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