The Trooper Lyrics - The Trooper - Sentenced

Originally performed by Iron Maiden 

You'll take my life but I'll take yours too 

You'll fire your musket but I'll run you through 

So when you're waiting for the next attack 

You'd better stand there's no turning back. 

The Bugle sounds and the charge begins 

But on this battlefield no one wins 

The smell of acrid smoke and horses breath 

As I plunge on into certain death. 

The horse he sweats with fear we break to run 

The mighty roar of the Russian guns 

And as we race towards the human wall 

The screams of pain as my comrades fall. 

We hurdle bodies that lay on the ground 

And the Russians fire another round 

We get so near yet so far away 

We won't live to fight another day. 

We get so close near enough to fight 

When a Russian gets me in his sights 

He pulls the trigger and I feel the blow 

A burst of rounds take my horse below. 

And as I lay there gazing at the sky 

My body's numb and my throat is dry 

And as I lay forgotten and alone 

Without a tear I draw my parting groan.