Based on the video that is on YouTube, which appears official, this song is about Malkmus kicking/forcing Pavement co-founder Kannberg (aka Spiral Stairs) out of Pavement. But that doesn't happen for another 3 years or so. I was wondering if "painted soldiers" was a known idiom or saying. I also wondered where this song appears. I'm guessing a b side to a single or compilation album somewhere. I wondered if the song caused more friction between SM and SS. This seemed like a direct shot at Malkmus:
Why'd you have to say those things
About my faults, about my sting?
I didn't want things to end this way
I didn't want things to end this way.
All my soldiers are painted
And I'm one of them,
But I'm still dedicated
To seeing...
I knew he liked to talk about himself
But he wanted the whole world to know.
It made me sick inside...
I just gotta hold back.
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Based on the video that is on YouTube, which appears official, this song is about Malkmus kicking/forcing Pavement co-founder Kannberg (aka Spiral Stairs) out of Pavement. But that doesn't happen for another 3 years or so. I was wondering if "painted soldiers" was a known idiom or saying. I also wondered where this song appears. I'm guessing a b side to a single or compilation album somewhere. I wondered if the song caused more friction between SM and SS. This seemed like a direct shot at Malkmus:
Why'd you have to say those things About my faults, about my sting? I didn't want things to end this way I didn't want things to end this way.
All my soldiers are painted And I'm one of them, But I'm still dedicated To seeing...
I knew he liked to talk about himself But he wanted the whole world to know. It made me sick inside... I just gotta hold back.
@engravement --------off the kids in the hall brain candy soundtrack i found the video:
@engravement --------off the kids in the hall brain candy soundtrack i found the video:
http://www.vh1.com/video/pavement/18467/painted-soldiers.jhtml
http://www.vh1.com/video/pavement/18467/painted-soldiers.jhtml