
This is fun, isn't it?
A WITCH! A WITCH!
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Black Abyss Babe
I live for my dreams and a pocket full of gold
Yet the closest you get to that in the song is "killing so we survive" and I'd never claim that constituted a direct link from the picture. So not Lord of the Flies.
If it helps, the lyric I am driving at is a metaphorical reference - the actual song has nothing whatsoever to do with agriculture.
Black Bart
Ancient Mariner
Revelations? ("and the seed is sown in a holy place")