Cocksoldiers and Their Postwar Stubble
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Cocksoldiers and Their Postwar Stubble Lyrics
If you could imagine this
You're not to blame
This is one thing that you missed
I know it's not the same
Bathe your wounds in healing oils
Poison in rain
I'm the scavenger of spoils
Too proud to plead insane
[Chorus]
And realize the entertainment
Rise above the self-containment
Compromise will be the arrangement
For cocksoldiers and their postwar stubble
They dream tonight
[Verse]
But if you could imagine this
You're not to blame
This is one thing that you missed
I know it's not the same
[Chorus]
And realize the entertainment
Rise above the self-containment
Compromise will be the arrangement
For cocksoldiers and their postwar stubble
They dream tonight
And realize the entertainment
Rise above the self-containment
Compromise will be the arrangement
About
Another song from the scrapped Power of Suck sessions, recorded with Kim Deal and then left off the final Under the Bushes Under the Stars album.
The title “Cocksoldiers” (without their postwar stubble) was also used in some early tracklists for an edited version of “Sheetkickers”, though the officially released version does not bear this title.
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Bassist Jim Greer on the mixing of the song:
“Cocksoldiers And Their Postwar Stubble” was a Memphis track that ended up on SHB, too, but we didn’t bother to remix that (I had tried the last reserves of Bob’s patience), which is a shame, although if you want to hear what “Official Ironmen” and “Don’t Stop Now” would have sounded like had we not remixed them,”Cocksoldiers” is a pretty good example. On a personal note, I mourn the loss of my bass line, which was the melody from the Kinks’ “Waterloo Sunset” for the most part, but which fit the chord progression nicely, or at least I thought it did.
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