El Dorado by Iron Maiden, Music Lyrics and Video
El Dorado is the first single by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, from their upcoming fifteenth studio album, “The Final Frontier”, which is set for release on August 16, 2010.
The song was made available as a free download on the band’s official site at 00:01 on June 8, 2010 (UTC), one day before the album’s supporting tour began. The cover art was created by Anthony Dry and is based on the covers of the EC Comics published by William Gaines that were popular in the 1950s.
Here you can listen the song.
Iron Maiden - El Dorado Lyrics
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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
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
Song Information
Bruce Dickinson explained the meaning of the song:
“[El Dorado] has a cynical lyric about the economic crap that’s been happening. It seemed a bit like a perfect storm; people were borrowing money like crazy. I thought, ‘This is really going to screw people up’ and sure enough, we’re all in deep doo-doo! And that’s what El Dorado is about, it’s about selling somebody the myth that ‘The streets are paved with gold’ and them asking, ‘Where do I sign up?’.”
Released June 8, 2010
Recorded Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas in 2010
Genre Heavy metal
Length 6:49
Label EMI
Writers Bruce Dickinson, Adrian Smith, Steve Harris
Producer Kevin Shirley
