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Jun 17th 2010!⃝

My interpretation, it might be wrong but oh well.
Since the whole album is just a story about Jesus of Suburbia, I'll interpret all the songs.

AMERICAN IDIOT: The narrator (probably JoS) is saying that he doesn't want to be part of this "IDIOT AMERICA". Hes saying that he doesn't want to follow every other American and he doesn't want to be part of the "REDNECK AGENDA".

JESUS OF SUBURBIA: JoS is just a troubled teenager in the suburbs (hence, Jesus of Suburbia). He's saying how much he hates his home and city (CITY OF THE DAMNED), which is Jingletown. In the line "IT SAYS HOME IS WHERE YOUR HEART IS, BUT WHAT A SHAME, BECAUSE EVERYONES HEART DOESNT BEAT THE SAME", JoS is saying that he's not like everyone and he hates his home. I the part called "I DONT CARE", JoS is just explaining the flaws in his city and that he doesn't care for any of it. In "DEARLY BELOVED", JoS is wondering what is wrong with him, probably questioning the first part of the song. In "TALES OF ANOTHER BROKEN HOME", JoS is running away without any shame (I DONT FEEL ANY SHAME, I WONT APOLOGIZE). He wants to leave behind the "hurricane of fuckin' lies". He hates his home so much, saying it is "BROKEN".

HOLIDAY: This is when JoS is starting his new life, which is like a "HOLIDAY".

BLVD OF BROKEN DREAMS: JoS is feeling lonely and wondering if his old home still remembers and misses him and if what he did was right.

ARE WE THE WAITING: JoS is looking for something to cheer him up, he is sort of "WAITING". He dreams of his old home/city being burnt down (THIS DIRTY TOWN WAS BURNING DOWN IN MY DREAMS). He says that the JESUS OF SUBURBIA is a lie but it is the story of his life.

ST. JIMMY: JoS finds a new "identity", which is a person who goes by the name "Jimmy", which is JoS's real name. St Jimmy is somewhat more "evil" than JoS and completely takes JoS over.

GIVE ME NOVOCAINE: JoS is talking about a migraine in his head, which is being caused by his alter ego, St Jimmy. He is saying that Jimmy is making him go crazy but Jimmy is telling him that he is a good alter ego. JoS is being controlled and mindwashed by himself.

SHES A REBEL: JoS meets the girl of his dreams, WHATSERNAME, a rebel. WHATSERNAME is St Jimmy's opposite/opponent. In LETTERBOMB, you can see this clearly.

EXTRAORDINARY GIRL: JoS is explaining how he and WHATSERNAME are perfect each other, the missing piece of their puzzles.

LETTERBOMB: WHATSERNAME writes a letter to JoS asking him what happened to him. In the line "WHATS IN LOVE IS NOW IN DEBT", WHATSERNAME is quoting JoS, who was saying that all the love is gone. WHATSERNAME tells JoS that he's not the JESUS OF SUBURBIA and that ST JIMMY is a figment of his father's rage and his mother's love. Shes trying to set JoS, or JImmy, straight.

WAKE ME UP WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS: This song actually had about nothing to do with the story. It was about Billie Joe Armstrong's dad who died in September twenty years before the song. "LIKE MY FATHERS COME TO PASS, TWENTY YEARS HAS GONE SO FAST". He doesn't want to remember the pain of September.

HOMECOMING: In "THE DEATH OF ST JIMMY", St Jimmy "killed himself" or JoS killed his alter ego, probably listening to what WHATSERNAME said in LETTERBOMB. JoS also says that St Jimmy taught him how to live and that St Jimmy was the "spark in the night" in the "city of lust". JoS says that St Jimmy blames mom and dad for everything bad. In EAST 12TH STREET, JoS says that he is done acting like he's been acting. He wants to get out of his new life.In "NOBODY LIKES YOU", JoS is talking about St Jimmy on how nobody liked him and wondering where he went. JoS is moving on from his "St Jimmy" phase. In "ROCK N ROLL GIRLFRIEND", JoS tells the long gone St Jimmy that he has a new life and he is enjoying it. He says that he hasnt drank of smoked anything, so he's moved on and become some kind of "good" person. In "WE'RE COMING HOME AGAIN", JoS returns home to his fellow rebels in the suburbs. Hes completely moved on.

WHATSERNAME: JoS has long since moved on, living a new life when he suddenly remembers his long lost love, WHATSERNAME. He believes that he ran into her down the street and he wanted to burn all the photographs of back then. He doesn't want to miss WHATSERNAME, but she is always in his head, even though the last time he saw her was "forever ago".

And that was my interpretation of Green Day's American Idiot album.