Whether it's true or not, I don't know, but I had always heard it was about a heroin addiction. The "gun" he's referring to is the syringe. You see numerous quasi-eroin-addiction songs from this poin onwards to about the late '80's/early '90's... along about the time Technique came out. By the time Republic came out, all such innuendoes were gone from the lyrics.
Whether it's true or not, I don't know, but I had always heard it was about a heroin addiction. The "gun" he's referring to is the syringe. You see numerous quasi-eroin-addiction songs from this poin onwards to about the late '80's/early '90's... along about the time Technique came out. By the time Republic came out, all such innuendoes were gone from the lyrics.