 Genius Meanings
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Green Day – Coming Clean
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“Coming Clean” is about lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong coming out as bisexual. Released when Billie Joe was 21, and just months before marrying his wife, Billie Joe reflects back
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Pierce The Veil – Coming Clean
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[Verse 1] / Seventeen, and strung out on confusion / Trapped inside a role of disillusion / [Chorus] / I've found out what it takes to be a man / Well, Mom and Dad'll never
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Lil Durk – Coming Clean
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[Verse 1] / You turn me on when you be shavin' off your pussy / Makin' that macaroni sound when it gushy / She gon' give me the sloppiest head with her good teeth / And she love
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Green Day – When I Come Around
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“When I Come Around” is about a boy who wants to be in a casual relationship, but has become involved with a girl who wants something more serious; his insecurities and poor self-
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Green Day – Holiday
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“Holiday” is an anti-war anthem that criticizes America’s war on Iraq, while at the same time reflecting and building up American Idiot’s main character. The track continues the
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Hilary Duff – Come Clean
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“Come Clean” is from Duff’s 2003 album Metamorphisis. The song is about the process of reinventing yourself after realizing that you are no different from the norm.
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Green Day – Longview
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“Longview” describes intense boredom, with a title taken from a Washington town where it was first played. Lyrically, the song is about a day spent sitting around the house, doing
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Green Day – Wake Me Up When September Ends
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“Wake Me Up When September Ends” is the only song on American Idiot that has no direct connection to the album’s story arc.
Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong wrote this
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Green Day – Jaded
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A really fast-paced song which is directly connected to the previous song in the album — “Brain Stew” — to the point the single / music video / live performances have both together
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the great nothing – coming clean
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One move to spill your guts / But you may fall far out of touch / Not a word will be unheard / And so the stones remain unturned / For one day / I wanna feel like I could flay my
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Green Day – Bobby Sox
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[Verse 1] / Do you wanna be my girlfriend? / I'll take you to a movie that we've already seen / Or sit at home and watch reruns / There's no other place I'd wanna be / (Ooh, ooh-
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Green Day – 21 Guns
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“21 Guns”, the second single off 21st Century Breakdown, is a power ballad that questions war and shows a narrator looking for peace. When taken on its own out of the 21st Century
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Green Day – Pulling Teeth
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“Pulling Teeth” was written from the perspective of a man who is abused by his girlfriend, and how he can’t get out of his situation. The song has a very dark bit of humor to it
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Green Day – In the End
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“In The End” was written from Billie’s point of view as he saw his mother date other men after his father’s death. He had grown tired of seeing his mom with them and got sick of
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Green Day – Sassafras Roots
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“Sassafras Roots” is about wasting time and being completely unproductive. Instead of wasting time all alone, the narrator invites some friends to waste time with them.
The song
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Green Day – Green Day: Rock Band Setlist
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The Fox Theater – Oakland / Set 1 / "Song of the Century" / "21st Century Breakdown" / "Last Night on Earth" / "¿Viva La Gloria? (Little Girl)" / "Restless Heart Syndrome" / Set 2
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Green Day – Having a Blast
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“Having a Blast” tells the story of a suicide bomber. Though the phrase usually signifies fun, in this context, a blast refers to the activation of the bomber’s explosives.
The
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Green Day – Are We the Waiting
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Coming from the gloomy “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”, “Are We The Waiting” is a soliloquy where Jesus of Suburbia meditates his current state. It is a slow paced song with pounding
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Misfits – Saturday Night
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The song can easily be taken as the narrator’s break a girls heart or as the narrator actually committing murder. The 52 ways to murder anyone line, suggests that he breaks a girls
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Green Day – Too Much Too Soon
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This song was included as an iTunes bonus track for American Idiot, and as a B-side for the title track. Hence, the two characters described in the lyrics might be the two
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Green Day – Sassafras Roots (4-Track Demo)
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[Verse 1] / Roaming 'round your house, wasting your time / No obligation, just wasting your time / So why are you alone wasting your time? / When you could be with me, wasting your
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Green Day – Platypus (I Hate You)
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“Platypus (I Hate You)” shows Billie Joe’s hate towards Tim Yohannan, founder of 924 Gilman Street. Yohannan constantly criticized the band’s ‘poppy’ punk sound and was one of the
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Green Day – Father Of All...
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“Father Of All…” describes a narrator ‘not giving a fuck’; he’s in the middle of a chaotic world where everyone is causing riots and fighting. Contrasting to previous Green Day
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Green Day – Burnout
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“Burnout” is an anthem for apathetic and uninterested outcasts. Its lyrics explore the idea of indifference to the problems of life, and are often seen as a description of the punk
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Green Day – Basket Case
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“Basket Case” spent five weeks at the top of the Modern Rock Tracks chart, becoming arguably Green Day’s signature song of the pre-American Idiot days.
It’s about Billie Joe
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Green Day – The American Dream is Killing Me
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“The American Dream is Killing Me” is a powerful rock anthem that showcases Green Day’s dislike of the American way of life; it has subtle nods to the housing crisis, unemployment
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