Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes to Midnight Song Meanings
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... See the rest of these lyrics 2 Minutes To Midnight Lyrics on KOvideo
October 25th, 2009 09:30PM
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).
October 30th, 2009 08:21PM
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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