Name: Be Quick or Be Dead
Duration: P00H03M29S
Description: A cover of Iron Maiden's Be Quick or Be Dead featured on the Fear of the Dark album.

Be Quick or Be Dead

by Steve Blower

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A cover of Iron Maiden's Be Quick or Be Dead featured on the Fear of the Dark album.

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Covered in sinners and dripping with guilt
Making your money from slime and from filth
Parading your bellies in ivory towers
Investing our lives in your schemes and your powers

You got to watch them - be quick or be dead
Snake eyes in heaven - the thief's in your head
You've got to watch them - be quick or be dead
Snake eyes in heaven - the thief's in your head....

Be quick!
Or be dead!
Be quick!
Or be dead

See... what's ruling all our lives
See... who's pulling the strings...
I bet you won't fall on your face
Your belly will hold you in place

The serpent is crawling inside of your ear
He says you must vote for what you want to hear
Don't matter what's wrong as long as you're alright
So pull yourself stupid and rob yourself blind

You got to watch them - be quick or be dead
Snake eyes in heaven - the thief's in your head
You've got to watch them - be quick or be dead
Snake eyes in heaven - the thief's in your head....

Be quick!
Or be dead!
Be quick!
Or be dead!

You got to watch them - be quick or be dead
Snake eyes in heaven - the thief's in your head
You've got to watch them - be quick or be dead
Snake eyes in heaven - the thief's in your head....

Be quick... or be dead!
Be quick!

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released April 20, 2020
Written by Bruce Dickinson & Janick Gers.

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Steve Blower Wakefield, UK

Steve is a musician, devoted to his love of heavy music.He formed heavy metal band Hamerex in 2004, and fronted the band since 2014. Steve, now Hamerex is effectively in hiatus since 2018, is working on his debut solo album, Back in Hell, which is being aimed for release in October 2018. ... more

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