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Mark Knopfler - Don't Forget Your Hat

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Album: Privateering
Released: 2012

Don't Forget Your Hat Lyrics

Well, look out the window
Never saw so much rain
You better get down to the station
If you want to catch that train
So long, I guess that's that
Hey, hey, Don't Forget Your Hat

Well, you don't call the action
You don't make the rules
You don't pay the piper
You don't even pay the fuel
So long, I guess that's that
Hey, hey, don't forget your hat

Well, it's a big old world out there
Go get it if you can
You got a ways to go
Before you get to be a man
So long, I guess that's that
Hey, hey, don't forget your hat

Writer/s: MARK KNOPFLER
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Don't Forget Your Hat

This Blues boogie is one of several tracks on Privateering to feature the harmonica playing of Kim Wilson of the Blues rockers The Fabulous Thunderbirds. "One of the most important things about the blues to me has always been the harp," said Knopfler. "Seeing Muddy Waters as a kid made a big impression on me, the harp was burbling away all the time, the band was swinging. And to me the greatest modern exponent is Kim Wilson, he's been my top man for many years, so it was really great to have him on board. We hit it off straight away and got a great session going."

Traditional - Frankie And Johnny

Traditional - Frankie And Johnny Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: various
Released: 1904

Frankie And Johnny Lyrics

Frankie And Johnny

Originally titled "Frankie and Albert," this traditional murder ballad was inspired by the real-life crime of passion committed by Frankie Baker in 1899. Frankie discovered her lover, Albert Britt, had been with another woman and took revenge by shooting him at a boardinghouse in St. Louis, Missouri. She would be acquitted under plea of self-defense.

The origins of the song as we know it today are a bit murky. That same year, local singer Bill Dooley composed a song sensationalizing the case, and it became a popular mainstay in local saloons before its official publication as "Frankie and Johnny" in 1904. The song was not credited to Dooley, however, but to ragtime composer/lyricist Hughie Cannon.

Frank and Bert Leighton's 1908 version, which was published as "Frankie and Johnny" in 1912, brought us the familiar opening:

Frankie and Johnny were sweethearts
They had a quarrel one day

Countless covers over the years have provided many variations of the song. Sometimes the duo are "lovers" instead of "sweethearts." Johnny's mistress can be Alice Pry or Nelly Bly. Sometimes, Frankie is cheered by onlookers as she shoots Johnny and is exonerated; other times, she's executed.

Many artists have recorded this, including Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash. Sam Cooke sang a cleaner version than most, which is the most popular contemporary cover. Here are the charting versions in America:

1959, #57 - Johnny Cash
1961, #20 - Brook Benton
1963, #14 - Sam Cooke
1964, #75 - The Greenwood County Singers
1966, #25 - Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley starred in a 1966 movie called Frankie And Johnny where he performed the song. In 1991, another movie of the same name was released starring Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer, who in one scene banter over the song when they realize they are named Frankie and Johnny. The exchange:

Pfeiffer: Didn't they kill each other?
Pacino: No. She killed him. You got the edge there.

In 1942, the real Frankie Baker filed a defamation suit against Republic Pictures for the 1936 film Frankie and Johnnie, starring Helen Morgan and Chester Morris. Frankie lost the lawsuit and was never able to escape her reputation as a murderer, though she had been acquitted. She said during the (defamation) court proceedings: "I was pointed out as the worst woman in the world and introduced as the Frankie of song, instead of Miss Baker."

Brook Benton's R&B version was included in the 2011 compilation Mad Men: A Musical Companion.

Anika Noni Rose performed this in the 2011 miniseries Bag of Bones, based on the Stephen King novel. Rose played Sara Tidwell in the movie.

Natalia Kills - Daddy's Girl

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Album: Trouble
Released: 2013

Daddy's Girl Lyrics

Rich girl, and you've gone too far
'Cause you know it don't matter anyway
You can rely on the old man's money
You can rely on the old man's money
It's a bitch, girl, but it's going too far
'Cause you know it don't matter anyway
Say money, money won't get you too far, get you too far

You messed up, yeah you messed up bad,
Rolled the dice on the life we had,
Played your tough guy game, you threw it all away…
(Money money)
We had diamonds and we had pearls,
Champagne life like a Daddy's Girl,
But the risks you take ain't worth the price you pay…

I'll keep your secrets, I'll never tell,
You know I'll ride with you right through the fire of hell…
They got your number, but you're safe with me,
Even if they lock you up and throw away the key

You know…
I'll be there whenever you call
Oh I'll be there whenever you call
Oh no, I'll never let you down
I hear your voice aloud in my heart
Oh no, they'll never keep us apart
Oh no, I'll never let you down

Rich girl got that bad boy love
Rich girl better run, run, run
Rich girl got that bad boy love
Rich girl keep running, running…

Mansion, ransom, gangster man,
Can't wipe that blood right off your hands,
Your Scarface heart ain't stopped me loving you babe…
(Money money)
Con-man, wrong plan, how you fall,
Got no more cash stashed in your walls,
The Repo man got debts for your soul to pay.

Do I look pretty through all your tears?
Can your diamond Rolex count the goddamn years?
Was it worth it? Don't you miss me bad?
Too late to trade it all for that one last chance.

You know…
I'll be there whenever you call
Oh I'll be there whenever you call
Oh no, I'll never let you down
I hear your voice aloud in my heart
Oh no, they'll never keep us apart
Oh no, I'll never let you down

Let them take it all away
The sweet Rosé, the Cartier,
To stop the warden call your name
I'd give you all my freedom babe,
I love you right, I love you wrong,
When all our luck and money's gone,
Cause they don't know you like I know
I'd never let you down

Rich girl got that bad boy love
Rich girl better run, run, run
Rich girl got that bad boy love
Rich girl keep running, running…
Rich girl got that bad boy love
Rich girl better run, run, run
Rich girl, rich girl
I'll never let you down!

I'll be there whenever you call
Oh I'll be there whenever you call
Oh no, I'll never let you down
I hear your voice aloud in my heart
Oh no, they'll never keep us apart
Oh no, I'll never let you down

Writer/s: JEFF BHASKER, DARYL HALL, NATALIA CAPPUCCINI, GUILLAUME DOUBET
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Daddy's Girl

This is a track from Natalia Kills' second album, Trouble, which recounts various memories of her awkward riches-to-rags childhood. She explained to Marie Claire: "When I was born, my family had a lot, but by the time I was 11, my dad had been accused of being a criminal and we were visiting him in jail. The police took everything - all the cars, all the houses."

This love song is Kills' personal favorite from the album. The track explores her mother's devotion to her father while he was in prison. "I'm 26 now and I kind of get it," she told Billboard magazine of her mother's decision to remain supportive. She sings:

"Let them take it all the way. The sweet Rozay, the Cartier
Stop the warden, call your name
I'd give you all my freedom, babe."

"It's basically like, I'd trade all of these luxurious things we've ever had just to have you come back to me," Kills explained. "So that's what the champagne and Rolex symbolizes on the cover."

The song contains a sample from "Rich Girl" by Hall & Oates.

The Black Crowes - High Head Blues

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Album: Amorica
Released: 1994

High Head Blues Lyrics

Sometimes I have a ghetto in my mind
Other times sunshine high head fine
In between I get cold, old mean
Intertwined with country pride open and kind

This draws a line
Sorry to coin a phrase
On either side is wisdom and rage
So keeping track of time
Racing with my age
Sleeping with the snakes
Forget that you showed up late
It ain't worth it baby

[Chorus:]
A charmed life it is
At least they tell you so
I got a good idea
It ain't like they say is so
And if it is then let me go
Let me go

Any day there might be hell to pay
But in other ways
It makes it seem OK
I'll tell you what I mean
It's not a plot nor a scheme
It's just peace in my mind
Again can I use the word kind
I ain't sorry about it baby

[Chorus]

Writer/s: CHRIS ROBINSON, CHRISTOPHER MARK ROBINSON, RICH ROBINSON, RICH S. ROBINSON
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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High Head Blues

A Latin-tinged track from the third Black Crowes album, this song refers to being sober and the need to get high: "In between I get cold, old, and mean."

The band had a love affair with marijuana around this time: they were featured on the cover of High Times magazine in 1992, and played the Atlanta Pot Festival.

At the end of the song, the Spanish after the solo translates into "This is the best weed."

French filmmaker Michel Gondry, who directed Björk's debut "Human Behaviour" clip a year earlier, helmed the music video that has a tiny flying saucer landing in frontman Chris Robinson's house so he can become the subject of alien experiments.

Nine Inch Nails - In Two

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Album: Hesitation Marks
Released: 2013

In Two Lyrics

In Two

This song features axe work by Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham, one of three songs on Hesitation Marks that he played guitar on. Said Trent Reznor, "I thought his style might be so out it would be in, compared to the alien landscapes we were dropping him into."

Bad Company - Burnin' Sky

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Album: Burnin' Sky
Released: 1977

Burnin' Sky Lyrics

The sky is burnin' I believe my soul's on fire,
You are, I'm learning, the key to my desire.

Waiting for the van to arrive,
The prisoners were lined up outside.
Jumped a wall, hitched a ride,
and now I'm here to say;
Love you, baby, anyway, oh, yeah.

The sky is burnin' I believe my soul is on fire,
You are, I'm learning, the key to my desire.

Ran across the country fields, in all terrain,
they had guns and dogs and everything.
Swam a river try'n to lose my trail,
But they caught me, under the bridge. Oh yeah!

The sky is burnin' I believe my soul's on fire,
You are, I'm learning, the key to my desire.

Oh, yeah.

The sky is burnin' I believe my soul's on fire,
You are, I am learning, the key to my desire.

The judge said, 'this man's a danger to humanity,
We're gonna lock him up and throw away the key'
Now, baby, your love has sent me to jail
But I'd rather die than see you with another man

It's burnin' baby, mm, mm; I believe my souls on fire

I believe my souls on fire,
Working on the railroad, every day
But they can't keep me here
And I'm not gonna stay
I got to get outta this place
I'll see you, baby.

It's burnin', yeah, it's burnin'.
I believe my souls on fire,
Keep on burnin',
Ah, yeah, yeah, ah, oh, oho. Keep on burnin'

Writer/s: PAUL RODGERS, PAUL BERNARD RODGERS
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Burnin' Sky

Paul Rodgers (Classic Rock Revisited January 12, 2001: "I had the chorus to that. It just popped into my head one day - The Sky Is Burning. I didn't know quite why the sky was burning and my soul was on fire. We needed material for the Burning Sky album. I was in a hotel in Paris the day before we were due to go into the sessions and I needed to write some songs. We had been on the road pretty heavily and we were pretty burned. I had the chorus and I worked the chords out for it. I worked out some verse chords. I went to the studio and I had them learn the chords but we had no lyrics at all. We counted it off and hit the button. We went into it, (singing) "The sky is burning" and I wrote the lyrics on the spot. That was pretty amazing I thought. It was one take and I made the lyrics up as I went along."

Okkervil River - It Was My Season

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Album: The Silver Gymnasium
Released: 2013

It Was My Season Lyrics

Tell me a reason
To break things off,
Or stop the bleeding,
When it's my season.

My mind was just revving.
Your eyes, they went hard.
Our parents were freaking,
But it was our season,
All that time ago.

And if you want to stop our "thing" you'll stop my heart.
All this pain inside's still just too sharp.

What was I thinking?
Step out of your trailer
And into this dark!
It's warm and it's breathing,
And it's our season.

Your dad is half sleeping.
But, really, he's gone.
Can you hear his VCR weeping?
They crossed his wires completely
When they made him fire that gun.

I'll say to you: to cut it off's to cut me down
If they take me out of school, you out of town
I called a friend, my world at end, my words unwound.
I said, "It's crashing down around our heads".
We're dumb. We're dead. Shut up about it now.

I won't say I'm sorry, and how would they know?
Below the Atari I could feel your heart was just going.
We'll meet on the weekend. Your dad won't be home.
Your sister's out cleaning.
You don't need to speak it, because I know,
Baby, I know. I said I know.
You know I know.
That it was our season.

It's hard to believe it.
There isn't a reason.
It's only a feeling
When I look back on it now, remember how
Mixed up I got before they got me sorted out
All that heart-in-my-mouth,
All that head filled with doubt,
It's fading out.
I hardly think about it now.

They say that I'll go to college
And you will stay home
And watch while I'm leaving,
And the cold will just creep in.
Oh, Jason, I know.

Writer/s: WILL SHEFF
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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It Was My Season

This the opening track from The Silver Gymnasium, the seventh album by the Austin, Texas-based indie band Okkervil River. The record is a love letter to Meriden, New Hampshire, where frontman Will Sheff grew up and this song finds him recounting happy memories of childhood summers spent there in the '80s.

This song's music video features a stage set painted in 1919 by artist Maxfield Parrish. It is now preserved in Meridian's town hall.

Bad Company - Shooting Star

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Album: Straight Shooter
Released: 1975

Shooting Star Lyrics

Johnny was a schoolboy
When he heard his first Beatles song
'Love Me Do' I think it was
And from there it didn't take him long

Got himself a guitar
Used to play every night
Now he's in a rock and roll outfit
And everything's all right
Don't ya know

Johnny told his mama
Hey, Mama, I'm going away
I'm gonna hit the big time
Gonna be a big star someday

Momma came to the door
With a teardrop in her eye
Johnny said "Don't cry Momma,
Smile and wave goodbye."

Don't you know

Don't you know
That you are a Shooting Star,(don't you know, don't you know)
Don't you know that you are
A shooting star
And all the world will love you
Just as long, as long as you are?

Johnny made a record
Went straight up to number one
Suddenly everyone loved to hear him sing his song
Watching the world go by
Surprising it goes so fast
Johnny looked around him
And said "Well I made the big time at last."

Don't you know
That you are a shooting star,(don't you know, don't you know)
Don't you know that you are
A shooting star
And all the world will love you
Just as long, as long as you are?

A shooting star

Don't you know
That you are a shooting star,(don't you know, don't you know)
Don't you know that you are
A shooting star
And all the world will love you
Just as long, as long as you are?

Johnny died one night
Died in his bed
Bottle of whiskey, sleeping tablets
By his head

Johnny's life passed him
By like a warm summer day
If you listen to the wind
You can still hear him play

Don't you know

Don't you know
That you are a shooting star,(don't you know, don't you know)
Don't you know that you are
A shooting star
And all the world will love you
Just as long, as long as you are?

Writer/s: PAUL RODGERS, PAUL BERNARD RODGERS
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Shooting Star

This tells the story of young boy who grows up to be a rock star, but he succumbs to rock and roll excess and dies of a drug overdose. According to Bad Company lead singer Paul Rodgers, the song is a warning. He wrote it about the casualties of the music business; people like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin as well as others who didn't make it.

An eerie parallel to the character in this song is Paul Kossoff, who was Paul Rogers' bandmate in the group Free. Kossoff died of a heroin overdose in 1976, a year after this was released. The guitarist was just 25 years old when he died.

Sara Evans - Slow Me Down

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Album: Slow Me Down
Released: 2013

Slow Me Down Lyrics

Wheels are turning in my mind
Don't want to leave, but I might this time
Seconds from whispering goodbye
Yeah, the wheels are turning in my mind

If all that's left to do is walk away
Then, baby, I'm as gone as yesterday
But if there's something you still need to say
You need to say it now
Hurry up and Slow Me Down
Slow me down

If you let this train roll down these tracks
Going to wish you tried to talk me back
Boy, you're going to miss everything we had
If you let this train roll down these tracks

If all that's left to do is walk away
Then, baby, I'm as gone as yesterday
But if there's something you still need to say
You need to say it now
Hurry up and slow me down
Slow me down

The wheels are turning in my mind
Don't want to leave, but I might this time

If all that's left to do is walk away
Then, baby, I'm as gone as yesterday
But if there's something you still need to say
You need to say it now (you need say it now)
Oh, you need to say it now (you need to say it now)
Hurry up and slow me down
Slow me down

Slow me down

Writer/s: HEATHER LYNN MORGAN, MARV GREEN, JIMMY ROBBINS
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Slow Me Down

This Marv Green, Heather Morgan, and Jimmy Robbins penned mid-tempo Country ballad was released by Sara Evans as the lead single from her seventh studio album. Evans debuted the song during her annual fan club party in June 2013.

The track is sung from the perspective of a woman threatening to walk out on her man. "I knew, as I've known with other songs that I've written and recorded, that 'Slow Me Down' was me," said Evans. "I love songs that evoke emotion — it really is what connects people to the music. When we went into the studio to record ['Slow Me Down'] my main goal was to capture the desperation and passion in the song — to strike a balance between a strong vocal and the emotion that would pull in the listener."

The song's narrator finishes by telling her man that if he has something to say that he should "hurry up and slow [her] down."

"There's definitely something about it," Evans told Billboard magazine. "That's what we all felt when we heard it. When they pitched it to us, it was so emotional and the thought of 'Hurry Up and Slow Me Down' is one of the best lines I have heard in a song in so long. I'm very lucky they pitched it to me."

The song's music video was directed by Peter Zavadil, who has helmed many of Evans' previous clips. Her love interest is played by NASCAR driver Carl Edwards, who got a call from the singer just days before the scheduled shoot. Evans admitted that she didn't know who Edwards was. "I don't really follow NASCAR. I love going to the races, and I've sung the National Anthem at the races, and it's so exciting. But, I really didn't know much about him until he came to be in the video - and he's a great actor. He was so into the role," she said to Billboard magazine, smiling.

"I told him to be mean and be a jerk, and be a total ass so I could muster up the emotion I needed for the part," Evans continued. "He was incredible. He was a great bad guy, but a real nice guy."

Evans said to Billboard magazine regarding the album's alluring cover art: "I loved the idea of standing in front of the clock because of 'Slow Me Down.' We were shooting at this beach house in Malibu, and this clock was outside. We liked the way – not to sound weird – that the legs looked, thought it was sexy, but still classy. We're standing in front of the clock, it says 'Slow Me Down,' and the legs are a part of the clock, almost."

I also loved the one-sleeve sweater with the bangles," she added, "so style-wise, I thought it was cool with the fashion."

Evans said regarding the song's meaning: "I love what the song says. 'hurry up and slow me down' is obviously a great play on words, but it means so much more than that. She is basically saying, 'I need you to know that I'm willing to give this relationship a chance, but if you don't change your ways, I'm leaving. But when I'm walking away, I want you to hurry up and slow me down. I want you to pursue me.'"

The song became the centerpiece of Evans' Slow Me Down album as it was the singer's favorite track. "There's just something about it," she told Radio.com . "It's sad, but it's also kind of mysterious."

"I just love how the girl in the song is so completely vulnerable because she's saying, 'I love you and I want to be with you, but I'm trying to tell you that these things need to change, and if they don't, then I've got to leave," Evans continued. "I've got to have that much self respect, and I have to walk away from the situation, but I hope that you won't be able to live without me and that you'll stop me from leaving.'"

Green Day - Redundant

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Album: Nimrod
Released: 1997

Redundant Lyrics

We're living in repetition
Content in the same old shtick again
Now the routine's turning to contention
Like a production line going over and over and over
Roller coaster
Now I cannot speak, I lost my voice
I'm speechless and Redundant
'Cause I love you's not enough
I'm lost for words

Choreographed and lack of passion
Prototypes of what we were
Went full circle 'til I'm nauseous
Taken for granted now
I waste it, faked it, ate it, now I hate it
'Cause I cannot speak, I lost my voice
I'm speechless and redundant
'Cause I love you's not enough
I'm lost for words

Now I cannot speak, I lost my voice
I'm speechless and redundant
'Cause I love you's not enough
I'm lost for words
Now I cannot speak, I lost my voice
I'm speechless and redundant
'Cause I love you's not enough
I'm lost for words

Writer/s: BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG, FRANK E., III WRIGHT, FRANK EDWIN WRIGHT III, MICHAEL PRITCHARD, MIKE DIRNT, MIKE RYAN PRITCHARD, TRE COOL
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Redundant

The definition of Redundant: Characterized by or containing an excess or superfluous amount. The song is about loving someone so much that love can't express how much you DO love them.

The Strypes - What The People Don't See

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Album: Snapshot
Released: 2013

What The People Don't See Lyrics

The girls get so excited,
The boys can't get enough,
Mr. Business has invited you to show the world your stuff,
It's the express train, one way, moving so fast,
You better make it quick 'cause the attention don't last.

You've got it,
I'm sure,
But I've seen it all before,
And I wonder,
Secretly,
How I see What The People Don't See.

The competition is such a sight to be seen,
But you've got to be good looking to get on the silver screen,
You're today's sensation,
But tomorrow's looking bleak,
Now you've got to get them out to make it through to next week.

Writer/s: EVAN NIALL WALSH, JOSHUA SIMPSON MCCLOREY, PETER JAMES O'HANLON, ROSS AARON FARRELLY
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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What The People Don't See

This song was a originally a B-side to The Strypes debut single "Blue Collar Jane." Producer Chris Thomas hadn't heard the tune because the band did it with Squeeze member/Strypes mentor Chris Difford. They re-recorded the track for Snapshot after Thomas asked for another song for the album. Vocalist Josh McClorey told NME: "We'd sort of written it off but Chris was asking for another song so we played him that. Now we're very happy with it."

Green Day - Jesus Of Suburbia

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Album: American Idiot
Released: 2004

Jesus Of Suburbia Lyrics

I'm the son of rage and love
The Jesus Of Suburbia
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 that I got away with

And 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 in my private womb
While the Moms and brats are away
To fall in love and fall in debt
To alcohol and cigarettes
And Mary Jane
To keep me insane
Doing someone else's cocaine

And 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

At the center of the earth
In the parking lot
Of the 7-11 where I was taught
The motto was just a lie

It says home is where your heart is
But what a shame
Cause everyone's heart
Doesn't beat the same
It's 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

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 don't care if you don't
I don't care if you don't
I don't care if you don't care

I don't care

Everyone's so full of shit
Born and raised by hypocrites
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!

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

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 lights 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

Oh you're leaving
You're leaving
You're leaving
Are you leaving home?

Writer/s: MICHAEL PRITCHARD, FRANK E., III WRIGHT, BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Jesus Of Suburbia

Jesus Of Suburbia is the main character of American Idiot. He's a kid who hates his family, friends, and home.

This song is broken down into five sections:

Part I. Jesus Of Suburbia: This is an introduction of the character and tells about his home life.

Part II. City Of The Damned: This takes place in a 7/11 parking lot where he got into a fight and first realized he hated his friends and home: "The 7/11 where I was taught, the motto was a lie, it says home is where the heart is, but everyone's heart doesn't beat the same." The lyric, "At the end of another lost highway," refers to the group of kids who hang out under the highway where once again he doesn't fit in.

Part III. I Don't Care: This is where he becomes an outcast hating everyone and everything, and also in the story this is where St. Jimmy (a character Jesus created to heal the pain of a lost girlfriend) ties in, saying he hates everything now. This is where he considers leaving home.

Part IV. Dearly Beloved: Not much is known on this part. It's believed to be the peaceful, yet hard twilight between anger and happiness where you are content.

Part V. Tales From Another Broken Home: This is where Jesus just gives up and leaves. He doesn't know where he's going, but he's just going far away: "Running away from pain when you've been victimized." This is where he's leaving everyone that hated and hurt him, sort of starting over and beginning a new life.

Billie Joe Armstrong stated on VH1 Storytellers that the line, "While the mums and Brads are away" means that in this day and age children speak to their step parents on a first name basis.

In the video, the Jesus of Suburbia character has tattoos similar to Billie Joe Armstrong: a skull and crossbones on his upper arm, and "EPBM" on his left wrist. The actor who played Jesus of Suburbia is Lou Taylor Pucci, who appeared in the movies Fifty Pills and Thumbsucker.

This song was somewhat of a rebirth for the band. Armstrong explained: "It broke every rule people thought Green Day were supposed to be. Lyrically, it's everything about my past, but at the same time, written on the outside as well. That song is like purging everything, throwing it out."

"Right after I came up with [the phrase] 'American Idiot,' I came up with [the album's protagonist], 'Jesus of Suburbia,'" Armstrong told MTV. 'I felt like it crossed that line between church and state or politics and religion. I thought, 'How would I interpret the Bible even though I've never really read it?' So, there's no burning bush, but there's burning towns and ethics."

Armstrong felt like the band reached a point of no return after creating the track. He told VH1 Storytellers: "'Jesus of Suburbia' took a long time. We were driving back, because we were in the studio up in Oakland, and the only thing I could think of was like, 'holy s---t, I can't believe we just made this thing,' and there was this fear, like there's no looking back now."

American Idiot was adapted into a stage musical in 2009, including an expanded storyline following three disenchanted youths living in suburbia set to music from the album and other Green Day offerings. The band didn't appear in the production, but Armstrong did occasionally participate as the St. Jimmy character.