Album: The Blue Mask
Year: 1982
Unlike John Cale’s “Gun,” which starts off loud and only gets crazier, Lou Reed’s similarly-titled-but-not-even-remotely-the-same song “The Gun” slowly tiptoes up behind you like a burglar in a dark alley.
Spare and spooky, “The Gun” is one of the most harrowing songs of Lou Reed’s entire solo career.
Shifting back and forth from the first and third person, Lou not only warns us about the guy carrying the gun, he ends up inhabiting him as well.