Artist: D.A.R.K.
Released on: Science Agrees (Track #3)
Duration: 3:17

LYRICS

uuuuu-ah (dadadadadada)
uuuuu-ah
aaa-a-ah
ooo-a-ah

(Anything)
(Everything)
(Anything)

It’s a gunfight
Ring the alarm
This love life
[CD] Lost in your arms
[Vinyl] Is doing me harm
You know I can’t sleep
I remember your eyes
Hip to the fact that we’re all gonna die

It’s a gunfight
Ring the alarm
This love life
[CD] Lost in your arms
[Vinyl] Is doing me harm
You kow I can’t sleep
I remember your eyes
Hip to the fact that we’re all gonna die

People cost a lot (ta ta ta, ah)
People cost a lot
People got no soul (ta ta ta, ah)
People got no goal
People live and die (watching, watching, ah)
People they just cry
They can’t see the passion (ta ta ta, ah)
People cost a lot (people)

aaaa-aa-ah
aaaa-aa-ah
aaaaaah
o-a-a-aaah
a-a-aaah (it’s your life)

It’s a gunfight
Ring the alarm
This love life
[CD] Lost in your arms (a-a-ah)
[Vinyl] Is doing me harm (a-a-ah)
You know I can’t sleep
I remember your eyes
Hip to the fact that we’re all gonna die

It’s a gunfight
Ring the alarm
This love life
[CD] Lost in your arms (a-a-ah)
[Vinyl] Is doing me harm (a-a-ah)
You kow I can’t sleep
I remember your eyes (eeeh, a-a-ah)
Hip to the fact that we’re all gonna die

No more war (a-a-ah)
No more war (a-a-ah)
No more war (a-a-ah)
No more war (a-a-ah)
No more war (a-a-ah)
No more war (a-a-ah)
No more war (a-a-ah)

THE RAT RACE

Forward advances (a-a-ah)
Wealthy and handsome (a-a-ah)
I turn on the beat just (a-a-ah)
To study the dancers (a-a-ah)
Your eyes are a river (a-a-ah)
You blink and I shiver (a-a-ah)
I regret being clever
But it’s just dreams I deliver
Content with the knowledge (content with the knowledge)
That we dreamt it together (a-a-a-ah)
I loved you on paper (a-a-a-ah)
But never sent you the letter (a-a-a-ah)
Your eyes are a river (a-a-a-ah)
You blink and I shiver
I regret being clever (a-a-a-ah)
But it’s just dreams I deliver

It’s a gunfight
Ring the alarm
This love life
[CD] Lost in your arms
[Vinyl] Is doing me harm
You kow I can’t sleep
I remember your eyes
Hip to the fact that we’re all gonna die
It’s a gunfight

(There you go, there’s that)

(Yeah baby girl)

CREDIT INFORMATION

• Written, performed and produced by Dolores O’Riordan, Oleg Koretsky and Andy Rourke

MEANING

• Official D.A.R.K. biography mentions that the song is about “loss of faith and dissatisfaction”
• In the Classic Pop magazine (August/September 2016) Dolores revealed she, “was a manic when [she] was recording Gunfight” as the song was taped under stressful circumstances (Dolores had spent three weeks in a psychiatric hospital trying different mediations for bipolar disorder). She explained “You’re very high and all of this stuff starts coming out of your mouth. You’re twitching and can’t sit down and are very afraid somebody’s going to hurt you. You’re paranoid all the time“

NOTES

• 3rd song to be released before the release of the album and was available on streaming platforms and for download on 20 July 2016.
• Retail CD and LP don’t have the exact same lyrics. CD has the “lost in your arms” line when LP has “is doing me harm“
• The version of the song sent to journalists for the initial album release in May 2016 has the “is doing me harm” line.
• Lyrics on this page were transcribed by our team and aim to be the exact ones (even including all the la la la’s as much as possible).
• Above photo of the official lyrics off the “Science Agrees” commercial CD, catalog number COOKCD642