this song is one of the greatest Iron Maiden songs, the instrumental, the solo, the vocal, man that guy's really still got it! all the band has progressed and overpassed themselves! but what most struck me is the lyrics!! it really makes you live the moment! IMO that this song talks about the theme of it's album (leaving earth and to the cosmos), that we are ruining the earth with wars, global warming, you name it.."and i think of what we've done" and naturely the peaple are looking to another planet to find life or a new habitat, i think this is the new "home", so the "astronaut" describes us his journey to "albion's land"
this song is one of the greatest Iron Maiden songs, the instrumental, the solo, the vocal, man that guy's really still got it! all the band has progressed and overpassed themselves! but what most struck me is the lyrics!! it really makes you live the moment! IMO that this song talks about the theme of it's album (leaving earth and to the cosmos), that we are ruining the earth with wars, global warming, you name it.."and i think of what we've done" and naturely the peaple are looking to another planet to find life or a new habitat, i think this is the new "home", so the "astronaut" describes us his journey to "albion's land"