I've always thought it was a secret agent kind of thing gone bad. It sounds like he was sent out on a mission in Turkey, most likely his first assination. However, after it happens, everything falls apart. Whoever sent him has left him. He can't get back through to his HQ and he can't leave. Now the police are looking for him, so obviously this was either illegal or they "forgot" to notify the local authorites.
However, the doublecross part could go the other way. Perhaps he was hired from outside as a double agent, and completed his mission, but they deemed him expendible and have no intent of pulling him out.
Either way, he's been screwed by a government, and he's toally snapped. This song is his story. "You will come to know when the bullet hits the bone" sounds like him telling you that if you were to go through it, you'd end up just like him; that only by experiencing this yourself will you ever really understand what has happened.
Well, that's my take on this great song. (Anyone think the "na na na" or whatever at the end is just a sort of "crazy man rambling" kind of thing?)
@Mr. Jack I agree. The only thing that sticks in my head as not fitting this narrative is the line, when the hit man comes he knows damn well he has been cheated, has he usurped another assassins kill? Or is he speaking in the third person?
@Mr. Jack I agree. The only thing that sticks in my head as not fitting this narrative is the line, when the hit man comes he knows damn well he has been cheated, has he usurped another assassins kill? Or is he speaking in the third person?
I've always thought it was a secret agent kind of thing gone bad. It sounds like he was sent out on a mission in Turkey, most likely his first assination. However, after it happens, everything falls apart. Whoever sent him has left him. He can't get back through to his HQ and he can't leave. Now the police are looking for him, so obviously this was either illegal or they "forgot" to notify the local authorites.
However, the doublecross part could go the other way. Perhaps he was hired from outside as a double agent, and completed his mission, but they deemed him expendible and have no intent of pulling him out.
Either way, he's been screwed by a government, and he's toally snapped. This song is his story. "You will come to know when the bullet hits the bone" sounds like him telling you that if you were to go through it, you'd end up just like him; that only by experiencing this yourself will you ever really understand what has happened.
Well, that's my take on this great song. (Anyone think the "na na na" or whatever at the end is just a sort of "crazy man rambling" kind of thing?)
@Mr. Jack I agree. The only thing that sticks in my head as not fitting this narrative is the line, when the hit man comes he knows damn well he has been cheated, has he usurped another assassins kill? Or is he speaking in the third person?
@Mr. Jack I agree. The only thing that sticks in my head as not fitting this narrative is the line, when the hit man comes he knows damn well he has been cheated, has he usurped another assassins kill? Or is he speaking in the third person?