Iron Maiden - The Clansman Lyrics

Wake alone in the hills with the wind in your face
Feels good to be proud and be free and a race
That is part of a clan and to live on highlands
And the air that you breathe, so pure and so clean
When alone on the hills with the wind in your hair
With a longing to feel just to be free

Is it right to believe in the need to be free?
It's a time when you die and without asking, why?
Can't you see what they do? They are grinding us down
They are takin' our land that belongs to the clans
Not alone with a dream, just want to be free
With a need to belong, I am the clansman

Freedom
Freedom
Freedom
Freedom

It's a time wrought with fear, it's a land wrought with change
Ancestors could hear what is happening now
They would turn in their graves, they would all be ashamed
That the land of the free has written in chains
And I know what I want when the timin' is right
Then I'll take what is mine, I am the clansman

And I swear to defend and we'll fight to the end
And I swear that I'll never be taken alive
And I know that we'll stand, we'll fight for our land
And I swear that my bairns will be born free
And I know what I want when the timin' is right
Then I'll take what I want, I am the clansman

Freedom
Freedom
Freedom
Freedom

No, no we can't let them take anymore
No we can't let them take anymore
We've the land of the free
No, no we can't let them take anymore
No we can't let them take anymore
We've the land of the free
No, no we can't let them take anymore
No we can't let them take anymore
No we can't let them take anymore
We've the land of the free

Freedom
Freedom
Freedom
Freedom

Is it right to believe in the need to be free?
It's a time when you die and without askin' why
Can't you see what they do? They are grinding us down
They are taking our land that belongs to the clans
Not alone with a dream, just want to be free
With a need to belong, I am the clansman
And I know what I want when the timin' is right
Then I'll take what is mine, I am the clansman

Freedom
Freedom
Freedom
Freedom

And I know what I want when the timin' is right
Then I'll take what is mine, I am the clansman