The pace seems almost as if it gets slower for each stroke, creating a special and somewhat depressive mood. There is no prelude, and they start right into the song immediately, as if something have been going on for a long time and we are just hearing about it afterwards. The song starts off with a short instrumental introduction featuring different sorts of instruments, including guitar and church bells. Through the final verses he talks about this life on earth, which now he clearly can see, is only an illusion. In the sixth and seventh verse he changes mood, and suddenly becomes curtain of the afterlife and that his soul will never die. In the fifth verse he cries out: “If there’s a God then why has he let me die?” He is obviously wondering why this is happening and he is probably religious to a certain level. He doesn’t understand his own fear, as he never has been afraid for dying before. He though life is eternal, but now, facing his very own death, starts to doubt. He tries to convince himself to believe this is just a bad dream, but can’t. In the third verse we get to know the persons fear, as he realizes he is afraid of dying after all. He is thinking back at what have happened and what never will happen, in a world which has gone very wrong for him. We hear about the person looking through the bars at the outside world. The priest visits the cell and begins the preparation. Most likely this is a story of some age, whereas hanging people as a punishment, and being visited by a priest, preparing him for death, isn’t so common nowadays.
Why he is to be executed one does not know. The song is about a person, who is obviously sentenced to death and don’t have much time left before the execution. The song is about a man who is sentenced to death at the gallows, and his thoughts in the final hours. The song was published the first time in the album “The Number of the Beast”, which was released 1982. “Hallowed be Thy Name” is a son written by Steve Harris, the bass player in the band Iron Maiden. Analysis of the song "Hallowed Be Thy Name" by Iron Maiden, both in content and melodically.
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