The Talisman Chords & Tabs
Artist: Iron Maiden
Album: The Final Frontier
2010
Acoustic intro
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As the captain calls us on the deck I take my things and walk
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To the harbor side I glance back one last time......
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Fleeing our nation our problems we leave behind
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Ships by the tenfold Out on the tide
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We are pleased to be out and embracing the open sea
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Free from the troubles And more free from thee
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Inheritors unfulfilled reason behind us
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We flee from what is not What is will be
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We flee the earth And face our harsh reality
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Will death be low mist That hangs on the sea?
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We run from evil tongues Rash judgement, selfish men
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Never to be seen On these shores again
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As we sail into ocean size and lose sight of the land
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A face of contentment around in the air
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Were off now to seek all our fortunes to the land
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of.... our.......... dreams
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Running the waves...
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No theres no one going back.....
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As we ride the rough seas...
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Spirits, sails they drive us on...
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Four leagues of ten...
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Holding on for our dear lives...
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limbs fatigued, trembling with cold
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Blinded from the sea spray salt
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Clasping anything we can hold
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Heaven's rain upon us falls
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Twenty days without a meal
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And ten without freshwaters too
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Those that didn't die in storms
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The scurvy rest did slaughter
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Westward the tide....
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Westward we sale on....
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I'm sure someone will eventually upload this with a solo but heres right after it
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We approach the other side
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Of the ocean with the tide
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In our favor just for once
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Welcome greeting our new land
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The elation in our hearts
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The excitement in our veins
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As we sail towards the coastlines
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Of our golden promised land
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Weary limbs fatigued away
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I have no life left in me
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No more strength and nothing left to give
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Must find the will to live
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Never thought that we could make it
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Truly sights of shores divine
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The sickness I am dying from
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Never wanted it to end this way
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Westward the tide....
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Sail by the talisman....
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