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| Green Day – See the Light Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This whole time they've been fighting hatred, religious propaganda, intolerance, and general fucked-upped-ness. And I see it as Christian kneeling after a long journey and asking for an answer- has it been worth it? |
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| Green Day – Restless Heart Syndrome Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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A combination of depression, addiction, and hypochondria. In the modern age (which is becoming more and more prevalent in the album) we are dependent on prescriptions. Losing memories causes problems and spreads ignorance and fear. It makes them their own worst enemies because it is a method of control- through medication. |
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| Green Day – Viva la Gloria! Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This song is the opposite of Viva La Gloria! because it's pretty much the same girl just seen in a different light. Where the first song said that her home was amongst the ruins, now she has no home. A lot of the same components of Gloria are still there- she is treasonous to the government, on drugs, dangerous, and away from the mainstream cult or whatever. The first song and Last of the American Girls build her up in Christian's eyes as hope, but she's slipping. |
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| Green Day – Murder City Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"Desperate but not hopeless"- they are in the Murder City and they are clinging onto a threadbare rebellion that's fueled by drugs and sometimes things happen that they can't control. But also it's about disconnection (possibly through drugs)- not caring that Christian's crying in the bathroom, wide awake after the riot, and empty laughter. |
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| Green Day – Peacemaker Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Both sides of the fight think that they will bring peace, that they are fulfilling a vendetta- they think that they're the righteous who should destroy the others. In the end the peacemakers will not bring peace. This could apply to the United States fighting with various foreign countries or the "infidels" amongst the American people. |
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| Green Day – East Jesus Nowhere Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Obviously making fun of organized religion. I thought of it as an evangelist kind of thing, not coming from Christian or Gloria but what they've been hearing. Throwing aside crutches like those faith healers, dressed up for church, calling for recruits to the religion. It doesn't really stab at God. The album talks mostly about the politics of the church and propaganda from the leaders and how they weaken the real faith. |
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| Green Day – Last Night on Earth Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Felt kind of sappy and out of place, but I guess they had to calm it down a little because they didn't want Christian's Inferno and East Jesus Nowhere next to each other. Wind down the First Act.
"Losing everything in the fire" sounds like a reference to the last song when he was all hyped up (and probably drugged up)- if he loses himself and gets all crazy he still wants to make sure she knows that he loves her. |
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| Green Day – Christian's Inferno Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Christian is rejected by society, and probably a junky. It mentions pills, blood, veins, toxins, and chemical reactions. Drugs. "I am the atom bomb, I am the chosen one" is a pretty presumptuous statement and he always thinks that his newest point of view is the right one. At the time he believes in Gloria- "Baby maybe you're the chemical reaction" is presuming that the right mixture has come along for a winning fight (but it should not be discounted that from the last song "Christian's lesson's what he's been sold"). "Return man to ape" is about disillusionment and where it was once thought that man was some divine creation standing on it's own, it is proven that man came from apes. |
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| Green Day – Before the Lobotomy Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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The song is definately from Gloria's point of view, and I think a response to the end of Viva La Gloria when Christian says "Tell me the story of your life." The first part of the song is Gloria struggling to remember life before the figurative lobotomy and coming up with vague misery. The next part of the song goes through a range of emotions almost by verse- first reminiscent, then angry and sickened. After that it gets into propaganda and "remember to learn to forget"- what they were told by the government or religion or whatever. Then the verse "I'm no stoned I'm just fucked up" is weary and given up. The last one wraps it up- "The brutality of reality" is that they're now angry, sick, stoned, confused, lost, nearly brainwashed, and can't function well enough to come up with a clear story but rather strain for what they can remember- dreaming, singing, dying, and laughter. |
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| Green Day – Viva la Gloria! Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Hm, I thought it said "Eternal youth is the landscape of a lie."
Anyway. Gloria is the girl who has always been rebellious and it's who she is. The song says that her flag was burning down last November, she made a home among the ruins, fallen through the cracks, et cetera. Christian is an easily swayed, unsure, unstable, impressionable guy who is discovering that lifestyle and admires her spirit. She is what he is not- sure, dedicated, faithful, and "the saint of all the sinners." Christian is excited to have found this and is telling her what she already knows. He's eager to ask questions and know the story of her life. It's ironic when he says "Don't lose your faith to your naivete" because I would call Christian the naive one, not Gloria. |
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| Green Day – Song of the Century Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I imagine the younger generation gathering around to hear this new "Song of the Century," with high expectations for it to take them away from "bombs and eternity." It's setting up the album and building anticipation. Like a prolouge. Or an epilouge, if you wanna go that way. An epilouge for the 20th century, because you can't have a song of a century that's just begining. |
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| Green Day – The Static Age Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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There is so much stuffed into today's media and that same media has has a huge impact on the modern generations. This jumbled, crammed, highly idealized culture produced kids unabled to connect or find meaning. Nothing is sacred because love and religion are advertised. There is so much that there is nothing left to find. I can't see a thing in the video. I can't hear a sound on the radio. Just static. |
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| Green Day – American Eulogy: A. Mass Hysteria/B. Modern World Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Well, this song kind of wraps up the album- earlier he talks about generations (my generation is zero, bastards of 1969, class of 13, basically past, present, and future), and he uses this song to express his disappointment in the modern age, that the modern world has screwed up every generation. It takes what 21st century breakdown originally set out- corruption in the past- and applies it to now. In the first part everything is falling apart- Mass hysteria. The world is in chaos and Christian and Gloria are running. In the second part he talks about the past, that beyond the "up-to-date" and the "neo-gentrified" there will be some kind of place where there's freedom. But we're all severely fucked up. And so are the other generations. "I can hear the sound of a beating heart/that bleeds beyond the system that is falling apart"= there is hope only outside the system. The last generation left everything messed up and didn't make the 21st century deadline. The only thing left is what's in the underground. But no one gives a shit about the modern age. |
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| Green Day – American Eulogy: A. Mass Hysteria/B. Modern World Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Well, this song kind of wraps up the album- earlier he talks about generations (my generation is zero, bastards of 1969, class of 13, basically past, present, and future), and he uses this song to express his disappointment in the modern age, that the modern world has screwed up every generation. It takes what 21st century breakdown originally set out- corruption in the past- and applies it to now. In the first part everything is falling apart- Mass hysteria. The world is in chaos and Christian and Gloria are running. In the second part he talks about the past, that beyond the "up-to-date" and the "neo-gentrified" there will be some kind of place where there's freedom. But we're all severely fucked up. And so are the other generations. "I can hear the sound of a beating heart/that bleeds beyond the system that is falling apart"= there is hope only outside the system. The last generation left everything messed up and didn't make the 21st century deadline. The only thing left is what's in the underground. But no one gives a shit about the modern age. |
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| Green Day – American Eulogy: A. Mass Hysteria/B. Modern World Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Well, this song kind of wraps up the album- earlier he talks about generations (my generation is zero, bastards of 1969, class of 13, basically past, present, and future), and he uses this song to express his disappointment in the modern age, that the modern world has screwed up every generation. It takes what 21st century breakdown originally set out- corruption in the past- and applies it to now. In the first part everything is falling apart- Mass hysteria. The world is in chaos and Christian and Gloria are running. In the second part he talks about the past, that beyond the "up-to-date" and the "neo-gentrified" there will be some kind of place where there's freedom. But we're all severely fucked up. And so are the other generations. "I can hear the sound of a beating heart/that bleeds beyond the system that is falling apart"= there is hope only outside the system. The last generation left everything messed up and didn't make the 21st century deadline. The only thing left is what's in the underground. But no one gives a shit about the modern age. |
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