| David Bowie – Little Toy Solider Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Actually, this song is as disturbing as it reads. It is about a girl who has a sexual BDSM fetish with her toy, getting whipped to death. The lyrics are so disturbing that Bowie eventually decided not to include the song on the album (it was recorded for his self titled LP debut in 1967), and has disowned and banned the release of the song ever since. When the plan to reissue his Deram catalog was devised in the late 90's, the release was meant to be a 2CD set, but Bowie objected the inclusion of many previously unreleased tracks, including this one, and the official release was slimmed down to a 1CD ("The Deram Anthology 1966/1968"). The material that was cut off surfaced on the semi-legal release "The Forgotten Songs Of David Robert Jones", and while some of those tracks eventually saw the light of day when the 1967 album was re-released by Universal as a 2CD deluxe edition in 2010, "Little Toy Soldier" was omitted once again. | |
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