The Trooper by Iron Maiden
You'll (1)________ my (2)________ but I'll take yours too
You'll fire your musket but I'll run you through
So when you're waiting for the (3)________ attack
You'd better (4)__________ there's no (5)______________ back.
The bugle sounds and the charge begins
But on this battlefield no one wins
The (6)__________ of acrid smoke and horses breath
As I (7)____________ on into certain death.
The horse he sweats with (8)________ 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 (9)________________ fall
We hurdle bodies that lay on the ground
And the (10)________________ fire (11)______________ round
We get so near yet so far away
We (12)________ (13)__________ to fight another day.
We get so close near (14)____________ to fight
When a Russian (15)________ me in his sights
He (16)__________ the trigger and I feel the blow
A (17)__________ of (18)____________ (19)________ my horse below.
And as I lay (20)__________ (21)____________ at the sky
My body's (22)________ and my throat is dry
And as I lay (23)__________________ and alone
Without a (24)________ I (25)________ my parting (26)__________
You'll fire your musket but I'll run you through
So when you're waiting for the (3)________ attack
You'd better (4)__________ there's no (5)______________ back.
The bugle sounds and the charge begins
But on this battlefield no one wins
The (6)__________ of acrid smoke and horses breath
As I (7)____________ on into certain death.
The horse he sweats with (8)________ 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 (9)________________ fall
We hurdle bodies that lay on the ground
And the (10)________________ fire (11)______________ round
We get so near yet so far away
We (12)________ (13)__________ to fight another day.
We get so close near (14)____________ to fight
When a Russian (15)________ me in his sights
He (16)__________ the trigger and I feel the blow
A (17)__________ of (18)____________ (19)________ my horse below.
And as I lay (20)__________ (21)____________ at the sky
My body's (22)________ and my throat is dry
And as I lay (23)__________________ and alone
Without a (24)________ I (25)________ my parting (26)__________
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