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Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes to Midnight Song Meanings

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Lyrics:
Kill for gain or shoot to maim
But we don't need a reason
The golden goose is on the loose and
Never out of season
Some blackened pr...
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anonymous October 25th, 2009 09:30PM  
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While a lot of Iron Maiden songs have the 'Thriller/Suspence/Horror' element to them, this one is actually a political song in disguise. The "Doomsday Clock" as they called it back in the cold war was the figurative clock counting down to midnight - nuclear war. "2 Minutes to Midnight" is about the cold war and the doomsday clock ("Hand that threatens doom"), and how everybody was so afraid of something that hasn't happened yet (kill the unborn in the womb).
anonymous October 30th, 2009 08:21PM  
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It also sounds like there's a hint of someone sending their offspring off to war in the lines "we oil the jaws of the war machine and feed it with our babies".

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