Iron Maiden - The Trooper lyrics

You'll take my life but I'll take yours too<br>You'll fire you musket but I'll run you through<br>So when your waiting for the next attack<br>You'd better stand there's no turning back<br><br>The bugle sounds as the charge begins<br>But on this battlefield no one wins<br>The smell of arcrid smoke and horses breath<br>As you plunge into a certain death<br><br>The horse he sweats with fear we break to run<br>The mighty roar of the russian guns<br>And as we race towards the human wall<br>The screams of pain as my comrades fall<br><br>We hurdle bodies that lay on the ground<br>And the russians fire another round<br>We get so near yet so far away<br>We won't live to fight another day<br><br>We get so close near enough to fight<br>When a russian gets me in his sights<br>He pulls the trigger and I feel the blow<br>A burst of rounds take my horse below<br><br>And as I lay there gazing at the sky<br>My body's numb and my throat is dry<br>And as I lay forgotten and alone<br>Without a tear I draw my parting groan