Happiness Is a Warm Gun

About Happiness Is a Warm Gun

"Happiness Is a Warm Gun" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 double album The Beatles (also known as "the White Album"). It was written by John Lennon and credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership. The song, composed into three distinct sections, contains lyrics that have been interpreted by reviewers as a double entendre for guns and Lennon's sexual desire for Yoko Ono. Although tensions were high during the recording sessions for the "White Album", the Beatles worked together as a unit to complete the song's challenging rhythmic issues and time signature changes. George Harrison was able to help out with the time signature changes due to his knowledge of Indian classical music through the sitar, which he had spent the past two years studying. The final portion of the song features backing vocals by Harrison and Paul McCartney. A demo of the song, recorded at George Harrison's Kinfauns home before the album's recording sessions, showed the song in its initial stage, with only a few portions present. An excerpt from the demo was released on Anthology 3 in 1996, with the full demo being released on the super deluxe edition of the "White Album" in 2018. more »

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2001

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John Lennon was shot here, at the entrance to the Dakota building.
Lennon was shot four times with a 38 caliber gun,
In what seems to be a totally senseless killing.

[DR. EDISON AMOS]
The second amendment gives the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
This is a dispute which is going on in America now.
We should work diligently to keep this second amendment in place,
For any individual with responsibility-
Let me repeat again, responsibility and boundaries of those who are priviledged,
To be a part of all of these twenty-seven amendments,
Of the Constitution of the United States of America,
Plus the Declaration of Independence.

[GEORGE W. BUSH]
I believe that uh, people who are gonna commit crimes shouldn't have guns.

[GEORGE BUSH, SR.]
I guess my reaction is the same as every other father's, every other grandfather's.
My heart goes out to the people- to the victims.
Because I don't understand how kids can be out there, they're out making bombs,
And, and uh, and uh, families being totally unaware of it-
With this culture going on. And I'm as troubled by it as anybody else,
And I don't know any answers.

[TORI]
Happiness is a warm gun, happiness is a warm gun, Mama.
Happiness is a warm gun, oh, Mama.
Mother Superior jump the gun. Mother Superior jump the a-gun-ahuha...
Mother Superior a-jump the gun. Mother Superior jump the a-gun, the gun, gun a-da-da.
Mother Superior jump the- a-gun.
I said, Mother Superior jump the a-gun, I said, I'm gonna a-da-a.
Mother Superior jump the a-gun. Mother Superior jump the a-gun, and I said-ad.
Mother Superior jump the a-gun, I said, I'm gonna,
Mother Superior jump the a-gun, a-jump the a-gun.

She's not a girl who misses much.
(DR. EDISON AMOS: In these ten bill of rights,
Each one gives the people a special right.)
She's not a girl who misses much.
(DR. EDISON AMOS: This second one is a right to bear arms.)
Ah. She's well acquainted with the touch,
She's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand-a.

Ah a nd-a keep me down
I need a fix 'cause I am- I said, I need a fix 'cause I-
I need a, need, I need, I need, I need a,
I need, I need, a, I need a, Mama.
I need, a, la...la, I need, Mama, and-I,
I need, and-and-and, need, an my boy.
I need, and-and-and-and, need, and-and I need.
I need, and I need, and need, and need 'cause,

Happiness is a warm gun. Happiness is a warm gun, Mama.
Happiness is a warm gun, mama
I need-a, I need a, I need a,
She's not a girl who misses much. She's not a girl who misses much.
Mother Superior ju-mp

I need a fix 'cause I am going down.
I need a fix 'cause I am going down.
I need a fix, 'cause I am going down. I need a fix. I ha.
Mama, I-I need a fix, 'cause i'm going down.
Down to the bits that I a-left uptown.
Down to the bits that I a-left up-upto-own.
Down to the bits that I left uptown.
I said, I need a fix 'cause I am going down.
I need, I need, I need 
Mother Superior jump the gun, Mother Superior jump-the-gun.
Mama, ma happiness is, happiness, Mama, mama, a-mama...

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Tori Amos

Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos; August 22, 1963) is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. She is a classically trained musician and possesses a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Amos originally served as the lead singer of 1980s synthpop group Y Kant Tori Read, and as a solo artist was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s. She was also noteworthy early in her solo career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument. Some of her charting singles include "Crucify", "Silent All These Years", "God", "Cornflake Girl", "Caught a Lite Sneeze", "Professional Widow", "Spark", "1000 Oceans", and "A Sorta Fairytale", her most commercially successful single in the U.S. to date. more »

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