Songfacts®:

• This song finds The Avett Brothers singing about the excesses of American gun culture and violence in the media.
  
  Another bang bang shoot 'em up movie
  Pride and vengeance all around
  Another bang bang shoot em' up movie
  Meant to blow my mind
  
  They go on to reflect on whether the abundance of violent movies and video games are the cause of gun crime.
  
  If you think there isn't any connection between
  All the violence you see in real life and what's on the screen
  Well it seems painfully clear to me
  That you're living in a fantasy
  
  Said Scott Avett to Billboard: "We'll flip from one channel and see some terrible shooting that's happened, and then we flip to whatever and there's a movie going, and you're like - it's real life here, and then I go over here and it's two-fold. I just think all these things have accumulated enough to talk about."
• The lyrics were originally penned by Seth Avett after watching an action movie preview. He told The Boot he was offended and "took exception with the nonchalance" in which murder was presented in the film.