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  • @thewairrior I totally agree with you.

  • Through my listening of this song, I can see where it could be considered as being taken from the perspective of war AND of school shootings as the lyrics are vague enough to where it'll apply to both. There's no right or wrong answer to the question of "is it about war or school shootings?"; it's more a combination of the two.

  • the argument over if this music video is about war, or a school shooting. there are very obvious references to war (the bird that's a stealth fighter, the general, the soldiers and the bombs, not to mention the lyrics) and how it affects the youth(the baby being mishandled and pumped full of oil,the oil being a metaphor for greed, violence and war) I think its pretty obvious that the song is drawing connections to war and the violence of our youth(school shootings being an example of that).

  • It's from the perspective of someone during a school shooting, stop asking

  • why is everyone so bent on knowing wat the song is about? its fucking music that you listen to and enjoy... if you really care about its meaning then wikipedia it

  • weak lyrics, music still sounds the same as it did on their first album, two thumbs down

  • fuck u dude best song on the album

  • Its about how countrys threaten each other with nukes yet more people die of AK-47's in a day than an atom bomb does in a second! The AK-47 is the real weapon of mass destruction!

  • @Shotgun751 You do realize that the AK-47 has been MASSIVELY replaced by the AKM and AK74, right? The AK-47 is a piece of shit.

  • five freaking stars.*****

  • i like the song but the video makes no sense

  • This is crazy, i liked it a lot. Awesome, random and cool.

  • Wdf he killed the baby

  • It looks like the occasional nightmare you have, who agrees with me?

  • HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH yeah not that funny man

  • pretty weird symbolic video

  • am i the only one who knows what this song means i thought it was really easy its about the cold war or just war in general

    "and you can all hide behind your desks now." and you can cry teacher come help me."as pretection against a neuclear threat students would hide under their desks (which would have done nothing if faced with a real nuke) this is also shown in the music video with the b2ish looking bombers and the 2 people tossing a nuke back and forth (russia and usa)

    pigs=corprate swine

  • ccording to singer/guitarist Dexter Holland, the lyrics are from the perspective of a gunman in a school shooting.[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 lyrics describe a gunman who believes that everything he does is for the greater good - "take a life that others may live".

  • dude u r not the only one who knows what the song means i new what it ment i no what all the offspring songs mean tell me an offspring song and i will tell u what it means

  • by the way this song isnt about high school shootings, teacher can mean anything, like his teacher at war or teacher is another word for master or ect. or someone other than that of a person at school. this song has more to do with war than anything else

  • i thought this song went kick ass with call of duty

  • first time I saw this I thought it was a fake video

  • this video makes no sense, but the song is pretty catchy though.

  • Wierd..But Awesome!!

  • awsome song!!!!!!!!

  • LOL i thought this was a video game when i first saw it :P i <3 offspring!

  • the evil pigs creep me the fuck out.

  • song is good but,,, what is the overall message of the song.

  • The song is about a school shooting and is sung through the eyes of the shooter. The music video has nothing to do with the song.

  • yea they say u cant behind ur desk, and cry for ur teacher now

    but it has ABSOULTEY NOTHING TO DO WITH A SCHOOL SHOOTING

    I keep my ppl from harm? i think i have proved my point

    radios wouldnt play this song if it was

  • yea it is a school shooting, he thinks he is doing it for the greater good

  • The song can be viewed as a comparison to war, but it's about high school shootings. Listen to the last few lines of the song

  • haha 'infantry'

    clever

  • This vid is either about war wasting soilders and misleeding freedom and making people waste money or the the offspring were fucking high. XD

  • or...both?lol

  • omg this is the wierdest music video ever but its so awesome the best ever the offspring=best band ever

  • I LOVE THE OFFSPRING...the best band in the world

  • nice wait, no awsome song!!!!!

  • this is way different from anything the offspring has done

  • I think it is about a school shooting my reason.

    "According to singer/guitarist Dexter Holland, the lyrics are from the perspective of a gunman in a school shooting."

    I am going to agree with the singer.

  • Its about soldiers shooting up a school.... Which has been done before (Iraq).. But he's just doin what hes told

  • shoot the kids at school

    all in a bloody pool

    i'll get the teachers too

    cuz they can't tell me what to do!

    bad religion already this song at least 12 other times.

  • "I am the one, camouflage and guns Risk my life to keep my people from harm Authority vested in me, I sacrifice with my brothers in arms" "I'll take a life that others may live Oh, it's just the way it goes I'll shut my eyes, it hammers in my head, Where it'll end nobody knows" "Stay the course, reasonable force I believe I serve a greater good" The song pretty much sums up a soldiers point of view about a war. The End sounds like a school shooting though.
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  • im sure ive heard this song in a video game, i forgot what game tho.

    love this song tho!

  • that is a seriously fucked up video

  • im pretty sure its about a school shooting because of the last few lines but idk the music video and chorus makes it sound like war

  • Its about the military the war how you get all the things the military wants you to do and its drilled in his head. How it affects your mind,

  • It's about the infantry, kicking down doors and stuff. Great song, I'm an 11 bang-bang myself. It effects your mind at times, but like the song goes "I'll take a life, 10 others may live"

  • umm it sounds like its about the whole soldier/war thing.. but i read on another video that this song is about school shootings

  • I understand the song, if you listen to the lyrics, it's plain to see the song's about soldiers just doing what they were told. It's about the atrocities and hypocrisies of war. I can't figure out the video, it's complex. Although at 2:29 you can see world leaders portrayed as animals. If you break down the video, it applies to the song rather well. The soldiers being disposed like garbage, the Stealth fighter birds representing misleading freedom.

  • awesome song = weird video

  • idk if i liek the vid or not

  • is this song about the school shoting or the war? or is about both?

  • this is an odd video...

  • ya i like da song but im sorry i think the video totally ruined for me man.........

    good song tho

  • symbolism for how thier training our kids to die for a crazy leader

  • reminds me of the game twisted metal

  • OFFSPRING IS THE BOMB!!! I BEN LISTENING TO THEM ALL MY LIFE!!!! but this video is uhhh.... how can i say it.... very very disturbing

  • The video is misleading. The song is about a school shooter.

  • What? No. It's clearly about war. Just listen to the chorus. "I'll take your life so others may live." That's a soldier, dude.

  • I'm pretty sure the lyrics are "I'll take a life, That others may live. Oh, that's just the way it goes, I'll shut my eyes, It hammers in my head."

  • Actually, I think it is quite nice that someone has been able to take Dick Cheney's nightmares and put them on film. I used to worry that he actually slept after what he has done...now I know.

  • LOL THAT'S HILARIOUS!!!

  • notice how the offspring do not appear in this video or the gonna go far kid video?

  • Freaking war machine...when will it end?

  • madden 09

  • I always thought this song was about a soldier or something before I looked up the lyrics. It's a really powerful song.

  • Dude, nice. But you forgot Zebrahead

  • dont get the meanin of this song

  • its a song with mixed meanings

    and at the end its revealed to be about

    a school shooter like virginia tech or something

  • By far my fav Offspring Song

  • ronaldo...

  • this song sounds like ace of spades......

  • and wow. for that big of an offspring fan(offspringrules) you prtty much suck. offspring is not punk.........ever herd of ADULT ALTERNATAVE!?!?!?!?!?!?!

  • they are considered punk by many and considered alternative rock by many...

  • wiki takes collage sci, bio,his and everything els teachers and lets them check it before they post it. look that up jakebob

  • good disc.

  • i love it

  • God I love this band. I really like their videos. Whoever they have making these they need to have them make all of their vidoes. I love their style.

  • i love the offspring its awssome!!!!!! and if u really wanna hear some good offspring shit (sarcasim) go to gonna go far kid

  • ya rock on man gonna go far kid was bst song by offspring i heard so far and wat got me to liking em

  • you dont like that song? the whole album was damn good.

  • Ya, punk bands are notoriously pro-military, snicker.

  • lolz spammed.Nobody cares what you have to say

  • awsome Demon Hunter actually got a mention

  • Ya, and our 5000lbs bombs only hit 'evil doers' right? When you burst thru a door at 3am you probably don't check to see whether someone had actually done anything wrong either. If they don't drop down or freak out, they get taken out.

  • Yeah and 2 planes loaded with innocent people only took out the enemies of Islam?

  • Awesome, makes you think why we glorify soldiers so much and villify a school shooter so much. One is killing innocent people on command, the other is lashing out against people who picked on them. Just a different way of thinking about societal norms..

  • what!? innocent people!? yea you know everybody who kills thousands of people because of where they live and behead protectors of america are misunderstood

  • this song is awsome its on my favorites and i made my friends put it on theres to.and this video is scary (not).

  • good job, ilikefirealot666 :D

  • i love this song so much <3 i was sent to the office one time becuase i was listening to it when we were supposd to be doing research lololol

  • it was worth it, wasn't it? haha

  • funny that when the first time i tryed to view it, it told me it wasnt available in my country

  • lol same here

  • I get the video finally. The General and the old man work for the government. They are showing how they can throw human lives away just trying to get money for themselves. The dogs, they represent how we can find peace in harmful things that arent man made, as with the birds.

  • actually the video dosent really match the song because the song is about school shootings

  • DId you listen to the lyrics? It's about modern war. "camoflauge and guns, risk my life to keep my people from harm." The school part is about soldiers killing innocents (including children)

  • Dude, dexter qouted himself that the song may remind you of a soilder in Iraq but its true meaning is abiut a gunman going into a school and killing th people in there

  • It's about both. The lyrics "And you can all hide behind your desk now, and you can cry teacher come help me", that sounds like it's about school shootings, not just modern war.

  • or perhaps a comparison between modern war and school shootings.

  • n ot according to wikipedia.

  • wikipedia is writen by idiots so you cant trust is

  • I'll admit some pages are less than accurate, but for the most part, that's not true. Especially when sources are cited.

  • kollegah ist der beste!

  • Pretty good song but i dont get the point of the video.

  • neither do i

  • its prob not the real video since the "ign" logo is in the bottom left hand corrner lol

  • Those are dogs idoits Not Gay Horses Assholez =/

  • there doesn't have to be only ONE meaning to a song guys- school shootings could have something to do with it,

    so don't b so harsh lalalalalalala :]

  • "I'm a music video critique genius, and as you can obviously tell, with the Marines and government with dunce hats and looking like pigs, this is about how our government is controlling our soldiers into doing suicidal missions because they have no choice but to obey their commanding officers. It is also about how robot horses are fucking cool."

    NO. This song is about a gunman in a school shooting. Do your goddamn research people...

  • i love this song soo much- its a ritual to listen to it every morning lol

  • i know i do the same thing this song is awsome!!!!!! its my favorite song by the offspring lol

  • SCREW YOU

  • ive always liked these music videos the offspring makes. the one for "hit that" was weird, though

  • but what i dont understand he says camoflauge and guns straight up military though

  • recruits aren't idiots but i do agree that congress is full of boneheads

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  • look this is about military what they meen by the men dying is that once a man dies another idiot recruit joins..and yes it is also about school shootings

  • the songs is from the perspective of a gunman in a school shooting who is affected tby some huge force that deludes his mind to make him believe that he is killing for the greater good

  • You also forgot about the political boneheads in Congress

    Hence the pigs

  • yea I did

  • this song fits to what this kid did at school in germany

  • I think he's trying to show how everyone thinks soldiers knocking down doors and mowing people down is treated like is some 'Godly' mission. It doesn't matter if they did anything or wrong or not, they are just ordered to blow away whoever. Meanwhile some kid who is treated like dirt by his fellow students and opens up on them is portrayed as the ultimate evil.

  • i like the song

    and the concept of the video is a good one

    but the video quality it self is shit on a stick

  • the lead singer said in an interview it was about a school shooting

  • Actually, it MAKES you think its about the military, but listen to the last line, its actually about school shootings!!! Well, thats what I read anyway...

  • Who gives a fuck what its about?

    Its a good song, so listen to it!

  • sometimes if songs have true meanings it makes them better. you cant have a song without a meaning to it.

  • no, you definitely can have one

  • I think this song ties in with the name of the band "Offspring". They zoom on the tags on the soldier. He ahs 2 tags; one says the "Offspring" and the other is Infantry ("Infant"ry) Infant is in the word suggesting that kids always pay the most with the coming of war. From 3:00 on, there are always kids working in the place of adults (Tossing nukes and making caskets for the dead soldiers)

  • it looks to be a probaganda on the milray. how they just go thrught ppl so they can gfight and when they die, they just new ppl ready to replace them rite away

  • The Song is amazing and the video too

    but I don't understand it !!!

  • ermm.. dont like the video.. But the group is awsome, Offspring ftw.

  • fuck who ever doesnt like this video

  • wow u ppl r dumb it IS about a skool shooting it says in the lyrics you can all hide behind your desks and cry teacher help me it says that in the lyrics and look it up on google that is what i means

  • It's called a metaphor retard.

  • not as good as "you're gonna go far kid"

  • yeahh but it still cool..right?

    i like the beggining

  • I LOVE this song!!!!!! XD

  • Fantastic!!!!!!

    5/5

  • Sounds like a soldier with PTSD to me.

  • Yeah thats what I thought.

  • No, no and no! This is about FIGHTING THE DEVIL, and the end of the world. No iraq! No school-shootings! Dexter is over there in Hawaii trippin out writing this stuff but he can see the war of environmental degradation, greed over profiteering, and how when annilihation arrives-people bury their heads in the sand and hide behind desks, when there exists a "teacher" who is there to help them survive! This video is so obscure about its' intentions that it becomes perfectly clear in hindsight!

  • i think its just a really good song XP

  • who cares what its about its an awesome song

  • im pretty sure its about school shootings, especially the last bit, and like how the world and humanity looks like through the deranged kids minds, and how they view themselves as sort of soldiers, i guess.

  • its about the war in iraq how were wasting fine young men over there

  • no its about school shootings

  • its about a school shooting, and the "singer" of the song isnt dying. they're killing so others may live. so if it WAS bout the war, t's not bashing it or supporting it, just saying "im just doing what i'm told."

  • ya thats wat it is about

  • thats pretty cool how the make the F117's act as birds. lol

  • Yeah...its about school shootings. Just kinda depicts how the messed up kids may see it in their heads. That they are doing good, and think they are soldiers. The last stanza makes it somewhat obvious

  • stanza? Its a song...

  • Lol yeah...thanks for pointin it out .. :-P Is what happens when i mix english work witth procrastination on here. *The last verse*

  • haha : ) sorry for being critical

  • Great song 5/5 But a weird ass video

  • hahaha this is a weird video, but you gotta love the offspring

  • this man gets wet with out jumpin in water if anyone knows what im talkin about comment back hahha

  • its a good war song

  • Intertesing

    Love the song

  • "take a life so that others may live" its about war lol

  • best song of the album

  • they said it was about a school shooting. i think they lied and distored the last part of the song... just to avoid criticism