I'm a Gun lyrics

I was born in the blast of a furnace of steel

And I wondered what shape I would be

I was hard, I was cold, I was just a day old

And I wondered what future I'd see

Then a rough pair of hands fashioned peaces of steel

And a handle of smooth silky wood

And an arm held me out

While the eye of the man kept staring as hard as he could

I was fitted with bullets, with jackets of steel

And then taken outside in the light

Then he aimed me direct at a man on a horse

And his hands squeezed me tighter than tight

A bursting of fire exploded inside me

Sent flying a comet of heat

As the smoke cleared the way

I could see straight ahead the man

Who layed dead in the street

I'm a gun, I'm a gun

Til the day that man destroys me I'm a gun

It's not the gun that kills a man

It's the man who fires the gun that kills a man

It's not the gun that kills a man

I tried to call out but my steel has no tongue

And to men I am only a slave

I've never forgotten that terrible day

And that man that I couldn't save

No one knows what it means to be held in a hand

To be pointed and triggered to kill

To be labeled a gun with no power to stop

All the blood that man shooting will spill

• Artist:Lorne Greene
• Album:The Man