Divine Hammer

I miss The Breeders.

Not about sex. It is Kim Deal (of The Breeders) questioning her religious upbringing. Read more here at Rolling Stone Song Stories: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/song-stories/divine-hammer-the-breeders

This song does not make fun of religion nor is it about a penis. "Kim Deal explored and questioned her religious upbringing through "Hammer." "It's not fair that folk singers preach a happy message and the goodness of living off the land and 'If I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning,'" Deal told Rolling Stone. "That doesn't exist. That's what I'm saying in 'Divine Hammer.' It's mainly about looking for something so hard through your life that people said was there. When I grew up and went to Sunday school, they said it was going to be really great … I believe everything everybody told me. And that's why I'm so pissed off now."

A mix of sexual and religious imagery with unclear but provocative messages on multiple levels.... I think Ms. Deal is in good, and plentiful company in the rock world.

Another from the rock world, Michelangelo (for context's sake), wrote about seeking a (or the) Divine Hammer. He was no doubt seeking it on many, if not the same, levels himself. Sexual, religious, and as the guy who chiseled the David, one that inspired the creative process:

If my rough hammer in hard stones can form

A human semblance, one and then another,

Set moving by the agent who is holder

Watcher and guide, its course is not its own.

But that divine One , staying in Heaven at home,

Gives others beauty, more to itself, self-mover;

If hammers can't be made without a hammer,

From that One living all the others come.

And since a blow will have the greatest force

As at the forge it's lifted up the highest,

This above mine to Heaven has run and flown.

Wherefore with me, unfinished, all is lost,

Unless the divine workshops will assist

In making it; on earth it was alone.

it's making fun of religion.

I remember reading an interview in the NME when Last Splash was released. Kelley said like 95% of Kim's lyrics are about sex. Divine Hammer is an obvious example.

Come on people, are you really gonna believe the story Kim told Rolling Stone? The song was originally called "Ding Dong", what do you THINK it's about? LoL

Specifically Peter, Paul and Mary.

it's actually about a penis.

Yeah, neurotic chick is right. I'm pretty sure this song is about sex. Good song!