Album: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2007)

Charted: 52

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• County road two thirty-three under my feet
  Nothin' on this white rock but little ol' me
  I've got two miles 'til he makes bail
  And if I'm right, we're headed straight for hell
  
  I'm goin' home, gonna load my shotgun
  Wait by the door, and light a cigarette
  If he wants a fight, well, now he's got one
  And he ain't seen me crazy yet
  He slapped my face, and he shook me like a rag doll
  Don't that sound like a real man?
  I'm going to show him what little girls are made of
  Gunpowder and lead
  
  Well, it's half past ten, another six-pack in
  And I can feel the rumble like the cold black wind
  He pulls in the drive, the gravel flies
  He don't know what's waiting here this time
  
  Hey, I'm goin' home, gonna load my shotgun
  Wait by the door, and light a cigarette
  If he wants a fight, well, now he's got one
  And he ain't seen me crazy yet
  He slapped my face, and he shook me like a rag doll
  Don't that sound like a real man?
  I'm going to show him what little girls are made of
  Gunpowder and lead
  
  His fist is big, but my gun's bigger
  He'll find out when I pull the trigger
  
  I'm goin' home, gonna load my shotgun
  Wait by the door, and light a cigarette
  If he wants a fight, well, now he's got one
  And he ain't seen me crazy yet
  He slapped my face, and he shook me like a rag doll
  Don't that sound like a real man?
  I'm going to show him what little girls are made of
  Gunpowder and, gunpowder and lead
  Gunpowder and lead, yeah, yeah
  Hey Writer/s: Heather Marie Little, Miranda Lambert
  Publisher: Bluewater Music Corp., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 9

• Babydolls from OhWalk a mile in the shoes of an abused spouse, this case, a wife, who gets beaten every day/night for something as simple as NOTHING. The something is something he made up or just felt he was justified in doing it cause he can. Maybe she is afraid of having his arrested cause she has done it before. And when he got out he beat her even more and worse then before. If you walk a mile in her shoes, you might think differently. Miranda is one who don't take that foolishness. I can't help but wonder if he ever again slapped her face and shook her like a rag doll. And if not, was it because that shotgun blast heard at the end, was NOT a warning shot? In the video, she is seen digging what believe is his grave. Two songs about the same subject, but each wife handles it differently.
• Andrea from Andreagseiner@hotmail.com, TnOk I have a opinion about this...and mine is this is just a song...but if this was a true story...he beat her and obviously it wasn't the first time and then he goes to jail and is heading back to her again angry now WHAT Landon do you think he was going to do to her? Give her a box of chocolates and some flowers...he was going to finish what he started. And don't say I don't know that ...because I was in a abusive marriage when I was younger. And they don't stop
  
• Megan from Stevenson, AlCompletely awesome song! You go Miranda! Get 'em girl:)
• Breanna from Henderson, NvLandon: What are you talking about! You know what, most women that are beaten, they don't believe the woman! I agree with Olivia, you must be off your rocker to believe that. Do you know why these women wright these songs, because most average beaten women are afraid to go out there and get help but with songs like these they do get the courage to do it. You know what, that's just sad that you would feel that way. Just too bad for you, not getting why a song's wrote and to just brush it aside when it does give women courage to not take it so far as the song, but to go get help.
• Janet from Charlotte, NcGettin beaten on a regular basis is like a slow tortuous death. you obviously have no idea what your talking about. ever heard of self defense. 'hurt them a little bit', you have got to be kidding by writing that. how about men who kick their pregnant wives, killing a fetus. you need an education on domestic violent. this song rocks just like independence day does.
• Michele from Raleigh, NcLandon: Apparently no woman you have loved or cared about has been beaten up...........
• Theresa from Murfreesboro, TnMiranda knows how to write a flawless country tune, her talent cannot be matched and this song proves that!
• Olivia from Chicago, IlTo Landon: If you read the lyrics i think you'll find that the character in the song was not 'hurt a little bit'. Find a doll, now shake it. Imagine that on a human. I don't think you appreciate how much abuse messes a person up. Also clearly the man who abuseed her did not get a full life sentence. I'm not condoning vigilante justice but she's not making something out of nothing
• Landon from Winchester, OhThis song is rediculous. I feel sympathetic for woman out there that are beaten and abused by their jerk husbands, but a sentencing to life in prison is the proper way to handle it. Shooting the man for hurting her? That's lower than the abuse itself! I'm pretty damn tired of women getting by with writing songs about killing husbands because they hurt them a little bit, because how much better are they in reality? Miranda Lambert sucks.

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