Bruce Dickinson - Metropolitan, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Nov.18, 1997, during the ''Accident Of Birth Tour'' 1997.

Bruce Dickinson - Vocals
Adrian Smith - Guitar
Roy Z - Guitar
Eddie Casillas - Bass guitar
David Ingraham - Drums

Laughing In The Hiding Bush (B. Dickinson/ Roy Z/ A. Dickson)

[Lyrics]

There's a sinister game the children play
Hey, hey, hey, hey
When they get to the end of each school day
Hey, hey, hey, hey

They spend their lives getting ready for the kill...
(aaah)

Laughing in the hiding bush
The joker is back
Laughing in the hiding bush
The joker is back...

Who remembers the names of fallen heroes?
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Who remembers today to fly their flags?
Hey, hey, hey, hey

I couldn't say I loved ya like I did before...
(nahh)

Laughing in the hiding bush
The joker is back
Laughing in the hiding bush
It's a laughing attack
The joker is back
He's wild in the pack
The joker is back

(laughing in the hiding in the kicking in the bush, yeah)

Laughing in the hiding bush
The joker is back
Laughing in the hiding bush
The joker is back
Laughing in the hiding bush
He's wild in the pack
(la, la)
Laughing in the hiding bush
The joker is back...
(laughs)
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Run To The Hills (Harris)

[Lyrics]

The white man came across the sea
He brought us pain and misery
He killed our tribes he killed our creed
He took our game for his own need
We fought him hard we fought him well
Out on the plains we gave him hell
But many came too much for Cree
Oh will we ever be set free?

Riding through dust clouds and barren wastes
Galloping hard on the plains
Chasing the redskins back to their holes
Fighting them at their own game
Murder for freedom the stab in the back
Women and children and cowards attack

Run to the hills, run for your lives
Run to the hills, run for your lives

Soldiers blue in the barren wastes
Hunting and killing the game
Raping the women and wasting the men
The only good Indians are tame
Selling them whisky and taking their gold
Enslaving the young and destroying the old

Run to the hills, run for your lives
Run to the hills, run for your lives
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''Laughing In The Hiding Bush'' is a song from Bruce Dickinson's second solo album, Balls to Picasso,and it is dedicated to Bruce Dickinson's son: Austin. According to Bruce, when his son was a child he said he was "Laughing in the Hiding Bush" instead of "Hiding in the Laughing Bush". The "Laughing Bush" was a nickname for a bush in their home.

''Balls to Picasso'' is a Hard rock album released in 1994 and is the second effort in Bruce Dickinson's solo career. The ballad "Tears of the Dragon" stayed for many months on top the of charts in countries like Brazil where Dickinson has a large fanbase.
This record marked the beginning of Dickinson's collaborations with Roy Z, who would work on many of Dickinson's later albums including Accident of Birth, The Chemical Wedding and Tyranny of Souls. Stylistically it departs from Tattooed Millionaire but is still more traditional-sounding than the follow-up album Skunkworks released in 1996. Later, Dickinson said that he and Roy Z were talked into making the album less heavy than it should have been.

Dickinson started working on his second solo album while still in Iron Maiden. For the very first recording sessions he recruited the british band Skin. Not satisfied with the style of the effort, Dickinson aborted the recording. His next attempt at a second solo album was a collaboration with producer Keith Olsen. Dickinson decided to scrap this project as well and teamed up with guitarist Roy Z and his band Tribe Of Gypsies to write and record Balls To Picasso. Songs from the previous recording sessions later resurfaced as b-sides on singles from Balls To Picasso and subsequently also as bonus tracks on the album's 2005 extended edition. (Source: Wikipedia)
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''Run To The Hills'' is a song from Iron Maiden's album,The Number Of The Beast,and it was released in 1982.

''This song is about the American Indians. It's written from both sides of the picture. The first part is from the side of the Indians. The second part is from the side of the soldiers. I wanted to try and get the feeling of galloping horses. But when you play this one, be careful not to let it run away with you.'' (Steve Harris)

Perhaps Maiden's most publicly recognisable song and their first big hit single, 'Run To The Hills' describes the Indian wars of the American west, first from the Indian's perspective and then from the white man's perspective. It is a fast-tempo song with a drum beat that is reminiscent of gallopping horses. Although it is a Maiden classic, it is a bit too short. Nevertheless, the song was critical in opening the way for Maiden's invasion of America.

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