Growing up in Seattle, at the age of fifteen Jen Wood formed her first band… Read Full Bio ↴Growing up in Seattle, at the age of fifteen Jen Wood formed her first band, Tattle Tale. In the band's first three years together they recorded two full-length records - a self-titled demo (1993) and a now-rare out-of-print disc called Sew True (1995) - and toured the U.S. West Coast.

Jen then set out on her own and recorded her first solo album, No More Wading, followed by Getting Past the Static, Post Marked Stamps No. 6 (a split 7" with Tim Kinsella), the This Uncontainable Light E.P., and her most-recent work, Traveling through Roots. She also appeared in the hit Nothing Better by The Postal Service as a guest vocalist.

Wood's music is heavy in rich acoustic sounds, incredible harmonies, deep lyrics, and soft, calming vocals.

Bullet Box
Jen Wood Lyrics

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I've got a present for you
I've been saving it since i was young
All the things you never knew
All the things you couldn't admit were true
My bullet box
What you find inside
Won't let you get away
My truth will shoot you down today

My bullet box
You built your web
Waiting for me to fall in
& you built your walls
Hoping i wouldn't climb them
I climbed them
My pain feels good
I bet you 50 bucks

I'll shoot you down
Along with all of your luck

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to Jen Wood's song "Bullet Box" describes the singer's experience of holding grudges and storing them in a figurative bullet box, containing all the things she never got to express or reveal to someone who made her uncomfortable. The singer states how they have been nurturing this bullet box since their youth, and it carries everything the recipient couldn't admit or refuse to be true. The metaphoric bullet box is to be used as a weapon to tell the truth to the victim and shoot them down.

The lyrics also reveal the victim's attempts at entrapping or ensnaring the singer by crafting a spider's web, hoping that they would fall in and not be able to escape. However, the singer manages to climb over the walls built around them, which represent the obstacles one encounters, preventing them from confronting their repressed emotions or truths. The singer takes pleasure in extracting pain, and they confidently predict that they will shoot down the victim, along with their luck.

Line by Line Meaning

I've got a present for you
I have something for you

I've been saving it since i was young
I have been holding onto it for a long time

All the things you never knew
Things I haven't told you before

All the things you couldn't admit were true
Things you knew to be true but didn't admit

My bullet box
My arsenal of truth

What you find inside
What I'm about to tell you

Won't let you get away
You can't ignore it

My truth will shoot you down today
My honesty will hurt you

You built your web
You made a trap

Waiting for me to fall in
Hoping I would make a mistake

& you built your walls
You put up barriers