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 Oh! Oh! 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 Oh! Oh! 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 Oh! Oh!
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 Oh! Oh! 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 Oh! Oh! 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 Oh! Oh!
“The Trooper” foi lançada como o segundo single do álbum *Piece of Mind* em 20 de junho de 1983.
A canção chegou ao nº 28 na Billboard Mainstream Rock dos Estados Unidos, sendo uma das poucas faixas do Iron Maiden a ter rádio frequente por lá.
No Reino Unido, “The Trooper” alcançou a 12ª posição nas paradas de singles, superando o desempenho anterior de “Flight of Icarus”.
A versão ao vivo presente no álbum *Death on the Road* foi lançada em 2005, mantendo a faixa como um clássico dos shows da banda.
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