He tried to flee from the past So he joined the foreign legion Disembarked to no man's land He went through hell on earth Bridge: Stand, fight - no mercy will be shown We must hold at all costs This ruin in holy desert sand As long as we can breathe Pre-Chorus: Legionnaire - March or die You ain't got nothing to lose Legionnaire - Fight 'til death Not for pride and not for glory Chorus: Aim and fire, reload your rifle fast You have to kill with each shot This assailing horde must be stopped Hundreds of enemies as far as the eye can see Hounded through the desert plains Merciless, the sun burned on his skin One hundred soldiers left the fort The half of them died on the march With only a bunch of men He holds the line - back-to-back Killed in a crossfire - in a strange land In loneliness the legionnaire died