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Don't Need A Gun Lyrics
A human heart goes out tonight
Yes a red hot love on a red stop light
I see a scene so cold it echoes in blue
Oh those twisting tongues they are after you
Wop bop a lu bop Son you gotta move up
Flip flop fly
Lawdy Miss Clawdy
Of what a story dreams to buy
Don't need a knife to violate my life
It's all so insane
When the other man has none
You don't need a gun
Yes a Russian roulette no fun
I don't need a gun
I just need someone
I don't need a gun
Blood red lights a domination street yeah
Just need your love and I feel that heat yeah
You can drive me through
That red stop light
With a whiplash smile
Wop bop a lu bop Son you gotta move up
Flip flop fly
Lawdy Miss Clawdy
Of what a story dreams to buy
Don't need a knife to violate my life
It's all so insane
When the other man has none
You don't need a gun
Yes a Russian roulette no fun
I don't need a gun I just need someone
I won't need a gun Oh yeah
You will always be crying yeah
Oh you will always be dying
Oh you will always be dying
Elvis a fight the dying light
Johnny Ray he's always crying
Gene Vincent he cried who slapped John, John, John.
Yes and me, I'm movin', movin', movin', movin' on.
Yeah to be someone
I don't need a gun.
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Killing yourself with drugs/oding?
I have to give a resounding yes, his message is pretty clear. 'You don't need drugs to be someone.' or rather feel like someone.
I have to give a resounding yes, his message is pretty clear. 'You don't need drugs to be someone.' or rather feel like someone.
This is a sad song about the death of popular musicians, such as Elvis Presley, Johnnie Ray, and Gene Vincent, who were killed by something different from a gunshot. In effect: Elvis Presley died from a heart failure, in presence of drugs intoxication; Johnnie Ray died from complications of liver failure; Gene Vincent died from a ruptured stomach ulcer. The final part of the song is particularly bitter, because it suggests that an artist can be considered a human being only after death. So, perhaps, it's one of the saddest songs I've heard, although with the rhythm at 139 BPM. Fast rhythms can fool you.