Foot Shooter

Think you have quite a few mistakes in the lyrics there.

Well the booze in my blood runs fast and loud And my brain shouts down to my mouth say whatever I think Say it at him

And when the dam bursts open and your drowned out boy Better go outside, sit in your boat and wait Till you get washed away

Hold your thoughts, time your rallies Pluck up your ears we're doing it verbal but I am loaded Duck under that desk, cover your neck Picking your skin as I begin to shoot myself in the foot again

And as the voice succumbs as my mouth goes numb I limp out to the sound of breaking of broken toes A vandal spoke And in the stark and the sobering dry sunlight I will blink my eyes and hope the blink can erase All the shit that I said and did

Hold your thoughts, time your rallies Pluck up your ears we're doing it verbal but I am loaded Duck under that desk, cover your neck Picking your skin as I begin to shoot myself in the foot again

And if I shoot at you, you should shoot at me too We can drown in the ghost of the thick dark words we throw And if my face turns white I apologise, I am sorry, it's not your fault It's mine

Hold your thoughts, time your rallies Pluck up your ears we're doing it verbal but I am loaded Duck under that desk, cover your neck Picking your skin as I begin to shoot myself in the foot again

Lyrics as written on the album :

The booze in my blood runs fast and loud And my brain shouts down to my mouth say whatever I think Say it at him

And as the dam bursts open and you're drowned out boy Better go outside, sit in your boat and wait 'til you get washed away

Hold on to your thumbs, tighten your eyelids Lock up your ears, my dear, I'm verbal when I am loaded Duck under that desk, cover your neck Thicken your skin as I begin to shoot myself in the foot again

And as the body succumbs, and my mouth goes numb I limp out to the sound of, the breaking of broken toes A vandal spoke In the stark and the sobering dry sunlight I will blink my eyes and hope the blink can erase All the shit that I said and did

Hold on to your thumbs, tighten your eyelids Lock up your ears, my dear, I'm verbal when I am loaded Duck under that desk, cover your neck Thicken your skin as I begin to shoot myself in the foot again

And if I shoot at you, you should shoot at me too And we can drown in pools of the thick dark words we threw And as my face turns white I apologise, I am sorry, it's not your fault It's mine

Hold on to your thumbs, tighten your eyelids Lock up your ears, my dear, I'm verbal when I am loaded Duck under that desk, cover your neck Thicken your skin as I begin to shoot myself in the foot again

I hear "It wasn't your fault..." at the beginning of the chorus instead of "Hold your thoughts..."

It seems to make sense in the context of the song given that he says "I apologize, I'm sorry, it's not your fault" during the bridge.

favourite song from the new album. I love the way he sings the words loaded and again in the chorus.

it's about how he gets drunk and says things he doesn't mean to someone, probably a girl, but really could be anyone. so this song is written like when he's sober as a warning to the person not to take it personally, not to believe anything the singer says when they are drunk, to "thicken your skin" as he starts to "shoot myself in the foot again" by saying/doing these things. it might be that he gets drunk while out with his lady friend and starts shit with another guy (hence the line "say whatever i think, say it at him!") and eventually this turns into saying things he doesn't mean to her. i dunno. great song though.

This is my absolute favorite song on the album! It is brilliant! The way he uses the figure of speech "to shoot oneself in the foot", to go against one's own interests/ to be self-destructive, in this case by saying things he shouldn't while he is drunk, and then using words to paint a picture of actually having shot himself in the foot. I'm not sure if I worded that right to express what I mean but I just think it's phenomenal!

Like, using the word loaded- loaded in the sense that he is drunk and loaded like a gun.

And, "And as the body succumbs, and my mouth goes numb,I limp out to the sound of, the breaking of broken toes". Limping cause he just shot himself in the foot...

Also, "And if I shoot at you, you should shoot at me too, And we can drown in pools of the thick dark words we threw, And as my face turns white, I apologise, I am sorry, it's not your fault,It's mine"- pools of words he just spewed out and pools of blood from the wound to the foot/ face turns white from the regret of what he just said and the loss of blood.

And then still also managing to tie it in to the nautical theme throughout the whole album: "And as the dam bursts open and you're drowned out boy Better go outside, sit in your boat and wait 'til you get washed away"

I love it. I think he is an amazing lyricist.

Thanks craig ;) Brilliant song! Personally one of my favourites on the new album. It could easily be anthem of the occasional or instinctual "nightime beasts" who knows how to rock 'n roll in the evenings. You often have this strange feeling when you wake up, realizing things that happened the other night. Like they never really happened to you and you aren't the person responsible for them. But you have to face the consequences anyway.

This song singlehandedly kept me alive at one point. Not for any particular reason except it was really catchy and clever and was stuck in my head constantly in the lowest point of my life when I was hospitalized. And I was like oh ok, I'll keep living to hear this song in my head I guess, that's kind of satisfying. I am not joking lol. Thanks Scott