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re: Songs that reference guns and shooting

Posted on 1/24/23 at 7:27 pm to
Posted by Perfect Circle
S W Alabama
Member since Sep 2017
6855 posts
Posted on 1/24/23 at 7:27 pm to
quote:

Lyrics= depressing af, Melody= brilliant.


I'm a sucker for this type of juxtaposition in a song.
Posted by Perfect Circle
S W Alabama
Member since Sep 2017
6855 posts
Posted on 1/24/23 at 7:29 pm to
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope
Cloud 8
Member since Nov 2012
5512 posts
Posted on 1/24/23 at 10:05 pm to
quote:


He looked down into her brown eyes
And said "say a prayer for me"
She threw her arms around him Whispered, "God will keep us free"
They could hear the riders comin'
He said, "this is my last fight
If they take me back to Texas
-They won't take me back alive"

There were seven Spanish angels
At the altar of the sun
They were prayin' for the lovers
In the valley of the gun
When the battle stopped and the smoke cleared
There was thunder from the throne
And seven Spanish angels
Took another angel home

She reached down and picked the gun up
That lay smokin' in his hand
She said, "Father, please forgive me I can't make it without my man"
And she knew the gun was empty
And she knew she couldn't win
But her final prayer was answered
-When the rifles fired again

There were seven Spanish angels At the altar of the sun
They were prayin' for the lovers In the valley of the gun
When the battle stopped and the smoke cleared
There was thunder from the throne
And seven Spanish angels
Took another angel home
Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82
near the Apple spaceship
Member since Nov 2012
5239 posts
Posted on 1/24/23 at 10:13 pm to
Rush - Red Sector A

Ragged lines of ragged grey
Skeletons, they shuffle away
Shouting guards and smoking guns
Will cut down the unlucky ones

I clutch the wire fence until my fingers bleed
A wound that will not heal, a heart that cannot feel
Hoping that the horror will recede
Hoping that tomorrow, we'll all be freed

Sickness to insanity
Prayer to profanity
Days and weeks and months go by
Don't feel the hunger, too weak to cry

I hear the sound of gunfire at the prison gate
Are the liberators here, do I hope or do I fear?
For my father and my brother, it's too late
But I must help my mother stand up straight
Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82
near the Apple spaceship
Member since Nov 2012
5239 posts
Posted on 1/24/23 at 10:18 pm to
My favorite song where a shooting almost happened: Gimme Three Steps.

All these lyrics about guns and shooting pale next to these words from an all-time badass:

Ain't got no gun
Ain't got no knife
Don't you start no fight!
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope
Cloud 8
Member since Nov 2012
5512 posts
Posted on 1/24/23 at 10:27 pm to
Posted by tigerpimpbot
Chairman of the Pool Board
Member since Nov 2011
66989 posts
Posted on 1/25/23 at 12:55 am to
I shot the sheriff.
Posted by Perfect Circle
S W Alabama
Member since Sep 2017
6855 posts
Posted on 1/25/23 at 6:57 am to
Posted by Shanegolang
Denham Springs, La
Member since Sep 2015
3498 posts
Posted on 1/26/23 at 8:55 pm to
.45- Shinedown
Posted by Perfect Circle
S W Alabama
Member since Sep 2017
6855 posts
Posted on 1/28/23 at 5:27 am to
Posted by Tigris
Mexican Home
Member since Jul 2005
12366 posts
Posted on 1/28/23 at 6:43 pm to
Another Warren Zevon - Frank and Jessie James

and Zevon again - Searching for a Heart (you can't start it like a car you can't stop it with a gun).

Posted by Tigris
Mexican Home
Member since Jul 2005
12366 posts
Posted on 1/28/23 at 6:50 pm to
Heh - the best gun line I can think of:

Townes - Pancho and Lefty:

"Wore his gun outside his pants,
for all the honest world to feel."
Posted by Twenty 49
Shreveport
Member since Jun 2014
18793 posts
Posted on 1/28/23 at 7:12 pm to
Adeem the Artist, Middle of a Heart

quote:

Daddy's gonna buy me a brand-new gun
Show me how to clean it in the yard
Papaw says he can't wait to see me
Fire with that steady arm
A couple hours of waitin' and some heavy concentration
Put a bullet through the middle of a heart
Posted by Perfect Circle
S W Alabama
Member since Sep 2017
6855 posts
Posted on 1/30/23 at 4:42 pm to
Posted by Big Scrub TX
Member since Dec 2013
33540 posts
Posted on 1/31/23 at 12:37 pm to
Saturday Night Special

Hide Your Heart (KISS)

Folsom Prison Blues

Cocaine Blues
Posted by midlothianlsu
Midlothian, Texas
Member since Oct 2009
1422 posts
Posted on 1/31/23 at 1:18 pm to
Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2015
66191 posts
Posted on 1/31/23 at 3:23 pm to
Posted by Perfect Circle
S W Alabama
Member since Sep 2017
6855 posts
Posted on 2/1/23 at 5:15 am to
Posted by Dirk Dawgler
Where I Am
Member since Nov 2011
2509 posts
Posted on 2/2/23 at 2:10 am to
Steely Dan- Don’t Take Me Alive
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