Pistol

“Pistol“ is a melancholic song about processing a breakup. In the lyrics, the singer Greg Gonzalez recalls the nice moments he spent with his ex and pictures this poetic image of him in the desert, shooting at the sky with his pistol, thinking of how much he misses her.

The song’s beginning shows the imaginary situation as the starting point of the introspection path.

The singer is fully aware that his feelings can only be accepted and experienced with their whole energy, but there is nothing he can do about them. He misses her, but she decided to stop the relationship. The lyrics go through the symbols of the lovely part of the past relationship: the pictures hung in the bedroom are now in a drawer, showing her full intentions to move on.

The singer misses her so much that he hopes he can have one last chance to kiss her, believing it could make her come back.

They are all familiar feelings of a breakup. Sadness is how our psyche gives meaning to what we have (or had) in life, and you can’t escape it. You often only need to let time pass by and wait patiently until acceptance becomes easier to adopt. Meanwhile, expressing sadness is a perfect way to accelerate the processing time, and that’s what Cigarettes After Sex are doing with this song.