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I'm a big believer in the power of mystery and well-intentioned obfuscation when it comes to music. I love songs where the lyrics are clearly about something - there's an internal logic that relates the verses to each other, and the choruses - even if you don't know exactly what the song is about.

But.

Some people really, really want to know what a song is about, and, specially for them (and because otherwise I'd have nothing to write about here), I'll tell you that Shotgun is about Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love.

This is definitely not something I ever intended to write a song about, but I was walking past a bookstore one morning, I saw Courtney Love dressed in some super high-fashion outfit on a magazine cover, and an entire verse and chorus assembled themselves before my very ears.

The interesting thing is that it actually...wasn't this song. It was a song about clothes, a terrible song, and I banged my head against it for a week before suddenly, while sitting at my keyboard of pain, started playing this song instead. . I think I wrote the whole thing in about an hour ( an hour and a week...). Weird.

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i / been trying to call you / get you on the phone
couldn't get you alone/ couldn't get you at all
i was just trying to break through
i can't get over the wall
couldn't get through to tell you / that your

shotgun lover took another one to cover up the pain that he couldn't hide
you wished him well / gave him a kiss and a shell
with his name inscribed on the side
and you said sellout / you can get the hell out now
i can find my way alone
but you're a little girl lost in the wilderness now
and I don't think you're coming home
oh no

ooh / i see the way that they watch you
counting up the cost/the lines you shouldn't have crossed
'cause right now, there's nothing else waiting to come due
you're paying for what you've done
girl I was walkin/you better run/run and tell 'em that your

shotgun lover took another one to cover up the pain that he couldn't hide
you wished him well / gave him a kiss and a shell
with his name inscribed on the side
the one who sold out / I couldn't hold out
left you the queen of rock'n'roll
but you're a little girl broke on the boulevard now
and you already sold your soul

yeah you're a little girl
and you're losin' it
spending up something so real
like it was counterfeit
like it never meant nothing at all

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from Days Between Stations, released July 4, 2008
Written and recorded by Michael Baker

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