Happiness Is a Warm Gun

(Working title: "Happiness Is a Warm Gun in Your Hand")

John said that the song's title was inspired by a headline on a gun magazine, and if he'd stuck with the gun-as-sexual-metaphor that rapturously closes the song (or even with that and the bluesy middle), the song would have been a total success. But then there's more of that free-associational stuff at the beginning. (I don't even want to know what "A soap impression of his wife, which he ate and donated to the National Trust" really means.) Endure the first part and enjoy the rest. (By the way, is that the "bits" that John left uptown, as the lyric sheet says, or is he indulging his misogynist side again?)

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