The Trooper

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, 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 robot 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 robots 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 robot 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