So all in all this is a clever song to say the least. And at the end of the day, the listener is left feeling sympathetic for a dude who apparently doesn’t have the heart to step to a girl he is admiring. So it is quite possible that the band are using a past event, an assassination even, as a loose metaphor for hesitant lovers.īut putting the probable historical aspect aside, this is clearly the case of a guy who wants a girl he likes to kick to him. Indeed putting the gun metaphors to the wayside also, based on the hook it can even be argued that the title is based on his desire for this girl to ‘take him out’, as in take him on a date. Still others (considering that appellation Franz Ferdinand is derived from a prominent politician who was assassinated in the early 20 th century) believe that all the allusions to gunplay featured throughout the song may actually be references to that incident.
And according to Alex Kapranos, the lead singer of Franz Ferdinand, himself, the lyrics allude to the idea of he and the addressee being caught up in a “tense”relationship. Or let’s put it this way – the guy and the girl like each other alright. But neither have the heart – so to speak – to approach the other. So many fans have understood the setting of this song to be something tantamount to a nightclub. And basically, the singer is challenging – or perhaps more specifically wishing for – the addressee to approach him, as in initiate a conversation leading to the prospect of a romantic relationship.
So in the first verse, we can see that the singer states something like his romantic interest has him in “a crosshair”. Indeed he is “just a shot away from” her. And that’s where the various interpretations begin. But in this case, Franz Ferdinand is applying such to a romantic relationship. For instance the title, “take me out”, is based on euphemism for, succinctly put, shooting someone dead. In other words, sometimes when a person is murdered via gunshot, it is common for people to say he’s been ‘taken out’.
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