Editing Get Your Gunn (song)

{{Disambiguation|the song|the single|Get Your Gunn (single)}}

{{Song
| Name        = Get Your Gunn
| Cover       = Portrait-of-an-American-Family.jpg
| Artist      = [[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson]]
| Album       = [[Portrait of an American Family]]
| Released    = July 12, 1994
| Recorded    = August–December 1993 at Criteria Studios in Miami, Florida, Record Plant Studios in Los Angeles, California, The Village Recorder and Pig
| Genre       = Alternative metal
| Length      = 3:18
| Label       = [[Nothing]], [[Interscope Records|Interscope]]
| Writer      = [[Marilyn Manson]]
| Composer    = [[Daisy Berkowitz]], [[Gidget Gein]]
| Producer    = [[Trent Reznor]], Marilyn Manson
}}
"'''Get Your Gunn'''" is the first single and the seventh track of the first album ''[[Portrait of an American Family]]''. The song was inspired by the murder of OB/GYN doctor David Gunn who was killed in Florida by an anti-abortion activist. Vocalist Marilyn Manson described his murder as 'the ultimate hypocrisy'.

Get Your Gunn was also the first release from [[Nothing Records]].

== Cassettes ==
* ''[[The Manson Family Album]]''

=== Albums ===
* ''[[Portrait of an American Family]]'' (1994)
* ''[[Lest We Forget – The Best Of]]'' (2004)

=== Singles ===
* ''[[Get Your Gunn (single)|Get Your Gunn]]'' (1994)
=== Soundtracks ===
* ''S*F*W'' (1994)

== Video ==
{{Videos
| x7ZOG0Aztsg = Portrait Sessions
| S4OOS4V39nU = The Manson Family Album
}}

== Versions ==
* "Get Your Gunn" <small>— Appears on ''[[Portrait Sessions]]''.</small>
* "Get Your Gunn" <small>— Appears on ''[[The Manson Family Album]]''.</small>
* "Get Your Gunn" <small>— Appears on ''[[Portrait of an American Family]]''.</small>
* "[[Get Your Gunn (High School Drop-outs)]]" <small>— Appears on promotional versions of the "Get Your Gunn" single.</small>
* "[[Mother Inferior Got Her Gunn]]" <small>— Appears on the "Get Your Gunn" single.</small>
* "Get Your Gunn" (Live) <small>— Appears on ''[[The Last Tour on Earth]]''.</small>

== Music video ==
[[File:GetYourGunnScreenshot.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|Manson playing in the music video]]

The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phjXoYqYE2U music video], directed by Rod Chong, features [[Marilyn Manson|Manson]] performing in a damp "attic-like" scene, intertwined by footage of band members and two feisty teenage girls. It did not receive much video play.

== Lyrics ==
    goddamn your righteous hand
    i eat innocent meat
    the housewife i will beat
    the prolife i will kill
    what you won't do i will
    i bash myself to sleep
    what you sow i will reap
    i scar myself you see
    i wish i wasn't me
    i am the little stick
    you stir me into shit
    i hate therefore i am
    goddamn your righteous hand
    goddamn, goddamn,
    goddamn, goddamn
    pseudo-morals work real well
    on the talk shows for the weak
    but your selective judgements
    and goodguy badges
    don't mean a fuck to me
    i throw a little fit
    i slit my teenage wrist
    the most that I can learn
    is in records that you burn
    get your gunn, get your gunn,
    get your gunn, get your gunn
    pseudo-morals work real well
    on the talk shows for the weak
    but your selective judgements
    and goodguy badges
    don't mean a fuck to me
    i am the vhs
    record me with your fist
    you want me to save the world
    i'm just a little girl
    pseudo-morals work real well
    on the talk shows for the weak
    but your selective judgements
    and goodguy badges
    don't mean a fuck to me
    get your gunn, get your gunn,
    get your gunn, get your gunn... get

== Trivia ==
[[File:Scott-Putesky-Get-Your-Gunn-Set.jpg|thumbnail|right|150px|Scott Putesky, better known as Daisy Berkowitz, on the set of the "Get Your Gunn" music video.]]
* "[[Snake Eyes and Sissies]]" was initially meant to be the album's lead single, but "Get Your Gunn" was released instead.
* According to photos on his MySpace profile, former Marilyn Manson guitarist Scott Putesky, better known as Daisy Berkowitz, can be seen playing a Jackson Soloist in the song's music video. Putesky also states the video was filmed in Texas.<ref>[http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=20040870&albumID=1538771&imageID=28158424 ''In Texas on the set of Get Your Gunn - Ouija Jackson Soloist - lots of fog machine action'']. MySpace Music. [[Scott Putesky]].</ref>
* After the lyrics "I am the vhs/Record me with your fist/You want me to save the world/I'm just a little girl" (Which occur at 2:29) a clip from Budd Dwyer's suicide can be heard.
* The line "I hate, therefore I am" is a play on the phrase "I think, therefore I am", which was originally stated by René Descartes.
* "The title is spelled with two n's because the song was a reaction to the murder of Dr. David Gunn, who was killed in Florida by pro-life activists while I was living there. That was the ultimate hypocrisy I witnessed growing up: that these people killed someone in the name of being "pro-life." - Marilyn Manson
* "Get Your Gunn", along with "[[Coma White]]" and "[[Tourniquet]]", was made available to download as a playable track on ''Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock'' on February 8, 2011 as part of the February Megapack.

== References ==
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[[Category:1989-1995 era]]
[[Category:Marilyn Manson songs]]
[[Category:Songs from Portrait of an American Family]]
[[Category:Songs from The Last Tour on Earth]]
[[Category:Songs from Lest We Forget (The Best Of)]]
[[Category:Songs appearing on soundtracks]]
[[Category:Marilyn Manson songs with music videos]]