Get Your Gunn

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

"Get Your Gunn" is the first single 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'. The boy on the cover sleeve of the CD single is bassist Twiggy Ramirez's half-brother Wes Brown.

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

Contents 1 Appearances 1.1 Albums 1.2 Singles 2 Versions 3 Music video 4 Lyrics 5 Trivia

[edit] Appearances

[edit] Albums

• Portrait of an American Family
• Lest We Forget (The Best Of)

[edit] Singles

• Get Your Gunn

[edit] 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 DVD.

[edit] 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. It is one of the three music videos featuring Manson not wearing makeup.

[edit] 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

[edit] Trivia

Around 2:30, a clip from Budd Dwyer's suicide can be heard.