The name of the song is "9 Crimes" because Damien Rice is Irish (from Ireland), and being Irish if he isn't Catholic, then he's at least grown up around it. And in the Roman Catholic version of the 10 Commandments, number 9 is "Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbours Wife"...or cheat, as we commonly call it now days. And since the song is about cheating, it fits very appropriately. Secondly, the "getting off" and "sex" reference sounds good for about 2 minutes until you think about it and realise that it's complete BS. The verses are self-explanatory if you just listen to them. What most people have trouble understanding is the "If I give my gun away when it's loaded/if you don't shoot it, how am I supposed to hold it?" line. This goes to the old saying (especially about marriage-at least here in Ireland) "pull the trigger". It's kind of like "crap or get off the pot". When people have trouble committing to getting engaged/married, people say "pull the trigger already". So just do it. So when it says that, both the male and the female in the song are saying "if you won't propose/marry me, what sense is it to stay in this relationship?" So they have the gun (their relationship) which they're just holding (sort of a holding pattern because the relationship is stagnant and not going anywhere) and both of they are refusing to pull the trigger (to commit to each other). And this is what causes all of the problems that occur in the verses (like cheating).
"pull the trigger or get off the pot" is a saying we have in the U.S.A. also -- but seeing the writer is irish, i lean very much toward this. i still can't ignore the freudian interpretation because the writer is also human, aka. a sexual being...
"pull the trigger or get off the pot" is a saying we have in the U.S.A. also -- but seeing the writer is irish, i lean very much toward this. i still can't ignore the freudian interpretation because the writer is also human, aka. a sexual being...
thanks for the "obvious" idea which somehow completely evaded me...it's really good.
thanks for the "obvious" idea which somehow completely evaded me...it's really good.
The name of the song is "9 Crimes" because Damien Rice is Irish (from Ireland), and being Irish if he isn't Catholic, then he's at least grown up around it. And in the Roman Catholic version of the 10 Commandments, number 9 is "Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbours Wife"...or cheat, as we commonly call it now days. And since the song is about cheating, it fits very appropriately. Secondly, the "getting off" and "sex" reference sounds good for about 2 minutes until you think about it and realise that it's complete BS. The verses are self-explanatory if you just listen to them. What most people have trouble understanding is the "If I give my gun away when it's loaded/if you don't shoot it, how am I supposed to hold it?" line. This goes to the old saying (especially about marriage-at least here in Ireland) "pull the trigger". It's kind of like "crap or get off the pot". When people have trouble committing to getting engaged/married, people say "pull the trigger already". So just do it. So when it says that, both the male and the female in the song are saying "if you won't propose/marry me, what sense is it to stay in this relationship?" So they have the gun (their relationship) which they're just holding (sort of a holding pattern because the relationship is stagnant and not going anywhere) and both of they are refusing to pull the trigger (to commit to each other). And this is what causes all of the problems that occur in the verses (like cheating).
i love it...
i love it...
"pull the trigger or get off the pot" is a saying we have in the U.S.A. also -- but seeing the writer is irish, i lean very much toward this. i still can't ignore the freudian interpretation because the writer is also human, aka. a sexual being...
"pull the trigger or get off the pot" is a saying we have in the U.S.A. also -- but seeing the writer is irish, i lean very much toward this. i still can't ignore the freudian interpretation because the writer is also human, aka. a sexual being...
thanks for the "obvious" idea which somehow completely evaded me...it's really good.
thanks for the "obvious" idea which somehow completely evaded me...it's really good.