Lyrics for Jesus Of Suburbia as interpreted by prayingmantis84

Jesus Of Suburbia Lyrics
[Part I: Jesus of Suburbia ]

I'm the son of rage and love
The Jesus of suburbia
From the bible of none of the above
On a steady diet of
Soda pop and Ritalin
No one ever died for my sins in hell
As far as I can tell
At least the ones I got away with

But there's nothing wrong with me
This is how I'm supposed to be
In a land of make believe
That don't believe in me

Get my television fix
Sitting on my crucifix
The living room of my private womb
While the moms and Brads are away
To fall in love and fall in debt
To alcohol and cigarettes
And Mary Jane to keep me insane
And doing someone else's cocaine

[Part II: City Of The Damned]

At the center of the Earth
In the parking lot
Of the 7-11 were I was taught
The motto was just a lie
It says "home is were your heart is"
But what a shame
Cause everyone's heart
Doesn't beat the same
We're beating out of time

City of the dead
At the end of another lost highway
Signs misleading to nowhere
City of the damned
Lost children with dirty faces today
No one really seems to care

I read the graffiti
In the bathroom stall
Like the holy scriptures of a shopping mall
And so it seemed to confess
It didn't say much
But it only confirmed that
The center of the earth
Is the end of the world
And I could really care less

[Part III: I don't care]

I don't care if you don't
I don't care if you don't care [x5]

Everyone is so full of shit
Burn and raised by hipocrites
Hearts recycled but never saved
From the cradle to the grave
We are the kids of war and peace
From Anaheim to the middle east
We are the stories and disciples
Of the Jesus of Suburbia
Land of make believe
And it don't believe in me
Land of make believe
And I don't believe
And I don't care!

[Part IV: Dearly beloved]

Dearly beloved are you listening?
I can't remember a word that you were saying
Are we demented or am I disturbed?
The space that's in between insane and insecure
Oh therapy, can you please fill the void?
Am I retarded or am I just overjoyed?
Nobody's perfect and I stand accused
For lack of a better word, and that's my best excuse

[Part V: Tales of another broken home]

To live and not to breathe
Is to die in tragedy
To run, to run away
To find what you believe
And I leave behind
This hurricane of fucking lies
I lost my faith to this
This town that don't exist

So I run
I run away
To the light of masochists
And I leave behind
This hurricane of fucking lies
And I walked this line
A million and one fucking times
But not this time

I don't feel any shame
I wont apologize

When there ain't nowhere you can go
Running away from pain
When you've been victimized
Tales from another broken home

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TheFedman2002
09-19-2004

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well when this CD comes out i'll look forward to hearing it... lol

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Phooky
09-19-2004

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this song is fucking awesome.. reminds me of november rain

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MeAndOnlyMe
09-20-2004

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Best song off of there new CD.

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Good OL MC
09-21-2004

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This song is positively amazing. I love how well they were able to progress the story in this track not just with the lyrics but with the music to.

But you'll notice that as this song progresses, "Jesus of Suburbia" (the character) becomes increasingly fed up with everything around him until he finally wants to leave in the last part. This is just awesome.

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JessicaisHott
09-22-2004

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this is a really good song...great lyrics...i think its the best off their album

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zao_163
09-22-2004

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WE HAVE A WINNER !!!! The best song off American Idiot. It is just 9 1/2 minutes of pure musical genuis.

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zero_
09-24-2004

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probably missed the taget by a mile but.. is "jesus" a metaphor for something cos in the 1st part they kind of imply a sort of "god" and they go on to make a mocery of the average human life.. then imply a heven/hell (the cenre of the earth) now if the charactor (using good ol mc's example) was the god of this world that they have described, he seems to loose faith and ends up not caring..

but the last lines hint that "he" is the neglected one cos some one has stoped caring about him..

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bbzzdd
09-24-2004

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Great song from a great album. I really don't understand how everything ties together just yet (or if it even does) but it's hard to believe Green Day are still making great music like this.

I love the way "Tales of a Broken Home" comes in hitting hard, sort of like the end of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody."

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bbzzdd
09-24-2004

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I also noticed the guitar solo on Tales of a Broken Home" is a straight rip of Johnny Cash's, "Ring of Fire" by way of Social Distortion.

There are lots of little "borrowed" bits sprinkled all about the album.

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Jakebert
09-24-2004

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Beautiful song, really. According to Billie it's "a take on religion and the Bible from someone who never actually read the Bible". Very, very intelligent. This song could easily go down in history as one of the greatest songs ever written.
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hurstie
09-25-2004

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could someone who has a better grip on this song than i do post a part-by-part translation? how it all applies to one story or theme? thanks in advance

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Princess Poppy
09-26-2004

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are the guys green day religious?

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terrafireinside
09-27-2004

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princess poppy - no, somehow i don't think they are... bbzzdd - that's crazy, I thought the same thing about the whole Bohemian Rhapsody correlation...the whole song kind of reminds me of bohemian rhapsody actually, with the fast, slow, hard, interchanges. It's awesome. That's why they call it a punk rock opera... :)

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Eversio
09-28-2004

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This song has everything about 'epic song' written all over it. Parts of City of the Damned remind me of 'Aqualung', the piano reminds me of 'November Rain', 'I Don't Care' gives off a Queen type vibe. All these great classics merged into one punk song - incredible.

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illman
10-01-2004

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Some of the riffs ... "children of the grave" black sabbath, baba o'reilly the who ...all in one song

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jay bags
10-06-2004

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this and holiday have become two of my favorite songs ever

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GABBA GABBA HEY!
10-09-2004

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PART 4 IS THE BEST BY FAR IF THATS THE SLOW ACOUSTIC ONE

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colormydaygreen
10-12-2004

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its a 9 and 1/2 minute song, written by one of the best out there, really people, what more could one ask for?

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WeezerMaladroit
10-13-2004

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this epic song chronicles the character Jesus of Suburbia (who apparently is this guy who lives in a suburban area that i guess thinks he is pretty special, i guess like teenagers when they are "on top of the world") so throughout the song he decides to get out of his town and move to the big city. there, he gets hit by the desolation of being alone in the world (boulevard of broken dreams) and then meets st. jimmy, who gets him into trouble and drugs. he also meets a girl known only as whatshername, and in the end has to decide who he should kind of follow, ie which lifestyle he should do. in the end, he decides to go with his own.

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JimmyRocker
10-14-2004

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i dont know if its just me or not but i was listening to Warning and the song misery pretty much was a concept song theres a story from beginning to end
so its not like they havent thought about it before

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spam_word
10-14-2004

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Pt. 1 overview - This is pretty much a statement that he once was christian but renounced his faith due to the circumstances of his home life "while the moms and brads are away"
Pt. 2 overview - He contemplates running away, he builds down his views of the world through a slummy 7-11 store where he's observing poor children, more than likely this 7-11 is a regular hangout spot for him
Pt.3 - His anger builds as he feels helpless to any of his surroundings and the fact that most people blow off these situations of people being in poverty or being in a lower level of income
Pt.4 - He talks to his mom about his rage problems and the mother cant take his scarcasm, so he goes to a psychologist still with his scarcasm and is making decisions that he just doesnt care for authority and is contemplating suicide
Pt. 5 - "to live and not to breathe, is to die with tragedy" means that if you dont have freedom once in your life and if he kills himself would be tradgic. so he runs away from home to find himself and get out of his hell life at home.

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eyesman2008
10-17-2004

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i think i figured out the CD..American Idiot: he gets fed up with being an 'idiot' Jesus of Surburbia: he starts to go bad and then learned something at the 7-11 and then reads a 'holy scripture' he realizes the religion is crazy, then he starts to not care, and realizes that people are dumb, he tells his mom he is leaving, and he leaves his broken home, holiday: he realizes how bad the world is Boulevard of broken dreams: he is leavin alone and is lonly Are we the Waiting: he becomes St. Jimmy St Jimmy:St. Jimmy explains that he is a hardcore rebel and that he thinks he is 'godlike' Give me Novacane: Jimmy starts to do drugs and he is telling himself (jesus) that it wont hurt him Shes a Rebel: he meets Whatsername Extraordinary Girl: he falls in love with Whatsername Letter Bomb: Whatsername breaks up with jimmy Wake me up when september ends: Jimmy is sad about losing Whatsername and wants to sleep for a month Homecoming: St. Jimmy is so sad that he 'kills himself' and becomes Jesus again, and Jesus gets a job and hates it so he becomes a 'good jimmy' (a jimmy that doesnt do drugs, and stuff like that) he starts a band and proves himself to himself, then he goes back to the town he left Whatsername: he remembers whatsername but cant remember waht she looked like or her name, and decides that he is glad that he lost her.

thats just what i think the story is
-eric

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el snaps
10-18-2004

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I honestly dont know where to begin. I was born in 1986 and I remember songs like "Basket Case" and "When I Come Around" and they were great. But other than that nothing from Green Day really stands out to me. This entire album however has touched me more than probably any other album I've ever heard. What they've done here is created an album on par with epics like The Wall by Pink Floyd. This album honestly has changed me in a way that not many things could. I encourage everyone to go out and buy it even if they could get it for free. This group deserves every penny for this album.

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el snaps
10-18-2004

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lol if I wasnt really drunk right now i probably would've wrote what I did above much better. But I just wanna say again that this is the epitome of Green Day and they've reached a level many other great bands never will.

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greenvelvet
10-22-2004

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goodness me! princess poppy, i think u might b a bit of track deary. no. no they are not religous. mot christian at least.

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