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Machine Gun Lyrics
Tell me off in a letter
Completely ignore me
Getting high off of saying
Why you don't adore me
Baby, please, I'm well versed
In how I might be cursed
I don't need it articulated
Stand in line wasting
All of your time just to hate me
Every dime gone to ways
You can find that might bait me
And drag me down, sight set proudly
Bring me to the ground see
You love to be somebody's enemy
Maybe nobody loved you when you were young
Maybe, boy, when you cry, nobody ever comes
Will you try it once?
Give up the machine gun
Machine gun
Locked and loaded
You're practically floating away now
In your fortress you feel like
You're more or less safe now
But let me say I don't mean harm
Oh, but, baby, you'd be charming if you'd come undone
Get back where you started from
Maybe nobody loved you when you were young
Maybe, boy, when you cry, nobody ever comes
Will you try it once?
Give up the machine gun
Machine gun
Never mind how you've rationed your time
And the battle is underway
Maybe times are gonna change
Don't just hide in the silence behind
What you've really been trying to say
What a skill, baby, aiming to kill me
With words you don't mean
Maybe nobody loved you when you were young
Maybe, boy, when you cry, nobody ever comes
Will you try it once?
Give up the machine gun
Will you try it once?
Give up the machine gun
Will you try it once?
Give up the machine gun
Machine gun
Completely ignore me
Getting high off of saying
Why you don't adore me
In how I might be cursed
I don't need it articulated
All of your time just to hate me
Every dime gone to ways
You can find that might bait me
Bring me to the ground see
You love to be somebody's enemy
Maybe, boy, when you cry, nobody ever comes
Will you try it once?
Give up the machine gun
Machine gun
You're practically floating away now
In your fortress you feel like
You're more or less safe now
Oh, but, baby, you'd be charming if you'd come undone
Maybe, boy, when you cry, nobody ever comes
Will you try it once?
Give up the machine gun
Machine gun
And the battle is underway
Maybe times are gonna change
Don't just hide in the silence behind
What a skill, baby, aiming to kill me
With words you don't mean
Maybe, boy, when you cry, nobody ever comes
Will you try it once?
Give up the machine gun
Give up the machine gun
Will you try it once?
Give up the machine gun
Machine gun
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Singing about a person that loves to fight just to fight. I love this whole album
LOVE this song. Simply amazing.
This is a song for the critics, the office gossips, the mean girls, etc. of the world who just want to bring you down because they can.
I especially think this part "Locked and loaded You're practically floating away now In your fortress you feel like You're more or less safe now" is directed at the online communities that hide behind their anonymity and are the most judgemental and cruelest of the bunch.
Other parts you can tell are directed at people who talk behind your back, smile to your face, and play dumb if you call them out on it.
To me, this song is directed at anyone in life that is stuck on whatever disappointments, failures and/or fears from the past or present. Instead of letting someone (friends, family, or whoever) help them through whatever the problem is, they find ways to minipulate whatever you say or do to bring you down to their level. They have so much hatred towards something/someone from the past and can't or refuse to let go and move on. They'd rather take out that hostility toward you.
They have walls of protection to insure whatever it is from the past doesn't happen again. I especially love the next few lines from the song because I've been the one with the "Machin Gun" before. They...like where I use to be...rather be angry at the world instead of letting someone be their friend. They have a "fortress" around their heart and within that "fortress"...they feel "more or less safe now", and they're "locked and loaded"...ready to do whatever it takes to keep their safe sanctuary, protect their heart, and not be hurt again.
This definitely goes for those who insist on trying to bring down others for no apparent reason... The kind of people that need to attack others to be happy, even if the target has never done anything to them or is just indiferent. I think this says it all:
"What a skill, baby, aiming to kill me With words you don't mean"
It's such a classy way to say your life is horrible, probably no one loves you because of the pathetic way you try to be happy.
Sorry xD I'm kinda mad at someone who fits in this song perfecty... Am I too evil if I just dedicated it??? :D Hahaha I love Sara
This ENTIRE album describes my huge break up and life situation right now. I agree with the general consensus,it's aimed at people who attempt to bring others down at all costs.
while at her concert last week she explained what this song was about. basically its about someone who made really rude comments to her (well she said it was to "her friend" but i think she was kidding") on a message board and how its funny how people are so brave behind a computer screen and will just go off on people to make themselves feel better. great song.