9 Crimes Lyrics

Lyric discussion by missblackeyeliner 

Cover art for 9 Crimes lyrics by Damien Rice

Leave me out with the waste This is not what i do It's the wrong kind of place To be thinking of you It's the wrong time For somebody new It's a small crime And i've got no exuse

*The first part of this song is to the "forbidden" love. All pretty cut & dry. He knows it's wrong, and shouldn't be doing it.

Is that alright? Give my gun away when it's loaded Is that alright? If you dont shoot it how am i supposed to hold it Is that alright? Give my gun away when it's loaded Is that alright Is that alright with you?

Is that alright - I have to agree, seems to be more a sarcastic. Like "Is that o-fing-kay with you?". Give my gun away when it's loaded - give my heart away when it's supposed to be "taken" hence, the "small crime" as said previously. Just like the metaphor - Loaded Question, well here, the heart is the loaded gun. Someone can get hurt. If you don't shoot it, how am I supposed to hold it - I took this as, if you don't force me to do something, what choice do I have, what am I supposed to do?

Leave me out with the waste This is not what i do It's the wrong kind of place To be cheating on you It's the wrong time but she's pulling me through It's a small crime And I've got no exuse

*Again, pretty cut and dry, but this time, this is to the person he is "with". Doesn't want to cheat, know's it's wrong. But he's drawn to her, he cannot forget her, regardless of how wrong it is, and how badly it's going to end (and trust me, it always does).

**The lesson here - familiar in a sense to Joan Armatrading's The Weakness In Me. What the heart wants, and what you feel you sometimes have to do sometimes out of obligation, sometimes out of necessity, can leave a person feeling torn. Usually everyone involved, including the one who is torn, ends up getting hurt.

I agree with you and like your comparison to The Weakness In Me.

But, never would I cheat on someone simply because they cheated on me. That kind of eye for an eye BS is reallly sad. Especially if they had apologized for their mistake.

I guess there are some people out there who enjoy raking others over the coals.