Machine Gun

What Noise demo (c. 1984)

Vox (lead): Nick Whitecross

Vox (backing): George Stewart and Peter Barnett

There goes another machine gun
They've all got names that I think I like

There goes another machine gun
They've all got names that I think I like
I'd like to hold one in my hand
I'd like to do what I think is right

There goes another machine gun
Working well for the ones that know
I'd like to hold one in my hand (There goes another)
I'd like to learn how machine guns work (There goes another machine gun)

There goes another
There goes another machine gun

Word came in this morning
A test from the ones that know
Get out and put one in my hand
Then out to do what I think is right
There goes another machine gun
With names that I like
And I'd like to hold one in my hand (There goes another)
I'd like to do what I think is right (There goes another machine gun)

There goes another
There goes another machine gun
There goes another
There goes another machine gun
There goes another

Get out and I put one in my hand (There goes another) Then out to do what I think is right (Machine gun) There goes another machine gun (There goes another) They've all got names that I think I like (There goes another machine gun) I'd like to hold one in my hand I'd like to do what I think is right

And there goes another machine gun
They've all got names that I think I like
I'd like to hold it on my hand
I'd like to do what I think is right (I'd like to learn how machine guns go)
They're working well for the ones that know
I've got one in my hand (There goes another)
I'm learning how machine guns go (There goes another)
I've got the word that came in this morning (Machine gun)
An address for the ones that know (There goes another)
Get out and put one in your hand (There goes another)
Then out to do what machine guns do (Machine gun)
(There goes another)

There goes another machine gun
There goes another machine gun
There goes another machine gun

I'd like to learn how machine guns go
I'd like to learn how machine guns go
I'd like to learn how machine guns go

There goes another machine gun
I'd like to hold one in my hand

Notes

There is another version of this song that's over two minutes shorter and contains no backing vocals (so all vocals are Nick). Below are the lyrics to that, presumably older, version of Machine Gun.