Styx - Cold War Lyrics

there was supposed to be a movie made to this album!!!! My father saw it back in the early 80's when he was serving in the Navy. He told me that there was a disagreement between the artist and the studio. In a wold where movies really suck it would be great to see it actually released and remastered

when i first heard this song, i thought it was a foreigner song haha

it is sad that in our day and age this album cover would be attacked as being politically incorrect and insensitive to our Asian friends.

This Album gives me mixed fellings is so laim but so great at the time... is like a gourgeous bitch with no brains...

What a crap album this was. Just a ridiculous collection of pop songs masquerading as a concept album. Head over to The Mission for a true rock concept album

Stephen Lord especially with dont let it end. just an average 80s ballad that didnt fit with the concept at all. i liked the concept in mr roboto but the rest of the album simply doesn't fit.

Styx is one of the two fortunate things to come back into my life this year, and it has literally saved my life. Won't go into all the details but - Now that I've discovered them (meaning, more than just knowing about one or two songs), my soul and entire outlook is better, happier and more optimistic. Thank you Dennis deYoung, and, especially, to Tommy Shaw .

I really love the album The Grand Illusion. Check out the song "Man in the Wilderness" and "Castle Walls". The whole album is great. I saw Dennis deYoung in concert in December 2017, and he and his band were amazing. He just turned 70. He performed The Grand Illusion in its entirety that night. He has two lookalike guitarists a "Tommy Shaw" and a "JY Young", but these guys are WAY better players. I am discovering some of their earlier stuff like Equinox which is also good. I am kind of partial to Styx since they are also from Illinois.

WHAT ALOT OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THAT THERE WAS AN ACTUAL MOVIE THAT STYX MADE THAT WENT ALONG WITH THIS ALBUM!!! SO THIS IS DEFINITELY A CONCEPT ALBUM!!! DAMN GOOD TOO!!!

Righteous thinks it’s over! RIGHTEOUS THINKS ITS OVER!

No, but I showed the movie to a friend last year and she thought it was amusing....her main comment though.... “so that’s why the end of mr roboto is him saying ‘I’m kilroy’.”

Ive been tryingto find it!!!

now I know where thomas dolby stole his riff for blinded me w scince

"She Blinded Me With Science" was released in October of 1982. "Cold War" and Kilroy Was Here appeared in February of 1983.

I think we get too caught up in the internal politics that were going on in the band when Kilroy was produced and released. They all wanted us to enjoy this music. Apparently millions have enjoyed it and there's nothing wrong with that.

I remember listening to this song sitting on the back of my mom's mint green Pontiac van with the trunk open and speakers above...it was on my uncles ranch in North Dakota. years ago.

I wasnt aware pontiac made vans

They knew it was coming back in the eighties.

It seems even more relevant now than it did in 1983...

the keyboards on this are out of this world.

+ketchup143 That's Dennis for ya. Amazing!

Dennis DeYounfg is a fabulous kkeyboard artist.

omg...play this song at a trump or cruz convention. it fits perfectly.

@The Robby King
cruz is cut from the exact same cloth. he is a nazi. he has an even more mental and tyrannical belief about government than trump. in many ways im much happier to have trump than cruz as prez, but i still wish cruz had won the repub nomination cause he would have surely lost.

what did he do?? he read "green eggs and ham" at a filibuster to shut down the government b/c he didn't get his way on aca. scary ass dude.

Works better for something like Antifa.

ketchup143 I really dont get this whole "trump is a nazi" narrative... hes not trying to take away our inalienable liberties, replace first world populations, use violence to achieve political goals... can you explain?

Or the B.L.M.

This is not styx, this is Dennis Deyoung, this should not have been a styx album, but there is a reason it went triple platinum.

wysbro1984 Dennis DeYoung was so good that the band had to replace him with another vocalist who sounded like him so their could perform their older stuff.

wysbro1984 it went platinum

This is not Styx? 3 of the songs were credited to Tommy and 2 songs to James. So 5 of the 9 songs on the album were not written by Dennis. It was his concept and they probably went too far with it especially live and it drove a wedge in the band.

Actually Tommy Shaw sings this song, not Dennis DeYoung

It was a DeYoung concept album, this and love songs caused them to boot him/

I too have also been such a sucker for concept albums. I love the story lines. This was one of my favorite ones.

@George Theofanous Concepts for days.

This one actually reminds me of Michael Jackson's Beat It in terms of story lines.

It's interesting that this was the last album before De Young and Shaw split from Styx.

One of the better songs off of a substandard album, I didn't like the "Kilroy Was Here" album very much but do like this song.

You don't love the incredible harmonies of deYoung and Shaw in Haven't We Been Here Before? OMG that is one of my all time favorites.

it sounds like a beavis and butthead haircut.

Well Richard it sounds like you're being a Beavis and you have a Butthead no taste raguel Stewart Vacaville California

everybody get ready for  a cold war cause tommys commin a fast with one (:1

@ericp65 you got that right killroy is ok, but the worst styx album ever

@TheRailFanBoy780 yes Tommy Shaw sing's this song

@MBLMswim Holy moely,it does!

@TheRailFanBoy780
Yes.

Styx has the greatest refrains. Infectious

Worst Styx album ever.

Couldn't agree more, I don't go past Paradise Theater

Ding dong you're opinion is wrong

I disagree one of the best Styx albums great song great band still rocking today Raquel Stewart Vacaville California 2019

@ST3V I totally agree with you great minds think alike my friend Raquel Stewart Vacaville California

@Matthew Hipps Matthew I totally disagree weather greatest albums and bands ever still rocking to him today Raquel Stewart Vacaville California

after close to 30 years this shit still rocks like it was new.

Truly timeless rock and roll that stands up still in now 2020.

I saw this tour twice in 83' ( I believe it was 83' ). Not quite as good as 'Paradise' a couple of years before but damn good indeed.

I own that concert too and I've watched it almost every saturday that I can remember

I am such a sucker for concept albums- so of course KWH is no exception. :)

MBLM My Mom got me the Record and I was like 7 years old, To this day, it still is a great album. The best gift ever.

For my 5th birthday my dad got me the Styx caught in the act concert on dvd for me, I was possibly one of the happiest kids in the world, I watched it like 10 times in one day.

@JoeBronco Yes thank you.

Possibly one of tommy's best songs

Do you mean the "flux capacitor" from BTTF?

Is it just me or does the Y in STYX look like the flux compositor? The one on the screen?