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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Famous quotes containing the words toy and/or soldiers:
“Everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It’s easy to see without looking too far
That not much is really sacred.”
—Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)
“On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.”
—Oliver Cromwell’s Soldiers. Address, 1647, to the English Parliament. “Humble Representation.”