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“Wasted Years”
Iron Maiden
From the coast of gold across the seven seas
I’m travellin’ on far and wide
But now it seems
I’m just a stranger to myself
And all the things I sometimes do
It isn’t me but someone else
I close my eyes, and think of home
Another city goes by in the night
Ain’t it funny how it is
You never miss it ’til it’s gone away
And my heart is lying there
And will be ’til my dying day
So understand
Don’t waste your time always searching for those wasted years
Face up… make your stand
And realise you’re living in the golden years
Too much time on my hands, I got you on my mind
Can’t ease this pain so easily
When you can’t find the words to say
It’s hard to make it through another day
And it makes me wanna cry
And throw my hands up to the sky
So understand
Don’t waste your time always searching for those wasted years
Face up… make your stand
And realise you’re living in the golden years
So understand
Don’t waste your time always searching for those wasted years
Face up… make your stand
And realise you’re living in the golden years
So understand
Don’t waste your time always searching for those wasted years
Face up… make your stand
And realise you’re living in the golden years
Songfacts®:
• Written by guitarist Adrian Smith, “Wasted Years” was the first single from the album, and is one of Maiden’s most accessible and mainstream-sounding songs. It is probably as close as they can get to the mainstream and still retain their unique Maiden sound. There is a long and very melodic chorus by Maiden standards. >>
• The song is about the fleeting nature of time. They chose not to name it “Golden Years” so as not to confuse it with the David Bowie song.
• The band went rogue during a 1986 performance of this song on the German TV show P.I.T., where they were expected to mime along to a recording. Within the first 30 seconds, lead singer Bruce Dickinson grabbed Steve Harris’ bass and Harris took over on “vocals.” From there, it was full-on mockery as the band made it clear they had no interest in a recorded performance.
• Speaking with UK’s Total Guitar magazine, Adrian Smith recalled his reluctance to share this song with bassist and principal songwriter Steve Harris as he thought it was too commercial. “I was messing around with a little four-track and I’d just put that riff down for ‘Wasted Years’,” he said. “I was playing Steve some other stuff and I played it to him by accident and he said, ‘What’s that?’ I said, ‘You probably won’t like this as it’s so commercial,’ but he really liked it and insisted we do it. So something you’d think he wouldn’t want to do, he does.”
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