A jury of my peers
I'm ready to be ritious
Screaming in her ears
I'm not dignified anymore
You can't say I didn't call
I say I love you
She don't hear me anymore

Don't give that girl a gun
I said now don't give that girl a gun
She's already won
She's already won

I made a bad connection
She says "I would have stayed"
I jumped ship abandoned my post
I didn't think I lost my way
But how the mighty falls
I saw her crack a smile
I don't got a chance of redemption
She don't believe in the American mile

So take the first shot baby
It will be real clean
I'm your girl-it's all me
And take the second shot baby
It'll be real cold
I'm your girl

Don't give that girl a gun
I said now don't give that girl a gun
She's already won
She's already won

Yeah

Yeah

I sing hold me closer
Oh something's happening
I can't belong again
And I said I doubt we ever will
Ever will again

I said don't give that girl a gun
I said now don't give that girl a gun
She's already won, already won.


Lyrics submitted by aur0ra

Don't Give That Girl a Gun Lyrics as written by Emily Ann Saliers Amy Elizabeth Ray

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

Lyrics powered by LyricFind

Don't Give That Girl a Gun song meanings
Add Your Thoughts

2 Comments

sort form View by:
  • +1
    General Comment

    i haven't heard much by them, but imo this is a fabulous song that's very underrated

    paper_hearts13on December 19, 2006   Link
  • +1
    General Comment

    this is a classic break-up song. It is about knowing you screwed up and lost something really good. You know you deserve to get dumped and you can't ever get your love back. You hate yourself and you wish your ex and her friends would just shoot you by getting all the hate and resentment over at once. The lesbian community is very small and everyone knows everyone's business. If you cheat or hurt yor partner it will get around and everone will telll you what an ass you are. This song is about that.

    amymonkeyon October 06, 2007   Link

Add your thoughts

Log in now to tell us what you think this song means.

Don’t have an account? Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. It’s super easy, we promise!

More Featured Meanings

Album art
Fast Car
Tracy Chapman
"Fast car" is kind of a continuation of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run." It has all the clawing your way to a better life, but in this case the protagonist never makes it with her love; in fact she is dragged back down by him. There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
Album art
Mental Istid
Ebba Grön
This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
Album art
Holiday
Bee Gees
@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday". 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.
Album art
Mountain Song
Jane's Addiction
Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988. "'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it." "There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
Album art
Magical
Ed Sheeran
How would you describe the feeling of being in love? For Ed Sheeran, the word is “Magical.” in HIS three-minute album opener, he makes an attempt to capture the beauty and delicacy of true love with words. He describes the magic of it all over a bright Pop song produced by Aaron Dessner.