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The lyrics begin with three white pigeons on the roof, keeping the speaker awake and annoying him. Their cooing is mimicked by the repeated “guru” sounds. The mood shifts from irritation to violence when the speaker introduces a gun and says the birds will make no more noise. By the end, the pigeons are dead, and the speaker says he does not miss them.

The pigeons are both literal birds and a source of comic exaggeration: they “make” the speaker weak and cover him in droppings. The gun is a blunt, shocking answer to a small nuisance. The line meaning “peace over all the rooftops” echoes a calm, poetic image, but here it follows the birds’ deaths, making that calm feel darkly ironic.

The song can be read as absurd black humor, using childish repetition and a simple rhyme alongside sudden cruelty. The speaker’s claim that he does not miss the pigeons may be sincere, or it may underline how casually he treats what he has done. The lyrics do not explain why he reacts so extremely, and that lack of explanation is part of their unsettling comic effect.