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Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun Lyrics
Rolling down the hill snowballing getting bigger
An explosion in the chamber the hammer from the trigger
I seen him get stabbed I watched the blood spill out
He had more cuts than my man Chuck Chillout
24 is my age 22 is my gauge
Writing rhymes on a page going off in a rage
Out on a mission a stolen car mission
Had a little problem with the transmission
3 on the tree in the middle of the night
I have this steak on my head cause I got into a fist fight
Life comes in phases take the good with the bad
You bought those coins on the street and you got had
It's all high spirit you know you gotta hear it
Don't touch the mic baby don't come near it
It's gonna get you it's gonna get you
It's gonna get you girl it's gonna get you
Looking down the barrel of a gun
Son of a gun son of a bitch
Getting paid getting rich
Ultra violence running through my head
Fuzzy navel y'all making me see red
Rapid fire Louie like Rambo got bullets
I'm a gonna die harder like my kid Bruce Willis Drummond
I love girlies waxing and milking
Got more excuses than my man Dave Scilkin
Predetermined destiny is who I am
You got your finger on the trigger like the Son of Sam I am
Like Clockwork Orange going off on the town
I've got posse bonanza to beat your ass down
I'm mad at my desk and I'm writing all curse words
Expressing my aggressions through my schizophrenic verse words
You're a headless chicken chasin' a sucker free basin
Looking for a fist to put your face in
Get hip don't slip knuckle heads
Racism is schism on the serious tip
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shut On Dec 05, 2001
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I really believe this song is a message the Beastie Boys have given to old rap group 3rd Bass. At the time of this release, 3rd Bass, another white rap group, had replaced the Beastie Boys in Def Jam Records. The Beasties are angry about this and how 3rd Bass believed they would be better than them, etc. The whole thing about 'Looking down the barrel of a gun' is the decision of 3rd Bass to sign with Def Jam...because it may come back and shoot them in the face...which is what happened in 1993, when the group disbanded, and the Beastie Boys got the last word in the rivarly.
Black Dahlia, in case you're somehow still thinking of this 5 years later, it seems like at the "fuzzy navel" part that Mike D is saying "cold medina making me see red." Cold Medina is a coctail that, in the song Funky Cold Medina by Young MC, acts as a love potion of sorts. Flavor Flav also referenced it in the Public Enemy song "Cold Lampin' With Flavor."
such a good song.
This song has the most awesome breakdown ever recorded:
Looking down the barrel of a gun Son of a gun son of a bitch Getting paid getting rich (split second of silence and then cue in drumroll and micro-guitar stab from "Mississippi Queen")
Incidentally, does anyone know what the other 2/3 of the Beastie Boys says for this line?:
Fuzzy navel y'all making me see red
It seems like each member says something different before "making me see red."
The song "Funky Cold Medina" was actually performed by Tone Loc, my bad.
Both are acceptable. Tone-Loc performed it but Young MC wrote it.
Both are acceptable. Tone-Loc performed it but Young MC wrote it.
the bell hit during the verses makes it for me...it's as heavy as the chunky guitar.
hell yeah, that break is fantastic Black Dahlia!
Amazing how just one second of the track can be so distinctive, if you here that one second you know what song it is right off.
It truly is a kick ass song.
Simply to encourage SongMeanings.net (as a a singular entity inhabited by many who appreciate the correct posting of song lyrics) to maintain its integrity, I feel compelled to point out a minor albeit obvious mistake: The 8th line is not "Had a little problem with the transmission." but rather "Had a small problem with the transmission."
One more thing...the song was released as a single in the same year of Paul's Boutique, although about 4 months earlier. People would have had more of an idea as to what they were talking about back then, as it was a pretty popular song :-)
You're right that it was a single but it wasn't popular. None of the singles from this album did well at all. It's quite a shame.
You're right that it was a single but it wasn't popular. None of the singles from this album did well at all. It's quite a shame.