Wake Me Up When September Ends

"Wake Me Up When September Ends" by Green Day, from the group's seventh studio album, American Idiot released in 2004. The song was recorded in September 2003.

Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
Wake me up when September ends 

Like my father's come to pass
Seven years has gone so fast
Wake me up when September ends

Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong wrote this song as a memorial to his father, who died of cancer in September 1982. Billie Joe's two sons, Joseph Marciano and Jakob Danger, are also musicians; the elder plays drums, the younger plays guitar and also a singer-songwriter. Jakob Danger was born 12 September 1998.

The song's music video, which is a narrative of lovers torn apart by the War in Iraq, features critically noted actors Jamie Bell and Evan Rachel Wood. Wood, an American actress, model and musician was born on 07 September 1987.


[This post is antedated: 20181007]