Get Your Gunn (song)
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- This article is about the song. For the single, see Get Your Gunn (single).
| "Get Your Gunn" | ||
|---|---|---|
| Get Your Gunn cover | ||
| Song by 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 rock | |
| Length | 3:18 | |
| Label | Nothing, Interscope | |
| Writer | Marilyn Manson | |
| Composer | Daisy Berkowitz, Gidget Gein | |
| Producer | Marilyn Manson, Trent Reznor | |
"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.
Contents
Appearances
Albums
- Portrait of an American Family (1994)
- Lest We Forget (The Best of) (2004)
Singles
- Get Your Gunn (1994)
Soundtracks
- S*F*W (1994)
Versions
- "Get Your Gunn" — Appears on Portrait of an American Family.
- "Get Your Gunn (High School Drop-outs)" — Appears on promotional versions of the "Get Your Gunn" single.
- "Mother Inferior Got Her Gunn" — Appears on the "Get Your Gunn" single.
- "Get Your Gunn" (Live) — Appears on The Last Tour on Earth.
Music video
The music video, directed by Rod Chong, features 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 pro-life 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 (ooh, lord)
Goddamn (ooh, lord)
Goddamn (ooh, lord)
Goddamn (ooh, lord)
Pseudo-morals work real well
On the talk shows for the weak
selective judgements
And goodguy badges
Don't mean a fuck to me
I throw a little fit
I slit my teenage wrist
Most 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
Selective judgements
And goodguy badges
Don't mean a fuck to me
Pseudo-morals work real well
On the talk shows for the weak
Selective judgements
And goodguy badges
Don't mean a fuck to me
Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no
Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no
Oh no, oh no, oh no
I am the VHS
record me with your fist
Want me to save the world
I'm just a little girl
Pseudo-morals work real well
On the talk shows for the weak
Selective judgements
And goodguy badges
Don't mean a fuck to me
Pseudo-morals work real well
On the talk shows for the weak
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
- "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.[1]
- 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 song's spelling of Gunn is in reference to the murdered abortion specialist, Dr. David Gunn.
- The line "I hate, therefore I am" is a play on the phrase "I think, therefore I am", which was originally stated by Renee Descartes.
