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Is Run to the hills (Iron Maiden) about Europeans taking over the Nataive Americans?

I've noticed how many Metallica and Iron Maiden songs have history in them.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    To put it simply, Yes.

    Most(If not all) of Iron Maidens songs are based on history.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Well, yes, except its the US forcing natives out.

    ' "Run to the Hills" is Iron Maiden's sixth single and the first single from their 1982 album The Number of the Beast. The song talks about the forced expulsion of Native Americans to the western United States, presumably during the presidency of Andrew Jackson when the moves were enforced by the U.S. Army ("soldier blue in the barren wastes"). '

  • 1 decade ago

    I think that this two bands are incomparable

    I like Metallica, but Iron Maiden's songs have

    a lot of "History, Fantasy and Mitology" in their lyrics.

    What a band !!

  • 1 decade ago

    Yep.

    Singer Bruce Dickinson has a B.A. in History.

    At last! Proof that having a B.A. in that pays off! :D

    Metallica weren't as historically minded. Creeping Death off the 2nd was based on that scene from the 10 Commandments flick, where the green mist kills the 1st born of Egypt; tho For Whom the Bell Tolls is WW1 oriented (like the book). Some of their songs off of Ride.., Master..., & AJFA were more semi-political than historical.

    Source(s): Own 'em all.
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  • 1 decade ago

    Yes.

    All of Iron Maiden's songs have lyrics pertaining to historical events and fantasy.

    Metallica's first three albums have such lyrics, and then they started on with politics on AJFA and started writing more personal lyrics from TBA on.

  • 1 decade ago

    yeah thats exactaly what i thought when i heard it

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