Shoot the Messenger Lyrics
Going places you'd never go with me
I felt myself become a bitter old shrew
I'd have bitten you in two if you would let me
Martyrdom does not become me
I'll find love in vanity
Somebody told me you'd found places to go
New people to know, new ladies and so
I felt myself become a bitter old shrew
I'd have bitten her in two if you would let me
If I don't laugh and see this through
I shouldn't even think of you
Allow me one extravagance
Before they come and ban me
And let me shoot the messenger
This knowledge ain't my business
But I hang on their every word
God speed his journey back to Hell
I might retreat singing
But all I hear is you
Just give me one more shot of gin
I'll scream along to anything
Just let me shoot the messenger
This tart, this whore, my weakness
I'm gonna shoot the messenger
jesus, NO ONE has commented on this amazing song... damn, i was actaully hoping to understand it better, its clearly about a BF who she broke up with, he moved on with a new croud a people, and she was watching him (so to speak) and wishing they were together, and feeling herself become bitter about it, hes got a new GF and shes cut up about it, but then she decides she has to move on, in her own way... but she still wants to hurt his GF...
I agree so far, but the shoot the messenger bit;
I agree so far, but the shoot the messenger bit;
========== Before they come and ban me And let me shoot the messenger
========== Before they come and ban me And let me shoot the messenger
So help me God they talk so much This knowledge ain't my business But I hang on their every word God speed his journey back to Hell I might retreat singing But all I hear is you I think that is about friends that know the ex and insist upon telling you all about them and how they are getting along with their "found places to go, New people to know, new ladies and so". These messengers make it worse, especially when it is...
>So help me God they talk so much This knowledge ain't my business But I hang on their every word God speed his journey back to Hell I might retreat singing But all I hear is you
I think that is about friends that know the ex and insist upon telling you all about them and how they are getting along with their "found places to go, New people to know, new ladies and so". These messengers make it worse, especially when it is on a night out and the depressive qualities of alcohol are in flow.
i'm amazed by this song, it's gorgeous.
Hehehe... probably one of the best 'revenge' songs ever written... It's twisted, malevolent, wretched, purely EVIL!. Cerys pulls a real Cruella DeVile in this one!. I love it!
BTW... You can hear someone typing in the beginning of this song... maybe the said ex-boyfriend found his new love online?. What if the messenger Cerys is so desperately trying to shoot was MSN Messenger?... I'm not sure, but it'd be fun if it was.