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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

  • 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

  • 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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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  • 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.

  • 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

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

    good song tho

  • 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"

  • 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?

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

  • reminds me of the game twisted metal

  • 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.

  • 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!!!

  • Dude, nice. But you forgot Zebrahead

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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..

  • 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)

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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

  • "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...

  • SCREW YOU

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

  • You also forgot about the political boneheads in Congress

    Hence the pigs

  • 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

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  • 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

  • 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.

  • Yeah thats what I thought.

  • 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.

  • yeahh but it still cool..right?

    i like the beggining

  • Fantastic!!!!!!

    5/5

  • 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

  • so... its about soldiers fighting for oil, they have metallicas master of puppets in there for a second, and the ****ing dum kids are playing catch with a nuclear bomb. o, and random pig face ftw

  • Madden 09 song!!! DUUUDEEE! KICK ASS!!!!

  • This isn't an anti-war song. Pay attention to the last few lyrics to get what it's really about.

  • ...whats it really about?

  • Its a soldiers point of view song!

  • well thats wt i thoight, but bigfatpowerbar seems to think its about something else...

    which it isnt, so hes an idiot.

  • >_> everyones an idiot on youtube sometimes XD and yea i do think it is about war :P

  • This song has a Bad Religion feel to it, imo. I like it.

  • nah i dont think this is their best i think kids arent alright and youre gonna go far kid is better

  • What a great anti-war song.

  • oh no... its a bad trip

  • i thinnk that this is there best song who agrees??  you yes?

  • no it's not the best by a long shot. Check out "Out on patrol"

  • I don't think they have a best song, all their albums are incredible start to finish

  • I think their best song is The kids aren't alright. It has a very difficult intro and you have to admire Noodles for that.

  • Nope

    You're Gonna Go Far, Kid

  • can't believe that the worst track on the album got a musicvideo... the rest of the album is amazing tho

  • this is one of there best songs

  • wuts up with the dang pig pics in random places?

  • isn't it a plagiary of Tomasz Baginski's video - "Fallen Art"?

  • yes it is.

  • these guys are possibly the best band to exist in the past 15 years

  • Its close, but still in a different key, different notes. you also got to remember that its sometimes hard to come up with your own riffs because most of them have been used.

  • Anyone notice that one of the guitar riffs sounds almost identical to that of Motorhead's Ace of SPades?

  • AHHH!

    i luv this song!

    =]

  • whats up with these new video they come out with? these videos suck. are they putting any money into these things. good song though.

  • Saw these guys last JULY in Denver!!

    It was fucking awsome!!

  • love the song.

    don't really understand the video, though.

    can anyone explain it?

  • Note the soldiers climbing to the top of a column of SUV's, only to be thrown onto a pile of corpses, Doves shaped like F-117 Night Hawk bombers, newsman talking to a politician in a dunce cap, children playing catch with an atomic bomb, and the name 'hammerhead' for the song, implying he is a tool. All are allusions critical of having blind faith in the military-industrial complex: they're saying don't trust the men that are more than willing to make war an aspect of every part of life.

    more?

  • oh, my bad, that's only half the message. check the wikipedia entry, seems legitimate.

  • Very Good explination!!

    The goverement is full of shit!!

  • their also the only reason your not standing in a bread line with soldiers handing out your daily amounts of water