Miranda Lambert
Miranda Lambert
Miranda Lambert
Miranda Lambert
Miranda Lambert
Miranda Lambert
Miranda Lambert
Miranda Lambert
Miranda Lambert
Miranda Lambert
Miranda Lambert
Miranda Lambert
Miranda Lambert
Miranda Lambert
Miranda Lambert
Gunpowder & Lead is the first track and third single from Miranda Lambert’s second album, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
Lyrically, it talks about a crazy ex-boyfriend (pun intended) who mistreated her physically and mentally, so she decides to do something about it…by killing him.
In the US, it was mod...
[Verse 1]
County road 233, under my feet
Nothing on this white rock but little ol’ me
I've got two miles 'till he makes bail
And if I'm right, we're headed straight for hell
[Chorus]
I'm going home, gonna load my shotgun
Wait by the door and light a cigarette
If he wants a fight, well, now he's got one
And he ain't seen me crazy yet
He slapped my face and he shook me like a rag doll
Don't that sound like a real man?
I'm gonna show him what little girls are made of
Gunpowder and lead
[Verse 2]
Well, it's half past ten, another six-pack in
And I can feel the rumble like a cold black wind
He pulls in the drive, the gravel flies
He don't know what's waitin' here this time
[Chorus]
Hey, I'm going home, gonna load my shotgun
Wait by the door and light a cigarette
If he wants a fight, well, now he's got one
And he ain't seen me crazy yet
He slapped my face and he shook me like a rag doll
Don't that sound like a real man?
I'm gonna show him what little girls are made of
Gunpowder and lead
[Bridge]
His fist is big, but my gun's bigger
He'll find out when I pull the trigger
[Chorus]
I'm going home, gonna load my shotgun
Wait by the door and light a cigarette
If he wants a fight, well, now he's got one
And he ain't seen me crazy yet
He slapped my face and he shook me like a rag doll
Don't that sound like a real man?
I'm gonna show him what little girls are made of
Gunpowder and, gunpowder and lead
Gunpowder and lead, yeah, yeah, hey
Gunpowder & Lead was written by Heather Little & Miranda Lambert.
Gunpowder & Lead was produced by Mike Wrucke & Frank Liddell.
Miranda Lambert released Gunpowder & Lead on Mon Jan 14 2008.
In 2018, NPR ranked this as the #26 greatest song by a female or nonbinary artist in the 21st century, saying:
Revenge songs were part of Miranda Lambert’s repertoire right out of the gate, but it wasn’t until she released ‘Gunpowder & Lead,’ the riotous, country-rocking eruption of a woman pus...