Janie's Got a Gun...............




At first all a thought about this song was that it was funny, but there was obviously something wrong with Janie, or else why would she be carrying around a gun?  By the way, the kitty stands for Janie :  )

um, 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 

The lyrics that stand out to me in this poem is:



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.

I feel that in this section of the song, you can sense that the author had a bad relationship with his/her father. The author uses the short sentences to "What did her daddy do?" and "it's Janie's last I.O.U. to show how Janie is seeking revenge because she was wronged by her father. the long sentence "She had to take him down easy and put a bullet in his brain She said 'cause nobody believes me." can be translated as Janie's only escape from the horrible things her father is doing to her. the additional two short sentences, "the man was such a sleeze," and "he ain't ever gonna be the same" tells me that Janie does not or will not regret killing her father because he was such an evil man.


Sources:
Aerosmith. Lyricsondemand.com 2001. Web. May 22, 2012