Green Day: X-Kid Meaning

Song Released: 2013

X-Kid Lyrics

Hey, little kid
Did you wake up late one day and
You're not so young, but you're still dumb
And you're numb to your old glory but now it's gone

I fell in love, but it didn't catch your fall
Then I crashed, into a wall
Then I fell to...

1. anonymous

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   Aug 10th 2016 !⃝

   The song is about suicide and depression and going through tough times where you feel like you're just not worthy enough to live. This is a song about Billie going though his childhood and teenage years being depressed and suicidal.
2. anonymous

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   Oct 22nd 2015 !⃝

   I feel like it's future Billy singing the song to his past self. I could be wrong.
3. anonymous

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   Apr 1st 2013 !⃝

   "X-Kid from ¡Tré! deals with the suicide of a close friend of Armstrong's. 'I don't really want to get into it,' he says. 'It's too heavy.'" -- excerpt from Guitar World (Now. 2012) interview.
   
   This song was written in response to the 2009 suicide of a close friend that Billie Joe grew up with in Rodeo, CA. However, the song is as much about the entire "Generation X" (those born from roughly 1960-1980) as it is about this one specific tragedy. Billie Joe has repeatedly identified himself as an "Ex-Kid" in recent interviews. The narrator is able to relate to his late friend, in that they were both "Ex/X-kids." But, he was able to push through the struggles that came with growing older, while his friend was not. His friend, unfortunately, found an escape in suicide, thus the line "Here goes nothing, the shouting's over." The narrator sees facets of himself in his late friend. He feels as if, sadly, there wasn't much that could have been done to help his friend, though he wishes someone could have found a way to help him before it was too late.
4. anonymous

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   Feb 6th 2013 !⃝

   I heard on Green Day Authority that it was about Bilie's nest friend committing suicide and he was addressing his friend as X-kid because they both grew up in the well generation X . The line "died of a broken heart" makes me think his friend died of not being able to handle adulthood and missed childhood and innocence in general. It really is a deep song and can be interpreted in many different ways. I don't want to make any accusations or wrongly assume but maybe that has a part in Billie Joe going into rehab?
5. anonymous

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   Jan 15th 2013 !⃝

   X-Kid is a reference to Billie Joe growing up in the early 90's and being part of Generation X. I hear some self-loathing in the lyrics, I think he's speaking about his past, feeling like just a dumb kid, and now he's older and in some ways is still a kid at heart even though he's 40. Many people from our generation feel this way, so I relate to this song a lot. I think he's also definitely singing about a relationship that didn't work out.
6. anonymous

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   Jan 8th 2013 !⃝

   I took this song as a past love song. I think it's the first time a love fell through. A true love that failed. And you can fight for it to work, but it won't. And once the shouting is over, it's all over.

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