tin man song meaning
Tin Man by America Songfacts. 1  This song is about eschewing love for sex, the perfect prize that waits among the shells, for which the bait is a quick, loveless seduction, while real love is the real reward. 2  America was the trio of Dan Peek, Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell until Peek left in 1977, leaving them as a duo. They wrote separately and split lead vocal duties: whoever wrote the song would sing it. Tin Man was written by Bunnell, and Beckley would like you to know that its themes extend well beyond the movie.