Dirty Projectors
Dirty Projectors
Dirty Projectors
Dirty Projectors
Dirty Projectors
Dirty Projectors
Dirty Projectors
Dirty Projectors
Dirty Projectors
Dirty Projectors
Dirty Projectors
Dirty Projectors
Dirty Projectors
Dirty Projectors
Is it counter-productive to try to translate individual lines for a song like Gun has no Trigger? Songwriter and bandleader David Longstreth has said “… it seemed almost anachronistic to have a discrete thought in terms of lyrics: they’re so impressionistic, that it’s just like, this can mean whatev...
[Verse 1]
If you had looked, you might have just seen them
Strut in the background
You'd see the oceans swirl
And the mountains shook
You'd see a million colors
If you really looked
[Chorus]
Now, quick the night draws near
Her curtain spreads quicker
The safety's off
But the gun has no trigger
[Verse 2]
If you had looked, you'd be no one's coward
Distance, justice, power
You'd glimpse the password
You wouldn't need the book
You'd own both slave and master
If you just had looked
[Chorus]
But now the banks all closed
And nothing gets bigger
The crowd will yell
But the gun has no trigger
[Verse 3]
If you had looked, you might reconsider
Or just maybe you already have
They watch you sleeping
You watch their garbage cook
You'd weep a bowl of tears
If you had looked
[Chorus]
But now the gate comes down
The pangs are growing dimmer
You hold a gun to your head
But the gun has no trigger
Gun Has No Trigger was written by David Longstreth.
Gun Has No Trigger was produced by David Longstreth.
Dirty Projectors released Gun Has No Trigger on Fri Mar 30 2012.