Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
Staring out of my window watching the cars go rolling by
My friends are gone I've got nothing to do
So I sit here patiently watching the clock tick so slowly
Gotta get away or my brains will explode
Give me something to do to kill some time
Take me to that place that I call home
Take away the strains of being lonely
Take me to the tracks at Christie Road
See the hills from afar standing on my beat up car
The sun went down and the night fills the sky
Now I feel like me once again as the train comes rolling in
Smoked my boredom gone, slapped my brains up so high
Give me something to do to kill some time
Take me to that place that I call home
Take away the strains of being lonely
Take me to the tracks at Christie Road
Mother, stay out of my way of that place we go
We'll always seem to find our way to Christie Road
Mother, stay out of my way of that place we go
We'll always seem to find our way to Christie Road
If there is one thing that I need that makes me feel complete
So I go to Christie Road, it's home, it's home
It's home, it's home, it's home
My friends are gone I've got nothing to do
So I sit here patiently watching the clock tick so slowly
Gotta get away or my brains will explode
Give me something to do to kill some time
Take me to that place that I call home
Take away the strains of being lonely
Take me to the tracks at Christie Road
See the hills from afar standing on my beat up car
The sun went down and the night fills the sky
Now I feel like me once again as the train comes rolling in
Smoked my boredom gone, slapped my brains up so high
Give me something to do to kill some time
Take me to that place that I call home
Take away the strains of being lonely
Take me to the tracks at Christie Road
Mother, stay out of my way of that place we go
We'll always seem to find our way to Christie Road
Mother, stay out of my way of that place we go
We'll always seem to find our way to Christie Road
If there is one thing that I need that makes me feel complete
So I go to Christie Road, it's home, it's home
It's home, it's home, it's home
Lyrics submitted by youth_underground
Christie Road Lyrics as written by Frank E. Billie Joe Armstrong
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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personally, i think you guys are getting a little too deep. billie joe said that it was just the place that he and his friends went to smoke pot.
i agree solemite. iv got this bootleg album burnout blast, recorded at farifax high school in cali, right before they play this, billie joe says something along the lines of " this song is about being a loser in the suberbs." and if you really listin to the song (on this cd anyways) at the end when he says "its home" you can hear mike saying "get stoned" maybe i listend to that song high a few to many times.
yes, christie road is where they would smoke weed when they were in high school, and with all the shit happening in Billie Joe's life, so he just said fuck it let's go get high. That's what this song means
Yes! I think the fast part at the end represent this is disfora/ being able to go on with a focused disforia, he had after smoking pot, being addicted to it.
yes, christie road is where they would smoke weed when they were in high school, and with all the shit happening in Billie Joe's life, so he just said fuck it let's go get high. That's what this song means
I love this too... Who wouldn't? New Green Day is not bad at all, but the old is so... simple and easy to listen to. No hidden messages, no political references, no bullshit just music. just music about normal everyday stuff, that everyone can relate to. Gotta love it.
I'm surprised no one has commented on this; this is one of green day's greatest in my opinion. Of course, I can't speak for anyone, but to me it always means that dissatisfaction with life, that numbingly boring dull suburbia, and the desire for something more exciting, an escape (in the song its pretty obvious what it is). You end up wrapped up in your escape and find it hard to leave. I have no idea why, but it makes me think of a 17 year old, no one in particular, but a 17 year old in that scenario.
Hey, BondGirl007, I totally agree. I'd have to say this is easily my favorite Green Day song. I think you're right that it's about boredom and suburban life. I always saw it as being kind of a precursor to "Longview" where this boredom's finally driven him crazy. That and I think the chorus is about those escapes becoming overused and becoming just as boring as his everyday life.
I always figured it was about a place of comfort, but the above comments make complete sense. I wish song meanings were included in CD cases, but then again the beauty of music is interpreting it for your own life.
This song definately combines the amazing aspects of a ballad and punk song together in one. The lyrics help make that transition too. In the beginning half of the song, it's about boredom, having no where exciting to go and wanting to go to "Christie Road" (which I suspect is a metaphor for some kind of place BJ wants to go to?) and then as soon as the song picks up some speed and intensity, BJ is now saying "If there's one thing that I need That makes me feel complete So I go to Christie Road It's home..." as if he made it to the place he wanted to go to. Did that make sense? Anyways, it's one of Green Day's greatest songs and is even more incredible live!
Can someone tell me why NOTHING from Kerplunk! was on the International Superhits CD? Christie Road...One for the Razorbacks, 2000 Lightyears Away...the list goes on.
Copyrights. That's why.