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The Trooper by Iron Maiden

You'll take my life but I'll take yours too
You'll (1)________ (2)________ (3)____________ but I'll run you through
So (4)________ you're (5)______________ for the next attack
You'd (6)____________ stand there's no turning back.

The (7)__________ sounds and the (8)____________ begins
But on this battlefield no one wins
The smell of acrid smoke and (9)____________ breath
As I plunge on into (10)______________ death.

The (11)__________ he (12)____________ with fear we break to run
The mighty roar of the Russian guns
And as we race (13)______________ the human wall
The screams of pain as my (14)________________ fall

We (15)____________ (16)____________ (17)________ lay on the ground
And the Russians (18)________ another round
We get so (19)________ yet so far away
We were meant to (20)__________ another day.

We get so close near enough to fight
When a Russian gets me in his sights
He pulls the (21)______________ and I feel the blow
A (22)__________ of (23)____________ take my (24)__________ below.

And as I lay there gazing at the sky
My body's numb and my throat is dry
And as I lay (25)__________________ and alone
Without a tear I draw my parting groan
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