2 Minutes to Midnight Songtext
von Iron Maiden

Kill for gain or shoot to maim
But we don′t need a reason
The golden goose is on the loose
And never out of season
Blackened pride still burns inside
This shell of bloody treason
Here's my gun for a barrel of fun
For the love of living death

The killer′s breed or the demon's seed
The glamour, the fortune, the pain
Go to war again, blood is freedom's stain
Don′t you pray for my soul anymore

2 minutes to midnight
The hands that threaten doom

2 minutes to midnight
To kill the unborn in the womb


The blind men shout, "Let the creatures out!
We′ll show the unbelievers"
Napalm screams of human flames
For a prime-time Belsen feast, yeah
As the reasons for the carnage cut
Their meat and lick the gravy
We oil the jaws of the war machine
And feed it with our babies

The killer's breed or the demon′s seed
The glamour, the fortune, the pain
Go to war again, blood is freedom's stain
Don′t you pray for my soul anymore

2 minutes to midnight
The hands that threaten doom
2 minutes to midnight
To kill the unborn in the womb

The body bags and little rags
Of children torn in two
And the jellied brains of those who remain
To put the finger right on you
As the mad men play on words
And make us all dance to their song
To the tune of starving millions
To make a better kind of gun


The killer's breed or the demon′s seed
The glamour, the fortune, the pain
Go to war again, blood is freedom's stain
Don't you pray for my soul anymore

2 minutes to midnight
The hands that threaten doom
2 minutes to midnight
To kill the unborn in the womb

Midnight
Midnight
Midnight
It′s all night

Midnight
Midnight
Midnight
It′s all night

Midnight, all night