22 Acacia Avenue

It's the sequal to "Charlote the Harlet" song from the self titled debut. It's obvisouly about a hooker who cannot escape the profression

para1= introduces charlotte, para2= tells you shes no ordinary prostitute, (leave the rest to your imagination!) para3= its saying to charlotte "you hate what you do, so why do it, you could get AIDS" para4= saying to charlotte "by the time your forty, you will be hated or disgusted by everyone, no-one will see your a good person" para5= saying to charlotte "why are you a prostitute! is it worth it! para6= saying to charlotte "everyone stares at you in disgust, is that what you want?" para7= saying to everyone "she might be a prostitute, but she takes far worse things than what you think, shes a tough ol girl" para8= saying to charlotte "this life will destroy you, you can still turn back because people still care for you, your ganna a plaything for the rest of your life, so you coming with me to start over"

its a great song about the dark side of prostitution, (like theres any light), its using charlotte as a symbol to people saying "you think that all prostitutes love what they are doing, well actually they hate it and it ruins them, so dont see them as sick people but victims" because thats what all prostition is like.

to all the above comments, 22 acacia avenue is a great song (its on live after death, no crap songs are played live), blaze bayley did really well, in order of best maiden singers its- Bruce then Dianno then Blaze, and besides the only REALLY bad album of maidens is virtual xi but x-factor is great.

P.S= heavy metal is not satanic!!

This song is amazing, as well as the whole album! I love every single song on that album...it's amazing. Even when they put on "Total Eclipse", I love that song too. This is obviously about Charlotte the Harlot (and songs after this to come) and about how she stops her prostitution...I believe - basically the song, the person telling the story (I imagine it as Bruce always, which makes me have a bit of a laugh!) of Charlotte is telling her it's not worth it to be a prostitute because of the diseases she could get (STDs) and how people would look at her and think low of her...you know...that's the basic overall gist. Great song...I love it.

Its definetly about a hooker, its very obvious. A great album, i think this is the worst song on it tho, other then gangland of course. Not to take anything away from maiden, but that song is terrible

This song is particularly interesting in light of the sheer numbers of rock and metal songs that deal with women, especially the songs dealing with sex with women. Most of them are written by men who take it as a given (rightly or wrongly) that these women will want to have sex with them, or were perfectly happy to make men of them if it's a song about the past, or whatever. Then you have a song like this that's pointing out, look, this prostitute, who has lots of sex with lots of men (including, presumably, people like the band members) has feelings too and is actually ill-used by the men in her life--the song goes out of its way to point out in that one section ("Beat her, mistreat her" thru to "She always does what you want") that most of the men who visit Charlotte don't consider her thoughts or feelings at all, but are just using her for whatever it is THEY want. It seems like an admonishment that actually, that kind of attitude toward women, which a sizable chunk of rock was promoting or does promote, is really, really fucked up!

The weakest song on "The Number Of The Beast" is Gangland - what were they thinking? As for the 22 Acacia Avenue lyrics, they are not gay or depressing, the song is just not as memorable as Run To The Hills or Hallowed Be Thy Name. And by the way, Dickinson's voice is one of the best ever so dont make fun of it.

the world's oldest profession, but great song

theres no weak link in The Number Of The Beast, 22 acacia avenue is a great song, great lyrics, cool solo :) i love to sing it :)

I'm sorry, but saying that you hate Bruce Dickinson is sacriledge. He's the greatest singer of all time ever and no one will even come close to being as good as him. Blaze was a great singer too, and the only reason that lots of people don't like him much was that he was always being compared to Bruce (obviously, as he replaced him) and therefore always seems bad in comparison. But everyone's bad in comparison. Bruce is the coolest singer ever, and that's the way it's gonnna be for the rest of all time.

Bananaman lived at 23 Acacia Avenue. Apart from that its a damn good song, and Bruce Dickinson absoulutely ROCKS. Like me... nope...im lying to myself.