- Gunpowder & Lead
Infobox Single
Name = Gunpowder & Lead
Caption =
Artist =Miranda Lambert
Album =Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Released = 2008
Format =CD Single
Recorded =
Genre = Country
Length = 3:11
Label = Columbia Nashville
Writer = Miranda Lambert
Heather Little
Producer = Frank Liddell
Mike Wrucke
Audio sample? =
Last single = "Famous in a Small Town "
(2007)
This single = "Gunpowder & Lead"
(2008)
Next single = "More Like Her"
(2008)
Misc = External music video|" [http://www.cmt.com/videos/miranda-lambert/221413/gunpowder-lead-from-the-cma-music-festival.jhtml Gunpowder & Lead] " at CMT.com"Gunpowder & Lead" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist
Miranda Lambert on her 2007 album "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend ". The album's third single, it is also the highest-charting single of Lambert's career, having become her first Top Ten on the "Billboard"Hot Country Songs in July 2008.Content
The song is a moderate up-tempo backed by
electric guitar . Its lyrics focus on the narrator, who tells of her plans to shoot her abusive husband once he is let out of jail:cite web |url=http://www.gactv.com/gac/nw_headlines/article/0,3034,GAC_26063_5799758_,00.html |title=Miranda Lambert's "Gunpowder" Has Personal History |accessdate=2008-08-27 |date=2008-02-04 |work=GAC]:"I'm goin' home, gonna load my shotgun:"Wait by the door and light a cigarette:"He wants a fight — well, now he's got one:"And he ain't seen me crazy yet:"Slapped my face and he shook me like a rag doll:"Don't that sound like a real man?:"I'm gonna show him what a little girl's made of:"Gunpowder & lead"
The radio edit omits
sound effect s which are heard on the album version: moaning at the beginning, and the sound of a gunshot at the end.The song has been compared to "
Goodbye Earl " by theDixie Chicks and "Independence Day" byMartina McBride , both of which feature abused wives killing their husbands as well. According to Lambert, the song's storyline was inspired by a point in her life when her parents would take abuse victims into their home, and she had to share her bedroom with a mother and daughter.Music video
The music video used for "Gunpowder & Lead" is a live performance from the CMA Music Festival, in
Nashville, TN .Chart performance
References
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