A friend posted "wake me up when september ends" in their Facebook wall just now thus make me thinking about the song. I never really care about the song's meaning before or any other song for that matter. Bur when I listen to the song something was bothering me. I was curios about the meaning of the song. So I google it and found something that obviously not new but i never heard of it before. Since today was a day when September ends, lets take a moment to look into it..


"Wake Me Up When September Ends" is a song by Green Day which released as fourth single from their seventh album, American Idiot. The single peaked at number six in the United States, becoming Green Day's second Top 10 single. It also peaked at number eight in Canada and the UK, while making number thirteen in Australia. "Wake Me Up When September Ends" has sold 1,652,000 copies as of May 2010 ~ Wikipedia.

There was once much debate regarding the meaning of this song, one of the most common initial beliefs being that it was about the events of 9/11. Taken a facts that, the song is dated September 10, and it is track 11 on the album. However, Billie Joe Armstrong has confirmed that the song was written as a memorial to his father, a jazz musician and truck driver, who died of esophageal cancer in 1982 when Armstrong was only ten years old.

The song facts : ~ SongFacts.com

Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong wrote this about his father, who died of cancer on September 1st, 1982. At his father's funeral, Billie cried, ran home and locked himself in his room. When his mother got home and knocked on the door to Billie's room, Billie simply said, "Wake me up when September ends," hence the title.

The references to the amount of years is like so: When he says 7 years has gone so fast, he is talking about how Sweet Children (Green Day) formed almost exactly 7 years after the incident. And 20 years has gone so fast is an homage to when he wrote this song.

So, do wake me up when September ends...



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