Het lied van deze week wordt ten uitvoer gebracht door Iron Maiden, een toonaangevende Engelse heavy metal-groep. Het gaat over de Schotse clans (families) die bedreigd worden door de bezetters. In het licht van het opiniestuk van Rechts Actueel-medewerker Rob Verreycken over de onafhankelijkheidseis van zowel Vlaanderen, Catalonië en anderen zoals Schotland, leek het ons leuk om ook eens een heavy metal-nummer op de webstek te gooien. Iron Maiden kan je gaan bekijken op Graspop in Dessel dit jaar.
Hier wordt het nummer gezongen door Blaze Bayley, die in 1994 Bruce Dickinson opvolgde, maar door interne en externe kritiek in 1999 toch terug van plaats wisselde met de legendarische Dickinson. Desalniettemin doet het niets af aan het fantastische nummer dat The Clansman is! Geniet even negen volle minuten mee.
Iron Maiden – The Clansman
Wake alone in the hills
With the wind in your face
It feels good to be proud
And be free and a race
That is part of a clan
And to live on highlands
And the air that you breathe
So pure and so clean
When alone on the hills
With the wind in your hair
With a longing to feel
Just to be free
Is it right to believe
In the need to be free
It’s a time when you die
And without asking why
Can’t you see what they do
They are grinding us down
They are taking our land
That belongs to the clans
Not alone with a dream
Just want to be free
With a need to belong
I am a clansman
Freedom
It’s a time wrought with fear
It’s a land wrought with change
Ancestors could hear
What is happening now
They would turn in their graves
They would all be ashamed
That the land of the free
Has been written in chains
And I know what I want
When the timing is right
Then I’ll take what is mine
I am the clansman
And I swear to defend
And we’ll fight to the end
And I swear that I’ll never
Be taken alive
And I know that we’ll stand
And we’ll fight for our land
And I swear that my bairns Will be born free
And I know what I want
When the timing is right
Then I’ll take what I want
I am the clansman
Freedom
And I know what I want When the timing is right
Then I’ll take what is mine I am the clansman
No, no we can’t let them take anymore
No we can’t let them take anymore
We’ve the land of the free
Freedom
Is it right to believe
In the need to be free
It’s a time when you die
And without asking why
Can’t you see what they do
They are grinding us down
They are taking our land
That belongs to the clans
Not alone with a dream
Just want to be free
With a need to belong
I am a clansman
And I know what I want
When the timing is right
Then I’ll take what is mine
I am the clansman
Freedom