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Sophy Wackles
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 Greenday - Good Riddance

aka

quote:

I hope you had the time of your life!!

which used(?) to be played at graduation ceremonies is less about wistfully looking back on the good times of your life and more about how life is a bitch and when bad poo poo happens you just have to accept it. Maybe good for those who flunked out.

Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPhWR4d3FJQ

:911: :patriot:

Actually a song about how Vietnam vets were treated like poo poo when they returned from war.

quote:

Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
End up like a dog that's been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering up

Born in the U.S.A., I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A., born in the U.S.A.

Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man

Born in the U.S.A., I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A., born in the U.S.A.

Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man said "son if it was up to me"
Went down to see my V.A. man
He said "son, don't you understand"

I had a brother at Khe Sahn
Fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone

He had a woman he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms now
Down in the shadow of the penitentiary

Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go

Born in the U.S.A., I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A., I'm a long gone daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A., born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A., I'm a cool rocking daddy in the U.S.A.

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 Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyjTrwOMSO4

A song about crystal meth.

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a retard posted:

i assumed that the song was a gently caress you from billie joe to people who thought green day sold out after dookie

Apparently, it was inspired by a girlfriend of his who moved away to Ecuador.

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Nooner posted:

Actually that one is also about me making GBS threads my pants, it's a funny story really....

Are your pants ever clean Nooner?

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