"Wake Me Up When September Ends" is a song by American
rock band Green Day, released on June 13, 2005 as the fourth single from
the group's seventh studio album, American Idiot (2004). The song was
written by frontman Billie Joe Armstrong regarding the death of his
father. The song's music video depicts a couple broken apart by the Iraq
War, which was intended to convey the song's central theme of loss.
Lyrics:
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
"Wake Me Up When September Ends" was written by
Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong about his father, who died of cancer
when he was ten. Armstrong at one point dubbed the song the most
autobiographical he had written to that point, considering it
"therapeutic" but also difficult to perform.
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