Car Seat Headrest - The Gun Song lyrics

(I’m not hung up on you anymore
But here’s why I hung up)

Behind every great love story
Lies a great suicide
You can't give yourself completely
And keep the man inside
All the sentences I climbed halfway
Saw the heights of what I wanted to say
And crawled from word to word
Trying to get back down

The unending realization
That it's never gonna end
I spend half the day exhaling
And the other half holding my breath

Cause living underwater was never my strength
In the depths you reside, the sun never sinks
So let’s float to the bottom
For one final drink
There’s time for one more tonight

It’s time to forget while
The forgetting’s good
I’ll burn all the promises I
Carved out of your woulds

You said won't you come into arm's reach
Abandon your clothes and modes of speech
An infant reborn you shall be
Helpless and afraid

I’m waving goodbye every time you
Go to the store
I hope you break your hand the
Next time you slam the door

Because I burned my fingers every night
When your own shaking hands wouldn’t
Give you a light and I said "Jesus Christ
My parents were right
I never should’ve smoked you out"

I’d hate to amputate this artificial limb
But staring at you
My glass eyes are growing dim

I can’t even blame you for looking so smug
I have to admit you’re a hell of a drug
So pack up the boxes, roll me up with the rug
I’m not moving out, I’m just moving

(Kissed) I kissed you, yes
But never on the mouth
(Masochist) You held the north while
I conquered the south

But, I don't want a territorial breach
So at the edge of the bed, we'll meet
And I want you to fuck me in your sleep
It's the only way I'll ever
Know that you love me
(Cause there's always gotta be a new angle)

Guns are loaded with silver bullets tonight
But it’s useless
You kept me waiting until it was light
(These things are yours)
But, you can’t go out the way you came in
In the arms of someone unaware of your sins
Because I’ve been recording this
Whole fucking thing
Now you can never use the
Same chord changes again

(The first time was too fast
The second time was just sad)

If you’re wondering why I’m still
Willing to take the fall
If I’m not getting fucked over
I’m not getting fucked at all

But, I never asked for immunity
That’s the difference between you and me
All I wanted was someone who was just like me
And I hate myself for that

It’s getting hard to talk about the past
When you’ve copyrighted the present
No questions asked

You can do whatever you want with my name
But my body’s never been public domain
So if you’re looking for somebody to blame
Blame Walt Disney Studios

I remember​ I was walking around outside
Talking to you on the phone
We were both avoiding the
Parties we attended alone

And I looked up at the drunken moon
It was round and it was grey
And it looked like the moon and I said
"at least we’ve both got the moon"
And you said, "I’m inside"

So I’ll try loving again
And you’ll try living alone
And we’ll meet at the end of this lifetime
And compare notes

(If bitterness is all that I have left
I’ll be better at being
Bitter than anybody else)

I hate your receptionist
She looks at me like I’m retarded
When I’m filling out your forms

I see your form behind the frosted glass
But she says that you’re not there
I’ll have to be content to wait

If you felt some kind of stirring
Against interpretation
Why write these songs at all?

Why not become didactic
Tell everyone on the planet
In plain English what you are

But, I am the gentle cannibal
I promise to eat you softly
You won’t notice a thing

Hold me tight
You’re taking advice from Lady Macbeth

William, one shot two shots
When it’s out of your hands
You try to forget

Mariamme, hold me tight
I still wish you hadn’t listened to me
(If I could transfer your
Desires into belongings)
I ain’t been right since the execution
(And then snoop through your belongings
You know I’d do it in a second)

William, one shot two shots
Whoever you are, just hold me tight
I lost my love, my life, that night

All I know is
One of us was supposed to kill the other
Isn’t that what they mean
When they say ‘lovers’?
But murder is dirty, and peace comes cheap
So here’s my new number
Tell me when you’re free (703)

Down by the river i shot my baby
Down by the river down by the river
I shot my baby down by the river
Down by the river i shot my baby
Down by the river down by the river
I shot my baby i shot my baby
Down by the river i shot my baby
Down by the river