I think that this song is just about sex. The somewhat ambiguous lines are:
Is that alright? (yeah)
I give away my gun when it’s loaded.
Is that alright? (yeah)
If you don’t shoot it, how am I supposed to hold it?
I think that it is no secret than many men refer to the penis as their “weapon, pistol or gun”. If this is the case, it follows that the cheating man’s partner was sexually frigid; therefore, his “gun was loaded”. Since his partner will not “fire his weapon” (read orgasm), he can no longer contain his sexual frustration and begins cheating. The cheating is not emotional in nature, rather it is purely to satisfy his base sexual needs. Because of this, he attempts to justify the cheating as a “small crime”. Despite this, he still fells a tremendous amount of guilt over the adultery, hence why he feels like trash.
One can only speculate about the place/time. Perhaps the man in the song was in a whorehouse engaged with a sex worker when he began thinking of his partner... In any case, he does not wish to taint his thoughts of his partner with the filth of his surroundings. Similarly, we don’t know why it is the “wrong time” for his new sexual conquest. Perhaps the couple are expecting a child or the partner has a medical condition causing his/her frigidity.
I think that this song is just about sex. The somewhat ambiguous lines are:
Is that alright? (yeah) I give away my gun when it’s loaded. Is that alright? (yeah) If you don’t shoot it, how am I supposed to hold it?
I think that it is no secret than many men refer to the penis as their “weapon, pistol or gun”. If this is the case, it follows that the cheating man’s partner was sexually frigid; therefore, his “gun was loaded”. Since his partner will not “fire his weapon” (read orgasm), he can no longer contain his sexual frustration and begins cheating. The cheating is not emotional in nature, rather it is purely to satisfy his base sexual needs. Because of this, he attempts to justify the cheating as a “small crime”. Despite this, he still fells a tremendous amount of guilt over the adultery, hence why he feels like trash.
One can only speculate about the place/time. Perhaps the man in the song was in a whorehouse engaged with a sex worker when he began thinking of his partner... In any case, he does not wish to taint his thoughts of his partner with the filth of his surroundings. Similarly, we don’t know why it is the “wrong time” for his new sexual conquest. Perhaps the couple are expecting a child or the partner has a medical condition causing his/her frigidity.