'Gun' unambiguously takes place in the nighttime. Cricket chirps color the song. As with others, her voice is ethereal – wide and reverberating, while the guitar is muffled and almost absent, like an old vhs recording or an early youtube video. It feels simple, in the same way a childhood memory feels simple. But then her voice washes over the soundscape. It floats over the memory, like commentary over a documentary. It's a description. Of the stories which take place in the auditory “setting” of the track. She hides a gun under her pillow. This gun can most definitely be metaphorical, but the implications of a physical gun is just as evocative.
