Green Day: Holiday Meaning

Song Released: 2005

Holiday Lyrics

Say, hey!
Hear the sound of the falling rain,
Coming down like an Armageddon flame
The shame, the ones who died without a name,
Hear the dogs howling out of key,
To a hymn called faith and misery
And bleed, the company lost the war...

1. misterpants

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   Jan 16th 2006 !⃝

   The title of the song refers to the amount of time President Bush spent on Holiday in the lead up to 9/11 (42% of the 8 months preceding) when he should have been looking at reports pointing towards an attack. The 'armageddon flame' and 'ones who died without a name' are from the twin towers. It later moves on to Bush speaking. 'Zeig Heil to the President Gas Man (Saddam Hussein, who gassed the Khurds), bombs away is you're ... pulverise the Eiffel Towers ...' is referring to the countries who failed to join USA and UK in the war and that they can expect revenge. It then moves on to war in Iraq etc. (I know a slightly different view but that's how it seems to me, I am English though).
2. anonymous

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   Nov 6th 2005 !⃝

   This song is both an anti-war rant against the Bush Administration and Co and just a feel-good us-against-them anthem about rebelling against the status quo, against the Establishment (whatever that may be) and just going against the mediocrity and blandness and hypocrisy of everyday life.
3. anonymous

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   Oct 31st 2005 !⃝

   I think that many songs on American Idiot have double meanings. Holiday, is one of them. As Billie Joe often says in concert, "This song is a big f*** you, to George W Bush", I think it also relates to the Jesus of Suburbia (JOS) story. This song is about the JOS leaving home because he's fed up with a lot of things, so he's out on the streets, hence "here the sound of the falling rain..." the part where the JOS says, 'i beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies' shows that hes feeling a bit like a rebel.
   
   but, this song is also very much about war and whatnot for very obvious reasons.
4. _hazy

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   Aug 25th 2005 !⃝

   This is about the American government and society during the Iraqi War. It begins by commenting on how the thousands of dead Americans and Iraqis are nameless to the average American citizen. The song expresses resentment with the corporate greed and corruption involved in the "rebuilding" effort, and shows how the average protester realizes that the pro-war money involved has more power than they can ever have. It also points out the irony of the Christian right-wing feeling religiously justified in this war: "Can I get another 'Amen'? There's a flag wrapped around the score of men."
5. awesomeandy2

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   Aug 8th 2005 !⃝

   The words in this meaning are straight from the singer, I asked him when I met him. The song all begins from track 2 on the CD... J.O.S. (Jesus of Suburbia) has just ran away and eveything is awesome drinking, drugs, and doing anything he feels like then it goes into Boulevard of Broken Dreams talking about how all the fun is over and it's getting serious, so track 2, 3, and 4 are one story in three songs.
6. anonymous

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   May 7th 2005 !⃝

   The song is about how screwed up our goverment is. It\'s a very anti-war song.

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway

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