[ti:welcome to the pit] [ar:bruce dickinson ] [al:] [offset:500] [00:24]You come on down to the pit [00:31]Come on down to where the vipers spit [00:38]I've been waiting for you down here [00:43]Cover your eyes with the velvet hands of darkness [00:50]Cover your eyes with the velvet hands of darkness [00:57]I don't even know your name [01:03]You won't even see my face [01:09]But you choose to play my games [01:15]Welcome to the hard place [01:34]I'll bring you back from the brink [01:41]Are you surprised in every way that you like it? [01:47]Are you surprised that you want it? [01:51](ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!) [01:54]Cover your lips with the wicked tongue of silence [02:00]Cover your lips with the wicked tongue of silence [02:06]I don't even know your name [02:12]You won't even see my face [02:18]But you choose to play my games [02:25]Welcome to the hard place [03:06]Back to back, you ride the snake [03:13]You feel it strike, you feel it bite ya... [03:19]Cover your eyes with the velvet hands of darkness [03:25]Cover your lips with the wicked tongue of silence [03:31]I don't even know your name [03:38]You won't even see my face [03:44]But you choose to play my games [03:51]Welcome to the hard place [03:57]I don't even know your name [04:03]You won't even see my face [04:10]But you choose to play my games [04:16]Now you can feel the hard, the hard... [04:22]Place...