What do you think Put the Gun Down means?

ZZ Ward: Put the Gun Down Meaning

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Song Released: 2012


Put the Gun Down Lyrics

Ooh, ooh,

I got ten fingers to the sky,
My back to the wall, my white flag high,
Hair, lips, just like a gun,
She's got silver bullets on her tongue,
He's deep under her spell,
I'm screamin' out, but it just won't help,

I think I'm...

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  1. anonymous
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     Aug 12th 2021 !⃝

    I got ten fingers to the sky…
    Surrenders to the battle against Adaline for her man.

    Put your finger to the trigger now…
    Contemplates shooting both.

    Set fire to the whole damn house…
    Shoot it up and burn it down metaphorically or literally

    This would match the music video content

  2. anonymous
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     Oct 8th 2018 !⃝

    BTW the lyrics above are wrong. It is not "Hair, Lips, just like a gun" but rather "Her lips, just like a gun..."

    I agree with most of the posters that "Adeline" is "that girl" who is moving in on her boyfriend. To me, this is like a modern day version of Dolly Parton's "Jolene".

  3. anonymous
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     Sep 27th 2017 !⃝

    She's telling Adeline to put the gun down. Adeline's gun is not really a gun. It's her sexuality, and her youth. The gun is an analogy to the charms that Adeline has. This is like a rewrite of the Dolly Parton song, Jolene, please don't take my man.

  4. anonymous
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     Oct 15th 2015 !⃝

    Adeline is the girl who she remembers once stole her man and based on what ZZ says in the song she has began to do the same thing.

  5. anonymous
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     Sep 30th 2014 !⃝

    Zz says the gun is Adelines mouth. I think zz walked in on a bj.

  6. anonymous
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     Dec 13th 2013 !⃝

    I think Adeline is a "that" girl. The girl you think your in constant competition against, your arch nemesis that doesn't even know you feel that way about her because you privately seeth. The car she wanted "Adeline" ended up with, the job you want went to "Adeline" instead. But the girl finally admits that if "Adeline" keeps showing interest in the man she loves, and is saying you can take everything else but not her man because for him you would draw the line in the sand and declare war because Adeline fired the first shot.

  7. anonymous
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     Mar 1st 2013 !⃝

    i think its about her singing to "adeline" saying put the gun down and dont take her man. the gun is actually just "adeline's" power to make a guy fall for her. SHes saying please dont take my man because its as if your shooting him your taking him away

  8. anonymous
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     Jan 24th 2013 !⃝

    She is singing to a girl who could take her man if the girl wanted to. Shes talking about how the girl can basically take any guy she wants.

  9. anonymous
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     Jan 10th 2013 !⃝

    She's singing to herself to put the gun down, don't do it, someone stole her man, she is Adeline in the lyrics, having to talk herself out of murder over a man.
    Points out to me she realizes he isn't worth it she just wants to make a point, to this younger woman who took her man.


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