This song seemingly tackles the methods of deception those who manipulate others use to get victims to follow their demands, as well as diverting attention away from important issues. They'll also use it as a means to convince people to hate or kill others by pretending acts of terrorism were committed by the enemy when the acts themselves were done by the masters of control to promote discrimination and hate. It also reinforces the idea that these manipulative forces operate in various locations, infiltrating everyday life without detection, and propagate any and everywhere.
In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control and gain power, depicting a cautionary tale against falling into their traps. It encourages us to question the narratives presented to us and remain vigilant against manipulation in various parts of society.
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 are cowards, attack
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Soldier blue in the barren wastes
Hunting and killing's a game
Raping the women and wasting the men
The only good Indians are tame
Selling them whiskey 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
Yeah
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
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 are cowards, attack
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Soldier blue in the barren wastes
Hunting and killing's a game
Raping the women and wasting the men
The only good Indians are tame
Selling them whiskey 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
Yeah
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Lyrics submitted by Novartza, edited by JackTStripper, RookieGTO, penisklaus, greanbanana
Run To The Hills Lyrics as written by Stephen Percy Harris
Lyrics © Kanjian Music, BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Royalty Network, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Actually I think it is the Americans that the song refers too.
Joey is right...It is about the Indian Massacres.
Reasons why I disagree with Drav:
I really don't think they are sympathetic or not sympathetic. I think they are just narrating it from each sides point of view. They seem to remain neutral to me.
It is hard to determine exactly which time period Maiden is referring to, mainly because of a small error in the lyrics. The Cree, I believe, lived in the Dakotas or somewhere else on the Great Plains, so to them the Europeans would not have come accross the sea. If Maiden had changed the lyrics to leave out any reference to the sea, it would make more sense. I think the song is just about the conflict between the Native Americans and Europeans in general and spans different regions, time periods, and povs.
First and foremost: This song rocks.
Secondly: The lyrics are about 50% bullshit. I'm so sick of people lumping every American Indian tribe together and labelling them "The Noble Red Man" who was happy and free and clean and industrious till we fucked them over, like a real life version of Disney's Pocahontas or something..
Fact is, we did fuck the Indians. Some of them were decent, industrious tribes. A lot of them, including the Apaches, Mescaleros, Blackfeet, etc. were monstrously brutal savages who practiced torture and rape on their prisoners, valued their men by how many scalps he'd taken, and had been massacring the women and children of any OTHER INDIAN tribe nearby for many years before we got there.
Just like different European cultures, there's different Indian cultures. Some of them were Klingons and literally spent their days raiding and massacring anybody who came close.
Most of the tribes didn't deserve the two-timing crap they got from us. But at least a few of the ones who got ground out of existence by the US Army were the ones who built their entire tribe on war and murder and had been killing their neighbors for a long time already.
Go read the reports of somebody who actually saw what things were like instead of some shithead bleeding-heart "I'm embarassed to be white" cultural anthropologist who wouldn't know a real Indian if he fell over one.
@Bullzeye That's what it really sounds like
@Bullzeye good point
@Bullzeye but its true, white men come from Europe to slave and steal the gold and other jewls from all America countries, I mean, the same thing was on south america. Many tribes as Aztecas, Incas, Mayas lost their identity because of europeans. <br /> And it's true, many of them were savages, but was their culture. White men didn`t have to intervene with this.
@Bullzeye The point of your rant seems to be, The Tribes that attacked other tribes deserved to be wiped out by the white man...you might have been a propaganda man in another life; Goebbels Jr. <br /> <br /> Did they deserve smallpox? Alcoholism? The Trail Of Tears? Being killed in battle is one thing, disease-borne death-in-life is quite another. As is genocide. <br /> <br /> Can we agree that the HUMAN race is a virus upon the planet Earth? “Good” and “bad” are relative terms.
@Bullzeye I love this kind of comment a true american fascist !<br /> <br /> So if I follow your reasoning, any mightier / more advanced civilisation has the right to annihilate another less developped one since "they have some bad guys". In that case, God (assuming he exists) should also erase humanity from planet earth...<br /> <br /> Next, you forget that what white men did was to conquer territory and "push back" anybody already there. This is not very far from what the Germans did in Europe...<br /> <br /> Here we are not talking about war between tribes but GENOCIDE. White men came with pistols and rifles where others only have stone and arrows....<br /> <br /> YOU should read more about history of Europe.<br />
I came here because I love this song and wanted to look deeper into its meaning. I am Indian. For me, I feel like the song is a history lesson, although slightly inaccurate only for the sake of artistry - sometimes meanings and facts can be obscured when we struggle to create a rhyme, lol. Some of my friends are horrified that I enjoy this song - can't help it. I know great metal when I hear it, and appreciate it, and I honestly don't think Iron Maiden was trying to sway listeners to one side or the other. They were simply telling what happened - from both perspectives, and not glossing over the horror and the atrocities. The lyrics drive home the feelings of desperation on both sides. I'd like to ask people to step back for a moment and not take things so personal...to analyze with human ears and eyes, and accept truth in history, even when it makes us uncomfortable. Musicians are artists, and great artists don't care about your feelings - their work is a reflection of raw, human emotion and experience. If it can strike a nerve or make you see yourself in it, then job well done.
ok so this song is about the american army and the native americans and the wars they had in the 1800's. it appears to portray the whites as bastards and the netives as victims which is more or less true in most peoples oppinions. anyway a brilliant song, one of maidens best.
Your right on that one joey.
The song potrays what was going on from both armies own point of view extremely clever and effective
this song is about the french indian war from 1754 – 1763. The English did not fight the Indians on the plains, they never made it that far west but the french did. "Soldier BLUE on the barren wastes". Everyone knows that the British were redcoats and the Americans were blue. But seeing as America was not a country at the time it must have been the french because there uniforms were blue (militaryheritage.com/bearn.htm). and thank you mitch1 for the comment there...you really helped me piece this one together lol
BeastWithin is right, Joey is kinda wrong. It's not one person's point of view, but both sides as Beast pointed. Anyway, a phenomenal song and I love it.
Firstly, America did not exist in those days, it was the Europeans, namely England and France who came to North America and ran down the Natives.
I find it difficult to decide whether Maiden is sympathetic towards the Natives, as expressed in the beginning of the song, or if they are proud of what has happened throughout the rest of the song.
"if they are proud of what has happened throughout the rest of the song" ???<br /> <br /> In the rest of the song the lyrics says:<br /> <br /> "Hunting and killing their game<br /> Raping the women and wasting the men<br /> The only good Indians are tame<br /> Selling them whiskey and taking their gold<br /> Enslaving the young and destroying the old"<br /> <br /> To me it dosn't saoudn like Maiden are specially proud of what the invaders did :)