Motörhead 1916

A music video of Motörhead: 1916 from the album 1916. This song is composed by Lemmy Kilmister. Lyrics: 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, Is 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 screamed for his mother, And I fell by his side, and that s how we died, Clinging like