| The Offspring – Hammerhead Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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It's about american soldiers, the so-called "peacemakers". The picture is like this: he "closes his eyes" and just starts shooting everywhere, at anyone, whether they armed or not, and whether they're military or not, while the shots "hammer in his head" and "all hell breaks loose". And "you can hide behind your desks", you won't get out alive. And after that there's only "smoke and dust" and "nothing left where a man once stood". The last verse clearly implies that he's in some school. But it's not just some maniac shooting kids, it's american "peacemakers" (several of them, as implied by "voices screaming: let's go!") shooting kids in schools in foreign countries (Iraq, Syria, Libya.............................). And after all that, these monsters still "believe they serve a greater good". |
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| The Offspring – Americana Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I always thought it wasn't stuttering, but some kind of a word like "de-generation" (a mix of "degenerate" and "generation"), which would fit the song's theme quite well. But it seems you're right, it's just "g-generation" after all. |
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| Social Distortion – I Wasn't Born to Follow Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I don't think the song is that straightforward. I think there's a lot of irony in it. My guess is, it is indeed about being young, about thinking you're the coolest thing in the universe, that only you have the right thoughts, and that you're the one that's finally going to "change the world". Almost all of us are going through this when we're young, and I don't think there's a way around it. Then we're "going down". That's when some of us find something that helps them become a person they never thought they'd be. I think the main theme of the song is similar to "I Was Wrong". And I'm sure that those who now think that this song is a "young rebel anthem", in a few years will find it to be kind of satiric. |
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