Beatles: Maxwell's Silver Hammer Meaning
Song Released: 1969
Maxwell's Silver Hammer Lyrics
Science in the home
Late nights all alone with a test-tube
Ohh-oh-oh-oh...
Maxwell Edison, majoring in medicine
Calls her on the phone
Can I take you out to the picture
jo-o-o-oan?
But as she’s...
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I've always figured that he grabbed his hammer off of the evidence pile for one last run.
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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This is a metaphor for good things in your life going wrong, not a true story about a serial killer or a werewolf hunter.
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How in gods name did this kid get a gun, or a hammer for that matter into a court?
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Wow I can't believe I am the first to come up with this. The silver hammer isn't a metaphor. It's literally a little silver hammer. Now...where do you find a little silver hammer...we know it's a weapon because he was killing people...let's think...how about A GUN! Isn't it so obvious now?! The hammer crashing down was the hammer hitting the back of the bullet which went into the people's heads! It didn't really come down upon their head, but it works out kinda.
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The pope?
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incubi?
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It's about the pope.
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Because of the people that were killed in the song (e.G. A scientist, a teacher, and a judge) I believe that the song is about the stifling of those three branches, but mostly education and justice.
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Duh, Maxwell was a serial killer.
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Heh... hey don't forget the Incubuses! (I don't know the plural of incubus, so let's leave it at that.)
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Maxwell Edison was actually tirelessly hunting werewolves to protect the public.
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As Paul said, the song is about how in life, as soon as things are going good, something goes wrong. Maxwell's Silver hammer comes crashing down on everyone's good time.
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