AEROSMITH - JANIE'S GOT A GUN
Dum, Dum, Dum, Honey What Have You Done?
Dum, Dum, Dum It's The Sound Of My Gun
Dum, Dum, Dum, Honey What Have You Done?
Dum, Dum, Dum It's The Sound
Janie's Got A Gun
Janie's Got A Gun
Her Whole World's Come Undone
From Lookin' Straight At The Sun
What Did Her Daddy Do?
What Did He Put You Through?
They Said 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 Me Now It's Untrue
What Did Her Daddy Do?
He Jacked A Little Bitty Baby
The Man Has Got To Be Insane
They Say The Spell That He Was Under The Lightning And The
Thunder Knew That Someone Had To Stop The Rain
Run Away, Run Away From The Pain Yeah, Yeah Yeah Yeah
Run Away Run Away From The Pain Yeah Yeah
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
Run Away, Run Away, Run, Run Away
Janie's Got A Gun
Janie's Got A Gun
Her Dog Day's Just Begun
Now Everybody Is On The Run
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 Yeah, Yeah
Yeah Yeah Yeah
Run Away Run Away From The Pain Yeah Yeah
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
Run Away, Run Away, Run, Run Away
Janie's Got A Gun
Janie's Got A Gun
Janie's Got A Gun
Everybody Is On The Run
Janie's Got A Gun
Her Dog Day's Just Begun
Now Everybody Is On The Run
Because Janie's Got A Gun
Janie's Got A Gun
Her Dog Day's Just Begun
Now Everybody Is On The Run
Janie's Got A Gun
SONG FACTS
Writer(s): Steven Tyler, Tom Hamilton
Producer(s): Bruce Fairbairn
This Song Is About A Girl Who Shoots Her Father Because He Is Sexually Abusing Her. Steven Tyler, Who Wrote The Lyric, Explained In The Walk This Way Autobiography: "That Song Is About A Girl Getting Raped And Pillaged By Her Father. It's About Incest, Something That Happens To A Lot Of Kids Who Don't Even Find Out About It Until They Find Themselves Trying To Work Through Some Major F--King Neuroses.
The Video Depicted A Girl Killing Her Father, And The Subsequent Crime Scene. One Of The Most Cinematic Videos Ever To Hit MTV, It Was Directed By David Fincher, Who Would Later Direct The Movies Se7en, Alien Iii And Panic Room. Fincher's Talent For Building Tension In A Scene Is Evident In The Clip, And Many Of The Lighting And Composition Techniques Would Later Show Up In His Feature Films. The Video Starred Kristin Dattilo As Janie, And Lesley Ann Warren As Her Mother.
Steven Tyler Wrote This Song With Aerosmith Bass Player Tom Hamilton. Tyler Typically Writes With Guitarist Joe Perry, But Hamilton Has Made Significant Songwriting Contributions. Some Of His Other Aerosmith Co-Writes Include "Sweet Emotion" And "Kings And Queens."
Aerosmith's First Two Decades Produced Millions In Album Sales But Zero Grammy Awards. The First Time They Were Honored Was In 1991, When This Song Won The Grammy For Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal. The Voters In This Category Quickly Acclimated To Aerosmith And Gave Them The Award Three More Times In The '90s, For "Livin' On The Edge," "Crazy" And "Pink."
The Title Of This Song Is Similar To The 1939 Anti-War Novel Johnny Got His Gun, Which The Metallica Song "One" Is About.