Green Day: Homecoming Meaning

Homecoming Lyrics

[Part 1: The death of St. Jimmy]

My heart is beating from me
I am standing all alone
Please call me only if you are coming home
Waste another year flies by
Waste a night or two
You taught me how to live
In the streets of shame
Where you've lost...

1. anonymous

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   Mar 26th 2013 !⃝

   Azaan is my name and don't wear it out
   I believe that this song is written backwards. See at the beginning of the song why would you kill yourself? If he's (St. Jimmy) just an alter ego and truly part of his subconscious why just kill him and Jesus in the beginning? If you follow the song backwards it makes more sense.
   
   Part 6: We're Coming Home Again
   
   Jesus feels that he cannot live this way anymore and believes that he should go home and someone (Tunny) is supporting his choice
   
   Part 5: marching down the street
   
   Jesus see's the ruin in his town "Here they come marching down the street like a desperation murmur of a heartbeat" he sees that if he stays there he will go nowhere and all that he hoped for isn't true "The time has come and it's going nowhere nobody ever said the life was fair now" if he stays his life will go completely out of whack so he needs to go back to the seven eleven to avoid the fear of breaking down. So he realizes that whatsername is nothing more than a phase and therefore he sends her a letter to tell her that he is going to be above his life now.
   
   Pt 4: Rock and Roll Girlfriend
   This is a plea from St. Jimmy to stay in the city and he tells him of all the cool stuff he has here, a car (video for holiday), a band of misfits (video for holiday), a girlfriend (Doesn't know that Whatsername has gone), etc.
   
   Part 3: Nobody Likes You
   
   This is a last plea from St. Jimmy saying that even if he goes home it will all be the same, he'll just be the non liked loser that he was.
   
   Part 2: East 12th Street
   
   St. Jimmy got what he wanted and they stayed in the city but Jesus admitted himself into the institution "facility" at East 12th street for drug abuse but it doesn't help leading to...
   
   Part 1: The Death of Saint Jimmy
   
   Jesus realizes that there is nothing left for him and that living on would just be torture to himself. But he thanks St. Jimmy for teaching him how to live. This leads him to go to the bay killing both himself and Jimmy
   
   (Check my explanation for whatsername to continue the story line)
2. anonymous

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   Apr 17th 2011 !⃝

   Pt.4 Rock and Roll Girlfriend:
   I think that Jesus of Suburbia (JOS) is being taunted by St. Jimmy who's trying to tell JOS how cool his life is. He's telling him how much fun he could have had with him if not for the metaphorical suicide. Perhaps St. Jimmy is a little upset with JOS because he took Whatshername.
3. anonymous

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   Feb 26th 2011 !⃝

   Pt.1 :The Death of St. Jimmy:
   
   Even though St. Jimmy was fun to be with, Jesus of Suburbia(JOS), Whatsername left JOS because of Jimmy. JOS,who was hurt by Whatsername's abrupt departure in "Letterbomb", decides that the time has come for his "St. Jimmy persona" to go. With this, St. Jimmy commits his metaphorical suicide. Jimmy committing suicide means that JOS is giving up sex, drugs and all that great stuff he enjoyed because he realizes that those were the things that actually ruined his main goal in leaving Jingletown: to follow his own beliefs and lifestyle, and all St. Jimmy did was drive away the love of JOS's life. So even if it was painful for both characters, they both knew it had to be done.
   
   Pt.2:East 12th St.
   
   JOS is now in the city trying to get a job, as mentioned in the song "Jesus filling out paperwork now, at the facility on East 12th St.". JOS lands a desk job but finds it boring and worthless. JOS longs for his life before Jimmy came along, "Cigarettes and coffee with the underbelly". Near the end of Pt.2, JOS pleas for an escape from the dilemma happening to him right now. "So far away, I don't wanna stay, get me outta' here right now".
   
   Pt.3:Nobody Likes You
   
   JOS is sitting in a couch, watching TV, alone, probably at an apartment he's renting. He's waiting and hoping that Whatsername come back, but that dosen't seem to be the case. He then contmplates his being alone, and remembers the words she wrote in her goodbye-letter,"Nobody Likes you, everyone left you they're all out without you, having fun", while asking himself where she went.
   
   Pt.4:Rock and Roll Girlfriend
   
   Not really sure about this part. In the American Idiot musical, it's a friend of JOS's who shows her new boyfriend. They say in the album, its some friend of JOS sending him a postcard. Or it could be Jimmy from the dead teasing JOS that killing Jimmy off was a mistake and the fun they could've had had Jimmy never died. You guys decide on this one.
   
   Pt.5:Were Coming Home Again
   
   JOS finally decides to go back home to Jingletown and leave the past behind him. On the bus ride home(as I imagine it) , he contemplates all the things he has done throughout the course of the album, his relationship with Whatsername, St, Jimmy, the underbelly and all those stuff he encountered during the story. As the bus approaches Jingletown(again as I imagine it), JOS repeats to himself "Home, were coming home again", as if the town was giving him a hero's welcome. As he finally reaches his house(yet again as I imagine it)he again echoes Whatsername's words to him, "Nobody likes you,everyone left you, they're all out without you, having fun".
   
   Overall, I think that Homecoming is the climax, the song describes the events that lead to Jesus of Suburbia's return to Jingletown.
4. anonymous

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   Aug 17th 2010 !⃝

   The song is about how Jimmy is so sad that Whatsernsme left him that he "blows his brains out into the bay". And after that, everyone's suffering because nobody cared about him. I feel this way too, sometimes, like nobody would give a s**t if I were to die by my oen hands.

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