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I'll Take The Bullet For You

from I'll Take The Bullet For You (Single) by Golden Veins

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about

I had the melody and some of the lyrics for “I’ll Take The Bullet For You” for ages. I can’t really play any instruments, so I just let the melody marinate in my head, added bits and pieces here and there. Eventually I thought I had enough to start working with, so one November day Ryan and I sat down and Ryan laboriously worked out the notes and chords to the song. He has the patience of a saint, let me tell you. The “something for somebody else” part in the middle was a melody from a completely different song that got thrown into the pot.
I’m very happy with how the song turned out…pretty epic, pretty dramatic. It’s about obsession and its aftermath.

-G.

lyrics

I’ll take the bullet for you

When you’re feeling blue

Despondent

And when the sight’s trained right on you

I’ll take the bullet for you

Can you feel it too?

That sense of impending doom’s breath on your neck?

But in my heart of hearts I know

You’ll never let me play the part

Of your chosen one, of your barricade

So I serenade you in the hope you might give me the time of day

Is it wrong to say I die every day we’re apart?

And I want you to know…

I’ll take

I’ll take the bullet for you

Something for somebody else

Makes you feel sad for yourself

The penitent pray, the secular say

“Hey, what can you do?”

Skyward an angel takes flight

Sooner than she who have liked

Call it a day, call it for rain

Call it a goddamn shame

And that’s that…

I’ll take

I’ll take the bullet for you

I’ll be here by your side

I’ll be here all the time

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from I'll Take The Bullet For You (Single), track released December 14, 2010
Written by GOODE/MEIER/O’GARA/SKRDLANT
Produced by GOLDEN VEINS
Engineered & Mixed by SCOTT O’GARA
Recorded at SMOKING GUNS STUDIO, IOWA CITY, IA 2009/2010
Mastered by DOUG VAN SLOUN
Artwork by BRENT HOUZENGA

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