Toy Soldiers (song)
"Toy Soldiers" is a 1988 song by Martika appearing on her eponymous debut album in 1988 as a ballad. The single was a number-one hit in the United States. It was sampled by Eminem in his 2004 single, "Like Toy Soldiers". The song's subject matter concerns drug abuse and how it can devastate the lives of the user and those who care about them.
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“The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; ‘t is all toy figures in a toy house.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is not enough that our life is an easy one. We must live on the stretch, retiring to our rest like soldiers on the eve of a battle, looking forward to the strenuous sortie of the morrow.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)