Iron Maiden - Wasted Years (Official Video)

The Official Video for Iron Maiden - Wasted Years

Taken from Iron Maiden's 6th studio album Somewhere In Time released in 1986, which featured the singles "Wasted Years" & "Stranger in a strange Land"




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Iron Maiden are an institution. Over the course of six decades they have come to embody a spirit of fearless creative independence, ferocious dedication to their fans, and a cheerful indifference to their critics that’s won them a following that spans every culture, generation, and time-zone. A story of gritty determination and courageous defiance of the naysayers, theirs has been an adventure like no other.

The band’s immense discography includes the studio albums ‘The Number Of The Beast’, ‘Piece Of Mind’, ‘Powerslave, ‘Somewhere In Time’, ‘Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son’, ‘Fear Of The Dark’, ‘The Final Frontier’ and ‘The Book Of Souls’ which have spawned many classic hits as ‘The Trooper’, ‘Wasted Years’, ‘Hallowed Be Thy Name’, ‘Wasting Love’, ‘Run To The Hills’, ‘Aces High’, ‘Rime Of The Ancient Mariner’ and ‘2 Minutes to Midnight’.

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[DennisMrinho]

Congratulations: you're come to listen to one of the greatest songs recorded in human history.

[okolona]

" Realize you're living in those golden years. "
The song really speaks to me lately, as I have grown older.

[KevinDavis-gm]

Chills up and down my spine. Man, this song brings me back. 22 years old and in a concrete jungle full of darkness. Level IV Maximim security prison in California. It would take me 10 years to make it home. I look back now like it all was a dream. Rock and Roll got me through. No song was more powerful than this. The lyrics just resonated with a young man not Knowing if he will ever again see home. I would close my eyes and think of home. I would find a way to make it through another day.
Thank you, Iron Maiden. Thank you, rock and roll.

[residentleon]

My dad passed away this week and this was his favorite song ever. Thanks dad for showing me some good music... I'll do the same with my kids in the future.

[tracyb]

"Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years" Powerful words that prove that metal music can have a message and still kick ass!! Thank you Bruce Dickinson.

[bufo_regulares]

rip paul dianno. First singer of maiden, died today at 66 years old. Rest in power, legend! 🖤

[Samdris]

From the coast of gold, across the seven seas
Travelin' on, far and wide
But now it seems I'm just a stranger to myself
And all the things I sometimes do, it isn't me but someone else
I close my eyes and I think of home
Another city goes by in the night
Ain't it funny how it is? You never miss it til' it's gone away
And my heart is lying there, will be 'til my dying day, Adrian!
So understand
Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years
Face up, make your stand
Realize you're living in the golden years
Too much time on my hands, I got you on my mind
Can't ease this pain so easily
When you can't find the words to say, hard to make it through another day
And it makes me wanna cry, throw my hands up to the sky
So understand
Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years
Face up, make your stand
Realize you're living in the golden years, hey!
So understand, Adrian!
Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years
Face up, make your stand
Realize you're living in the golden years
So understand
Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years
Face up, make your stand
Realize you're living in the golden years, hey!

[rbvtdmcp]

A beautiful song with a powerfull message. You can’t live in the past because you can’t go back and change it and you also cant’t live in the future because future is not certain. You have to remind yourself how you want to be remembered when you are gone and make it happen right now (not tomorrow)!

[lyricsghost]

I was a 8 years old kid when I was snooping around my dad's music shelf. I had no music preference whatsoever back then, so my attention was mainly focused on the covers. Then I found a Blade Runner-looking cover with some kind of futuristic zombie. Then I realized there were other records with the same zombie, but in different disguises. Impressed by the art, I decided to put the disk in to hear it. I loved every single track, especially this one. However, there was something that bugged me: I didn't know what the lyrics said. Why, I'm Spanish, and I didn't understand English. Nowadays is simple enough, but back then, my English classes were so basic that in the end, I didn't learn anything more than colours and numbers. My mother never learned English, and dad's English was none out of this world. Without internet and the like, learning it was even more difficult. Needless to say an English Academy was really expensive back in the day. So I picked a dictionary and the album's booklet, and tried to figure out what the hell did they sing. It was really frustrating, because I felt that I wasn't making any progress at all. Even with the key words, I didn't understand. English's grammar is way different from Spanish's, so everything was just like a malicious puzzle. But I was stubborn enough to keep trying. Even if I didn't understand much, my vocabulary increased significantly. So did my listening. I was actually learning English by myself. Just to understand the lyrics. I didn't have any other goal. Then... BANG! internet came. With the basis I had already learned, everything went so easy... Full translations, videos, movies, dictionaries of all kind, free grammar lessons, slang, archaisms... I did it. Now I can understand every song, meet incredible people whom I'd never known by just speaking my mother language. Use it for working, free time, learning about other stuff... And it all began thanks to them. Iron Maiden just taught me English. They opened an entire new world before me.

My, those weren't wasted years...

[onlookingwalkingperson]

Thank you so much Nicko.

Glad I was able to see you perform this year (first time I got to see Maiden). You were bloody magnificent m8

[olivierpierre]

The older I get, the more I like this song. Both the music and the lyrics are truly extraordinary and will remain for posterity, far beyond the realm of heavy metal. It's truly a masterpiece by Adrian Smith. And let's admit it, that intro riff immediately sends shivers down your spine.

[darthdias]

A couple of years ago I was in a bad place emotionally and flirting with depression, but listening to this song helped me get myself back on my feet and start looking ahead, instead of living in the past. I'm forever grateful for Iron Maiden.

[antonioramos]

Lyric's

From the coast of gold, across the seven seas
Travelin' on, far and wide
But now it seems I'm just a stranger to myself
And all the things I sometimes do, it isn't me but someone else

I close my eyes and I think of home
Another city goes by in the night
Ain't it funny how it is? You never miss it til' it's gone away
And my heart is lying there, will be 'til my dying day, Adrian!

So understand
Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years
Face up, make your stand
Realize you're living in the golden years

Too much time on my hands, I got you on my mind
Can't ease this pain so easily
When you can't find the words to say, hard to make it through another day
And it makes me wanna cry, throw my hands up to the sky

So understand
Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years
Face up, make your stand
Realize you're living in the golden years, hey!

So understand, Adrian!
Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years
Face up, make your stand
Realize you're living in the golden years

So understand
Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years
Face up, make your stand
Realize you're living in the golden years, hey!

[nikosdroulis]

masterpiece song. from other galaxy all LP. maybe one of the top 3-4 record of the glorious band.

[itsthewanderingfool]

This song (and entire album) is Adrian Smith’s masterpiece. The amount of emotion put into that guitar solo brings a tear to my eye. Brilliant guitarist.

[hailtotheking]

A message to the future generations:
"Don't let Iron Maiden's music die"

[ivangonzalez]

This song gave me support to get out of a great depression, I thought I was going to die but it made me understand that you should always move on and not waste time in the past and live for yourself

[manumalia]

That guitar solo has to be one of the best ever.

[stormnation]

I have followed Iron Maiden all my life since I was 16, I'm 56 now and I cannot ever remember a band such like Iron Maiden that has not only touched my heart with their lyrics but has done so much for charities. This song will be played at my funeral.

[vonanstetten]

I'm a 43 year old guy from germany, grewing up with many styles of techno music that i really loved.
Can anybody imagine how it is to discover ALL songs of Iron Maiden in my age for the very first time? It is unbelievable and just heavenly to listen to all theyr albums since i discovered this band in december 2022. Of course i knew this band from theyr name but...

no band and no music in my whole life gave me this kind of powerful and emotional feelings. Tears, smiles, goosebumps, happyness and love for month now. I love Iron Maiden so much and it is the greatest gift i can imagine to discover all theyr music, all theyr fantastic songs. It is just pure life.

Up the irons forever❤❤