The Shotgun Message Lyrics

Staring at the world through a hole you put in my hand
That was caused by a blade
You gently inserted
I did this for you
I did this for you
Not for your religion
Not for your patterns
I did this for you
I did this for a man like you
Stop searching and find me
Stop searching and find me
I am stabbed by grace and slinging blood
I'm slinging blood
I'm slinging blood

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Genius Annotation

Coming right after “Pretty Soon, I Don’t Know What, But Something Is Going to Happen” with it’s absurd length and long instrumental portions, this song – with it’s brevity and it’s immediate, in-your-face vocals, is almost like… well, a Shotgun Message.

The song seems to be sung as if from the POV of Jesus Christ, saying that his crucifixion was for you – the every-man. In this way, Scogin is offering a critique of sectarian religions that deny other sects within the same faith, or even individuals, over small petty “patterns”.

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Release Date
August 13, 2002
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