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I Wanna Die in a Shower of Bullets

from Home of the Mad and the Shameless by Black Eddy

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about

This hard-hitting, punky song with metal influences was born of an effort to write something relatively simple and dark. The savage aggression that features in the verses contrasts nicely with the delicate, groovy section in the middle. The implications of being assassinated are examined here and the song features one of the catchiest Black Eddy mantras towards the end.

The CIA staff say: The writers of this track suffer from delusions of grandeur. We will take them down a peg or four.

lyrics

I wanna die in a shower of bullets
If you shot me today I would love it
It would prove I was making a change
Living my life in a beautiful way

It's such a tragic tradition
To be subject to assassination
Would mean you were preaching love
To everybody in every home
It would be the highest honour on Earth
That you forever remember my words
To so inspire the hearts of man
That those fuckers would want me dead

And all the fans would cry
At the brutal end of my life
I'd become a symbol of
Understanding, peace and love

I wanna die in a shower of bullets
If you shot me today I would love it
It would bring a smile to my face
As I watch from beyond the grave

Like so many great men before
On the cusp of changing the world
Have regrettably been taken away
'Cause our leaders were so afraid
I'm not sure which side they're on
When they turn a person into a god
Is it for the love or for the hate
That they all are taken away?

And on the day I die
Such evil will come to light
And open up the eyes
Of every man, woman and child

I want to be so extraordinary
That they'll fear the fact I'm legendary
Opening up the eyes of so very many
To the lies they tell to everybody
So they'll look at me and see a threat
There won't be another way out of it
The only choice they'll ever have is to...
...KILL ME!!!

How many more will be murdered
With no-one doing anything about it
Before we stand up together and shout
"Stop taking our heroes away"?
Yeah, I'd like to see it happen to me
Delusions of grandeur you'll see
We need to stand up and rise
Screaming "We've had enough
And we mean it this time!"

I want to meet Kurt Cobain,
John Lennon and JFK
With a smile on my face
Right after I've been blown away
x3

I wanna die in a shower of bullets
After living my life to its fullest
Burnt onto the history pages
My story told throughout the ages

I wanna die in a shower of bullets

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from Home of the Mad and the Shameless, released June 25, 2022

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Black Eddy Blackpool, UK

Punky, grungy, prog-fuelled madness from Blackpool in the UK. We formed in 2012 and examine the darker sides of life and the human mind. It's okay to be strange. You are not alone.

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