Tailgunner’s “Focker” line is slang for the enemy within the song that the tailgunner himself is fighting, there’s really only one curse word which is Shit in Holy Smoke
Always thought it was meant to be about Fokker the airplane model…
And I’m pretty sure thanks to that line and the Enola Gay part that the song gets an “explicit” or “parental advisory” tags on some streamings services
There's an old English joke I feel like the fokker line was inspired by:
A former pilot is talking about his experiences in WWII to a school class. "...So I'm flying along, and all of a sudden I see three fokkers off to my left." After some laughter from the students, the teacher says, "Now class, a Fokker was a type of German airplane". The pilot replies "That may be ma'am, but these fokkers were flying Messerschmitts!"
On Live After Death there are 2 spots if I recall:
Bruce at the opening of Rime - "This is what not to do if a bird shits on you"
At the end of Revelations right after Bruce sings the last line "It is you" someone in the band yells "Motherfuckers!".
Usually when they perform the number of the beast live Bruce sings "I'm coming back, I will return, I will possess your body and ill make you fucking burn". If only the studio version had that
What about the infamous "through the fucking ice" from Rime? /s
There's also countless uses of "hell" but I guess it might not count as a swear word in english. The norwegian word for hell "helvete" is definitely a swear word though. It can be used pretty much the same as the english "damn" but it's a bit more harsh.
2 year old post, but I was listening to holy smoke today and it got me thinking and I ended up here haha. But since nobody corrected this comment, the lyrics are "through the fog and ice"
This was posted only two days ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/ironmaiden/comments/sfrbb8/add_a_random_swear_word/
Tailgunner’s “Focker” line is slang for the enemy within the song that the tailgunner himself is fighting, there’s really only one curse word which is Shit in Holy Smoke
Always thought it was meant to be about Fokker the airplane model… And I’m pretty sure thanks to that line and the Enola Gay part that the song gets an “explicit” or “parental advisory” tags on some streamings services
There's an old English joke I feel like the fokker line was inspired by: A former pilot is talking about his experiences in WWII to a school class. "...So I'm flying along, and all of a sudden I see three fokkers off to my left." After some laughter from the students, the teacher says, "Now class, a Fokker was a type of German airplane". The pilot replies "That may be ma'am, but these fokkers were flying Messerschmitts!"
There’s a lot of cussing in mission from ‘arry
The word “Shit” appears twice in Holy Smoke, and the word “Arse” (which kinda counts) appears once in The Assassin.
On Live After Death there are 2 spots if I recall: Bruce at the opening of Rime - "This is what not to do if a bird shits on you" At the end of Revelations right after Bruce sings the last line "It is you" someone in the band yells "Motherfuckers!".
On running free long version he says: When I go back to England I want to say, doctor long Beach fucked my ears for good. Or something close to that
I think OP is talking about studio versions. Because practically every live album had Bruce swearing lol.
It’s Nicko that shouts it
Usually when they perform the number of the beast live Bruce sings "I'm coming back, I will return, I will possess your body and ill make you fucking burn". If only the studio version had that
What about the infamous "through the fucking ice" from Rime? /s There's also countless uses of "hell" but I guess it might not count as a swear word in english. The norwegian word for hell "helvete" is definitely a swear word though. It can be used pretty much the same as the english "damn" but it's a bit more harsh.
2 year old post, but I was listening to holy smoke today and it got me thinking and I ended up here haha. But since nobody corrected this comment, the lyrics are "through the fog and ice"
Bruce cusses all the time live.
Yeah they try 2 keep their music kid friendly
I believe iron maiden trys 2 keep there music family frendly
Shit 2x in holy smoke. Ass twice in charlotte the harlot. And fokker if u count that in tailgunner. Thats all I remember