Winger Songs - Tin Soldier Lyrics

Winger - Tin Soldier

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Album: Better Days Comin'
Released: 2014

Tin Soldier Lyrics

It's all the same, and then suddenly
You see the frame, but turn away
Faces in time, that's when I was your hero

Wrap my soul in cellophane
Drown my secrets in the rain
Johnny comes marchin' home again
Hey Tin Soldier, the war ain't over
Bang bang bang beat the drums of war
Don't know the name don't know the tin soldier

Times up, comin' down
Silver stars watch 'em tumbling down
We all fall down

Cold war runnin' through my veins
Don't know the name don't know the face of
The tin soldier
Yeah! Yeah! yeah!

Come hide inside, come in under
Do you hear the guns, do you hear the drums

Wrap my soul in cellophane
Purple heart hangin' on a chain
Only the battleground has changed
Hey tin soldier, the war ain't over
Johnny comes marchin' home again
Don't know the name don't know the face of
The tin soldier

Writer/s: KIP WINGER, REB BEACH, DONALD PURNELL
Publisher: A SIDE MUSIC LLC
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Tin Soldier

Kip Winger told AntiMusic the story of this song: "Reb (Beach, guitar) and I wanted to do a Progressive song. Something that summed up the Prog side of what we do, aka 'Rainbow in the Rose' or 'M16' but take it further," he said. "The Right hand keyboard riff, kind of fell into my hands, it's in 4/4 and Reb started played the ascending guitar parts instinctively in 5/4. Polyrhythm lends itself very well to this type of music."

"I went on the compose several other sections that Reb and I jammed over, the arrangement took about a day," Kip continued. "I had several lyric ideas but got stuck on finishing so I sent to by friend Donnie Purnell who sent back a version of my lyrics completed by him, Strangely without mentioning it to me, he wrote about PTSD and I had wanted to write about this for a while... It all turned out very synchronistic."