Soldier Through This

Track 17 on Version 2.0 (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)

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“Soldier Through This” is the b-side to the “You Look So Fine” single, the last single to be released off the second Garbage album Version 2.0. In a Q&A on Reddit, Shirley… Read More

May. 24, 19991 viewer

Soldier Through This Lyrics

[Verse 1]
You work too hard so when you come home to me you are tired
And you don't want to talk about it, you envy my drive and how I am motivated
We'll go down to the park, check out the carnival for a while
And try to forget all about it
I'm out of control and you don't appreciate it

[Chorus]
Believe it, I need it
I feel intoxicated
I love it, I want it
Don't make me leave you for it

[Verse 2]
You say I have changed, self-centered and vain
And you don't respect me for it
The world is the same so I'll play the game
And you've grown to hate me for it

So we're re-arranged, there's no one to blame
But still you resent me for it
I call all the shots, I hold all the cards
And you feel emasculated

[Chorus]
Believe it, I need it
I feel intoxicated
I love it, I want it
Don't make me leave you for it

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[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
Believe it, I need this
I feel intoxicated
I love it, I want it
Don't make me leave you for it
Believe it, I need it
I feel intoxicated
I love it, I want it
Don't make me leave you for it

[Outro]
How do we reconcile this?
How do we reconcile this?
How do we reconcile this?
How do we reconcile this?

We're able to soldier through this
We're able to soldier through this
We're able to soldier through this
We're able to soldier through this

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“Soldier Through This” is the b-side to the “You Look So Fine” single, the last single to be released off the second Garbage album Version 2.0.

In a Q&A on Reddit, Shirley Manson said:
“"Soldier Through This” is a gem of ours that very few have heard. We wrote it at a time of great anguish for me personally."

During the 20 Years Paranoid tour, Shirley Manson expanded on the song’s matter, saying it “is basically about the inability of a man to live with a woman who earned more than him, had a better career than him, had more social power than him, and he didn’t fucking like it.”