Sent in by: Kain
I think this song is about how fast, cheap, and crappy the modern world is, and how the new generation doesn't give a shit, we just want more stuff for ourselves.

Sent in by: OffspringGuy
It's about the greed of the younger generation. The song is from the perspective of someone who wants the world to revolve around him, for society to be built arpound him, and to have his own dream civilization. Later on in the song, when it says 'my nightmare has come true' he has become a victim of his own greed, being to careless to think of the concequences behind it. It also has a strong 'be careful what you wish for' message.

Sent in by: Bob
This song is about how fucking pissed of you get when your driving and the asshole in front of you goes so fucking slow that you want to get out of your car, run up to theirs and just punch them right in the fucking head and you could because they are going that slow.
My favorite song by the Offspring is NO HERO!!!
Nibb High Football rules!!!

Sent in by: OffspringGuy
It's proof that a lot of people become pinheads who get mad at the slightest things behind the wheel, except that this is on a more extreme scale.

Sent in by: Brian K
I don't think The Offspring chop peoples heads off, but they sure do get pissed off sometimes! I think the song is really about getting pissed off but instead of writing a song about being mad they wrote about what they would like to do to that person. It could also be about that people don't really know Dexter and for all they know he could chop off peoples heads in his spare time. (But it could also mean nothing at all? )

Sent in by: ql_3@hotmail.com
Dexter had a good melody, but he couldnt make a good text to it. then James Lilja came over and they wrote the song together. ithe whole song is just a big joke, but it still rocks!!! dexter said this in some interwiev or whatever. there you go.

Sent in by: H0llnd2@aol.com
I think he's tring to say "I HAD ENOUGH!"

Sent in by: Debalene
I believe that change the world has to do with environmentalist and them wanting to change the world and it being a selfish act on their part they only want people to be doing things they want because of the way it gives them power.

Sent in by: Tym Perilance
This song is about the guitarist of Bad Religion cuz he was an asshole to the band (Bad Religion still rules, albeit not at the same level as Offspring)

Sent in by: Nach0KinG
About high school "cliques". Sick of cheerleaders and all that crap. Very hostile. Won't change as he feels hating people is the way he is.

Sent in by: Suzy
(Also meant for "Don't Pick it Up) Don't take these songs seriously - I think they're meant as a piss-take. e.g.. cool to hate takes the rip out of the " I hate the world " generation.

Sent in by: Mel
I think that it is not sarcastic. I think that he hates a lot of thinks and he doesn't want to change. He thinks its cool to hate them.

Sent in by: Anonymous
This is a song about a puzzling relationship with a girl who plays weird games, maybe suicidal (razor blades).

Sent in by: Sean
He's really in love with his girlfriend, but she does crack (pull the shades, razor blades). This causers her to do cruel and wired things. And deep down he knows she doesn't really love him.

Sent in by: Emily Holland
It's about a guy that is in love with his girlfriend, but doesn't like what she does (hate you so, love you more) she's probably suicidal (pull the shades, razorblades) He knows that she isn't a good person but he loves her anyhow.

Sent in by: Adam V.
This song is about deception. It is saying that some things (or people, for that matter) aren't what they seem, and people don't catch it until it's too late because they assumed it was something else.

Sent in by: krusader
Listen to the music. It becomes pretty clear that this song is written as a bit of comedy, but at the same time warns us not to jump into things before checking them out first.

Sent in by: Anonymous
This song is about a guy leaving a party drunk off his ass, drinking and driving, and having high-speed races with other drivers, outrunning cops, smashing into a semi-truck, and stuff like that.

Sent in by: julian.gil-chang@bbs.hkis.edu.hk I suppose that when they were kids, their elders made them think that once they were 18, they would know all the secrets to life. When they puzzling age of young adults come, they must've felt deceived and frustrated. So, blame our fucking parents!

Sent in by: Kaat Verellen, 14 years, Belgium
I think this song is about growing up and you don't want to do all the things your parents want you to do. You want to start your own life, but they won't let you.

Sent in by: Anonymous
This is a very deep song that has some really deep meaning. Somebody should analyze it better. Sent in by: julian.gil-chang@bbs.hkis.edu.hk
If you've noticed, the lyrics are absolutely contradictory. "I try to speak aloud to hear what people have to say." "If we destroy each other we might say a life or two." Almost all the lyrics are ironic. I think it means that in life, nothing is what it seems, most things don't make sense, and that sometimes, the natural chain fucked up.

Sent in by: offsprng28
This is about relationships that all go bad cuz of one person and that work out but the girl does not see it.

Sent in by: Sammo (aka dj cannibal)
We cant handle the responsibility of keeping peace among ourselves therefore we are destroying ourselves and ending our lives because of the intensity of life.

Sent in by: julian.gil-chang@bbs.hkis.edu.hk
I'm not sure if his girlfriend (or whoever) died, but if it was his girlfriend, she must've ditched him really bad.

Sent in by: offspringluver
This song is about Dexter's daughter's mother, who was killed, and he wished he could trade places with her, because she didn't deserve to die. And its about how the world is cold and empty with out her, and how she is so far away.

Sent in by: Ghostryder
I heard this song was written about one of their wives (or girlfriends, cant remember which) who got shot. It was written right after that. Its about them seeming so far away now that there gone, and life seeming meaningless without them.

Sent in by: Death Knight
How COLD became the world WITHOUT HER

Sent in by: julian.gil-chang@bbs.hkis.edu.hk
He was a strong internal conflict, and he probably is having some drug problem and is battling with himself. He doesn't know what to do, and everything is down for him. His life is miserable and he just wants to get out.

Sent in by: OffspringGuy
This about a guy who is overly paranoid, and can't take it anymore. he wants to get away from himself, so he can put an end to his constant fear.

Sent in by: Brian K This song is about how you are surrounded by people, but these people will do nothing to help you. Since nobody wants to help or do anything it ruins the way we live with each other. Dexter likes to think the world is a better place, but realizes that since other people are only looking out for themselves (metaphor for crime), that "the truth about the world is that crime does pay". (BRILLIANT SONG)

Sent in by: Anonymous
This song is about heroin, and has an anti-heroin message.

Sent in by: krackheadm@hotmail.com
It is about suicide, but also it is about choosing how you are going to live life. "This is life what a fucked up thing we do, or a playground if we choose." meaning life can be a playground if you don't care what happens to you.

Sent in by: DANomar5 or SgtScruple
I think this song is about how people are always depressed, but most of the time they are only trapped in their own mind. "Life what a fucked up thing we do, what a nightmare that comes true, and a playground if we choose and I choose." Some people bitch and whine about all there problems when it is them who are holding themselves back from healing.
Sent in by: julian.gil-chang@bbs.hkis.edu.hk
Everything leads to something else, but no matter how shitty the outcome, it can always be gratifying that one has taken responsibility for his own actions and won't blame shit on others. It's an anarchic message saying, "I'm an empowered individual, it's MY CHOICE, I CHOOSE!" And obviously he's falling off the cliff and his life is flashing before him, and everything in his life has been his and only his decision. He doesn't repent from falling off the cliff: he says something about the nice view falling down.

Sent in by: Anonymous
Intermission is a cool transitional song that separates the tracks on Ixnay on the Hombre. It lets the first half of the album sink in, but doesn't completely prepare you for the next song, with it's startling "YA YA YA YA YA!!"

Sent in by: Anonymous
I think this song is really sad because it shows of how the children of today are getting raped and thrown in a gutter and no one notices "just another rape victim" police and the paper say. I myself am displeased because of the girl Jennifer being from the town I live in. The truthness of the lyrics depresses me.

Sent in by: Butterfly_collector
According to Dexter himself:
"Jennifer was a 6-yr.-old from Fresno who was burned, raped, and murdered. Her death was mentioned in the newspaper. Pheobe was 8 and from Santa Ana who was strangled to death and left in a dry river bed. Miss 1565 was a little girl who died in a circus tent fire near Atlanta. No one claimed her, so she was buried under the coroner's number, 1565."

Sent in by: Luke
Even though "Americana" was released before the shootings in Colorado, "The Kids Aren't Alright" makes a good point about teens in America. The story in this song is just like what's happening now. They might have had some of the school shootings from the past few years in mind when they wrote it. The point it, the teens are all suffering from their own demons, from many sources. Think about the Colorado killers: Those kids weren't alright.

Sent in by: Anonymous
This song is about how the world has become so obsessed with politics that they care more about making phony promises and getting power that they create more problems, not solve them.

Sent in by: Chris
I think LAPD is about a bunch of black ass hating pigs that run around and bash the piss out of people that have hardly done anything wrong.

Sent in by: Anonymous
This is a song about a guy and his girlfriend getting it on.

Sent in by: Anonymous:
This is a song Dexter wrote about himself and his wife Kristine.

Sent in by: Iris
one of my favorite songs. Dexter (the most perfect human being on earth) is saying that they're happy and in love and don't give a flying fuck about what anyone else thinks

Sent in by) Noodles Holland
I think this song is about how like everyone is getting pushed around and how you can't live you're own life, and how it sux! this is one outta many of their songs I can relate to!

Sent in by: r_shooper@hotmail.com
It's about how when you get into cannabis you get into a routine and you can't get out of it.

Sent in by: Bouska@feist.com
I think no hero is about those people who haven't found their true selves and end their own lives and their deaths are blamed on the people around them. its about having enough trouble trying to find your self let alone trying to help somebody else! the offspring kicks so much ass they helped me find my self and get into other kick ass bands like NOFX and millencolin.

Sent in by: offspringluver
This song is about Dexter's friend Johnny, who committed suicide and he feels responsible, because he thinks he could have done more to stop it. He says Johnny was a weirdo, so what did you expect, I aint no fuckin hero, im just trying to survive myself...so he feels really bad...

Sent in by: Kevin (DARBY CRASH) Snyder
I think this song is saying that the generations before us screwed up our lives and we get all the blame for the world being so fucked up right now even though it wasn't our fault, and despite that we will end up fucking up like so many have before us. (this is me talking, not Kevin. I'd just like to say that that is one long-ass sentence.)

Sent in by: OffspringGuy
I think it's about taxes, cuz ya have ta pay the guy in charge of em'. Took me a while to figure that one out.....

Sent in by: hoho
This is the story of a guy who is just trying to be cool.

Sent in by: smurfgoddess
I think it's about a guy who thinks he's all that and tries to impress all the girls. He's a white guy in a black neighborhood trying to show off. It's like he's actually acting stupid.

Sent in by: Heather
I think this is about the people who claim to be Offspring fans but don't know shit about them, their music or even the genre.

Sent in by: Ghostryder
I think Its about a guy that's trying to hard to be cool. To fit in. I have a friend just like this. got his eyebrow pierced and everything, just to look tougher than he really is.

Sent in by: spesel P
this song is about a dude who tries to hard and everyone thinks that he is a loser

Sent in by: crap
It's about some guy who has it all fashion wise but really doesn't have a clue.

Sent in by: James
This is about just living life as it is, not caring what other people think, or do. This isn't to say you can't care about other people, you just can't let them run you life.

Sent in by: DANomar5
I like this song, because it is like a theme song to all the individuals of the world. Dexter sings it cause he was probably different in high school, and all the trendy assholes couldn't deal with him being different, because it wasn't the way things were done. That's how I feel in my school today. But in the long run, the people who are different, the individuals are better off. My abercrombie and fitch burnings are open for people to join in, e-mail me sometime

Sent in by: Bill G.
Basically what the band is getting across in this song is that you don't have to be what everyone wants you to be. They tell the audience that just be yourself and screw everyone else and what they think because the only person's opinion that matters is yours. You control your own life and no one else does no matter how much they want. In other words they're telling to be yourself and forget the system. Create your own rules.

Sent in by: Anonymous
This song is saying that we group together in too large of crowds sometimes and we need to hang out with maybe one or two people from time to time so we can express ourselves more and so can they. This song says that even though you may be surrounded by a mob of people, you still could be "so alone."

Sent in by: SmAsH
This song was written to show that although we might always be surrounded by people or have a lot if friends, it doesn't mean that we understand them and therefore we will all the same be "so alone"

Sent in by: offspringluver
This song is about people being everywhere, and still your so alone. Its like, all these people are here, but you still feel like your by yourself, so you say kill, fuck off, hate, die...

Sent in by: Anonymous
I think this song takes place in a World War 3 type environment, coming from the point of view of a civilian trying to stay alive and keep hope alive, also.

Sent in by:  Iris
I think the song is about the emptiness of this world, nothing has meaning, and people are only out for power. you have to try and save the meaning of yourself before you fade into the crowd. follow yourself and your own beliefs if you found something to believe in), not anyone else.

Sent in by: OffspringGuy
This song is about someone who wants to believe whatever he wants to, and the perdjudice that sometimes comes with not believing in what the mainstream does.

Sent in by: Anonymous
This song is about someone who gets sucked into the mainstream, and goes in "the deep end" and is "playing with fire." The guy that wrote the song is saying he's seen it all happen before.

Sent in by: AquaSlug@aol.com.....a true offspring fan
This took place I think when Tehran took Americans from the embassy in their country hostage and didn't let them loose until after president Jimmy Carter's term was over and let them out as soon as president Regan was sworn in as the new president...or it has something to do with the gulf war (operation desert storm) which was going on around the same time they recorded that album. Tehran is near Iran and Iraq so it might have something to do with that war.

Sent in by: Kevin (DARBY CRASH) Snyder
OK the album this is from 89, OK? This song was recorded on their original 7" in I think 86, in the early 80'S there was a problem in Iran and the song was originally written for that but then in 89 they changed some of the lyrics for Desert Storm.

Sent in by: Noodles Holland
This song is about a war, I think the one with Sadamn Hussien and how it was sending American people who didnt know what the fuck they were doing into the desert to be shot and leave their families with no son/husband etc.

Sent in by: Anonymous
This track shows how music can be very satisfying, and gives you tips of how some people like to enjoy music (glass of wine, easy chair).

Sent in by: Tanya
This is basically just a song about a relationship where the guy works and the girl doesn't do anything but spend his money.