Iron Maiden - Strange World - Guitar cover

2nd guitar solo is bit out of focus "What I think is that in the song, the narrator takes refuge in such a strange world of his own where he finds ideal conditions, with stalks of light and love. In the first verse, he describes his life in the real world, where he is unhappy; people don't reason why, he does not find very many smiling faces... so, he invites whoever might listen to his own world ("let's walk in deepest space"), in which he is actually already deeply engaged, with only his physical body still remaining in the real world ("Here I am, I'm not really there"). In the second verse, he is describing his strange world in detail, with all its miracles and wonderful things, anything he might want to dream of. Perhaps the "girls drinking plasma wine" are an implication that his engagement in his world is sucking his energy out of the real world so that in time, his real self will be nothing but a physical body, with his mind and soul locked in the strange world forever (this makes me think of the line "All my life's blood is slowly draining away / And I feel that I'm weaker every day" from "Still Life"). It doesn't seem to bother him, however, as he is "happy in [my] new strange world" (which, in order to contradict The Saint, I believe to be the key phrase of the song). The last line, "Don't you hear me call?" could mean two things. Either, he is calling all people to come with him and join him in the better world. Maybe it could also be a silent cry for help, because he realizes that he is trapped in a world of fantasy and has lost all connection to the real world, which would mean that he is at best a ghost in our world, and he has found that it doesn't work this way either. This could make sense considering the line "When I cry there isn't a sound". Perun (from the MaidenFans forum) – 26th June 2005