| Gomez – In Our Gun Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I don't think this is a political song at all. Look at the first verse, the song is searching for something. It asks why someone else's words don't carry the meaning or depth that the singer wants them to. Then for the rest of the song he just sits and waits for this intimacy with people to come, but it never does. His friends come to his house and have a huge party drinking and wrecking things-- tons of fun, but no one gets any closer to one another. This is where the 'we sit in our gun' metaphor comes in. We sit in the barrel of a gun, aiming it at everyone who tries to get close to us because we are vulnerable. we cannot pull the trigger because the bullet will harm us as well, but everyone hides something. We all wait our turn to talk, but no one listens, which is why we can't say things that strike other people with the depth that the singer searches for. |
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