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SENTENCED LYRICSThe Trooper (1993 MCD)1. The Trooper2. Desert By Night3. In Memoriam4. Awaiting The Winter Frost1. The Trooper[Originally performed by Iron Maiden]You'll take my life but I'll take yours tooYou'll fire your musket but I'll run you throughSo when you're waiting for the next attackYou'd better stand there's no turning back.The Bugle sounds and the charge beginsBut on this battlefield no one winsThe smell of acrid smoke and horses breathAs I plunge on into certain death.The horse he sweats with fear we break to runThe mighty roar of the Russian gunsAnd as we race towards the human wallThe screams of pain as my comrades fall.We hurdle bodies that lay on the groundAnd the Russians fire another roundWe get so near yet so far awayWe won't live to fight another day.We get so close near enough to fightWhen a Russian gets me in his sightsHe pulls the trigger and I feel the blowA burst of rounds take my horse below.And as I lay there gazing at the skyMy body's numb and my throat is dryAnd as I lay forgotten and aloneWithout a tear I draw my parting groan.2. Desert By Night3. In MemoriamIn the dark... in deathEyes can't see... I cannot feelNo voices... no light... no existenceA dreamlike void surrounds mesilence... emptiness...peace of mind... in deathIn emptiness...I focus mt thoughts on my lifeIn death I have the time to think of the pastSolitude...won't break my peace of mindBecause here I must dwell eternallyIn memoriam...For the one that once was meEntombed remainsA gravestone marks I've passed away...(Sacred... to the memory of myself)4. Awaiting The Winter FrostA gathering in the cold, in the North, in the dark lands of PohjolaWhere the sun had not been crossing the sky nor seen for centuries...We were brought together by oaths we had once sworn - by blood......once together drawn...We had gathered all our forcesCalled together all the heroesEquipped a hundred swordmenAnd a thousand men with crossbowsStrengthened by hate and the thirst for the enemies' bloodWe lay in wait for the season of no lightWe had seen the frozen mist - we weren't afraid to dieAnd the oath we had sworn gave us reason to live onA Calm before the Storm(We were) Awaiting the Winter Frost...And then a storm arose in furyThe sky was shattered by lightning...Awaiting the Winter FrostAs the sky blackened and the stars turned redThe frost greeted us with a cold northern breezeOff with their heads! Off with their fuckin' heads!!!Oh, the time had come...To slaughter the hordes of cowardiceAnd cleanse the North from liesWe had gathered all our forcesCalled together all the heroesEquipped a hundred swordmenAnd a thousand men with crossbowsWe raised our swordsGrasped the ironsLifted our bowsAnd chose the arrowsThe false ones' hordes were put to the swordThe strong and the weak, one by one...Their race was slaughtered to the very last manOur bloodfeind was done as their bodies reddened the landAwaiting the Winter FrostThe sign of the dark and the coldthe spell of pure hateAwaiting the Winter FrostAnd the heathen peace was found1994 Spinefarm RecordsRecorded at Tico-Tico Studios, Kemi, Finland 1992"The Trooper" written by Steve HarrisAll other tracks by Sentenced
