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Letterbomb Lyrics
Nobody likes you...
Everyone left you...
They're all out without you...
Having fun...
(Dear J,)
Where have all the bastards gone?
The underbelly stacks up ten high
The dummy failed the crash test
Now collecting unemployment checks
You're a flunkie only along for the ride
Where have all the riots gone
As your city's motto gets pulverized?
"What's in love is now in debt"
On your birth certificate
So strike the fucking match to light this fuse
The town bishop's an extortionist
And he don't even know that you exist
Standing still when it's do or die
You better run for your fucking life
It's not over 'till your underground
It's not over before it's too late
It's cities burnin'
"It's not my burden"
It's not hope before it's too late
There's nothing left to analyze
Where will all the martyrs go when the virus cures itself?
And where will we all go when it's too late?
And don't look back
You're not the Jesus of Suburbia
The St. Jimmy's is a figure of
Your father's rage and your mother's love (-W)
Made me the idiot America
It's not over 'till your underground
It's not over before it's too late
It's cities burnin'
"It's not my burden"
It's not over before it's too late
She said "I can't take this place
I'm leaving it behind"
Well she said "I can't take this town
I'm leaving you tonight"
Everyone left you...
They're all out without you...
Having fun...
The underbelly stacks up ten high
The dummy failed the crash test
Now collecting unemployment checks
You're a flunkie only along for the ride
As your city's motto gets pulverized?
"What's in love is now in debt"
On your birth certificate
So strike the fucking match to light this fuse
And he don't even know that you exist
Standing still when it's do or die
You better run for your fucking life
It's not over before it's too late
It's cities burnin'
"It's not my burden"
It's not hope before it's too late
And where will we all go when it's too late?
The St. Jimmy's is a figure of
Your father's rage and your mother's love (-W)
Made me the idiot America
It's not over before it's too late
It's cities burnin'
"It's not my burden"
It's not over before it's too late
I'm leaving it behind"
I'm leaving you tonight"
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Whatsername is 19. She lives in her own world of make believe- she's quite popular there. She's unlike any girl in the world. She's a TOTAL dreamer. She represents what our generation is searching for. Whatsername is an answer to the void, she's like the goddess. Take that to mind. If you listen, & are aware and open, you can hear what she's thinking... it's a trip, but she's something to believe in.
This song is about Whatsername breaking up with St. Jimmy. I am of the opinion that St.Jimmy/Jesus of Suburbia are one and the same. Whatsername doesn't like Jimmy's attitude, and prefered the Jesus of Suburbia "fight ofr the city" attitude. Whereas St. Jimmy says "It's not my burden".
Letterbomb could not have opened the album, or the chronology wouldn't add up.
And Whatsername is a kind of "looking back/what if" song, wrapping up the loose ends (in this case Jesus' feelings for Whatsername).
The albums a rock-opera. American Idiot set the scene, Jesus of Suburbia introduced the main character, and two songs after Boulevard of Broken Dreams St. Jimmy comes on the scene, stating early on "up on the Boulevard...". The Blvd of Broken Dreams is a problem, Jimmy being the solution, his tougher, in-the-city alter-ego.
Novacaine is Whatsername's perception of Jimmy/Jesus (or as is on that songs board: Jesus asking Jimmy for help)... and She's a Rebel is his perception of her.
Extraordinary Girl is both of their views (and I think the song could be reworked as a kick-ass duet). Letterbomb fits in after that.
September may be put there for you to think it's Jesus coping without her, and maybe it is, but more cprrecly (with the "seven years" and "twenty years" lines) is about Billie Joe's father's death.
Homecoming is Jesus gathering the Underbelly (the gang to come home with him, and their various responses (as sung by Tré and Mike). They return and Whatsername sums up the ending, as a kind of afterthought.
This song is great. After two songs in a row praising "Whatsername" Jimmy gets smacked in the face with the, "Nobody likes you..." chant. That will fuck you up I guess which leads into "September" and his suicide in "Homecoming: Part I".
hmm i dunno, i like the way whatsername ends it, its kinda like thinkin at the end, wat ever happened to...erm...whatsername, i like it.
I think this song ties together almost everything. I think that jimmy and Jesus are the same person because all the letters in the cd jacket are addressed to "J" for jimmy or Jesus, and the song states that "st. jimmy is a figment of your father's rage and your mother's love" and "your not the Jesus of suburbia" this explains the "oh therapy can you please fill the void" in part 4 of Jesus of suburbia. his home life made him, "Jesus," lose his Identity so he when to therapy. and I think that in homecoming when jimmy dies its the death of the alter ego. that’s what is meant by "he blew his brains out into the bay in the state of mind in my own private suicide." So with the death of jimmy, the rebellious drug using city punk, Jesus goes to “filling out paperwork”
You're not the Jesus of Suburbia The St. Jimmy's is a figure of Your father's rage and your mother's love (-W) Made me the idiot America
Greatest line off of American Idiot, hands down.
Great song, its got real green day attitude about it and takes me back to dookie almost
I love it. It's kind of like Dookie meets Warning.
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I think this is the keystone song on this album. It ties it all together and explains a few things twoard the meaning of the other songs.
And when taken with Extraordinary Girl, I think it's a pretty accurate depiction of Rebel Love.
I Luv the tune 2 this 1...dont have a clue about the meaning tho :S