Green Day – Wake Me Up When September Ends | Song Meaning Explained
Wake Me Up When September Ends is not a joke about sleeping until October. Billie Joe Armstrong wrote it after his father died on September 10, 1982. This episode separates the annual meme from the funeral sentence that became the title — and from the Samuel Bayer video that turned the song into an Iraq War short film.
We cover the Hot 100 peak, the American Idiot context, the Katrina benefit, and the one line he said to his mother behind a locked door.
Episode 87 of Behind The Lines
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