CHORUS

Step by step,
heart to heart,
left right left
we all fall down,
like toy soldiers/

Bit by bit,
we're torn apart,
we never win,
but the battle wages on,
for toy soldiers/


VERSE 1

I'm sittin here tryina write,
my feelings onto this page,
but I can't see past the tears born out of this rage,
like clawing animals let loose outta the cage,
rakin' out my eyes,
for all the years they were enslaved/
but I...
I...
I let it loose now,
its all rushin' so fast outta me I wanna puke now,
sittin' here watchin' these spirits flow outta me,
funny how emotion flowin' knows no boundaries/
its shakin' my body,
sendin' me into convulsions,
I'm seeing my veins,
a magnified feelin of pulses,
love coarsin' through my heart,
invigorating but,
at the same time its tearing me apart/
it feels good to know that I still got feeling,
but its been hiding from me so long,
why was it not healing?
thought it would be all taking time out at rehab,
but it all came back in a state of relapse/
5 years sober,
5 years older,
I really hope that I'm not 5 years colder,
I remember in my dreams when you told me to move over,
took the covers,
and kept tellin me that you were cold/
blue eyes blue hair blue lips and blue soul,
I wanted to see your face but knew that it was fool's gold,
I wonder if at the time you knew where you were gonna go,
and you were scared to go home/
well I have a feeling that your there now,
and can't let this sadness leave me impaired now,
I use your memory to smile,
just remember,
we love you,
no reason to be scared now...
go on...

CHORUS

Step by step,
heart to heart,
left right left
we all fall down,
like toy soldiers/

Bit by bit,
we're torn apart,
we never win,
but the battle wages on,
for toy soldiers/


VERSE 2

this right here's a message for those totin' a gun,
if you're gonna pull it out,
you better know where to run,
better have an escape plan,
in ya fate man,
cuz by the time you draw,
it'll be too late man/
ye,
some might like to call it,
citizen's arrest,
but I swear Ima hit you so hard,
you're gonna need a vest,
close up bare fists go against clips,
machine for a man against my bare hands,
lets put em to the test/
stupidly for a stranger,
I put myself on the line,
thats how you put it,
lets just say,
their time aint before mine,
I saw the cards,
read the odds,
came to peace with my function,
I'll never live and see someone hit the heavenly junction/
tired of seein my momma cry,
tired of hearin my daddy lie,
ready to leave it all,
just lay down and go beddy bye,
but I take a look at this cold world,
and steel myself against the bitter wind,
cuz I'm fighting till the bitter end/
if in all of us there's a sinner then,
you know I'm never ever gonna be lettin' him win,
the day that I concede victory,
is the day that I declare that the value of life is shit to me/
life; is it for free? naw, you gotta pay,
its priceless, so how can one take it away?
one kid feeling godly, one kid feeling oddly,
so now he feels he can separate from this body?
well, I may be mortal, different in rebuttal,
in what I'm capable of when I see somebody in trouble,
but I know, I got a memory I won't let go,
of a soul who lives on as more than just a toy soldier


CHORUS

Step by step,
heart to heart,
left right left
we all fall down,
like toy soldiers/

Bit by bit,
we're torn apart,
we never win,
but the battle wages on,
for toy soldiers//