Martika - Toy Soldiers
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Lyrics:
Step by step
Heart to heart
Left, right, left
We all fall down
Like toy soldiers
It wasn't my intention to mislead you
It never should have 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
Left, right, left
We all fall down
Like toy soldiers
Bit by bit
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 can 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
Left, right, left
We all fall down
Like toy soldiers
Bit by bit
Torn apart
We never win
But the battle wages on
For toy soldiers
We never win
Only emptiness remains
It replaces all, all the pain
(Won't you come out and play with me?)
Step by step
Heart to heart
Left, right, left
We all fall down
Like toy soldiers
Bit by bit
Torn apart
We never win
But the battle wages on
For toy soldiers
Step by step
Heart to heart
Left, right, left
We all fall down
Like toy soldiers
Bit by bit
Torn apart
We never win
But the battle wages on
For toy soldiers - Hudba
53 years old black male and i freaking loved this song. It took me back in another place in the 80's when i enjoyed Neverending Story, Dark Crystal, and other 80's fantasy moments. I wish i can go back and stay in the 80's forever!
You lived it 👏🏻 I was born 83 and I was raised on these song thanks to my mom pops was a rock kinda guy
Sir, I appreciate your thoughts but please understand that the only constant in life is CHANGE. We must embrace this. We all must progress with it.
💯💯💯
100%
Me too it was better then
Somebody just said, "let me go back to the 80s, I promise I won't come back". I agree. It was magic.
Those days were Magic for sure. Wishing I would have appreciated them at the time.
I think of this so often! I loved the '80s, it was magical to grow up then. Was it perfect? Nope. I struggle to look past my brain's normal-reflex to see only the best...& I do see the things I'd never want to experience again, like bullies & Dad's drinking. But God, how the GOOD overpowered the Bad! I will always miss that. Always.
Amen 🙏 I was born October 25 1980
Scranton Pennsylvania well Taylor Pennsylvania ruined my reputation by making false accusations about me when I'm actually a good person that cares about others
@@taracollins5597 80s were the still the greatest times in history my father enjoyed life
Who's listening In 2024?
I am waiting for the Sonata Arctica cover.
Acá desde Buenos Aires, Argentina!!!
❤❤
🙋🏽♂️
@@blindg7092 Just listened to it myself and came here to listen to the original again. I remember when it was new!
This song is proof that the 80s were the best time for music. 80s were the best! We may not have had cell phones, but we knew how to have fun. Good times, great memories. 80s forever!! Greetings from Saint Marys, Georgia. ❤80s❤
Comparto la idea fueron épocas muy bellas y no creo k c repitan
Aw, the 70s had some pretty hot tunes, too.
Oddly enough I did use a cell phone in the late 80s, and I don't own one now.
i'd say 90's and 2000s were better, no offence
At my station, the devs
I'm crying uncontrollably right now. I was born 1971. This music (80's) is life. I watched my wife and mother pass away just a month apart from each other in 2013. Then my oldest brother lost his father, then his oldest son, and finally he himself. And now my own health is failing. I find comfort on coming on youtube to listen to the 80's music I grew up on, although it can make me tear up. I long for the old days when life was so much more simple and happy.
Two months ago i scape from death. Please dont give up. I remember every doctors treat me in hospital. And i ask to God to still live. Back to fight my friend. Dont stop to fight.
Feel your pain m a 70's kid n lost mom way to young from drinking😔
You are special.
❤️
Very true born 72 wish I could go back to the 80's and stay there. Oh just thinking about them old days Jesus why cant it be like back then
Please, let me go back to the 80's. I promise I won't come back.
I prefer going back to the 70's. I wouldn't come back either. : )
There's no internet back there.
Me too!! I'm a product of the early 70's and the best times of my life were the 80's . Please take me back. It's so ugly out there today and people parent the same anymore
Pick me up on the other side the pond 🇬🇧
Road Trip! No stopping until we see phone booths everywhere and our GPS turns in a roadmap! We will go ahead and pay extra for full service at the gas station. Girls will be girly and men will be men. If we catch some MTV on somewhere we can watch these kind of videos. It's gonna be a fun time...
Man I miss the 80's. Growing up as a kid in the 80's I want to go back and stay there. Life was 1000x better then than it is now. Still had my mom and dad and all my brothers. And I had the absolute biggest crush on this girl. I would watch MTV for hours just waiting to see this video
Yeah...I feel the same ..was the best time...
Still have both my parents but my dad is in a very bad shape...
So scared of losing him ..
Born in the 80s, grew up mostly in the early 90s, we did have the best childhood. The only “technology” we had was cable tv, and very early dial up “internet” which was locally run message boards and only text. My friends and I rode out bikes all summer, played with walkie-talkies, ran lemonade stands, climbed trees, make picnics, played outside til the street lights came on and mom was calling for us to come in. You couldn’t pay me to be a kid today.
@@bikeguyhd1035 you're right..I don't have kids and they are not in my plans but I'm a full-time uncle ;).. one of my sisters last year got another baby and to be truthfull? It's fuckn scary to think about the future about this wonderful child ..
It's such a messed up world we live in and can't even imagine how confusing it must be to growing up
@@bikeguyhd1035 😢😢😢 I miss my childhood too. Was born in 81. We were so fortunate weren't we??
I agree, I loved my chidhood, growing up in the 80s. I had a blast. Wish I could go back to that era of time.
Reminds me of my wife. She died October 22, 2018 at only the age of 46. So horribly sad after all she was battling in overcoming cancer, anemia, and epstein-barr diseases. This song reminds me of how we all fall down in grief of loved ones who have died and reminds us of our own mortality despite the vibrance and optimism of our youth. Life is precious. Loved ones and family are precious! Cherish the love before we all fall down like toy soldiers!
So sorry for your loss, Dave. I hope you find peace.
Your wife may be gone but the memories of her will never go away.
Wow man, sorry to hear that, man I feel your pain, she passed on my parents birthday, they were the same age, they were soul mates, lost Mom last year, and dad 4 years ago, hang in there man, God bless
Honest Conscience Dave I cry for your loss my friend.God bless you.Thinking of you.
😥😥😥 sorry for your lost
I graduated High School in 1989 and remember this song vividly. I didn't realize it then but the 80's was a magical decade and a certain innocence and simplicity has been lost since then. When I listen to these old songs I'm instantly transported back in time, and to be honest with you it depresses me somewhat because there is not going back.
Its same 👍graduate 1986 Kielce, Poland
Class of '89 here. Ditto!
I want to go back so bad!
I am so jealous of you!!! And I am born in 2002. Wish I graduated high school in 1989.
Same 😢
Everyone thinks that of the years they were in high school. Nothing anymore special about the 80's than any other decade you just remember it more fondly.
55 yrs old, this song & MTV reminds me of being in jr.high and high school. Me and a couple of my close friends would sit for hours watching MTV . Those were my best days.what memories!!!
My younger brother loved this song, he’s gone now, but he lives again whenever this song plays … 🌈🙏🏻💜. Long live the 80s❣️
Sorry for your loss. Long live the music. ❤️🎵🙏
Thank you.
Long live the 80!
Sorry for your loss Chester, music is the balm for your soul and I'm glad you are getting solace from martika and other music, ❤ and peace pal take care,,,,,,,,,🙏🙏
Why are you gay
Sorry for your loss. It's amazing cause listening to this song reminds me of my older brother. He's gone as well.
One of the greatest classic's ever made, and one that'll never age, still hits the same after all these years. An unforgettable track
Damn ..we 80's kids really did grow up in a great era
you remember well how you used to be a toy soldier congratulations kid💪
Every single 35 year old says this about when they were 10. And that's fine
Yes we did we are so lucky because the music is shite now
The 80's in one song, the feel, the look, that's us... GENX the toughest and sadest generation.
I was born in 1980. I was a young kid when this song came out. My sister use to pop in a VHS tape and record MTV videos, hoping this song would play. When it did, that whole VHS tape was her and she would listen to this song over and over. I hated it but here I am, 32 years later, listening to this song, and going back to a happier time in life. Love the 80s.
Back when MTV meant Music TeleVision...
Great story similar to mine. But in my story, I was sitting in front of the TV and had the tape. Now, many years later, I still feel that moment. The tape itself got lost, but whenever I have a bad moment. I use this "tape" so called internet and the sun comes back
me too, love this song.
Much happier time brother
Music can be moments in time.
This song has a lot of emotions for me….. my brother battled addiction for over 30 years and in 2021 weeks after he turned 50 lost the battle to drugs…. But I know he is at peace!!! Love you Matthew!
Sorry to hear mate, I hope you're doing well
I'm sorry for your loss, 😥
mucha fuerza
Sorry for your brother... O know who's this meaning
I just turned 50 and have battled addiction for those same 30 years.This song has so much meaning.I am sorry about your brother Mathew.I still have hope and been clean for almost 5years.I very well could have been Mathew.Just remember him for all the good he did in this world.God bless him and you.I am sympathetic to your struggle.
So atmospheric, love it and I'm 74
When music wasn`t only a cold product, it was emotion.
Check out The Rolling Stones, Ozzy Osborne, Pink Floyd, RHCP, and Willie Nelson's new songs. Music isn't dead yet.
80s was the best era💯
This song probably has one of the best choruses ever written, it's up there with the best of them.
Written by Martika and her friend Michael Jay. The kids who sang it was Martika's friends from kids incorporated.
I'm thinking Depeche mode..Everything counts?
The grabbing hands grab all they can, all for themselves, after all its a competitive world, everything counts in large amounts.
*****
What's a cassette??
*****
Just to be clear, I know full well what a cassette is, and have a box full of them somewhere as well. Stupid kids.
This was later used in a Eminem song as choices
This song is transcendent. It has a quality that lifts it above the run of the mill pop tune. The feeling that comes through in the lyrics, and the heart and soul Martika puts into it is really special. Thank you.
I remember this on the radio, born in 1980. It was the feeling that everything we enjoyed had fulfilment and we lived in the moment
😭😭😭
The 80s and even the 70s were timeless and will never be recalled
I agree the 70s and 80s was the good old days when we was all civil to each other and the bills and shopping was not expensive the beer was cheap everything was better 100%
My favorite two decades!!!
I remember listening to this wonderful song all those years ago. I wish we could go back to that time. I was just a little girl at that time, but I miss that time.
The most beautiful song I ever heard; written about something as dark as addiction and death.
Only this artist could sing it with so much delicate harmony and sweetness.
Long Live 80's awesome music and singers of that era.
Are those "Deutsche Bund-Mädels?
Most nostalgic song of the 80s
Didn’t even realise it was about that. Knew all the words though since I was a kid
Oh is that what it's about? My first impression when I looked up the lyrics was a relationship gone bad or abusive even, but I like this meaning better actually cuz it's more relatable (cuz addiction can be anything, doesn't automatically mean substance abuse)
@@tenshimoon In the video her boyfriend is paying a dealer money for drugs, so in this case the song is about drug addiction.
The 80s was magical
The way MARTIKA expressed herself in the video is perfect and the body language made it that more meaningful !!! She ACED this video!!
Darn shame her husband held her back. This was the only real hit she had before he dominated everything about her life
I agree. She made me find these traits in girls after this.....lol
Yup. '89 was a strange year in music. It was transitioning to the 90s sound. Most of the music in '89 was awful. Then there were bright spots of good songs like this that used a different way to make good music.
She did
I agree. She also had a Spanish version of it.
I'm 38 years old and today was the first time I ever heard this dope AF track, what a world!
How did you manage that, kid?!
what did you mean by this lol@@starmnsixty1209
It's never too late to learn something new ;-) There's a remix one with Eminem. Also Dope
I first heard this song in 1986 when I was 22. It was at a strip bar in Vancouver. The beautiful stripper was gyrating and slithering to this song.
@@starmnsixty1209Right? I guess they were right on the cusp of being too young to remember this and somehow only heard it a couple times. They had to at least of heard this Once, bri
Happy 50th Birthday Martika
same as me today i grew up with this music the 80s always
god rest her soul. she was amazing
@@breannabentley8105 Shes not dead
@@uniQueComb0 woah this song aint fully ded yet reeee
@@uniQueComb0 🤣 sorry that so funny .
I keep coming back to these songs from my younger days. Getting old sucks, but our music sure as hell didn’t. All genres back then were awesome. Rock, pop, r&b, you name it. True artistry lives on.
I agree
in what year were u born?
its times when life was good ...we all had hope .....
I second and third that
Damn right!
You are
I had a hide crush on her and the Bangles singer, I miss the simple times of the 80’s. Before cell phones and social media!
Everyone loved Susanna Hoff
Thanks to Marta Marrero for this hauntingly beautiful song from 1989 . It was number one on Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks mid year .
1989 this song is brilliant
2021 this song is brilliant
I was a freshman in high school
Still a classic!!
its amazing how quality never drops...
it's beautiful❤
Martina still rocks and crush on her beauty simply beautiful person inside and out always,,🙏✌️✌️😊❄️🤙👍
Her voice, this song 🥹 the meaning. So fricking powerful ♥️✨ Love you Martika and miss the 80"s and these songs.
If you look at 2:55 it looks like a grown man is hitting on a child.
Marli❤❤😂😂😂😮
@@clementine2001I think that was sort of done deliberately.
58 years old 2024 ,I miss the 80's. Greetings from Camby Indiana.
50 years old 2024,l miss 80s too.Greetings from Athens Greece
52 years old 2024 from Scotland 🏴 loved the 80s hate the times were living in
Can't beat the good old days 👍
Same here, 58 years old, song hits different than it did in the 80’s…
ich auch 58 jahre alt
80's was the best time in my life. Where's my time machine?
Eu era criança. Tinha 8 anos... E amava quando essa musica tocava no rádio... Eu não sabia explicar o quanto era apaixonado por essa música...
Mais do que muito obrigado, Martika! Sem palavras... Apenas obrigado!
Ainda amo essa musica, mesmo avancando em minha propria linha temporal, aos meus 43 anos...
Muito obrigado! 💐🎶
I don't know any other song like this. The emotion is so intense. The chorus rips right through me. Incredible.
0:41 0:42
It's my go to get serious about owning your story jam. It's too real but I'm ready. We ARE toy soldiers cause that's not real baby but you still love them. Happy Valentine's Day stranger. Stay sober
All 80's music is a treasure. I remember staying up late to watch Friday Night Videos. Then an underground music video showcase on a UHF channel in Chicago. I lived outside the country for 10 years. I always loved returning during Christmas and hearing new sounds. Living abroad exposed me to experiences my American peers couldn't imagine. It shaped me into a person that sees people as people not labels. Many Americans can benefit from that same experience today.
Now, with that said. I believe Charli XCX's Boom Clap song borrowed from Toy Soldiers. They may not admit it. But the abstract lyrics and chorus timing are similar elements with a faster tempo. I wouldn't be surprised if she listened to Toy Soldiers and said. "Hey I want a to make a song like that." in her English accent. Of course this is my opinion. You say you don't know another song like this. It's likely you do but can't remember. Because I didn't recall Toy Soldiers until I happened upon it again. I want to share 2 songs that I think will have you feeling some intense emotions. Both are from the same artist.
If you're not used to listening to this genre. Give it chance, and maybe it will be best to listen the first time with good headphones. Don't listen on your laptop speakers unless they are high quality. I'm not taking anything away from Toy Soldiers. I love music, any kind of music. Oh, and be careful with the first song. It might scare you at the beginning lol. Enjoy the musical genius of...
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@@djacksonafter700 thanks for remembering Friday Night Videos. For all us kids who couldn't afford cable or satellite. Used to be luxury. Your family has CABLE? I've got chips and soda!
@@matthewscott5450 We had cable too. But I started watching free TV and had my regular shows Dr. WHO, Benny Hill, Monty Python, etc.
59 years old this year 2023. Someone please take me back to the glorious 80s and just leave me there!! Miss this time and its musicians and their songs!!❤️
I’m 38 years old and I’m listening to Martika Toy Soldiers late October 2023
Dr. Brown and Marty can help you out.
59 yaşındayım 80 lerde olmak istiyorum aynı duyguları farklı coğrafyalarda yaşatan Martika ❤
@@brandonmoore7497 Good for you young man. I was born in 1964 and my childhood and teenage years I wouldn't trade for anything in this world. It was a different world back then I'll tell you and music was first class!!
@@tuldenbayata9014 YES I am with you here from the USA 🇺🇸
So beautiful and peaceful voice
Nothing can beat 80and 90...🎉
There's just this unique way that some 80s songs hit you, and this is one of them. In addition to the message, I'm not sure whether it's the visuals or the way the songs were produced back then, but it just grips you in a way that no other era does.
I agree 100! Love 80s music!
So Truth, since i was 14 the teen girl and the black and white effect always got me till this day!
***** was real!!! And authentic!!!
Absolutely!!!!
Amei em poder ouvi..la novamente foi uma explosão de cousas boas.. Amei de verdades de ouvir esse som com essa meiga voz❤
Maaan I was 8 years old when this song came out. Born in the U.S. but we moved from the U.S. to Lebanon right in the middle of its Civil War. I recorded this song off the radio and would literally play this song (in our makeshift bomb shelter) over and over on the nights where the fighting and shelling reached our village. It eased my anxiety and helped me go to sleep..
I fucking love this song and hate it at the same time.
That's a very vivid and powerful memory.
Sorry you went through that. I have the same relationship with early 90's R&B. My abusive step dad loved it. Byt it also helped me escape.
That’s crazy! Glad you’re ok. :) ✌️
I just so happen to be Lebanese decent and am currently fighting my own internal civil war. Always get up.
Tim Capello: I Still Believe from Lost Boys. yeah... The sax song. Is an awesome follow to listen to after this.
Hast du Gefühle dann höre genau zu ❤❤❤❤
In the 1980s this was a masterpiece.
In the 2020s this is still a masterpiece.
True Dat!
I couldn't agree anymore!
Sublime Singers 80s💯🔥
This músic Is 90s 👍🏻
@@shaggyboom7 This song was released in 1988 Jamie. :)
Her vocals are just so beautiful. Its honestly mesmerizing. I feel like this was before audio enhancements made music easy too....its just raw soul and talent. Idunno how I never heard this growing up but wow. Im blown away
Hi you may like the headless chickens ,taller than god ,or juice
@@adamchristoff4905 youre right i just checked out headless chickens and I do like it. thanks
Yes
Beautiful
AUTOTUNE DOES NOT MAGICALLY MAKE PEOPLE BETTER SINGERS. This is just as heavily effected as modern music. Stop being old and yeling at clouds.
She touches me with a smile that glows. I can't go a day without my sunshine
One of my favorite classics
中学生の頃よく聴いてました❤
CZcams is the closest thing to a time machine right now ❤
Biggest hits of the 1980s playlist: czcams.com/play/PL6oCQqv2KW6XIEHtzEroDJt2a1vFwmyLW.html
@@ajs41 You'll never understand how hearing this in the 80's dealing with a broken home and an alcoholic stepdad can sound so much different after youve completely turned your shit around and then fallen again for the second time in your life and youre now 45 and this song means so much more now! If only I knew then what I know now I wouldve never fell as a kid but we do! We all fall down!
@@neilolsen342 God bless you I also wish I could go back to the 80's where times were better and my dad was still alive
@@kennethshuford3974I lost a child 16 yrs ago. Its like I told her brother. The past is broken! The future is unwritten and full of possibilities! Why would anyone want to stay in the past! I loved the music! But the 80's were hell on me! Worse than 2023! What we are living in today? This is the brighter future! You'll see your dad again. Just be patient!!!!
I agree with you,friend.
I was born in 69 and the 80’s killed it man . Their is no decade even close. Things we’re simple and the music was the best ever. I wish I could go back forever.
👍
I just wanna go back
No weekend
Life was perfect
I felt free
The eightys were the best times of my life I was in my 20tys can't Complain about the 90tys when I had my two sons. But music was amazing then. Now every one really wants to rule the would😜"every body wants to rule the would" 80tys song by tears for fears. Amazing song..
Same minds bro-i am from 82 but 80s is gold era of music and movies!I wanna go back in this years for rest of my life!Peace from Russia and sorry for bad english hermano.. ;)
@@eustoliazaremba1438 the name of the song is " everybody wants to rule the world by Tears by fear 👍
I crave this time period. Brings me to tears.
Look your friend here 😢
I'm glad I got to experience the 80s, I also miss the 40's but never lived that time...or did I?
Same here. Was one of the best times to be anywhere alive🎉 😢God only knows , although I do remember the early to mid 90's but not in a good way either but the 80's is the innocence and peace we have that's still inside of us . Take care and cheers 🥂
I just realized Martika's fashion sense was ahead of her time back then. Some of her clothes are in style now.
Step by step
Heart to heart
Left, right, left
We all fall down
Like toy soldiers
It wasn't my intention to mislead you
It never should have 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 (we 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 (morning)
My head is spinning constantly
How can it be? (how can 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 (we 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
Oh, only emptiness remains (ah)
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 (we all fall down)
Like toy soldiers
Bit by bit (bit by bit)
Torn apart (torn apart)
We never win
But the battle wages on (wages on, on on on on)
For toy soldiers
Step by step
Heart to heart (heart to heart)
Left, right, left
We all fall down (we all fall down)
(We all fall down, all fall down, woah)
Like toy soldiers
Bit by bit (bit by bit)
Torn apart (torn apart)
We never win
But the battle wages on
For toy soldiers
Wow.
thank you
Thank you!! 💗😌
Thankk you, Pr. Léo S Silva!! Thank you!
Baru tau ni lagu judulnya " toy s . . .r"
Hello from a 68 year old NANA !! I watched this video on MTV with my teenagers back in the 80’s. I just happened to come across it..... I loved this song and the message it was sending out . I hope it saved some lives , from the world and destruction of drugs. The 80s music did sing to your soul , Chicago, journey, Foreigner , Air supply and so many more ❤️❤️ I still listen to these songs
Thank you nanna...❤❤expert!!🎼🎤🎺🎻🎹🎶🎵🎼
This comment should have millions of likes come on. A NANA 🤘🏻 sending my love to. you.
@@carlosrosa4094
Thank you Carlos !!! In fact I purchased the song from I tunes store and blast it in my car 😂😂. It is a great song ....... I am old but I am not dead . God bless
@@ellenm.1337 god bless you too. I am all alone having some beers. Listening to some great music
memories you never forget
Gen X had the best music and we survived our free roam childhood! We should've enjoyed it more
Transport back to the 80s. Best yrs ever, lived with my Mother and sibling's. I*m good now, married and have 2 children that I truly love. But miss the 80s life. Miss my Mom nd Bro so much.
Even as a child, there hasn't been a single time I have listened to this without tears in my eyes. It hits you directly in the soul.
It can be both, but audio versions could be even stronger if you never watched a video version of a song, on the radio for example. (imagination is wilder)
so true
Dido
Child! You missed out baby 1971 born
Yeah man this was playing in Burger King earlier and I let my guard down, we are all like toy soldiers bro this is how I feel
This is a cracking 80's tune, i was lucky enough to be brought up through the 80's and without a doubt my favourite decade of music still to this day.
This song will always be up there with the best .but when you look into who it is she is singing about the lyrics have a whole new meaning .Her childhood best friend who got deeply hooked on drug's in a bad way .but cut a long story short she's of it all now thanks alot to her best friend's help and this song ❤
This song brings back so many memories. Wow. I haven’t listened to it in decades. And I didn’t realize what this song meant to me. 2024 anyone 😊
As a young teen in the mid 80s these songs stir such a deep emotional feeling within my heart and soul. Listening to this brings back all those lonely feelings of a teen trying to figure out life and all the emotions we experience as we grow up. Glad to have lived in a time when people lived and cared about each other.
So thrue this song is coming straight from the heart and soul they never make song like 80s and 90s what a great moment and feeling
Agreed 💯
I agree with you my friend totally 💯
My sentiments exactly! Could have not said that better myself! 👍🏼❤️
Amen 💯
i was 8 when this incredible song was released, and it wasn't until i was in my 30s that i realised what it was about. i have been clean for five years now, and this was a running theme song for me throughout my years of addiction. it was one of those songs that helped me find the strength to live above my demons. this song goes out to all my brothers and sisters still out there battling. stay safe.
Same
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41 years old here going through my mid life crisis this tune speaks to my soul ever since i heard it at 7 years of age back in summer of 1989
Thank you.. you stay safe too..
Congrats to you 👏 and keep going 👏 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
This song is just one in a very long list of 80s songs that i absolutely love
Happy Birthday Martika!🎂🥳🎤🎶⭐️
I don't understand how some lesser hits are played a lot on the radio today, and others are forgotten. This was a #1 hit in 1989, yet I can't even remember the last time I heard it on the radio.
Me either...it just shows me how cookie cutter radio has become....the light rock station in St. Louis 102.5 literally plays the same stuff everyday when I take my daughter to school...if i hear Old Time Rock and Roll or Total Eclipse Of The Heart much more...i am gonna lose it!
@@nostalgiajim I agree, 106.5 really needs to mix the music up and play different songs
I forgot about this song! Silver Sun Pickups did a cover and I looked it up. This is a masterpiece!!!
It's in a minor key and deals with a scary subject. Modern audiences are conditioned to bubblegum trash.
Gen Z ☕
This song embodies pain and emotion plus the fact that the chorus is sung by children as well as some of the synth sounds add a very special atmosphere of innocence.
It's sad that Martika didnt had much success after "Toy Soldiers" but she will be forever remembered for it. Truly a very special song.
Sometimes one hit is all we need to remember how good the 80s were especially this song, which gave eminem a platform through sampling.
@@aclayton231 that's true. Still i love both of Martika's albums.
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One of the young back up singers is a then- 14 year old Fergie
She chose not to proceed with her career in music, a decision we all are to accept...
This song transports me to such a great time and era. I see myself from a subliminal core memory on a warm summer day, wind breezing just before summer break and it was the best time. It’s so nostalgic it makes me want to swell up with tears. I so wish I go back, at least to visit. 😢
Top Best comments I've ever heard for real 😯🤔😭😉👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼😍😍😍!!!
Feb 2024... still gives me goosebumps
I’m listening to Martika Toy Soldiers mid February 2024
0:07
I'm a metal head but love most 80s music ❤
Me too
@@brandonmoore749722😢❤3
Feb 2024... 80s ❤
I remember being a child and waking up one morning, the soft sunlight dappled on my face through the tree just outside my bedroom window, with this song playing quietly on the small radio I kept next to my bed. It was the first time I ever heard it and there was something about it that immediately stood out to me. I don't remember ever hearing it again on the radio after that and it wasn't long before we moved across state and the 80s ended. In a way, this song symbolizes not just that moment but an entire era, lost to the sands of time and kept only in bittersweet memory.
phubans you have a wonderful way with words. Are you a writer?
I am not a writer by profession but people have told me they enjoy reading what I write. Thank you for being one of those people!
phubans I heard it one day in 1996 on my radio when I woke up. It was when I lived in Montana. I only lived there 4 years, but I feel the same as you. It was the first time and last I heard it, but I never forgot it. There was something special about it.
phubans , I can relate. This song was popular in mid to late 1989 , about the time my parents moved me thousands of miles. I was 16. Not across the state, but across the country. So, yes it takes on a double meaning and a sadness. The end of the 80s and in essence, my childhood home. Thanks for sharing.
phubans you must an INFP
The '80s absolutely Rock
My dad loved this song. He passed on in 1990 but I remember this song playing all the time in his truck. RIP KC ❤
I’m a child of the 80’s our generation had the best music so glad I can still listen to it 👍🏻❤️
Christa Varrone Sorry 70s kid here, my first music was watching Partridge Family TV Show 1970 -1974. I was kinda a ladies man in grade school the girls loved my IRISH Freckels on my face. Some kids wernt very nice they said is your whole Family a bunch of DRUNKS. That is kinda True most people think all IRISH are DRUNKS. I guess us IRISH are a little weird some born with Red Hair & Freckels covering our whole Body. Its funny Freckels disappear from our face but not the body. IRISH FOLKLORE says we get our Freckels from the Sun. That makes no sense IRISH Skin Burns easily in the sun. Us O"GRADY boys most have been good looking, these girls kept coming to our house some times right after school. Too bad only 8-9 year olds. For some reason my girlfriends called me James instead of Jim or Jimmy. I really liked my Rock N Roll Music ROLLING Stones Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, Bob Seger, Doobie Brothers, Allman Brothers Lynyrd Skynyrd. I liked how those 70s girls had the hots for those Long Hair Rock Stars. Heres a few corny IRISH sayings I AM A LEPRECHAUN I DONT DATE HUMANS, YOU DONT SCARE ME I WAS RAISED BY AN IRISH MOTHER. AN IRISH GIRL WITHOUT FRECKELS IS LIKE A SKY WITHOUT STARS. AN IRISH GIRL IS A GUYS BEST DRINKING BUDDY. WARNING I MAY BE PRONE TO SHENANIGANS & MALARKEY. REDHEAD IRISH GIRLS ARE EXTRA FIESTY IN THE BEDROOM. MAY THE LUCK OF THE IRISH BE WITH YOU. KISS ME IM IRISH NO REALLY IM IRISH. PARENTS were crazy having 10 IRISH Kids. Not only that Mom side gave us kids 16 first cousins. IRISH Familys are known for having lots of kids. Too Bad ST PATRICKS PARADE is cancelled because of that Corona Virus. My Family turned out all right we all new our limits with Alcohol. Kinda funny I took a liken to Partridge Family Music at 8 years old. Some of those 70s concerts were crazy because of very little Security, even indoor concerts were bad. Then again how do you control 75,000 fans. Freckels in IRELAND are called ANGEL KISSES. Sorry about all IRISH Stuff Im just Proud of my IRISH HEARITAGE. RIP DAVID CASSIDY
Great decade of music
I agree totally.. It was great times with great music!
TV Show, Beverly Hills 90210, MTV, Fresh Prince, other music group: Phill Collins, Michael Jackson. I like the 80’s & 90’s
linda
We were blessed to have grown up in the 80s. I was born in 69 so I was a teenager in the 80s and no decade will ever match the awesome music that we had
Big time hunniebun. The music will never be the same.
Amen to That Sista!!! Me Too. I was born in 70! So much Great Music Everywhere! What a Time it Was! So Much awesome music to reflect on and meditate and to be thankful for! Just like it says in philippians 4: 8! Whatever things are true, are of serious concern, are lovable, are well spoken of, are praiseworthy continue to consider and to be mindful of those things!!! Geez, you inspired a little Scripture to come out of me today! Thanks for That!!! See how powerful Music can be! Lots of love SisterinChrist! Stay Strong and continue to be the Light in all this darkness today! AND... Be The CHANGE You Want To See In The World!!!!
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I was born in 1969 as well sister it was the best decade for music hands down u have great taste in music 😃😃👍👍👌👌
1977☝️🙌
I was born in 1981 and I remember a lot of great songs from my childhood from the 80s...
Timeless Classic 💣💣💣
I'm here 2024 🫶
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I’m listening to Martika Toy Soldiers early April 2024
0:47
Me too
Me too
Eu também
her screaming is beautiful.
lol
@surabeily4136, she never cried! We were playing! You hated me all my life!
I couldn't say that I didn't cry when your husband left miles out in country! Because I wouldn't do what he wanted me to do! My name is Lewis Robert Burton Jr!
I miss you 80's 😭
And the 70s for me.
me too
Am still listening to this in 2024.
I’m listening to Martika Toy Soldiers late February 2024
4:15
Great song 🎵, and she was so damn beautiful as well!!!!
What '80s pop felt like. I miss my old living room and home stereo where music seemed to play endlessly.
❤
j go Same! 🎶💜
Me too ... I miss everything from that period. #Nostalgia
Man for real!
Was a great time ,
Buenísimo tema!!!
(Step by step
Heart to heart
Left, right, left
We all fall down
Like toy soldiers)
It wasn't my intention to mislead you
It never should have 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)
(Chorus)
Step by step
Heart to heart
Left, right, left
We all fall down
Like toy soldiers
Bit by bit
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 can 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)
(Chorus)
Step by step
Heart to heart
Left, right, left
We all fall down
Like toy soldiers
Bit by bit
Torn apart
We never win
But the battle wages on
For Toy soldiers
Only emptiness remains
It replaces all, all the pain
(Won't you come out and play with me)
(Chorus) (2x)
Step by step
Heart to heart
Left, right, left
We all fall down
Like toy soldiers
Bit by bit
Torn apart
We never win
But the battle wages on
For Toy soldiers
Stop writing the lyrics please
@@MichaelMrar-lh8wwstop writing ignorant comments.
This is a banger! 🔥 Holy sh.. why have I missed?
Loved this song then, and still love it now. Very powerful
Powerful song about addiction. And back when MTV actually aired inspiring content.
Word!
I've never known this song was about addiction. Now after listening closer.......🤔......Ur right....
arrowguy173 it's about the fact that we are all slaves living under occupation in open air prisons
Yep!
When MTV was actually music.
An absolutely soul touching song. Addiction is no game and all the pain that comes with it. To all the ones still fighting the addictions keep fighting and don't let it win.
My daughter is an addict and I am at loss
Luckily it's only nicotine for me. But fetanyl is flooding our country every day killing everyone that touches it. Godspeed.
@@victorianicholson9389 😢😢😢
@@victorianicholson9389 I WILL PRAY 4 HER 2 RID THAT DISEASE OF ADDICTION!!
gonna make me cry, thank you
Amazing Singer!
I haven’t heard this song in decades but it apparently left a bookmark in my mind all those years ago and my mind and heart went right back to the same place. Music is magical.
Kids Incorporated is where we saw her 1st
same
It works momentary magic o connecting the past and present in dementail patients, who (let's face it even if it's hard) don't have a future. Even if they are your mother who appears to be suffering because the government was not responsive to her needs. Except it wasn't "They say you're no good, but you take care of all my needs?"
i was going thru change i guess, 40 and looking for a new love, left my husband, had a fling then returned home.things went back to boring but i will always have that crazy year!
@@BLUE24x7 I loved that show! I would wake up at 5 am on Saturdays to watch it! 💯💙
Such a tragic, passionate and beautiful song.
I wish I could back to the 80's myself 😢
It doesn't matter when you were actually born. If you've lived the 80's, you will remember it as being the best decade of your life. I'm 64, my mother 87 and we both agree.
Born in 74... My youth was the best time i ever had...
The last 25 years are a living hell ... every day is a struggle to survive
Dont give up
@@sumarexl thx my friend...you only can try so much to not give up...
for real, 1975 ...I remember dancing with girls to this song after the football game. I was a left tackle. I was BOLD and asked every girl to dance with me ...we had "dance" at our school after the games. you know maybe. used to be pretty good looking back in those days....sadly youth fades.
Same here, born in 1965, constant struggle…
Don’t give up, JESUS CHRIST COMES VERY SOON!!! 🙏🙏🙏
This song takes me back to childhood during the 80's. A time when life was much simpler and people talked to each other, face to face, for hours. If you needed answers, you rode your bike to the library and hung out with Dewey Decimal. The entire summer was spent at the public pool where the air was full of chlorine, kids were taking turns seeing how far they could swim underwater on one breath, and for snacks we had Mello Yello and Chick-o-Sticks. Riding my bike all over town because everyone knew everyone and we looked out for each other and didn't have to worry about getting snatched up or shot at. If you got in trouble, you're bike was never fast enough to beat the phone call home to your parents and you were held accountable for your actions. No cellphones, no computers, no video games (unless your parents had money). We weren't allowed to sit in the house on a sunny day and we never ate a meal at home that wasn't at the table. My God, how I miss those years. I wish I would have realized how special they were.
It was a simpler better time.
The 80s were rife with serial killers and child abductors, much more so than now. Lack of security cameras, no computer databases to analyze crimes, no DNA databases...I grew up in the 70s and 80s, but let's not pretend they were free from anything bad. Hell, where I lived there was a series of child murders that has still never been solved.
@@maureenthomas9758 It was neither. It was just a different time.
@@19Lucifuga71 You weren't there, so how do you know?
The toys were cooler, The music was just plain awesome, and kids could be kids.
Summer of 89! What a time, and still never gets old.
This song gives me chills... everytime
Ane Dijitak Me, too Ane !! :-)
I was 17 when this song was released. It was my favorite song. I didn't know back then, that the song was about cocaine addiction, lol.
***** Ha! I wasn't even 3 when this came out!
***** more like 29 in November.
Ane Dijitak Its a powerful song.
+Ane Dijitak She has such powerful voice. That's why I also get chills.
The breathtaking performance she gave for this song on The Arsenio Hall Show was a game changer.
This was my late brother's favorite song by Martika.
Remarkable production as usual. This was back when Los Angeles knew how to make records. This was produced in Sherman Oaks, California. Utterly stunning work on the drums and guitar textures, but the actual composition itself is amazing. Complex hit structure unlike anything heard before or since. A totally original piece of music and arguably Martika's most important recording of her career.
The 80’s 😍
2022 and this song is still iconic 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I'm listening to Martika Toy Soldiers early January 2022
I'm listening Feb 6th 2022
Where is she going and now.
February 20, 2022
@@jeanettedodds9774 a few beers on a Sunday and yes I'm listening. first heard this song when in high school I am now putting my glasses on to watch hahaha
80's music was the fucking best in every genre.
+jim jimjim You weren't there were you?
***** I've been everywhere in my time machine.
jim jimjim Hmm where were you born?
***** In a hospital.
jim jimjim
Damn I was hoping you would get I waws being joking around and say "Gallifrey". :)
Songs like this is the reason I'm glad I grew up in the 80's...Awesome childhood!
I was a child of the 80s. I never knew of this song until I was in junior high, and it wasn't until very recently that I really listened to it and read the lyrics. Now that I'm older, I fully realize it's meaning, and it haunts me. Martika wrote this for a friend battling a cocaine addiction. It makes me reflect on my own personal demons as well as my nephew's suicide. We think we're alone in our battles, but we really aren't. There ARE people who understand and people who care. ❤ I will forever cherish this song.
This came out in 1988 and I fell for Martika after watching this video on MTV. I hope Martika is doing well. Time goes by too damn fast.
I heard somewhere that she's now a housewife someplace in Ohio.
She's married and lives in Ohio.
@@gat2asp919 .. yes I know I said that a couple of days ago.
There will never be another 80s, EVER!
Well, there will be in sixty years.
You're 100% right man.. No one can go back to the past...Only God can do that . He lives in the past, Present , and Future at the same time. God created time too. In other words we are the only ones to live in the time past , present and future. It's hard to understand it ...but that's the truth👍👍
we knew what love was ,,we were real and powerful ...that never died ...
2080?
Not true, in less than 60 years there will be another 80s