I'm sorry if you missed the first three hours of the show. You can always rewind it on live digital pause...oh fuck...i'm sorry...it's a live show! If you missed it you weren't there! That's what i love about Maiden...'cos, you know...we're still at it, don't do too bad selling records and stuff like that, but in truth the reason we're all here is not because we listened to a bunch of records and a bunch of hits in the radio and bullshit like that. We're here because we're Maiden fans, all of us, and because we (like it?). And with all the shit that's going on in the World right now, you know, we could well do with a World Metal Government. Not much shit would get done, there'd be a lot of drinking, a lot of sex, everybody would be totally fucking deaf, but nobody would die. But there would be a lot of songs about death! But we could live with that because nobody actually dies (well, they'll do, eventually).
So we'd like to dedicate this particular song - on the subject of people dying unfortunately and in very sad circumstances - we'd like to dedicate this particular track to a mentor of mine, a guy who very sadly passed away and somewhere, hopefully, he's looking, up there, taking the piss out of me. Mr. Ronnie James Dio.
So, this is a guy about who i can truly say: Ronnie, i am not fucking worthy, even if i am three inches taller than you!
As well as Ronnie, this is for all of you, this is for Maiden fans worldwide, this next song. Doesn't matter what religion you are, what colour you are, what sex you are, male or female, in between, dolphin, whale, i don't give a fuck; we are all of us blood brothers my friends!
"When you think that we've used all our chances
And the chance to make everything right
Keep on making the same old mistakes
Makes untipping the balance so easy
When we're living our lives on the edge
Say a prayer on the book of the dead"
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