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Take a breath, take it deep
Calm yourself, he says to me
If you play, you play for keeps
Take the gun, and count to three
I'm sweating now, I'm moving slow
No time to think, my turn to go
And you can see my heart, beating,
You can see it through my chest
I'm terrified but I'm not leaving, no
I know that I must pass this test
So just pull the trigger (trigger, trigger, trigger)
Say a prayer, to yourself
He says, close your eyes
Sometimes it helps
And then I get, a scary thought
That he's here, means he's never lost
And you can see my heart, beating,
Now you can see it through my chest
Said I'm terrified but I'm not leaving
I know that I must pass this test
So just pull the trigger
As my life flashes before my eyes
I'm wondering will I, ever see another sunrise?
So many won't get the chance to say goodbye
But it's too late to think of the value of my life
And you can see my heart, beating,
Now you can see it through my chest
Said I'm terrified but I'm not leaving, no!
I know that I must pass this test
And you can see my heart, beating,
Oh you can see it through my chest
I'm terrified but I'm not leaving, no!
I know that I must pass this test
So just pull the trigger (trigger, trigger, trigger)
Calm yourself, he says to me
If you play, you play for keeps
Take the gun, and count to three
I'm sweating now, I'm moving slow
No time to think, my turn to go
And you can see my heart, beating,
You can see it through my chest
I'm terrified but I'm not leaving, no
I know that I must pass this test
So just pull the trigger (trigger, trigger, trigger)
Say a prayer, to yourself
He says, close your eyes
Sometimes it helps
And then I get, a scary thought
That he's here, means he's never lost
And you can see my heart, beating,
Now you can see it through my chest
Said I'm terrified but I'm not leaving
I know that I must pass this test
So just pull the trigger
As my life flashes before my eyes
I'm wondering will I, ever see another sunrise?
So many won't get the chance to say goodbye
But it's too late to think of the value of my life
And you can see my heart, beating,
Now you can see it through my chest
Said I'm terrified but I'm not leaving, no!
I know that I must pass this test
And you can see my heart, beating,
Oh you can see it through my chest
I'm terrified but I'm not leaving, no!
I know that I must pass this test
So just pull the trigger (trigger, trigger, trigger)
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I guess, as normal in a rihanna song, the act of sleeping with the guy is the act of pulling the trigger and falling for him. 'close your eyes, sometimes it helps' is kissing etc
The middle 8 is a bit intense, but can sadly also be true. ''Too late to pick up the value of my life'' is that feeling where you are no longer completely self dependant. That horrible feeling were you can't imagine having not met someone and that you are not complete without them. Sappy movies such as Jerry Maguire have made sentiment of this, but it is actually painful to be that in love with some one.
Very interesting song because it barely strays from the metaphor and could almost be a literal meaning.
this pain of losing possibility of finding love with another person. I'm guessing she truly loves this person, and may not have been able to commit,
but right now he is saying it is your turn, pull the trigger and take a chance with me.She is utterly terrified to do this, she's gotta do this to be with him,
so she just needs to pull the trigger. He suggests to her to bow her head in meditation and prayer to decide this, so I'm guessing this is a serious relationship.
She thinks to herself 'He's still here, and still has me, and he's still happy.'She gets nervous knowing that she may never get the ability to learn from and leave
different people. She says her life passes before her eyes, and I assume at this point she kisses him and all the negative emotions flow through her, all her anxious
thoughts run through her head. But she keeps thinking it at the end of the song, and this to me means she continues kissing him. She pulled the trigger. Idk, that's my
interpretation.
Rihanna uses the word “gun” to help you visualize the mind control taking place in this song. The word “gun” is a noun. It is a weapon consisting of a metal tube from which a projectile is fired at high velocity into a relatively flat trajectory. When placed at someone’s head it is used to put pressure on them, or control them. Being an informal and figurative word, gun appeals to imagery. The media also has a gun. Their gun would be television. That’s how they get they get their followers to listen. Every time you change the channel, you have videos, commercials, live television shows telling you what to do and what to believe. This idea is the point that Rihanna is trying to make, that the media has mind control of its listeners. They do as told without any question because of the credibility of the celebrity they are using to get their point across.
Rihanna is using the game Russian roulette to demonstrate the control the media has on the minds of its listeners. The gun she refers to is the television and how watching it makes you believe whatever is being said. This supports the idea that Rihanna uses a suspenseful and nervous diction to help you visualize playing the game, which conveys her belief that Russian roulette is a game of non-comical mind control.