Green Day: Bullet in a Bible Page #5

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Jim, come off of black.

Hold that.

This f***ing camera-

- Mario, hold that.

- Awesome.

Right, hold that, hold that.

Right there, good. That, hold that.

Oh yeah, good, good, good!

Awesome! F***!

Beautiful, Mario,

keep that.

- F***, man.

- George- George, is good.

Reload it.

- How was it?

- It was good.

It wasn't great?

King for

a day!

Started at the age of 4.

My mother went to the grocery store.

Went sneaking through her bedroom door,

to find something in a size 4

Sugar and spice and everything nice,

wasn't made for only girls.

GI Joe in panty hose is making

room for the one and only.

King for a day, princess by dawn.

King for a day in a leather thong.

King for a day, princess by dawn.

Just wait 'til all the guys get a load of me.

England!

My daddy threw me in therapy.

He thinks I'm not a real man.

Who put the drag in the drag queen.

Don't knock it until you tried it

Sugar and spice and everything nice

Wasn't meant for only girls

G.I. Joe in pantyhose

Is making room for the one and only

King for a day princess by dawn

King for a day in a leather thong

King for a day princess by dawn

Just wait 'til all the guys get a load of me

England!

Get those hands

up in the air!

Go!

Sugar and spice and everything nice

Wasn't meant for only girls

G.I. Joe in pantyhose

Is making room for the one and only

King for a day princess by dawn

King for a day in a leather thong

King for a day princess by dawn

King for a day in a leather thong

King for a day princess by dawn

King for a day in a leather thong

King for a day princess by dawn

Just wait 'til all the guys

Just wait 'til all the guys

Just wait 'til all the guys get a load of me

Hey, you!

- Said hey, hey, hey, hey.

- Hey, hey, hey, hey.

Said hey, hey, hey, hey.

Hey, hey, hey, hey.

- Said hey, hey, hey, hey.

- Hey, hey, hey, hey.

Said hey, hey, hey, hey.

Hey, hey, hey, hey.

Said, hey-oh! Come on!

Hey-oh.

Alright.

Said hey, hey, hey, hey,

hey, hey, hey, hey,

hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!

And stop!

Now wai-ai-ai...

...ait a minute.

Yeah-yeah!

Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-

yeah-eah-eah!

I want you to know

I want you to know now

You've been so good

(You've been so good to me-x3)

You know you make me wanna

Shout!

(Keep my hands up and Shout-x3)

Keep my hands up and

(A little bit softer now-x14)

(Shoobedowop bop bop-x6)

(Always look on the bright side of life-x4)

(A little bit louder now-x14)

(Jump up and shout now-x4)

(Shout-x9)

(Shout-x8)

I have never put so much

emotion into any...

record than I have

into-into "American Idiot"

and in every song

that's on "American Idiot."

There are times where I feel

like I get choked up

and feel like I get

a frog in my throat,

or I feel like it's hard

to sing the next line

because even though it's-

the record isn't

necessarily about me

but everything comes

from some emotional place

that l- that I've experienced

in my life.

And it resurfaces every time

that you play those songs.

You're not just

putting it out there.

You're performing it,

but you're living it at the same time.

Then when you see all those people

throwing it right back at you

at the same time, you know,

it's just such an emotional level

where it's- you know,

it's- the whole show is-

and everybody

is almost levitating.

This song is called "Wake Me Up

When September Ends."

Summer has come and passed

The innocent can never last

Wake me up when September ends

Like my father's come to pass

Seven years has gone so fast

Wake me up when September ends

Here comes the rain again

Falling from the stars

Drenched in my pain again

Becoming who we are

As my memory rests

But never forgets what I lost

Wake me up when September ends

Summer has come and passed

The innocent can never last

Wake me up when September ends

Ring out the bells again

Like we did when spring began

Wake me up when September ends

Here comes the rain again

Falling from the stars

Drenched in my pain again

Becoming who we are

As my memory rests

But never forgets what I lost

Wake me up when September ends

Summer has come and passed

The innocent can never last

Wake me up when September ends

Like my father's come to pass

Twenty years has gone so fast

Wake me up when September ends

Wake me up when September ends

Wake me up when September ends

I'm a manager of a printing factory

with over 100 employees,

and they think

it's absolutely brilliant.

They think it's absolutely hilarious

that I'm here today

and trying to get

into that mosh pit

right down in the front

to see my band.

I wanna be right in there,

right in the mosh pit.

I don't wanna be in a mosh pit,

but I wanna be

in the front.

Crowd's off to the front,

right at the front.

Oh, about that bit there where everyone

will be jumping up and down, I think.

Jumping around,

jumping around

and jumping forwards

and jumping backwards

and getting very sweaty.

Generally, right there.

This is gonna be

the best gig of my life, definitely.

Best day of my life.

It's 'cause of them that we

got together. We met working together

in a bank, and not many people

in the bank liked punk music.

So we kinda saw each other

and started talking about Green Day

and then started becoming friends

and then went to see them.

- Yeah.

- After September the 11th,

there was a lot of-

the radio over here

took all of their kind of political

songs off the playlist,

and it seemed like

mainstream rock bands

were scared to say stuff honestly

because they wanted

to get on the playlist.

Green Day came out

with "American Idiot" recently.

They've been all over

the place and just proved

that rock bands can be honest again,

and people wanna hear it.

People want the voice.

With "American Idiot,"

they're really laying down the gauntlet

and challenging people to think

about life and what's happening.

It's not easy listening. It's not songs

about masturbation anymore.

Like they've grown up and they're

talking about something important.

The fact that they don't give

a damn about anything.

The way can just tell

President Bush to f*** off.

It's just nice to see there are

punk rock bands out there

who still care about it, 'cause it's

nice that... 60,000 people here today

who care about Green Day,

who care about "American Idiot,"

all agree with it, to buy the record

to come and see the band.

Both equally

the same massive Green Day fans.

- Definitely, we are one.

- Been listening to them for years.

And Billie Joe started

talking to me, and he said,

"Are you coming to the London show

tomorrow night?"

I said, "No, I'm sorry.

I haven't got a ticket."

He said, "Matthew, don't worry.

I'll sort you a ticket out."

The next day, lo and behold,

he's put me a ticket on the door.

They've been with me all my life,

and I love them to death, love them.

So it's obviously not just a phase

like my parents thought at first.

I've been listening

to Green Day for the past 10 years.

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