Silversun Pickups - Toy Soldiers Lyrics

Silversun Pickups Lyrics

"Toy Soldiers"
(originally by Martika)

It wasn't my intention to mislead you
It never should've been this way
What can I say?
It's true, I did extend the invitation
I never knew how long you'd stay

When you hear temptation call
It's your heart that takes, takes the fall
Won't you come out and play with me?

Step by step
Heart to heart (heart to heart)
Left, right, left
We all fall down (all fall down)
Like toy soldiers
Bit by bit (bit by bit)
Torn apart (torn apart)
We never win
But the battle wages on
For toy soldiers

It's getting hard to wake up in the morning
My head is spinning constantly
How could it be?
How could I be so blind to this addiction?
If I don't stop, the next one's gonna be me

only emptiness remains
it replaces all, all the pain
Won't you come out and play with me?

Step by step
Heart to heart (heart to heart)
Left, right, left
We all fall down (all fall down)
Like toy soldiers
Bit by bit (bit by bit)
Torn apart (torn apart)
We never win
But the battle wages on
For toy soldiers

we never win

when you hear temptation call
It's your heart that takes, takes the fall
Won't you come out and play with me?

Step by step
Heart to heart (heart to heart)
Left, right, left
We all fall down (all fall down)
Like toy soldiers
Bit by bit (bit by bit)
Torn apart (torn apart)
We never win
But the battle wages on
For toy soldiers

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Writer(s): Michael Jay Margules, Marta Marrero

Brian Aubert explained how Silversun Pickups had decided to cover "Toy Soldiers" by Martika, "There's something about this song that hits me emotionally – this song has always hit me that way. At first, it wasn't about the lyrics, but the feel of it. To be honest, I was not initially aware what the song was about, but listening to the lyrics, it was clearly about addiction. Someone else's addiction. It's pretty painful and very personal. You realize it doesn't matter what the shell is, what the production is, what the era is…this is obviously a very personal story that at first I wasn't sure we could touch. We ended up framing it into our own world and we think it works."

This song was produced by Butch Vig, of which Brian Aubert told, "Butch really helped with this. I don't think I've ever sung this intimately before. The guitar solo during it was very important to me, and we quickly realized that the solo worked during that time period, but not when we did it. We threw in a curve ball, some weird things, inspired by Johnny Greenwood. We put our weird stamp on it and it really came together."

The music video for this song, published on the 8th of July 2020, was directed by Claire Marie Vogel and Aaron Hymes.

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