“Wake Me Up When September Ends” Greenday

“Wake Me Up When September Ends” was the fourth single from Green Day’s seventh studio album, American Idiot. Released on 13 June 2005, the single is still on the rise and has so far reached a position of number six in the United States, becoming Green Day’s second Top 10 single. It has also reached a current peak of number eight in Canada and the U.K., while making number thirteen in Australia. The song is best remembered for its ambiguous meaning, and for its music video, which paints an intimate portrait of a wartime situation.

The song was co-written by the members of Green Day (with Billie Joe Armstrong writing the lyrics), and was co-produced by Green Day and Rob Cavallo. There once was much debate about what this song was about. However, Billie Joe has confirmed to the mass public that the song was written as a memorial anthem about his father, a jazz musician and minor league baseball catcher, who died when Billie Joe was only ten years old.