Lyrics for Holiday as interpreted by Biznoice

Holiday Lyrics
(Say hey!)

Hear the sound of the falling rain
Coming down like an Armageddon flame
The shame
The ones who died without a name

Hear the dogs howling out of key
To a hymn called Faith and Misery (Hey!)
And bleed, the company lost the war today!

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
On Holiday!

Hear the drum pounding out of time
Another protestor has crossed the line (Hey!)
To find, the money's on the other side

Can I get another Amen? (Amen!)
There's a flag wrapped around a score of men *Hey!)
A gag, a plastic bag on a monument

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest our lives
On Holiday!

(Hey!)
(Say hey!)

(The representative from California has the floor"

Zieg Heil to the president gasman
Bombs away is your punishment
Pulverize the Eiffel towers
Who critiscize your government
Bang bang goes the broken glass and
Kill all the fags that don't agree
Trials by fire, setting fire
Is not a way that's meant for me
Just cause, just cause because we're outlaws yeah!

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives ...

This is our lives on holiday!

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shalevbd
02-02-2005

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I agree with acqu. People need to realize that most muslims aren't terrorist. And the tiny minority of muslims that do support terrorism against america probably have a good reason for it. Muslims are human. If they hate america, which most of them don't, they must have a very good reson for it. Think of it this way: do you hate anybody or anything so much that you would commit suicide to damage it? These suicide bombers hate america that much, and we, instead of thinking "why do they want to damage us? maybe they have a good reason?" we think: "oh no! they want to kill us all! lets kill them first!". Now: their "good" (thats debateable) reason is that the U.S. supports israel, and they hate israel because when israel became a country they took the homes of hundreds of thousands of palestines and left them homeless.

Why attack iraq at all? our troops are dying there right now! do I support our troops? well, I think the support our troops want is that we bring them back home! They don't want to "die without a name", or in other words, die in iraq without the government even telling us that someone died! Also, the position in Iraq just got worse since we invaded! This is why the world is against the war in iraq, the world doesn't just hate us because we're americans! the world doesn't hate us at all. We just like to classify people as either good or bad - we're good, those who hate us are bad. Instead of listening to the world's advice, we put "a plastic bag on a monument", or in other words, we ignor something important.

Is Bush Hitler? no. Bush believes that what he is doing is fighting terrorism (at least I hope that's what he believes). On the other hand, is bush brainwashing us? if you were brainwashed to support bush, would you know it? obviously not. Bush is trying to make us believe that the war in iraq is a good thing by not telling us when someone dies there. Thats partially where "hollow lies" comes from. The other part is that we were told our government had proof of weapons of mass destruction in iraq. There were none.

I used "we" to avoid offending anyone.

Please excuse any spelling and grammer mistakes I might have - English is my second language. (I originally come from Israel.)

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shalevbd
02-02-2005

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I agree with acqu. People need to realize that most muslims aren't terrorist. And the tiny minority of muslims that do support terrorism against america probably have a good reason for it. Muslims are human. If they hate america, which most of them don't, they must have a very good reson for it. Think of it this way: do you hate anybody or anything so much that you would commit suicide to damage it? These suicide bombers hate america that much, and we, instead of thinking "why do they want to damage us? maybe they have a good reason?" we think: "oh no! they want to kill us all! lets kill them first!". Now: their "good" (thats debateable) reason is that the U.S. supports israel, and they hate israel because when israel became a country they took the homes of hundreds of thousands of palestines and left them homeless.

Why attack iraq at all? our troops are dying there right now! do I support our troops? well, I think the support our troops want is that we bring them back home! They don't want to "die without a name", or in other words, die in iraq without the government even telling us that someone died! Also, the position in Iraq just got worse since we invaded! This is why the world is against the war in iraq, the world doesn't just hate us because we're americans! the world doesn't hate us at all. We just like to classify people as either good or bad - we're good, those who hate us are bad. Instead of listening to the world's advice, we put "a plastic bag on a monument", or in other words, we ignor something important.

Is Bush Hitler? no. Bush believes that what he is doing is fighting terrorism (at least I hope that's what he believes). On the other hand, is bush brainwashing us? if you were brainwashed to support bush, would you know it? obviously not. Bush is trying to make us believe that the war in iraq is a good thing by not telling us when someone dies there. Thats partially where "hollow lies" comes from. The other part is that we were told our government had proof of weapons of mass destruction in iraq. There were none.

I used "we" to avoid offending anyone.

Please excuse any spelling and grammer mistakes I might have - English is my second language. (I originally come from Israel.)

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DJacques75
02-02-2005

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Bush is not as personally sadistic as Hitler, that is true. But remember that the world turned on Hitler BEFORE they knew about the depths of his depravity--before the Final Solution even began to be implemented. The fact that Hitler was a fervently nationalistic megalomaniac with a penchant for breaking treaties and invading countries for spurious reasons was enough to drag most of the civilized world into war (the United States entered as the result of some dishonorable machinations by our own leaders, but that's another story). And that description of Hitler fits Bush to a tee. If the world decides to slap the U.S. down like it did Hitler, what possible reason could there be to oppose that?

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DJacques75
02-02-2005

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I forgot to mention, the only thing I objected to in what acqu said was comparing 9/11 to the Reichstag fire. Reichstag was the deliberate act of the Nazi party. If there is any credible evidence that Bush deliberately arranged the events of 9/11, it hasn't surfaced. But it is true that the respective governments used the events to justify domestic repression.

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RiGhT-wInGpunk
02-03-2005

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Green day used to be great but this album riuned them for me. this song sounds awsome but i do my best to ignore the lyrics. the best song on this cd is blvd of brkn drms every thing else is horrible

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jesus_of_suburbia
02-08-2005

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alright. this song to me is definitely anti-war, and im sure most of the people here feel that way. Holiday comes right after Jesus of Suburbia, and i think that JOS is ready to find himself and differentiate himself from everybody and everything he’s grown up with. I'm probably wrong about this, but it's possible that JOS is in a bar, conversing with soldiers that are on their “Holiday.” They’re talking about how much shit bush has put them through and all the terror they’ve seen. The “falling rain” is bullets that they have to avoid as they’re coming towards them, and the “ones who died without a name” are the soldiers that lost their lives who never got identified. The “drums pounding out of time” is all the gunfire and missiles that are exploding around them. The protesters are obviously protesting the war. They’re having the protests, putting bags over monuments and gags in their mouths to demonstrate their lack of speech in the government. The soldiers are telling JOS about how they just want the war to be over, and how the government does everything possible to win.

Idk, this is just my interpretation. Let me know what you think
::super sinte::

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DJacques75
02-08-2005

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Interesting ideas, J.O.S., but I would point out that a lot more Iraqis were subjected to "falling rain" and "died without a name" than U.S. soldiers. Let's be clear: the people of Iraq are the primary victims of the war. The U.S. soldiers are, at best, pitiful and misguided accomplices to murder. I'm not sure why everyone seems to ignore that little detail.

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nobodylikesyou
02-11-2005

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hye ppls if u listen it says "sai- saint jimmy" at the very beginning! and brain stew i dont think JOS is skitzofrantic i think st jimmy and JOS arent the same person but st jimmy is a drug dealer and JOS is just your average kid who leaves home, gets a girlfriend, gets mixed up with drugs, his girlfriend (refered 2 as whatsername) breaks up 2 him. he realizes his life sucks then finaly goes bak home. well thats pretty much it but i could go into details. well thats my opinion neway but i still think thers no proof theyr the same person

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JasJ
02-12-2005

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It seems to me that JOS has just ran away from his broken home and comes across an anti-war protest. Here protestors are voicing their opinions on how gruesome ("hear the dogs howlin' out of key to a hymn called faith and misery") and pointless ("the ones who die w/o a name") the deaths are. They're saying that in a sense america has "lost the war today" because of all of the killing. "This is the dawning of the rest of our lives/ on holiday" was sorta confusing for a bit, but after listening to the song a few times I came up with an idea. Mabey it means that this chaos and fighting is what the rest of our lives is going to be like but it's not what our lives are supposed to be like. So, its almost like saying the disarray in our world is our lives on holiday because it's not what life is supposed to be like, it's as though we are on "holiday" (note the sarcasm in the song...). It's not in the lyrics above, but if you listen to the very last line of the song Billie says "this is our lives on holiday."--i kinda took the more literal meaning with this one...

But my favourite lines by far are:

Zeig Heil to the president gasman
Bombs away is your punishment
Pulverize the Eiffel towers
Who criticize your government
Bang bang goes the broken glass man
Kill all the fags that don't agree

Phenomenal album. Fantastic group. Love the song.

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sploosh
02-14-2005

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Well i read on one of the many websites that this is just all about Billie Joe being homeless ("Here the sound of the falling rain") and that the thing about "Zieng Heil to the president gasman" is just thrown in there. Basically i was getting the feeling it was about all the evil in the world..... But i dont know, it seems to me more bush- bashing than him being homeless. But it rocks so whatever

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sploosh
02-14-2005

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Oh yeah and that 'holiday' is just about escaping everything...

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Scattered
02-14-2005

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MrPryMinista:
I thought the same thing. I think it's just so the troops get warm fuzzies inside when they come back, because people are proud of them.

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guitaress
02-14-2005

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This song is AMAZING. Everybody in my economics class knows it and we bang it on the desks with our pens when the teacher's being an asshole.

The Veteran's Day explanation is the closest thing I've heard that makes sense about the song's title. Amazing song, awesome album...and now Rock Album of the Year...congrats to the guys of Green Day!

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lucky_guess_rox
02-15-2005

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My dear friend Scattered. I bought the album on the day it was released. I cultivated my own opinion by listening to the song.

Scattered is the perfect example of a naive, close minded and (dare I say it? Nah, it might make him go crying home to his mother. Hell, who gives a shit?) IDIOTIC Green Day listener. Evidently, he is supportive of Mr Bush, and is really hoping that his role model Billie Joe Armstrong is not against his political hero George Bush. Now, in later news...

My opinion regarding the song still hasn't changed (obviously) and Scattered isn't going to change my opinion (yes, at times I myself can be close minded.)

See you at the punk show

PS: It really isn't necessary for the subject of abuse/character in a song to be mentioned by their name. The perfedt example is Billy Talent's Standing In The Rain. In this song, is it ever once said that the song is about a whore? No! People came to the conclusion (and it was right! Shocker!) that it was about a street walker.

Once again, friend Scattered, you're the idiot. An american idiot! (starts laughing maniacly, then does little chicken dance.)

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vito_corleone05
02-15-2005

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People are saying that Green Day is "anti-American" or "anti-Bush" or whatever, I dont care. I like Bush, I like what Bush stands for. Better than Kerry anyways. The album is about America today. I like it, its really catchy, I like Billie's sound...now if I could only get my amp to sound like his.
But I do think this is about Bush and his policies, or something similar...

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AstnPwrvch
02-16-2005

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I think that this song, in context to the story, its about JOS and a bunhc of the kids in his neiborhood getting together before some of them get shipped off to war and they are dicussing their views and drinking...Like the chorus:

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives

Is like a toast that evening, saying "I dont agree with the war, but I support the soldiers and tonight is the beginning of what our lives were ment for."

and they are all together...

then we go right into Blvd. Of Broken Dreams, which is about being hungover, so he's alone after the party cause all his friends have gone off to fight...

thats how I string it together anyway

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DJacques75
02-18-2005

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Astn, the song is a bitter condemnation of the war. BJ would not be mawkish enough to pander to the obligatory "support our troops" drivel. Only politicians have to stoop to doing that.

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pseudo
02-18-2005

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For those of you asking about the meaning of "holiday", did you notice yet that the song was dated April 1st? So i guess they're referring to April Fool's Day, not veteran's day or anything. But still, holiday obviously must have some double-meaning in the song.

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canadianrockchic
02-18-2005

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this is one of my ideas about what the lyrics "this is our lives on Holiday" might refer to. Whenever americans go on a holiday to where ever they may go they are usually bombarded with people saying that they hate bush and your presidents an idiot, why do u vote 4 him!! and so on.., wherever americans go on holiday they are bombarded with anti bush remarks.. people saying that he's like Hitler n all the other anti bush remarks in this song.. GreenDay and any other american who travels can experience this so this is OUR,.. well.. im Canadian but this is AMERICANS lives on Holiday! and what do most of the americans have to say once these people in other counties throw anti bush remarks on them.. they would ususaly say WELL i don't like him! "i beg to dream and differ from the hallow lies"! of Bush

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green_day_FREAK
02-18-2005

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it's kinda funny to watch you guys rip your freakin' heads off...

hehe...sry...

i like the song a lot...and the entire album is, in my opinion, great. Even if i'm not really a good example, cause i think that everything coming from Green Day is awesome (don't start thinking i only knew them since A.I. when i say that....)(GOD NO...cause if i did, i wouldn't have been really attracted to it...i mean A.I. (the album) is kewl but...like...a little...less...than...Dookie and stuff...)

anyways...Green Day are my heroes and i'll love them FOREVER...

P.S.:sry for the (...)s i guess i just can't control myself when i start...

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THENEXTHENDRIX
02-18-2005

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Bush is nohing like hitler. Hiter invaded countries because he wanted to be ruler of the free world, he said Germany would rule the world for 1000 years. He also wanted to kill off all the Jews in those countries. We would not have let Iraq vote on a leader if we weren't planing to give the country back to the Iraqi people (America is the only country ever to capture another one and give it back). Second, Bush's agenda is not to kill off all the muslims, this is a war against terror. Bush is tying to free the world of terror and make it a better place, it is up to you to decide if you agree with the way he's doing it. Hitler was some freak bent on the destruction of all those who stood in his way of global domination, and I don't care how uch you hate Bush you cannot compare him to hitler.

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WeezDay
02-19-2005

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its gonna be so disappointing if this is made into a single, cause then all the mainstream, non-Green Day fans will start singing it, and it will suffer the same heavy-rotation-on-the-radio fate as Blvd of Broken Dreams did

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SilverCloud
02-20-2005

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love the song. hating the politics. Just to blow some steam im gonna go asshole american and scream at the top of my lungs JUST NUKE ALL THE BASTARDS.

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SilverCloud
02-20-2005

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i agree with WeezDay...that would suck eggs.

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DJacques75
02-20-2005

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Thenext, Bush is not as cruel as Hitler; you are right there. However, he is an amoral warmonger who has openly declared that the United States will invade any nation it pleases whenever it pleases, and made us a pariah in the process.

You may forget that Hitler also had excuses for invading countries. He said Czechoslovakia and Poland were security threats. Compared to Bush's claim that Iraq was a threat to the U.S., Hitler seems to have been rather sane.

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