Hammerhead lyrics

Dec 15th 2011 9:57 pm

This song is about a school shooting.

Its about a guy who's delusional, and imagines himself as a soldier saving others by killing students. "bang bang it hammers in my head. "

Hell look at the last lines "you can all hide behind your desks, and you can cry teacher come and help me! "

Dec 4th 2011 4:09 am

This song is about the military. That is fairly obvious to any one who cares to listen. If you take the line "bang, bang, it hammers in my head! " something is repeating inside of his head. The few lines before this it seems justified to take the life of another so 10 more can live. This asks the question, is it right to kill regardless of the situation? This brings to light, what the military is doing in any given war.

JASP01 · Jul 7th 2010 10:35 pm

Ok... They said themselves that this is about a classroom shooting. Like previously stated so perfectly, it's about the fact that soldiers are trained to kill, and they have trouble adapting back to "normal" life. So, it turns out, they end up becoming school-shooters. Kind of sad, actually.

mysteryknight · Apr 25th 2010 7:12 pm

I love this song! And of course the band! I also kind of noticed that most of their songs are about like the marines, government, and so forth

JROTCcadet · Mar 12th 2010 7:06 pm

I think he is saying the american army is corrupt in the sense that we brain wash our army to make them believe that what they are doing is ethical and there is nothing wrong with what they are doing for example the lyric "stay the course reasonable force i believe i serve the great the good. Enemies are crushed nothing left where a man once stood" and "voices screaming lets go im just doing what im told" and the video furthers my point that if you dont do what your told your dead.

dmusicman · Feb 9th 2010 11:28 pm

This song is baasically aabout a soldier on te front line what motavates him to fight for his greater good

Ceaston87 · Mar 24th 2009 3:55 am

It is clearly about the us marine corps infantry oohrah!!

Suicide · Jan 9th 2009 11:36 am

I think hes singing about being a mercanary or he's on the front lines in the us army.

keithhenley · Jan 5th 2009 4:26 pm

How can this song be about school shootings... "camo, risk my life, serve the greater good, take a life so others may live"? I dont see how thats anywhere close... In my opinion i agree with what otiz lantz said bout the desk and teacher lines. When i hear those lines i think of all my friends who stayed at home goin to college while i joined the us army to serve as no doubt a infantryman... This song is clearly about soldiers and the offsprings earned like a million f in cool points for making it

axel123 · Oct 20th 2008 4:44 pm

You are all entitled to your own interpretations, but the song is actually about school shootings and not the military. Read this article:

According to singer/guitarist dexter holland, the song is about school shootings. [4] this is supported by the closing lyrics "and you can all hide behind your desks now/and you can cry teacher come help me". Lead guitarist kevin 'noodles' wasserman elaborated on this, stating that the initial lyrics are from the perspective of a soldier who believes that everything he does is for the greater good - "take a life that others may live". He is affected by a huge force (hammerhead - "it hammers in my head") in his mind that makes him deluded. [5] the true nature of the song - that the narrator is actually a school shooter - is only revealed towards the end.

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