 Genius Meanings
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Green Day – Peacemaker
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“Peacemaker” switches Green Day’s iconic punk sound to a fast-paced gypsy-rock tune that describes someone looking for vengeance.
Regarding the story of 21st Century Breakdown
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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 – 21st Century Breakdown
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The title track of Green Day’s second rock opera, it presents the main theme of the album, namely how there’s been a “breakdown” in the first decade of the century. Frontman Billie
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Green Day – ¿Viva la Gloria? (Little Girl)
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“¿Viva la Gloria? (Little Girl)” serves as a reprise to 21st Century Breakdown’s fourth track, “¡Viva la Gloria!”. Billie Joe Armstrong discussed this in a 2009 interview with Q
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Green Day – Last Night on Earth
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Singer Billie Joe Armstrong explained to Q magazine May 2009 that “‘Christian’s Inferno’ is like a subway ride to hell and you kind of end up in outer space with this” song
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Green Day – Bang Bang
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“Bang Bang” is the lead single, and second track, from Green Day’s twelfth studio album, Revolution Radio. It was released on August 11, 2016 on various digital distribution
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Green Day – Horseshoes and Handgrenades
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[Intro] / One, two, three, four! / [Verse 1] / I'm not fuckin' around / I think I'm comin' out / All the deceivers and cheaters, I think we've got a bleeder right now / Want you to
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Green Day – Murder City
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On several 21st Century Breakdown tracks, including this one, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong sings higher than on previous albums. He told Billboard magazine:
Even on our harder
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Green Day – Restless Heart Syndrome
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Singer and chief songwriter Billie Joe Armstrong told Q magazine May 2009 that the topic of this mid-tempo rocker is about prescription drug junkies. He explained:
It’s about
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Green Day – The Static Age
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Allegedly, Bruce Springsteen was a major influence on Green Day frontman and chief songwriter Billie Joe Armstrong’s writing during the making of 21st Century Breakdown. Armstrong
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Green Day – Song of the Century
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The opening track off of Green Day’s eighth studio album. A “radio” effect has been added to lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong’s vocals, making his voice sound like it’s being
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Green Day – Last of the American Girls
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“Last of the American Girls” is about the increasing lack of American people willing to stand up for their ideals. The “last of the American girls” here refers both to Gloria—one
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Green Day – Before the Lobotomy
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The song’s title was inspired by a story from The San Francisco Chronicle about Howard Dully, who recalled how his stepmother forced him to have a transorbital lobotomy when he was
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Green Day – East Jesus Nowhere
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This song was written by Billie Joe Armstrong after Mike Dirnt went to a church to see a friend’s child get baptized. Apparently he was “Disgusted by the hatred and hypocrisy there
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Green Day – American Eulogy: Mass Hysteria / Modern World
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“American Eulogy” is made up of two songs, “Mass Hysteria” and “Modern World.” Vocalist and chief songwriter Billie Joe Armstrong explained to Q magazine May 2009
It swirls all
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Green Day – Sugar Youth
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“Sugar Youth” shows an anxious narrator at a party, who’s scared to go alone, and is desperate to get a girl to spend the night with.
Like people on a sugar rush, the second
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Green Day – Know Your Enemy
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The first official single from 21st Century Breakdown. A very politically charged song, reminiscent of “Holiday” from American Idiot, it discusses distrust of the system and how to
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Green Day – Christian's Inferno
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Christian is one of two reoccurring characters that feature on 21st Century Breakdown. Whilst the activist Gloria, who is fighting to hold on to her youthful idealism, is a
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Green Day – See the Light
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The closing track to 21st Century Breakdown, “See The Light” sees the narrator of this dramatic punk opera looking back on their experiences of rebellion and internal strife. At
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Green Day – ¡Viva la Gloria!
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Being the fourth song on the album, “¡Viva La Gloria!” is where the album’s story between the two protagonists Christian and Gloria truly kicks in.
Although “21st Century
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Green Day – That's All Right
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For the iTunes pre-order edition of 21st Century Breakdown, Green Day covered the iconic song “That’s All Right” by Elvis Presley.
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Green Day – Another State of Mind
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The cover of “Another State of Mind” by Social Distortion was included in the iTunes deluxe edition of 21st Century Breakdown as a bonus track alongside “A Quick One While He’s
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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 – Like a Rolling Stone
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During the 21st Century Breakdown era, Green Day covered the Bob Dylan classic “Like A Rolling Stone”. The song has an alternative punk twist to it but it wasn’t well received
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Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown (Demo)
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[Part I] / [Verse 1] / Born into Nixon I was raised in hell / A welfare child where the teamsters dwelled / The last one born but the first one to run / My town was blinded by
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Travis Scott – MY EYES
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“MY EYES” portrays Travis Scott’s life throughout his POV as he raps about the struggles and obstacles he’s gone through in his life. Throughout the track, Travis touches on themes
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Green Day – A Quick One, While He's Away
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“A Quick One While He’s Away” is a cover of a song which was originally performed by The Who. This is one of the bands that influenced Green Day through their childhood and this
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Panicland – Average Working Man
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The third single off of Magnum Opus of the Inglorious Kind shows an average narrator believing that his life is perfectly fine where it is, disliking the richer people above him
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Kendrick Lamar – The Art of Peer Pressure
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The song where the album’s narrative truly begins to set itself in motion, Kendrick takes you through a vivid story of how he learned ‘Peer Pressure’ the hard way.
This samples
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Sycco – Peacemaker
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I was feeling down in the backseat / Thought we missed the turn off to Moore Street / Tuned out the conversation with defeat / Felt pretty confused yet amused / Oh, you're still
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dread scott – PEACEMAKER
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[Verse 1] / Ayo, they too dull to blast through skulls, I seen 'em dumb it down / I'm razor sharp, I raise the ark to see the summit now / The earth starts to shake and mountains
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Roc Marciano – Momma's Song
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[Produced by Roc Marciano] / [Verse] / Tan Carhartt's the skullies go with it / Survive cold winters slinging dope with my niggas / Laying in the rented banging Mary J, love
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Mo-G – Mind Symphony
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This track is about Mo-G’s close friend Chief Ano. In October of 2014 Yusuf Ali aka Ano passed away in a shooting. He was described as a peacemaker and a kind person.
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The Clash – Police & Thieves
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“Police and Thieves” was the Clash’s first exploration of genres outside of punk. Originally a reggae song by Junior Murvin, the song has a very loose feel and has heavy emphasis
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Lucy Maud Montgomery – Anne Of Green Gables (CHAP. 15)
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CHAPTER XV. A Tempest in the School Teapot / "What a splendid day!" said Anne, drawing a long breath. "Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren
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Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers – ¡Americano!
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The titular track from Americano!, this song is about a man who planned and paid for what we can only surmise is a bank robbery.
As with many Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers songs
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Big Pun (Ft. Terror Squad) – Brave in the Heart
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[Verse 1: Triple Seis] / I'll battle you all, from the charts to ghetto stars / Face Triple Seis: the God of War like Mars / That leave MC's smashed by my Squad / It's odd y'all
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Eminem (Ft. Obie Trice) – Difficult
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This is basically a tribute to Proof, Rest in Peace. We miss you!! 1973-2006.
DeShaun Dupree Holton AKA Proof is Eminem’s hype man & best friend since childhood, passed away back
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Trouble (Ft. Bloody Jay) – Lil Homie Died
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Aspiring rapper Bankroll Fresh died tragically in a shootout on March 4th, 2016, just one day before the release of this mixtape. Bankroll and Trouble were close and have
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