This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Walk away, I walk the wire
And my fields are burning in the flames
Feel my way, blind in the mire
Struggling from your voice inside my head
But now everything's trying to drag me down
But I'll rip the sky from the ground
But tell me now, who's my saving one
Jesus or a gun
Stripped away my last desire
Nothing comes and nothing's sent away
Happiness I couldn't hire
Struggling from these thoughts inside my head
But now everything's trying to drag me down
But I'll rip the sky from the ground
But tell me now, who's my saving one
Jesus or a gun
All that's safer falls from my favor
When it's over who will cry for me
It's safe to say I don't desire
Everything you push inside my head
And I'll reject it until I'm dead
But now everything's trying to drag me down
But I'll rip the sky from the ground
But tell me now, who's my saving one
Jesus or a gun
And my fields are burning in the flames
Feel my way, blind in the mire
Struggling from your voice inside my head
But now everything's trying to drag me down
But I'll rip the sky from the ground
But tell me now, who's my saving one
Jesus or a gun
Stripped away my last desire
Nothing comes and nothing's sent away
Happiness I couldn't hire
Struggling from these thoughts inside my head
But now everything's trying to drag me down
But I'll rip the sky from the ground
But tell me now, who's my saving one
Jesus or a gun
All that's safer falls from my favor
When it's over who will cry for me
It's safe to say I don't desire
Everything you push inside my head
And I'll reject it until I'm dead
But now everything's trying to drag me down
But I'll rip the sky from the ground
But tell me now, who's my saving one
Jesus or a gun
Lyrics submitted by sawg, edited by thegitsfan
Jesus or a Gun Lyrics as written by Carl William Bell Brett Scallions
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
Hmmm....
'If God does not exist, everything is permitted.'
If he doesn't have a God to believe in he doesn't know where to find a moral code to adhere to. If this happens he has to take morality and power into his own hands, and is able to do whatever he feels like without fear of being unjust - that's what the gun means.
This is a great song. I love the line "But I'll rip the sky from the ground."
Depressed obviously. He is confused on how to rectify his situation. Use a gun or live longer with some wisdom (some religion).
The part where he says "All thats safer falls from my favor, When its over who will cry for me" I believe refers to his thinking about killing him self. The next part "It's safe to say I don't desire, Everything you push inside my head, And I'll reject it until I'm dead" may be him trying to accept the choice of life and the wisdom that will keep him from killing him self.
I used wisdom so I don't explicitly have to say religion or therapy or what ever. . .
Jesus or a GUUUUUUUUUUNNN!!!! wow! wotta song
This song is about ACTION vs WANTING (prayer). When backed into a corner and it comes down to do or die, what REALLY is going to save you? Jesus or a gun?
"It's safe to say I don't desire/ Everything you push inside my head/ And I'll reject it until I'm dead"
^ Could be interpreted into different contexts, but given the title and chorus of the song, he's talking about religion and the way people are hearded into organized religion when they're children without a choice.
To shogunbown, I don't think he is depressed at all. It's not a song about suicide.
It's a song about beating the odds and believing in YOURSELF, and trusting in yourself above all else (supernatural beings included).
"All that's safer falls from my favor/ When it's over who will cry for me?"
By choosing to reject Christianity, he's choosing an unsafe path. He is choosing to live life the way HE wants to.
"When it's over, who will cry for me?"
When he dies, who will cry for him since he is presumably an atheist or agnostic? Will people refuse to mourn for him because religion blinds them to humanity?
And I agree with divican, that verse is killer.
It's about someone who has lost everything he cares about, and he must choose to walk the path of religion or pick up a gun.
He wants to know what will really save him, and in the end "All that is safer falls from my favor" and that no one will cry for him when he's dead, so he must pick up a gun and do something.
Pray all you want. It won't stop a bullet.
This song is about depression and the questions amounting from the religious programming that was shoved into his head. It seems to me the veil is being lifted from his eyes and he's not liking what he sees. Religion is not "wisdom", it's a means of crowd-control and full of lies. Turning to religion in your depression pushes you closer to the grave. He's beginning to see this when he writes this song and he's rejecting it, "Everything you push inside my head And I'll reject it until I'm dead".