Strange World Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Scrubbo 

Cover art for Strange World lyrics by Iron Maiden

It's obviously about Transylvania and vampires. Plasma is the liquid part of blood, so the line "girls drinking plasma wine" refers to drinking blood. It also refers to how vampires never don't age.

that`s very interesting Scrubbo. Never seen the song under that light, but it really makes the pieces fit.

exactly

@Scrubbo Yep. You will even notice that on the album, Transylvania merges into Strange World - the two songs are one. The first verse introduces a broken hearted man who is losing his love to something terminal. He questions reality's falsely promised happiness and he and his love, no longer smile anymore, here under the great ship of white light..the sun. Here the protagonist is human and rather than live within falsely promised happiness within the light, why not both of us live forever, without pain, together in 'eternal love' and within darkness? The instrumental in the middle is the...