The only song in the album whose lyrics were written by Carlos O'Connell. Rolling Stones: “ I think of Carlos as someone who battles sort of gloriously with his ego, which is being stroked and mutated over the last few years because we’re in a relatively sort of successful band. It’s about his strug...
You've been through the war
But you've nothing to show
I traveled to space
Found the moon too small
And home is a pin
Rusting through a map
I go there to pray
Do my resting at mass
Everybody gets a big shot, baby
Everybody gets a big shot lately
Everybody gets a big shot, baby
You choose to show when you know
No one's watching how you spread
Empty scum, forget their name
Nothing scratches off your blame
I've been leaving it all
I've been living it all
I've been leaving it all
I've been living it all
I've been leaving it all
I've been living it all
I've been leaving it all
Everybody gets a big shot, baby
Everybody gets a big shot latеly
Everybody gets
Everybody gеts
Big Shot was written by Carlos O’Connell.
Big Shot was produced by Dan Carey.
Fontaines D.C. released Big Shot on Fri Apr 22 2022.
Grian Chatten:
It’s the only song in the album whose lyrics I didn’t write. Carlos [O’Connell], one of our guitarists wrote the lyrics and he wrote the main riff and everything like that. He’d be able to explain it a lot better, but what it means to me is … I think of Carlos as someone who battles...
Carlos O'Connell:
When you’ve got used to living with what you have and then all these dreams happen to you, it’s always going to overshadow what you had before. The only impact that [Fontaines' success] was having in my life was that it just made anything that I had before quite meaningless for a...