We Both Reached for the Gun versuri

Versuri Chicago – We Both Reached for the Gun lyrics

[Reporters / Billy as Roxie]
Where’d you come from? / Mississippi
And your parents? / Very wealthy.
Where are they now? / Six feet under.

Billy: But she was granted one more start
Billy (as Roxie): The convent of the sacred heart!

[Reporters / Billy as Roxie]
When’d you get there? / 1920
How old were you? / Don’t remember
Then what happened? / I met Amos and he stole my heart away, convinced me to elope one day

Mary Sunshine: A convent girl! A run-away marriage! Oh, it’s too terrible. You poor, poor dear.

[Reporters / Billy as Roxie]
Who’s Fred Casely? / My ex-boyfriend.
Why’d you shoot him? / I was leavin’.
Was he angry? / Like a madman! Still I said, „Fred, move along.”

Billy: She knew that she was doin’ wrong
[Reporters / Billy as Roxie]
Then describe it / He came toward me.
With a pistol? / From my bureau
Did you fight him? / Like a tiger

Billy: He had strength and she had none
Billy (as Roxie): And yet we both reached for the gun

[Billy & Reporters]
Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes they both reached for the gun
The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun
Oh yes, they both reached for the gun, for the gun.

[Billy]
Understandable, understandable.
Yes, it’s perfectly understandable.
Comprehensible, comprehensible.
Not a bit reprehensible. It’s so defensible!

[Reporters / Billy as Roxie]
How you’re feeling? / Very frightened
Are you sorry? / (Roxie): Are you kidding?
What’s your statement? / All I’d say is though my choo-choo jumped my track, I’d give my life to bring him back

[Reporters / Billy as Roxie]
And? / Stay away from
What? / Jazz and liquor
And? / And the man who
What? / Play for fun
And what? / That’s the thought that
Yeah! / Came upon me
When? / When we both reached for the gun!

[Billy & Mary Sunshine]
Understandable, understandable
Yes, it’s perfectly understandable.
Comprehensible, comprehensible.
Not a bit reprehensible. It’s so defensible!

[Billy / Reporters]
Let me hear it! / Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes they both…
A little louder! / Oh yes, they both reached for the gun…
Now you got it! / The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun!

[All]
Oh yes, they both reached for the gun.
Both reached for the… gun!