| The Dead Weather – So Far from Your Weapon Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Maybe I'm being too literal, but to me it sounds like someone who's being asked to commit a mercy killing and refusing. "There's a bullet in my pocket burning a hole/You're so far from your weapon and the place you were born/There's a bullet in my pocket burning a hole/You're so far from your weapon and you want to go home" To me, this sounds like these two were in a war maybe, and one got injured and is now asking the narrator to kill them. "A bullet in my pocket burning a hole" could be their knowledge that the person is mortally wounded and the merciful thing is to kill them. "I try to give you whiskey but it never do work/Suddenly, you're begging me to do so much worse/I new it from the get-go the bullet was cursed/Ever since I had you every little thing hurts" The narrator could have tried to give the injured person whiskey to numb the pain, but it did nothing what for the severity of their injuries. Then the person asks them to end their suffering; thus "now you're begging me to do so much worse." And "I knew from the get go the bullet was cursed" is obviously the same bullet that's burning a hole in their pocket, and the bullet they will inevitably have to use to kill their fatally injured comrade. "You wanna get up, let go/I say no" The refusal to kill them "You dream of seeing fire in them hills/You better wipe that smile from your lips/Which of us will be the one to go?/He who hit's the road's the one who lives" The narrator is confused about what to do. The injured one is urging the narrator to do as they ask, maybe in a nice and gentle way so that it puts them on edge - "you beter wipe that smile from your lips." As they may be in a life-threatening situation they need to make a desicion quickly, hence "which of us will be the one to go/he who hit's the road's the one who lives." Of course I could be completely wrong. |
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