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.