Alternative meanings for Green Day songs

[Renjini]

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Ive always wondered if Green Day or Billie Joe made up meanings for the songs I mean in Letterbomb, it sounds like he was talking about his ex- girlfriend he wrote Good Riddance about, they say he wrote Good Riddance as a break up song because she was moving to Ecuador. in Letterbomb the part that says:

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

it sounds like that girl saying shes leaving, and in Whatsername, he was probably talking about her, there are other songs that i wanted to say, but i have bad memory and forgot.

if you think there are alternative song meanings, list them, because i think there are different meanings, other than the ones that we know or heard of

[Ila Reto]

^ hah i can also tie those two in with Haushinka

"did she know, did she know before she went away?

does she know, does she know but it's too damn late"

"this girl has gone far away, now she's gone"

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anyway, i get what you mean with the double meanings. Like are you saying that some songs tie in with eachother?

[Renjini]

^ hah i can also tie those two in with Haushinka

"did she know, did she know before she went away?

does she know, does she know but it's too damn late"

"this girl has gone far away, now she's gone"

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anyway, i get what you mean with the double meanings. Like are you saying that some songs tie in with eachother?

Not qiute but kind of, like you know how they say this song just means......, well maybe it means something else too, i think that in a couple of songs he's always talking about that ex-girlfriend, i wouldnt know, but i always think of that

[Renjini]

If this thread is a repeat, feel free to delete it. I'm still not sure how to use the search, but when i tried, i couldn't find one, so if this is a repeat, delete it, just tell me where the other one is

Ive always wondered if Green Day or Billie Joe made up meanings for the songs I mean in Letterbomb, it sounds like he was talking about his ex- girlfriend he wrote Good Riddance about, they say he wrote Good Riddance as a break up song because she was moving to Ecuador. in Letterbomb the part that says:

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

it sounds like that girl saying shes leaving, and in Whatsername, he was probably talking about her, there are other songs that i wanted to say, but i have bad memory and forgot.

if you think there are alternative song meanings, list them, because i think there are different meanings, other than the ones that we know or heard of

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[1997]

The meaning I from those lines is that she is saying she has had enough of living her life the way she is.

She said I can't take this place

I'm leaving it behind

She is basically sick of everything - the lifestyle.

Well she said I can't take this town

I'm leaving you tonight

She is leaving the town behind and the "you" is the town and everything in it! Including the person she is and is saying she is leaving that person who she is behind and is going to start again. She has lost faith in everything around here and no longer believes there is something here for her.

It's not over 'till you're underground

But with this line she is saying it isn't over until you face the truth.

Being underground is about being true to yourself and not selling out not caring about what others think.

That is why she states in the song

You're not the Jesus of Suburbia

The St. Jimmy is a figment of

Your father's rage and your mother's love

Made me the idiot America

It's not over before it's too late

And here she is saying it will never be to late for the truth

Anyway that is just what I get from the song. I am sure other people get their own meaning!

[Ila Reto]

i think the dates are screwed up in my head- wasnt Good Riddance written around Kerplunk?

but anyway, when i hear it i sometimes think of it as another 86- that whole 924Gilman thing. which im wrong about because of the timeline, but that's how it is to me.

also, i have issues with putting shenanigans in order- trying to figure out which songs were supposed to be on which album originally. Like Desensitized on Nimrod (which means Suffocate should be also?)

[/off topic]

uhm, i never really could tell if in Give me Novicane, they meant it literally like that Jimmy was a druggie of some sort, or that it's like a metaphor....or both? no, im just going to stay away from this thread entirely.

[SheBuildsQuickMachines]

you know, i see it as he just wrote it at the time without realizing it was related to another song....you know, maybe :whistling:

[Renjini]

i think the dates are screwed up in my head- wasnt Good Riddance written around Kerplunk?

but anyway, when i hear it i sometimes think of it as another 86- that whole 924Gilman thing. which im wrong about because of the timeline, but that's how it is to me.

also, i have issues with putting shenanigans in order- trying to figure out which songs were supposed to be on which album originally. Like Desensitized on Nimrod (which means Suffocate should be also?)

[/off topic]

uhm, i never really could tell if in Give me Novicane, they meant it literally like that Jimmy was a druggie of some sort, or that it's like a metaphor....or both? no, im just going to stay away from this thread entirely.

I thought it was written around Dookie, i got the years confused now

[M1KEY]

Yeah Good Riddance was a demo for Dookie, and Haushinka was written in 1991 I believe, just not recorded until '97, so I don't think that would have been about Ecuador girl. But, I've been wrong once before.

[The Disappearing Boy]

i think these double meanings are possibly. bill has said before that a lot of his songs come from some personal experience.

[Daughter.of.Rage.and.Love]

Yeah Good Riddance was a demo for Dookie, and Haushinka was written in 1991 I believe, just not recorded until '97, so I don't think that would have been about Ecuador girl. But, I've been wrong once before.

I though Haushinka was written for Dookie too, and about a Japanese girl...

But i probably am just mixing stuff up...

[badwolf]

i believe most Green Day songs or mainly about Billie Joe past perspectives or current emotions.....like most of their songs r eithr about love or hate and i love that!!! i guess thats how he vents :starwars:

but than again most of them r also about just about anything else.... like y did he write "No One Knows" ? maybe cuz he means no one knows how he feels or somethin' but all i know is that most of his songs must be his emotions and othrs r basically 'bout wut eva else..... but their music kicks ass!!! :google:

[Hermione]

Billie Joe has always made it clear that while American Idiot is about characters, those characters and everything that happens to them comes from something that he himself has experienced at some point in his life. I think it's very much an autobiographical story, just told through different characters and set in modern times (with the modern political backdrop).

So rather than being a double meaning, I think it just means what it says - it's about a breakup, and Billie would've drawn on the emotions he's felt in real-life breakups to write it, just as he did in his older songs.