Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song 1916, artist - Motörhead. Date of issue: 11.03.2003
Song language: English
1916 |
| 16 years old when I went to the war |
| To fight for a land fit for heroes |
| God on my side and a gun in my hand |
| Chasing my days down to zero |
| And I marched and I fought and I bled and I died |
| And I never did get any older |
| But I knew at the time that a year in the line |
| Was a long enough life for a soldier |
| We all volunteered and we wrote down our names |
| And we added two years to our ages |
| Eager for life and ahead of the game |
| Ready for history’s pages |
| And we brawled and we fought and we whored 'til we stood |
| Ten thousand shoulder to shoulder |
| A thirst for the hun we were food for the gun |
| And that’s what you are when you’re soldiers |
| I heard my friend cry and he sank to his knees |
| Coughing blood as he screemed for his mother |
| And I fell by his side and that’s how we died |
| Clinging like kids to each other |
| And I lay in the mud, an' the guts and the blood |
| And I wept as his body grew colder |
| And I called for my mother and she never came |
| Though it wasn’t my fault and I wasn’t to blame |
| The day not half over and tenthousand slain |
| And now there’s nobody remembers our names |
| And that’s how it is for a soldier |