land of make believe = wonderful world of disney

I think by saying the "Land of make believe" he's being a bit ironic (purposely) because Jesus Of Suburbia is, well, made up. So part of what the lyrics are saying is that in the story of Jesus of Suburbia,no one believes in him ...but this also pertains to true life.

ok so I didn't read all of these post cuz there's like 102 but has anyone recognized the parallels between JOS (in particular City of the Damned) and Dante's Inferno? Dante imagines heaven as surrounding the entire earth so its not like heaven is up and hell is down. So then Hell would be condensed in the center of the earth. "i read the graffiti in the bathroom stalls like the holy scriptures in a shopping mall and so it seems to confess it didn't say much but it only confirmed that the center of the earth is the end of the world...city of the dead...city of the damned" i don't think the storyline is set in hell but i think "the center off the earth" parallels it.

This whole cd rocks I can't wait for the movie!!!

This song is awesome, i think greenday are one of the most amazing things out there right now, the whole album is musical genius. I think billie-joe is the most amazing songwriter, and the music is just unbelievable. it doesn't get any better, these are the biggest legends ever, when they retire they will be up there with all the great bands, i'm sure they would have before but this secures it.

alright. im not trying to bash anybody or their entries, or their opinions, bu if you're just going to say "WOW THIS SONG IS SO FREAKING AWESOME" without backing it up, don't post it. Clearly people are visiting this site, and looking up this particular song, because they like it. So don't post a message if you aren't telling your interpretation of the song.

Fine if u want a deep and meaningful interpritation here's mine. I think this is the story the whole cd tells.
American idiot- explaining that america is now totally media based.

Jesus of suburbia- A suburban kid who doesn't like the fact that america is like this and he's in a land of make believe so he decides leave home

Holiday-he leaves home, it's going well

Blvd. of broken dreams- things start to go wrong he gets lonely

are we the waiting- jesus is just doing nothing getting depressed again.

Jimmy- jesus meets a guy called jimmy, he is the leader of a gang and is refered ot as "saint jimmy" he welcomes jesus into his "ganag" and he becomes part of the group.

Give me novocaine- Jimmy gets jesus to try drugs.

She's a rebel- jesus meets a girl who is a bit of a tearaway

extraordinary girl- even thought she's a rebel jesus thinks she is amazing and likes her.

letterbomb (i'm still working on this one)

wake me up when september ends- jesus is homesick, doesn't like where he is

Homecoming-after jimmy kills himself jesus decides to go home and starts fresh.

whatsername- Even though he's home he can't help wonder how the girl from "she's a rebel" and "extraordinary girl" is, and what happened to her.

i know this isn't the most the most deep translation, and the songs are a bit more menainful than this, but this is just what i basically think, obviously with a few twists.

i think it shud be brought to note that bush did call himself the "jesus of suburbia" so the choice of name is not that coincidental. the album is quite obviously in my opinion about someone who is disillusioned with life in america, and is maybe meant to relate to those people like him in the american electorate. whatshername is meant to be other people who's ideas and rebellion actracts him, but in the end he goes the bog standard way and does what everyone else does.

anyway, though i dont think this album as good as the early stuff, i grew up to the first green day albums, it is good.

This is the first Green Day album I have purchased and IMMEDIATELY my favorite is Jesus of Suburbia.

Part 4 is the best part.

I was searching for some help in finding the meaning of the album "American Idiot." Billie had said that the album was a story, each song a significant part of that story. Well, on my own I was able to understand bits and pieces of the story but the whole thing was still escaping me.

This website has what I believe to be the best interpretation of the story that Billie, Tre, and Mike based "American Idiot" on.

http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=paxil_deprived

ok this song rocks...9 min and 8 seconds of music that rocks my fucking socks!!! yes...very much!

this song sucks cant lie the lyrics are cheesy and horrible

This may be a stupid question, but I'm not sure...is this song anti-christian? I'm pretty sure its all just symbolic, but I'm not sure.

greateast song ever

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

...amazing.

hey camster...im not really that sure either....i mean sure there are alot of songs that say stuff like that.....listen to the song "Minority", its on an earlier cd, but in that song he says "one nation under "dog""...so i dont really know what to think, but there are alot of songs that seem like they are anti-christain

The album tells the story of Jesus of Suburbia, who lives with his negligent divorcee mother in a suburb called "Jingletown, USA". His younger years were spent on a "steady diet of soda pop and Ritalin", watching television, experimenting with drugs (2 - I. Jesus of Suburbia), and loitering in front of convenience stores.

Disillusioned with life in Jingeltown (2 - II. City of the Damned) and its effect on his psyche (2 - IV. Dearly Beloved), Jesus decides to leave Jingletown for "The City" (2 - V. Tales of Another Broken Home).

Jesus finds himself alone in spite of The City's crowd (4. Boulevard of Broken Dreams), so he eventually decides to radically change his personality. In doing so, he adopts a new moniker, "St. Jimmy", and lifestyle, that of an unpredictable, tough, and rebellious criminal (6. St. Jimmy).

Jesus meets Whatsername, a girl who fasicnates him - she is a real rebel, not someone pretending to be one like he is (8. She's a Rebel), and they begin dating. Posing as Jimmy, he falls thoroughly in love with her, but he is unable to give her what she deserves due to his personal insecurities (9. Extraordinary Girl). In a letter to Jesus/ Jimmy, Whatsername expresses her frustration towards him, and tells him she's leaving both him and The City (10. Letterbomb).

Heartbroken, Jesus goes into a period of depression (11. Wake Me Up When September Ends), and eventually decides to abandon his St. Jimmy identity, which he had been using as a crutch (12 - I. The Death of St. Jimmy).

Jesus gets a desk job "at the facility on East 12th street" that he finds to be oppressively boring (12 - II. East 12th St.), much like his personal life (12 - III. Nobody Likes You). He decides to return to Jingletown to escape this trap (12 - V. Homecoming), and is left with his memories of what could have been had he stayed with Whatsername (13. Whatsername).

oh yeah and the city of the damned section is almost identical to bryan adams' summer of '69 song

i have the same question too are they anti christian?

cause my bro. said it's about jesus (not jesus of suburbia) but i dont think it is. you see im christian so can anyone answr this question so my bro. wont keep pissing telling me their demonic

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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

Its not anti christian its anti church which is what jesus himself was

Not specifically church... Jesus was anti-establishment. Jesus knew in his time that those in power were corrupted. As they say... Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. The message of a new social hierarchy was set in the right time in the Roman Empire at that time. Ideas were spread easily and the people were attracted to it.

Anyway...

by airsoftsam on 12-30-2004 @ 04:37:16 AM

"The american soldiers get payed, they volunteered, they wanted to be in the army. An army going to war, who woulda thought?

Under Saddam over 290,000 iraqi people were killed, along with the genocied of the kurds. Thats 200 people a week for 23 years. Collateral is hardly a large price for the genocide that was happening. And bush now has a spending plan that will cut the countrys defecit in half in only 5 years. The debate thing is just your opinion, not a fact that you can use in making a point."

Spending plan? I don't see any spending plan. Notice how the war budget is noticeable absent from his proposal. It's a political joke that budgets have become. Collateral hardly a large price for the genocide? Maybe if Reagan and Bush 41 hadn't looked the other way while Saddam was gassing the Kurds in the first place the Kurds would not have been slaughtered. Maybe if the CIA was not providing intelligence to the Iraqi forces in the Iran-Iraq war less children would have been sent out across the battlefield into machine-gun fire and mines.

The joke is we put Saddam in power... But it's not funny because it's not all a bad dream it's reality.

Airsoftsam since you seem to be so ready and willing to support the war in Iraq I hope you have already enlisted to go fight. But of course don't expect to get all your benefits from the army. And definitely don't go into the national guard. You will be serving extra tours of duty with second hand equipment.

So I tell you again I don't want to hear anything about your political talking points. War is a last resort and the president and congress have a trust with our armed forces. When our armed forces can't trust the president to use his authority in a competent manner then we have lost one of our greatest assets. As we have diverted our attention to Iraq we allow another genocide to go on in Sudan, Iran (The one that apparently does have WMDs) to go on with their plans without any forceful argument against it, North Korea threatens to defend itself with nuclear arms, Syria is occupying Lebanon, the Saudi Arabian monarchy has a stranglehold on its country but the rebels are becoming more and more anti-establishment and anti-American because the royal family screws over their population, our ally in Pakistan Musharraf himself got into power by a bloody military coup, and we have thoroughly pissed off our once so called allies.

I don't know where you get your facts, but your talking points need to be checked at the door. Let's use some logic please for once... Instead of listening to the news of a media that is too afraid of backlash to actually dig up news. We are supposed to have an independent media and a transparent government, but we have journalists being paid to spew propaganda and gay republican escorts getting a pass into the whitehouse to ask softball questions. What the hell is happening here?

I can definitely relate to Green Day... It's all like a bad dream, and all of the crazies think they got Bush elected again. It's not going to be an easy year and a half until the 2006 elections when the democrats retake the senate and house or at least get a start on it.

ok this is for the dearly beloved part
I LOVE IT!!!! not really sure wat it means thoguh

i love green day

"Not specifically church... "
I know, I was just comparing the fact that the church and state have become as one in america, as was happening in 0AD, and throughout history this has always been a bad thing. The good thing about green day is they're not inciting religious hatred like Decide enjoy doing.

I have yet to hear it all, but I believe that Jesus Of Suburbia means an all american boy. Saviour of a kind that is the promise of the upper middle suburban folk. Yet ingored by double jobbed (and/or divorced remarried) parents and led to loitering at the local convenience store. The local convenience store is with in walking distance and somewhat the center of the world for a big gulp guzzling youth. Ridilin being a sort of brave new world Soma of american youth that have the luxury of being analyzed by a shrink. The drug given freely to misdiagnosed child that shows signs for want of life. No fight. Just grow and wait for the bomb to burst. Real world big city, drugs, swindlers and cockroaches. Kaboom!
I could see this happening...

rhcprox it is easy to say something sucks. How generally put...
That was then this is now.
Pink Floyd is from babyboom and Green Day from GenerationX. There is an eXtreme difference but not to be considered one better than the other.
I like how Green Day parodies stupid stoner decay in similar ways as Pink Floyd chronicals the lunitic.

To everyone who says this ablum is just like most of the other albums out there, that green day are no good now, that this ablum is nothing compared to thier earlyer stuff and that not many people would be able to properly compare the AI album with albums such as insomnaic, dookie, kerplunk, nimrod and warning because we were "too young" when those albums came out...