You Never Knew What These Misunderstood Songs Were Really About
Wake Me Up When September Ends – Green Day
Green Day’s “Wake Me Up When September Ends” was a an ode to singer Billie Joe Armstrong’s father, who passed when the singer was seven years old – hence the song’s opening line.
However due to it’s placement as the eleventh track on the band’s heavily 9/11-influenced American Idiot album plus the Iraq War-themed video continues to lead many to believe that the song is political in meaning to this day.