In response to my interpretation. The writers of the song and the lead singer at the time the song was written were self proclaimed worshippers of the occult. They said it themselves. This is from an article I read. Coven were practitioners of black magic and the occult - for real. Jinx Dawson describes herself as a "Left Hand Path High Priestess and Ceremonial Mage." Their first album, released in 1969, is one of the earliest examples of occult rock, with a track called "Satanic Mass" that the band claims is a recording of an actual black mass that they performed. The album is the first where band members are shown flashing the devil horns hand gesture.
"One Tin Soldier" is far removed from this subject, but Dawson thinks it fits her ethos. "I never understood it to be a peace/love song," she told Pop Culture Addict. "If one listens to the words, 'Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend, do it in the name of heaven, you can justify it in the end,' I heard it as hypocrisy toward the church, which of course is exactly how I was brought up." She meant it to be a mockery of Christianity
@Tonyinflorida YOU JUST PROVED YOU'RE AN IDIOT!
Coven didn't write nor "SUNG" the song. COVEN COVERED THE SONG for the movie, which originally was sung by "Original Caste" about 3 years earlier
it was co-written by Dennis Lambert, a Catholic deacon soon after meeting Brian August Potter in London(1969) about a year after Dennis mustered out of the Vietnam War (circa 1967-1968)
thus it definitely was an anti-war song and commentary on the futility of war (EDITOR: a war that USA GOVERNMENT refused to win)
@Tonyinflorida YOU JUST PROVED YOU'RE AN IDIOT!
Coven didn't write nor "SUNG" the song. COVEN COVERED THE SONG for the movie, which originally was sung by "Original Caste" about 3 years earlier
it was co-written by Dennis Lambert, a Catholic deacon soon after meeting Brian August Potter in London(1969) about a year after Dennis mustered out of the Vietnam War (circa 1967-1968)
thus it definitely was an anti-war song and commentary on the futility of war (EDITOR: a war that USA GOVERNMENT refused to win)
here is the original song with lyrics
https://youtu.be/cTBx-hHf4BE?si=09KJ2-8pFgPEzVw1...
In response to my interpretation. The writers of the song and the lead singer at the time the song was written were self proclaimed worshippers of the occult. They said it themselves. This is from an article I read. Coven were practitioners of black magic and the occult - for real. Jinx Dawson describes herself as a "Left Hand Path High Priestess and Ceremonial Mage." Their first album, released in 1969, is one of the earliest examples of occult rock, with a track called "Satanic Mass" that the band claims is a recording of an actual black mass that they performed. The album is the first where band members are shown flashing the devil horns hand gesture.
"One Tin Soldier" is far removed from this subject, but Dawson thinks it fits her ethos. "I never understood it to be a peace/love song," she told Pop Culture Addict. "If one listens to the words, 'Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend, do it in the name of heaven, you can justify it in the end,' I heard it as hypocrisy toward the church, which of course is exactly how I was brought up." She meant it to be a mockery of Christianity
@Tonyinflorida YOU JUST PROVED YOU'RE AN IDIOT! Coven didn't write nor "SUNG" the song. COVEN COVERED THE SONG for the movie, which originally was sung by "Original Caste" about 3 years earlier it was co-written by Dennis Lambert, a Catholic deacon soon after meeting Brian August Potter in London(1969) about a year after Dennis mustered out of the Vietnam War (circa 1967-1968) thus it definitely was an anti-war song and commentary on the futility of war (EDITOR: a war that USA GOVERNMENT refused to win)
@Tonyinflorida YOU JUST PROVED YOU'RE AN IDIOT! Coven didn't write nor "SUNG" the song. COVEN COVERED THE SONG for the movie, which originally was sung by "Original Caste" about 3 years earlier it was co-written by Dennis Lambert, a Catholic deacon soon after meeting Brian August Potter in London(1969) about a year after Dennis mustered out of the Vietnam War (circa 1967-1968) thus it definitely was an anti-war song and commentary on the futility of war (EDITOR: a war that USA GOVERNMENT refused to win)
here is the original song with lyrics https://youtu.be/cTBx-hHf4BE?si=09KJ2-8pFgPEzVw1...
here is the original song with lyrics https://youtu.be/cTBx-hHf4BE?si=09KJ2-8pFgPEzVw1
@Tonyinflorida - Holy crap. Look at this guy's (gaswiz) apoplectic proselytizing. Apparently another "Christian" who was pro-bloodbath in Viet Nam.
@Tonyinflorida - Holy crap. Look at this guy's (gaswiz) apoplectic proselytizing. Apparently another "Christian" who was pro-bloodbath in Viet Nam.