Nobody's Got the Gun Lyrics

Lyric discussion by teekaye 

Cover art for Nobody's Got the Gun lyrics by Mark Knopfler

This song is about the issues that made my marriage fail -- my perception that there was a domestic power struggle I was losing to my wife, so I eventually came to treat our blowups as the Gunfight at the OK Corral.

Don't get me wrong -- my ex brought her own boatload of dysfunction to the marriage, and that manifested differently -- but this song describes the ways I blew it even while thinking I was 'fixing' it. What a blind idiot I was...

My Interpretation