Cranberries, The - I Just Shot John Lennon Lyrics
It was the fearful night of December 8th.
He was returning home from the studio late.
He had perseptively known that it wouldn't be nice.
Because in 1980, he paid the price.
With a Smith & Wesson 38,
John Lennon's life was no longer a debate.
He should have stayed at home,
He should have never cared,
And the man who took his life declared,
He said I just shot John Lennon.
He said I just shot John Lennon.
What a sad and sorry and sickening sight.
What a sad and sorry and sickening sight.
What a sad and sorry and sickening night.
Ah, ah ah ah, ah...
I just shot John Lennon.
He said I just shot John Lennon.
What a sad and sorry and sickening sight.
What a sad and sorry and sickening night.
What a sad and sorry and sickening sight.
What a sad and sorry and sickening night.
Ah, ah ah ah, ah...
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Cranberries, The I Just Shot John Lennon Comments
RIP Dolores O'Riordan RIP Neil Peart
Вот(надеюсь) они и встретились)))!
John Lennon died 39 years ago to this day. I miss Dolores, Kurt, Cornell, Lennon, Harrison, Hendrix, Joplin, Petty, Bowie, and Brian Jones.
There is a sadness in her voice and injects a sadness in us for the fact she is gone as well!!
And now it's too warm my love
Yoko wanted to go have dinner after they left the studio, but John wanted to hurry home and see Sean before he went to bed. If only he had decided he was hungry, we might still have him today.
Thanks for the post.
Great song .... Listen again and again now 2019
Mark David Chapman stay in jail until the end of your life. 😡
2 true artists
Una de mis favoritas 💪💪❤
Her voice is magical
I love how the title sounds withaut context.
I just shoot John Lennon
It seems the world is such a cruel place at times ...and it is even crueler to those of us who "feel too much". We think "too much" about the things going on around us. We hurt "too much" seeing the suffering of others (And we often became this way because of a lot of trauma of our own, never wanting anyone else to feel as badly as we did).
The world does not love a person like this...from the "hippies" of the 60's to the "snowflakes" of today (in the U.S., at least), society creates derogatory nicknames and scorns those who dare to feel deeply for the human condition. Like Delores did, and John Lennon before her. (I imagine had they met they would have had so much in common.) And this scorn takes a terrible toll on us, until we literally just want to shut the entire world out and shut down somehow.
Delores suffered yet overcame this toll on her several times (usually privately), and I think so many long term fans were shocked when she passed...as it was not evident at to the public that the darkness was descending again. I like to think she would have persevered yet again were it not for her terrible accident.
I'm a fan from the very beginning, a couple years younger with less than 1% of her talent (though I did try singing along with those cassette tapes and CDs 😌). But those songs always made me feel like we were friends.
She managed to keep her private life quite separate from her stardom, except those things released on her terms. So after 25 years, I am only now increasingly finding out more about how not just our minds and our passions and dreams for the world were alike, but our past traumas and troubles as well And I see the songs a little differently than I used to. I always felt as if she was singing my very own thoughts. I didn't realize she was singing from her experiences as well.
Beautiful Delores...sadly the world does not love a person who "feels too much" about people. ALL people, not just those in one's own country or political circle. ALL people. The world treats those souls terribly. But I believe God loves them more than anyone.
Rest well, sweet lady. You are still, and always will be dearly loved by those who knew you, and by those of us who felt we did after years of connecting with you through your incredible voice and your passion for all peoples of the world. 💚 🧡
"With a Smith & Wesson 38,
John Lennon's life was no longer a debate."
Jesus H Christ these lyrics are terrible!
Missing Dolores and her voice brought me here
The C.IA were behind his death because he at that time was becoming influential to the youth of a america and we can' t have that can that would have fucked up the later middle east thing and everywhere else.
Imagine John Lennon saying HI to Dolores, Bowie, Tom Petty, Prince, Chris Cornell & Chester Bennington and they all start rocking in Heaven.
So many legends went to rock out there in a few years.
they may have a new band all together!?!
😢 it's the truth💝🙏🏼
george michael too
It was recently John Lennon's anniversary of his death on December 8,2018
sickening night
Doing my fan duty to listen to this on Dec 8, 2018 =)
You haven't rocked out unless you make the pistol noises at the end of the song
two great souls lost rip xx
god wants the best on his side
Top top top. One of the best non-single songs from them
great song. i loved it since the first time i listened...
Great tribute of one of my favorite albums!
R.I.P Dolores!
Que de souvenirs.....RIP Dolores
R.I.P dolores :(
I'm re-editing this song by adding a line "I shot him six times" from Halloween at the end of the song.
winston smith gay
Yet another victim of the corporate assassin jackals.....AKA: Rothschilds C.I.A.
two legends
Awesome! The Cranberries the best!
My parents used to play this song in the car when I was little and it freaked me out. Besides it being a ridiculously dark track, my overly imaginative, childish mind was like, "She sounds like an alien." This is my first time listening to this song again in probably twenty years and it still gives me the chills.
1qwq222 is 22
11q 11q
she has said so many times he was her idol.
John and Delores.
R.i.p. Dolores thank so much by your music. .Te decubrí hace no mucho...,y tu voz y tu música es incomparable e irrepetible. Gracias por el regalo que nos distes. Descansa en paz.
She will be missed,,,I should have listened to her more.
"What a sad & sorry & sickening night." Indeed it was, I'll never forget. Great tribute to the horrific loss of John Lennon.
RIP John Lennon RIP Dolores O'Riordon
Absolute insanity for anyone to thinkbthis song was anything but a tribute
I love you Dolores,
Your amazing voice goes right through me and the hairs on my neck stand
R.I.P Dolores O'Riordan
R.I.P. Dolores O’Riordan and John Lennon.
R.I.P. Dolores O’Riordan and John Lennon.
RIP Delores
My favorite Cranberries song. R.I.P. Delores. Another great talent lost.
Dolores died...Dolores died....
Asshole
Wtf, do you think you are funny? Stfu shut up 🖕
RIP Dolores part of my youth YOU will be never forgotten
She didn’t make it to 50, as she supposed would happen. Lennon only made 40.
Rest in peace love... You raised me better than my parents...
Wesli Goates thats sad. Im sorry dude.
RIP Dolores
R.I.P. :-(
Gianpiero Granchelli Russian fans are disapointed too. She was a Great one
la extrañare mucho.... y más su música
temaaaaazooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Jut put this on not even realizing it was the 37th anniversary.
Watch the comment section go to hell once again
i remember my parents giving me a cranberries cassette when i was 8 or 9. this was my favorite song off it. listening 12 years later, it's just as good as i originally thought.
Brilliant song, amazing band back then, fuck the haters with a rake.
fuck the song
who the fuck are the cranberries ?
Who the fuck are you?! That's right ... you're fucking nobody!
go pet your pet rock
You leave Christopher out of this!!
sorry man, i did step out of line. truce ? w
What's with the cancerous comments..? This is a fine song
one word. why!
wtf.... this is a first time when i am ranking a song on Youtube
lol shit band using "john lennon" to sell records
huu smith Omg fuck oFF
Deena Cumbel Aww
Callum Warren 😂😂 triggered
does your mother know your using her computer
well drake a thug
sorry about this asshole named dego
dego shut the fuck up he was a great man who wanned peace in the world
Great song
This is the stupidest shit
this song rules...crazy and loud
ESA RLOA ME RECUERDA CUANDO EN MI ADOLECENCIA FUMAFA MARIHUNA,,,BUENO LA SIGO FUMANDO PERO ESTA EXELENTE
Fuck Mark David Chapman, I hope he gets cancer
He already is cancer
Ha ha, this song is so freaking bad. The lyrics are repetitive and terrible, her voice is warbly and grating, the instrumentation is a mess, the song barely has a tune or a clear beat, the theme is creepy, the gunshots at the end are corny...
404 Paige Not Found lol
404 Paige Not Found well I agree with you that the gunshots at the end are clearly corny as hell. However you're tone-deaf as hell if you believe that there is hardly no beat. You don't understand grunge or jazz music. I'm believing that both statements are true. The fact that it has this response towards your primitive mind shows that this is what real edgy music is. Also the type of music that John Lennon and Yoko Ono both create (Especially together)they would definitely write a song like this. Only true fans of Music would know what I'm talking about so I don't expect you to
I love it.
I love the Cranberries but this song is definitely not good.
Fuck everything, I just love this song.
Why the fuck would u create a song about john lennons death, fucking sly!
It's a tribute to John Lennon, this song is not meant to "cash in" on his death. Your incredibly sensitive.
@Rebecca Elias because this song is just like john lennon and his life. Mystey and only can be understand by who really pay attention. "he should have stay at home, he should have never cared".
oh yes. at last he died, simple like everyone , an acccident and no one care,especially the fuck naive who love him . you have an muder case and a culprit. everyone happy and everyone unhappy. end of story.
just one man died. hah hah hah
Why do they created this song? what a awful rock song
This isn't exploitation...is actually what happened...John Lennon was helping a charible cause......that fuck shot him while Lennon was signing autographs for his fans who had been waiting into cold for him.....then mother fucked started bragging to people about what he did....expecting accolades...
Rob Kitchen the song asks you to acknowledge the audacity of this awful man who killed John Lennon! It doesn't highlight anything else. Just merely the terrible atrocity that happened in the world
Charlescube16 RUDE U HAVE TO LEARN TO APPRECIATE U DUM DUM YOUR THE DUNDER HEAD
SHE LIKED JOHN LENNON DUM DUM WHEN HE DIED SO SHE WROTE THE SONG LEARN KID
I dont know
Great song! Great tribute!!
Fuck off
No, you.
you are right! greetings to morocco
am from morocco from africa i love jhonne lenon i know who s that man and this cramberis i like that song people need to feel that song more then just lestning
It sounds more like a tribute to him than anything. It's not really disrespectful? There's nothing making fun or light of the fact he was murdered.
Starts with a C, it has an I and ends with an A.
who would do this to him
Dolores O'ryan, she did it as a tribute, you imbecile.
I'm always lowering the sound in the end of this song so the neighbors wont think someone got shot in my house
The Cranberries are catchy like herpes!
What is disrespectful about a song that pays homage to the man's life?
Seems a bit disrespectful
"With a Smith and Wesson 38, John Lennon's life was no longer a debate."
Seriously, what dribbling twanny wrote this?
At least it stopped those constant debates over whether he was alive or not
Lol, yes, that's an awful verse
32 years since he "just shot John Lennon". We wouldn't have this lovely tune, but it would be the prize to pay.
I am not really sure whether I like this song or not.
The Beatles had big influence on Cranberries so, obviously this song was not written in negative way. The lyrics are maybe insane, but those are only facts - no lies, no irony, no mocking. I admit that the title is kinda controversial, but hey, those were the words of Mark Chapman.
I still find this song a little bit disrespectful.
Why would they record this anyway? Is it because of fame, popularity and money? In that case, i don't like it.
I agree, I also have mixed feelings about it. It sounds too rocking and energetic to be a mourning song (or whatever). The music of "Promises" or even "Electric Blue" (or "Hollywood") from the same album is something better suited to the topic.
Dolores O'Riordan was quoted many times in saying John Lennon was an absolute idol of hers. And if you listen to her songs like "War Child", "Bosnia", even "Zombie", and "The Icicle Melts" on the second album, you hear Dolores' similar feelings on war, particularly its toll on children. And in a couple of interviews she also speaks of her dreams of equal rights for all peoples. Her mother said she had these strong feelings from the time she was a child. She would have been about 9 when John Lennon was killed. I always thought the tone and tempo of this song was a bit reflective of the chaos surrounding such a tragedy, especially when seen through what were a child's eyes at the time it happened.
fueron 5 veces lo dijo el mismo asesino
It says on Wikipedia that he was shot four times.
xq le dispararon 5 veces a john lennon
Why are there five gun shots?
Last one for you
Love this song!
The gun shots at the end get me every time.
I just don't know what to say except : Love you, Lennon <3
I love the Cranberries, but they definitely used Johnny Marr's guitar riff from The Smiths 1986 song, "Big Mouth Strikes Again." Does anyone else agree/hear it??
it does sound similar...
Really, who doesn't like Lennon? o.O At first, I hated this song. But yeah, unfortunately its quite catchy
me. I hate violence-for reals. not for some phony ass contrive PR bullshit, I really don't condone violence. But man he was a patronizing pos. (I know, I have a parent who emulated him)
IT's amazing how a heroine addicted RICH man with everything money can buy can preach to a bunch of people about non-materialism.
It's amazing that a wife beater can preach to a bunch of people about tolerance.
And it's amazing that a bunch of "tolerant" fans espoused hate towards an outsider ie. Yoko.