'Battlefield' was one of those slow-building songs, the way 'Tattoo' was. It was kind of a word-of-mouth hit. The more people heard it, the more they started requesting it on the radio.
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I've had lots of friends who've gone through 'Battlefield' situations in their relationships, so when I was singing the song I put myself in their position and tried to imagine what they were going through. I got so, so into it and I think you can tell.
There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.
We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.
'Tattoos' reminds me of where I'm from, and some of the stuff I did when I was growing up. That was one of the things that was appealing about the song when I heard it the first time.
Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.
The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.
When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.
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