#happiness is a warm gun

[strwbryfeels]

[magical-mysterygirl]

TW GUN! (John death jokes = blocked no exceptions.) I still have no idea what this song is even supposed to be about so I got confused and drew John doing target practice (he's ready for deer season/j)

[nevereverywhere]

I designed these fake movie posters for #BeatlesMovies and I quite like how they turned out, so I thought I’d post them on here as well. Maybe this will be my next obsession

[got-ticket-to-ride]

Happiness Is A Warm Gun

According to John Lennon, he saw the title in a magazine issue of the American Rifleman: "I just thought it was a fantastic, insane thing to say. A warm gun means you just shot something."

This song was stuck in my head last week. I know a lot of fans think it's a sexual song for Ono and is about drugs. But I kind of interpret it as a song for the betrayed, the ones who didn't see it coming and all along realizing they pulled the trigger on themselves because they trusted/loved somebody (almost like doing yourself in).

Happiness is a gun loaded that could go off and shoot you anytime.

How your love for someone gives them the privilege to hurt you. How exciting that makes your experience of love until it actually ends badly.

When I hold you in my arms (ooh, oh, yeah) And I feel my finger on your trigger (ooh, oh, yeah) I know nobody can do me no harm (ooh, oh, yeah) Because Happiness is a warm gun, yes it is (bang, bang, shoot, shoot)

It's a satire of certainty that turned into a shooting. It's John Lennon's reality in 1968.

[vintage-tigre]

[harrisonsbabygirl]

y’all ever listen to this w 1 earbud?

[cosmonautroger]

The Beatles, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, 1968

[damien-devil-art]

Hehe

[rastronomicals]

11:55 AM EST December 14, 2023:

Sonic Youth - "I Wanna Be Your Dog" From the bootleg Happiness Is A Warm Gun (1991)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

[medufasa]

I have no fucking clue why Seinfeld is here but this is the best fucking video I've ever seen. The picture just makes it 10x better

[julietpepper]

I love music I can relate to ❤️❤️❤️

[chronic-cute]

B҉a҉n҉g҉ ҉b҉a҉n҉g҉

٭⊹¤.•⨳•.*☆✬ Shoot shoot ✬☆*.•⨳•.¤⊹٭

Pink guns 🎀

[beatleshistoryblog]

BEATLES MUSIC BREAK: Continuing the theme of outstanding Beatles songs I didn’t get a chance to post on the Beatles Blog during the term . . . here is “Happiness is a Warm Gun,” a song written by John Lennon and featured on the self-titled Beatles album (a.k.a., the White Album), released in November 1968. As I mentioned in lecture, Lennon wrote the song after reading the headline “Happiness is a Warm Gun” in the May 1968 issue of American Rifleman magazine. The concept of someone deriving happiness from a warm gun seemed to Lennon to be “fantastic, insane… a warm gun means you've just shot something. I thought it was so crazy that I made a song out of it.” Lennon came to regard the song as one of his best, a sentiment shared by Paul McCartney. As listeners tend to do, they read different meanings into the song, with some believing it was about Lennon’s sexuality, and others hearing lyrics about heroin addiction. Lennon loved to keep the fans guessing. Over the decades, the song has withstood the test of time as one of John Lennon’s most beloved and, at the same time, edgiest, songs.

[hollysimone]

we live in fractions//

//such a fragile balance between

hurting and happiness//

[vintage-tigre]