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6,825
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Song Views:
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Online Users:
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Submitted By: Rest Easy Soul
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This song won Green Day two Kids Choice Awards Blimps in 2006 for Favorite Musical Group and Favorite Song
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Submitted By: Big D
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There once was much debate about what the song was about, one of the most common initial beliefs being that it is about the events of 9/11. However, Billie Joe Armstrong has confirmed to the public that the song was written as a memorial anthem about his father, a jazz musician and minor league baseball catcher, who died of lung cancer when Armstrong was only ten years old.
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Submitted By: Big D
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The video clip of the song features the story of a teenage couple, played by Jamie Bell and Evan Rachel Wood.
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Submitted By: Big D
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This song is in the key of G major and is four minutes and forty five seconds long. The verses are an example of 32-bar AABA form.
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Submitted By: Big D
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The song's melody is remarkably similar to melody of Rockin' Chair by Oasis.
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Submitted By: Big D
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In this melancholy ballad, Armstrong revisits his painful childhood and thinks about the day he lost his innocence when his father died. Like many faced with such a traumatic event, he never truly recovered, and he can't believe that twenty years have passed since that September day. As Armstrong associates pain with the month September, he would rather not deal with anything related to the month, prompting him to sing, "As my memory rests, but never forgets what I lost... Wake me up when September ends..."
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Submitted By: Big D
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The song eventually became a tribute song to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, and sound bytes were added from various news coverages to the song. A live version of the song, recorded on September 3, 2005 at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts was released soon after and dedicated to the hurricane's victims.
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