Songfacts®:

• Carter Faith is joined by fellow country singers Laci Kaye Booth and Baby Nova on "Pearl Handled Pistol," a tough-talking revenge anthem where Faith warns her man not to cross her. "I'm a pearl-handled pistol," she sings on the Western-themed track. "Don't you fool around with me."
  
  "They're so beautiful," Faith told Off The Record of the weapon that inspired the song title. "I mean, it's obviously a gun, but it looks like a woman. It's like a woman gun. They're so ornate, but they can still kill you, obviously."
• Faith wrote the song, which features on the deluxe edition of her 2025 debut album, Cherry Valley, with Booth, along with Nashville songwriters Jessie Jo Dillon - who came up with the song title - and Chris Tompkins.
• Faith builds on the Old West vibe by referencing Ennio Morricone, the famous composer behind classic Spaghetti Western themes in movies like The Good, The Bad And The Ugly and A Fistful Of Dollars, which both feature prominent whistling to create tension. "Well, cue the Morricone whistle," she sings. "Like smoke comin' off twin fiddles."