"Machine Gun", sebuah lagu yang dibawakan oleh band pop-punk Sum 41, melukiskan perjuangan melawan kebiasaan buruk dan dampak negatifnya pada kehidupan seseorang. Paragraf pembuka dari bagian lirik lagu ini memperkenalkan narator yang terbangun dalam keadaan linglung di rumah orang lain, kepalanya berdebar akibat malam yang berlebihan. Saat matahari menyengat seperti pukulan dan bau napas mabuk mengganggunya, narator merenungkan pola hidupnya yang merusak, mengakui bahwa ia tidak dapat lagi mempertahankan perilaku yang sembrono ini.
Machine Gun Lyrics
Sum 41
Well I'm up and I don't know why,
But I guess that's all that counts.
Looking 'round as I'm holding my head,
and I'm in somebody's house.
The sun it hits me like a punch in the face
with a headache I can't ignore.
Seems almost every weekend my bed is someone's floor.
I can't keep this up.
I have had enough.
Eating cold pizza on the side of the curb
to cover up my morning breath of gin.
Something doesn't seem to sit with me right
it' going out the way it went in.
I can't keep this up.
I have had enough.
You can count me out, I'm on to you.
You can count me out, I'm tired of
Leaving my embarrassments behind.
But I guess that's all that counts.
Looking 'round as I'm holding my head,
and I'm in somebody's house.
The sun it hits me like a punch in the face
with a headache I can't ignore.
Seems almost every weekend my bed is someone's floor.
I can't keep this up.
I have had enough.
Eating cold pizza on the side of the curb
to cover up my morning breath of gin.
Something doesn't seem to sit with me right
it' going out the way it went in.
I can't keep this up.
I have had enough.
You can count me out, I'm on to you.
You can count me out, I'm tired of
Leaving my embarrassments behind.
