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I Had No Intentions Lyrics

He motioned too me from across the street
His arms waving madly "Come over to me"
I saw the panic as he approached
We both ran quickly to the house
Where the windows were shot out

He lay there bleeding on the floor
My mother beside him screaming "Dear Lord
Someone shot my boy"

I held his hand till the ambulance came
Then onto a stretcher they took him away
I followed close from the car behind
The lights and the sirens both dull in my mind
November 9

Killed by a bullet from a jealous gun
It rattled his eyelids and pierced through his lungs
The damage now done

He was seen by her lover the night before
Swearing to kill him outside her door
To her defense my brother walked out
Raising his fists and screaming "Get out
It's me she's with now!"

Hotel hospital the tears burned my eyes
I slipped into nighttime and deep into dying
Without even trying.
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xdvr On Oct 28, 2006
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Cover art for I Had No Intentions lyrics by Damien Jurado

Sad song.. gives me chills. I love it though

Very Very beautiful but insanely saddening song "Its me shes with now" aaahhh!

Cover art for I Had No Intentions lyrics by Damien Jurado

I really like the way Damien is telling this story. First he tells he's near a house, that someone calls him for help, the windows of the house were shot out, then it's his brother (!) who is lying on the floor and his mother is screaming. Then the song says "Killed by a bullet", so he's dead. "...from a jealous gun" and "seen by her lover the night before". So there was a girl. But who was this "lover" that sweared "to kill him outside her door"? The song is called "I had no intentions". So, it seems to me that HE (the teller) is the killer of his brother?! OMG?! What do you think? Let me know!

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@jjansen That's a really interesting point of view for this song, and I can see where you get it too now that you mention it. I had a different interpretation for the song when I listened to it. To me, the title is something that would have been said by the shooter of the dead brother. By "I had no intentions" I think the shooter means it was a crime of passion and not something he planned on doing. But then the lyrics tell the story behind the killing through the eyes of a loved one and it becomes...

 
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