Reviews for Happiness is a Warm Gun Lyrics

It's about whatever you'd like to be. Greatest songwriters don't usually talk about the meaning of their songs cause they want them to mean something special to everyone. If the song were more specific then it would have much less fans of it...
So enjoy it and find the meaning for yourself, but keep it only to you.

So no one hear shoots dope eh? Well This song is clearly about dope. Bang= slang for shooting , Need a fix... Happiness is a Warm Gun- When your dependant on heroin absolutely nothing else exists. Your only interest is the drug. Even if you kick and the pain goes away in about a week the real battle begins; Depression, insomnia, boredom. The world loses the magic it once had. mmm I love opiates.

OK, you know what? ALL of you are dead wrong. I know my Beatles, believe me.

OK, so the Beatles were writing their songs around the Vietnam War time, OK? Every newspaper or television or radio, I should say had SOMETHING about the war. Well John was reading a newspaper about the war and the headline read, "Happiness is a Warm Gun". John thought that was hilarious and wrote the song. The beginning: she's well aqquainted with the touch of the velvet hand like a lizard on a window pane talks about a gun, more specifically the picture of the gun in the newspaper.

I really hope this cleared things up a bit...if you have ANY questions WHATSOEVER about the beatles or their songs, email me at m_branning@hotmail.com .

John admitted all the drug stuff so whatever. But he also said most of the songs aren't really about anything. Your digging for a meaning it doesn't have. It's a good song so enjoy it for what it is. A song

for me its all about the music, I know all about the interpretation of the drugs that john was into, but, this music made me just love it! its my all time fave track, mmmnnnn especially the bit in between the last mother superior jumped the gun, and happiness is a warm gun, just appreciated the chords

John read this line "Happiness is a warm gun in your hand" on the cover of a gun magazine and with his usual poetic genius, turned it into a confusingly twisted masterpiece. Who cares what it is about?

the song is totally about shooting up heroin. finger on the trigger is your finger on the needle as you're pushing it in your vein. happiness is a warm gun is the warm needle. i think it's very obvious what the song is truly about. bang, bang, shoot, shoot the heroin into your veins!

I don't think we will ever find the truth about the real meaning of this song but its fun to have our own meaning for me its about sex and drugs ."bang bang"=the sex part "shoot shoot"= the drug part he's shooting up heroin because "mother superior" =heroin

Its not what anyone says it is. Im pretty sure it was John lennon (or Al Gore, one of the two) that came to me in a dream last night and said: "Jimmy, i want you to tell the world what this song really is about... i was abducted by aliens and one of them was reading a gun magazine and on the front it said happiness is a warm gun and they had a song going on in their ship so i just plugged in that phrase into thier song and came back down to earth without my kidney. The end" somethin like that, i think there were some right parts in there (like the magazine) not sure about the alien ship though lol

Its about drugs, sex, and john's battle w/heroin addiction. The title comes from an ad from a gun magazine. The songs talks about both drugs and sex, which are both addictions. Velvet hand= soft or sensual touch. Mother superior is a heroin term, and jumping the gun seems to me to be about getting the air out of the needle, or so I've read... Finger on your trigger... Finger on her clit... F*ck, how can you not love a song that makes you think soo much! I love the melody of this song... Genius...

John said the song is about a poster that said,"Happiness Is A Warm Gun", a take off of The Peatnut's Comic's "Happiness Is A Warm Puppy". He said he thought it was insane and wrote a song about it.
There's not much more than that.

its about happiness. artificial happiness. which could be drugs. sex. or killing. hes down so he needs a fix. whether its getter high getting laid or putting someone down. mother superior is what controls the universe. he wants her to jump the gun or to give him happiness right now cuz happiness is a warm gun. happiness is instant gratificiation. the backup lyrics saying bang bang shoot shoot is like a subliminal calling to mother superior to give him some happiness.

i like the lines where Lennon says " Mother superior jump the gun" my interpritation is that the gun is happiness and mother superior is the government. the government has no joy because they jumped the gun and they spend thier lives making others un-happy.

It's about Lennon's problem with heroin.

I don't know where people are getting animal killings from. However, some of you are just reading into it for your own meaning, and that's okay, too. People will see it differently. But John was referring to his heroin issues.

The title, however, I think he saw in a newspaper ad or something?

yeah, i know you guys have all these interpretations of what this song stands for, but the top and most dominant and factual meaning of the song is about heroin, mother superior is another word for heroin. mother superior jump the gun...yeah ever shoot a bubble out of a syringe or see a doctor doing it? the liquid will jump out of the needle