IRON MAIDEN - El Dorado lyrics

rate me

Gotta tell you a story

On a cold winters night

You'll be sailin for glory

Before you know what is right

So come over here now

I got a vision for you

It's my personal snake oil

It's just something I do

I'm the jester with no tears

And I'm playing on your fears

I'm a trickster smiling underneath this mask of love and death

The eternal lie I've told

About the pyramids of gold

I've got you hooked at every turn your money's left to burn

You'll be wanting a contract

You'll be waiting a while

I'd like to give you my contact

But that isn't my style

Well you only get one chance

And it's too good to miss

If I gave a lot to ya

Then I wouldn't exist

Greed lust and angry pride

It's the same old same old ride

The smoke and mirrors visions that you see are just like me

I'm a banker's face

With just a letter out of place

I know someone just like you knows someone just like me

El Dorado come and play

El Dorado step this way

Take a ticket for the ride

El Dorado streets of gold

See those over sold

You've got one last chance to try

So gone is the glory

And gone is the gold

Well if you need a story

I've come it has to be told

Well you can say I'm a devil

And I wouldn't say no

But out here on the dark side

Hey on with the show

So is told

Big and bad and twice as bold

This ship of fools is sinking as the cracks begin to grow

There is no easy way

For an honest man today

Which is something you should think of as my life boat sails away

El Dorado come and play

El Dorado step this way

Take a ticket for the ride

El Dorado streets of gold

See those over sold

You've got one last chance to try

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