Green Day: Give Me Novacaine Meaning
Give Me Novacaine Lyrics
Bitter sweet migraine in my head
It's like a throbbing toothache of the mind
I can't take this feeling anymore
Drain the pressure from the swelling
This sensation's overwhelming
Give me a long kiss good...
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American Idiot album is a rock opera, means that the whole album has a story in it. So the plot Give Me Novacaine is describing the insecurity and fear that Jesus of Suburbia is experiencing when he enters his new life. He's tired of being weak, so he fully surrenders to his alter ego, St. Jimmy. Now he's doing what Jimmy tells him to.
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This song is about someone with an addiction and how they use drugs to help them forget about their problems and feel numb, hence the "novacaine" .
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In the storyline of American Idiot, in Are We the Waiting, the main character Johnny's friend Tunny, finds the city life unbearably boring, and joins the US Army. In Give Me Novacaine, Tunny gets horribly wounded in Iraq, and is having medical treatment
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