"Wave Motion Gun" is a song by Marcy Playground, originally released on their 1999 album Shapeshifter. The title and lyrics of the song refer to a science fiction concept of an extremely powerful weapon (the wave motion gun of Star Blazers anime fame) which, after being fired, requires considerable time to recharge while leaving its user powerless and vulnerable.
In the song, it is as though the "wave motion gun" from Star Blazers is being compared to a syringe of heroin. "...you shoot all your heroin in one big blast from...your wave motion gun..." In seeming protest of this concept, the lyrics recommend the user crawl into an oven where, "...there's a small hole where the gas comes in..." and committ suicide as it will, "...get you there so much faster..."
Imagery of childhood (and poppies) are prevalent in other work by Marcy Playground, such as their self-titled album.
Famous quotes containing the words wave, motion and/or gun:
“Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire,
With your harmonious choir
Encircle her I love and sing her into peace,
That my old care may cease....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“till disproportion’d sin
Jarr’d against natures chime, and with harsh din
Broke the fair musick that all creatures made
To their great Lord, whose love their motion sway’d
In perfect Diapason, whilst they stood
In first obedience, and their state of good.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
““Tall tales” were told of the sociability of the Texans, one even going so far as to picture a member of the Austin colony forcing a stranger at the point of a gun to visit him.”
—Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)