Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow) Lyrics

Lyric discussion by london_corgi_love 

Cover art for Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow) lyrics by Birthday Party, The

I think this is about a one-sided relationship where the singer is deeply in love with the hamlet character and wishes that hamlet loves him back but it's just not so. Hamlet is the kind of person that steals and hurts the other and just doesn't care. Though i've never read hamlet, i just know the plot, I think nick was trying to say that the hamlet character in the relationship has some problems, perhaps family problems which makes him incapable of a real relationship, which is where the frustration of the singer comes from.