ATLANTEAN KODEX LYRICS

Kodex Batallions (The Iron Horde)

[from "The Annihilation of Bavaria" live album]

From Lusitania to Greece, you were marching by our side
Puritans of iron running wild
An army clad in denim, raising hell, high on fire and ale
Rangers in the night

Earthquakes, thunder, lightning, raging, rise!

There are voices in the wind, they whisper 'war'
There is danger hidden in the eldest lore
The Sacrament of Steel unveiled tonight
Battalions of the Kodex - ride

Striding through the ruins of a world we leave behind
Behind the blood-red skies the stars align
Riding into battle, death or glory at our side
United ...

The Trooper

[Iron Maiden Cover]

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 toward 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







ATLANTEAN KODEX LYRICS