Trooper Lyrics

The song Trooper is performed by Iron Maiden in the album named Edward the Great: Greatest Hits in the year 2005 .



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



Iron Maiden - Edward the Great: Greatest Hits

Oct 2005

  1. Run To The Hills
  2. Number Of The Beast
  3. Trooper
  4. Flight Of Icarus
  5. 2 Minutes To Midnight
  6. Wasted Years
  7. Can I Play With Madness
  8. Evil That Men Do
  9. Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter
  10. Man On The Edge
  11. Futureal
  12. Wicker Man
  13. Brave New World
  14. Wildest Dreams
  15. Rainmaker
  16. Fear Of The Dark (Live In Dortmund)

Trooper