I was born a stranger in a strange, strange land
Like those Iron Maiden posters
on my cousin's bedroom walls/
Scared s***less to raise my eyes up to them/
And though I was just a young boy, not a baby, not quite a man/
Those heavy metal sentiments,
they hit me deep, they hit me hard
I'm not trying to have kitsch/
There's no retro tongue-in-cheek/
There's no cheek at all/
Just tongue."
Like those Iron Maiden posters
on my cousin's bedroom walls/
Scared s***less to raise my eyes up to them/
And though I was just a young boy, not a baby, not quite a man/
Those heavy metal sentiments,
they hit me deep, they hit me hard
I'm not trying to have kitsch/
There's no retro tongue-in-cheek/
There's no cheek at all/
Just tongue."