“Bring Your Daughter… to the Slaughter” is the second single from No Prayer for the Dying.

The song was originally recorded and released by Bruce Dickinson for the soundtrack to A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, but Steve Harris liked it so Iron Maiden rerecorded it. It is the only UK No. 1 single for the band to date, in spite of the fact that it received very little airplay on the BBC.

Here I tried to sum up what I thought Nightmare on Elm Street movies are really about, and it’s all about adolescent fear of period pains. That’s what I think it is – deep down.
When a young girl first gets her period she bleeds and it happens at night, and so she is afraid to go to sleep and it’s a very terrifying time for her, sexually as well, and Nightmare on Elm Street targets that fear. The real slaughter in the Freddie movies is when she loses her virginity. That is the rather nasty thought behind it all, but that’s what makes those kind of movies frightening.

—Bruce Dickinson