Neneh Cherry
Neneh Cherry
Neneh Cherry
Neneh Cherry
Neneh Cherry
Neneh Cherry
Neneh Cherry
Neneh Cherry
Neneh Cherry
Neneh Cherry
Neneh Cherry
Neneh Cherry
[Verse 1]
Just some fun and games
Took my name in vain
Nothing is the same
Just another day now
Fun and playgrounds
Bend the rules now
Know the rules now
Play the rules now
It's institutional resolutions
Lack of direction intersections
[Refrain]
Pick up a gun, you know you gonna use it
Know that gun, it's gonna get loaded
Say my name before you pull it
Too late, you know, just took that bullet
[Verse 2]
Looking front to back
Through the shotgun shack
You reside too slow to run fast, run fast
Catching up with you
Too slow to move
It's gonna get you
The playground rules
[Chorus]
You can't cry now
Don't even try
Nowhere you can turn
You can't even run away
Two can cry now
Don't even try to ride
You can hide now
You can even turn away
[Bridge]
The shotgun, living in a shotgun shack
In the back, living in a shotgun shack
In the back, living with a shotgun
Living in a shotgun shack, living in a shotgun
Shack, living in the back, living with a shotgun
Living with a gun, living with your back to the wall
[Pre-Chorus]
Pick up a gun, you know you gonna use it
Know that gun, it's gonna get loaded
Say my name before you pull it
Too late, you know, just took that bullet
[Chorus]
You can't cry now
Don't even try
Nowhere you can turn
You can't even run away
Two can cry now
Don't even try to ride
You can hide now
You can even turn away
[Chorus]
You can't cry now
Don't even try
Nowhere you can turn
You can't even run away
Two can cry now
Don't even try to ride
You can hide now
You can even turn away
Shot Gun Shack was written by Four Tet & Booga Bear & Neneh Cherry.
Shot Gun Shack was produced by Four Tet.
Neneh Cherry released Shot Gun Shack on Thu Aug 30 2018.
Cherry heard the phrase “Shot Gun Shack” while at the funeral of late jazz musician Ornette Coleman:
“I don’t even remember who said it, but I was like, ‘Shotgun shack! That’s a cool term.’ It’s about gun culture—the notion of war zones and the tragedies that guns bring there. The dealing of arms....