Get Your Gunn (song)

This article is about the song. For the single, see Get Your Gunn (single).

"Get Your Gunn"
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.

Cassettes

• The Manson Family Album

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 The Manson Family Album.
• "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

Manson playing in the 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

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.
• 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; Manson cited this as the ultimate irony.
• 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.