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| versions =Big Man With A Gun<br>Big Man With A Gun (''The Downward Spiral'' DE)

| live =[[Self Destruct Tour]], <br>[[Wave Goodbye Tour]]}}'''"Big Man With A Gun"''' is the ninth track on ''[[The Downward Spiral (halo)|The Downward Spiral]]''.

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===Meaning===

In the March 1996 issue of ''Spin Magazine'', [[Trent Reznor]] said the following about this song:

<blockquote>"The record was nearing completion. I had written those lyrics pretty quickly and I didn't know if I was going to use them or not. To me, ''Downward Spiral'' builds to a certain degree of madness, then it changes. That would be the last stage of delirium. So the original point of "Big Man With A Gun" was madness. But it was also making fun of the whole misogynistic gangsta-rap bulls**t. ... I listen to a lot of it, and I enjoy it. But I could do without the degree of misogny and hatred of women and abuse. Then, my song got misinterpreted as exactly that. It was probably a lack of being able to write. I've been taken out of context, and it's ridiculous."</blockquote>

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