Smoking Gun (song)
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| "Smoking Gun" | ||||
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| Single by Robert Cray | ||||
| from the album Strong Persuader | ||||
| B-side | "Fantasized" | |||
| Released | 1986 | |||
| Recorded | 1986 | |||
| Genre | Blues rock | |||
| Length | 4:05 | |||
| Label | Mercury Records | |||
| Songwriters | Robert Cray, Bruce Bromberg, Richard Cousins[1] | |||
| Producers | Dennis Walker, Bruce Bromberg[1] | |||
| Robert Cray singles chronology | ||||
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"Smoking Gun" is a 1986 song by Robert Cray. It reached No. 2 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart and No. 22 on the Billboard Hot 100.[2] In addition, Cray was nominated for the 1987 MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist in a Video for this song.[3]
The lyric 'Smoking Gun' is a reference to strong circumstantial evidence of his lover's infidelity.[1]
Later, the song lyrics flip the meaning to a more literal smoking gun, as evidence of revenge by the betrayed on the betrayer.
The lyrics describe that he doesn't know what he has done, but there are sirens, his heart is racing, and he thinks he should be running, implying a probable revenge murder.