Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends

[Mr_Spock]

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This video always gets to me. I think most people here know the political significance in this video.

When will September end...?

[blue cat]

1. Green day

I love their video "Holiday". I've been listening to it lots lately. It pumps me up for the election.

[blue cat]

6. Holiday

http://youtube.com/watch?v=b_dZbht0e2g

I will be partying on November 8th! I've been pretty optimistic, although I've been incredibly snappy since the attack on Kerry. I was a bitch at work because it was at the back of my mind. It breaks my heart that they took out such a great democrat who was campaigning his heart out. He came to Austin to campaign for Bell, but I couldn't get off work to see him. He also spoke at a Cancer group. After all the bad things that we have seen these last six years, I'm anxious for Karma to come knocking. We are well overdue.

[Mr_Spock]

10. sieg hiel to the president gasman, Bombs away is your punishment!

Holiday Lyrics


Say! Hey!

Hear the sound of the falling rain
Coming down like an armageddon flame (Hey!)
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 of our lives
On holiday

hey!

3, 4!

The representative from California has the floor...
sieg hiel to the president gasman,
Bombs away is your punishment!
Pulverize the Eifle towers,
who criticize your governments!
Bang bang goes the broken glass and,
Kill all the fags that don't agree!
triumph by fire, sett

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. That makes me think of the kids who signed up right after 9/11,

thinking they were doing something they would be proud of.

[Mr_Spock]

4. Reminds me of the neverending barrage of fear & killing since September

When will it end?

Hopefully next Tuesday will be the beginning of us moving on as a nation...

[JuniperLea]

9. Me too

Those poor, brave kids.

[Caoimhe]

3. Always tears me up

I love Green Day

[Mr_Spock]

5. I can't watch it without getting a damned lump in my throat

It reminds me of all the shit we've been through since 9/11 due to Bushco's promotion of fear & lack of humanity & humility.

[Indiana_Dem]

7. I've heard the song several times but I've never seen the video..

what a powerful analogy to the war and everything that's been done since Sept. 11th. It makes me cry.

[Glenda]

8. K & R

thanks for posting!

:kick:

[Zen]

11. Poignant video

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[ourvoicescount]

12. A+++++ Thanks for the post, great video.

[Carni]

13. That is the first time I have ever seen the video

I have the CD (never seem to catch videos anymore)

I had no idea what the song was about!

That video pretty much lays it all out, I guess when I think of Iraq it's so abstract that I forget that these are real people and their families dying and suffering for this admin's lies (even to someone like me that has known the whole invasion was based on lies and forgeries since day one)

Our enlisted never even saw this coming--it's as though this administration is shooting all of our troops in the back (not surprising given the nature of cowardice bushit has displayed throughout his entire life)

They signed up to defend... not to become a prop for a bunch of (so called conservative) thieves and liars.

When the hell are we going to convince the public to get these right winged nuts to allow those kids to get the hell out of there?

Thanks for posting this.

[Mr_Spock]

14. Really hits home, doesn't it?

Let's hope September will be over soon, stating next Tuesday.

[Hailtothechimp]

15. September as a metaphor for everything going on.

They either let or made 9/11 happen.

Does anybody believe we would be in Iraq without it? I don't.

[OneBlueSky]

16. back when Green Day first came out, I dismissed them as just another . . .

Nirvana wannabe group . . . and didn't bother with them until this CD was released and my opinion took a 180 . . . now I think they're some really talented guys who've written and performed some great songs -- and this is one of them . . .