Friday, February 10, 2006

This day in music history.

February 10, 1980, The song "Janie's Got A Gun" goes to number 4 on the pop charts. It would be the fourth song from the mega-platinum , super duper, giant, monster , couldn't go fucking anywhere without hearing it, "Pump" LP to make it to the top 10. Everyone thought Aerosmith was a bunch of washed up heroin addicts but then, overnight they were a bunch of born again super star heroin addicts.
Janie's Got A Gun by Aerosmith
Honey what have you done
it's the sound of my gun
honey what have you done
it's the sound, it's the sound...
Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah....
Janie's Got A Gun
Janie's Got A Gun
Her whole world's come undone
From looking straight at the sun
What did her daddy do
What did he put you through
They say when Janie was arrested
They found him underneath a train
But man, he had it comin'
Now that Janie's Got A Gun
She ain't never gonna be the same
Janie's Got A Gun
Janie's Got A Gun
Her dog day's just begun
Now everybody is on the run
Tell her now it's untrue
What did her daddy do
He jacked the little bitty baby
The man has got to be insane
They say the spell that he was under
The lightnin' and the thunder
Knew that someone had to stop the pain
Run away, run away from the pain...
What did her daddy do
It's Janie's last I.O.U.
She had to take him down easy
And put a bullet in his brain
She said 'cause nobody believes me
The man was such a sleeze
He ain't never gonna be the same
Run away, run away from the pain...