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Green Day: every song, explained.
3 Green Day songs in the archive, from 2004: what each one is about, who wrote it and what it did on the charts. Each entry opens the full explanation.
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Songs explained
2004
Years covered
Rock
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Green Day
American Idiot
2004
Green Day
Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Green Day
Wake Me Up When September Ends
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Every Green Day entry sets out what the song is about and where that reading comes from: writing credits, interviews, the record's own history. Where a popular interpretation is wrong, the entry says so and shows the evidence. Missing a song? Suggest it.