The Book of Souls (Live at Download Festival, Donington, England - 12th June 2016) (Live at Download Festival, Donington, England - Sunday 12th June 2016)

The Book of Souls (Live at Download Festival, Donington, England - Sunday 12th June 2016) - Iron Maiden (鐵娘子)

Sacrifices buried with kings

Accompany them on a journey with no end

To an afterlife that's rich with fruit of all the gods

And to face the demons

Of their underworld haunts

The sentient is sent to seek out all the truth

A flight to earth that is a given from his birth

To rise from ashes of the dead

Out of the fire is sent to fulfill man's desire

By power day and night and death he ruled them

The sky and earth and the fires too

Two headed reptile symbol of his reign

Universes of the underworld

A life that's full of all the wealth and riches

Can never last for an eternity

After living in a golden paradise the ultimate sacrifice

Prophecy of sky gods the sun and moon

Passing of old ways will come true soon

Falling of ages forest of kings

The search for the truth the book of souls

The rulers of planets and stars

The power of the kings of traders and the wars

Planetary cycles and the phases of the moon

Is in the document a kingdom they will learn

They were praying to the gods of nature

And were living in the cities of stone

Towers reaching upward to the heavens

Sacred wonders for the world unknown

Make their lives be a mystery no more

Records kept and the passing of laws

Sacred gods to the book of lies

When a civilization dies

Prophecy of sky gods the sun and moon

Passing of old ways will come true soon

Falling of ages forest of kings

The lost book of souls destruction begins

Ascending the throne wearing feathers and shells

He brought back their lives from the void

Alien invasion brings nothing but death

Mass exodus and plant life destroyed

Domain of the earth to the journey of truth

The underworld caves mayan slaves

Defeat of the dark lords the ultimate proof

In the place where the ancestors rule

The book of souls