Green Day - Jesus Of Suburbia [Official Music Video]

13,782,741
0
Published 2009-10-26
© 2011 WMG

"Jesus Of Suburbia" by Green Day from 'American Idiot,' available now. Directed by Samuel Bayer. Featuring Lou Taylor Pucci, Kelli Garner & Deborah Kara Unger.

Download on Itunes:
Download on Amazon:

Links:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/GreenDay
Twitter: twitter.com/#!/GreenDay
Website: www.greenday.com/

"Jesus Of Suburbia" Lyrics:[Part 1]

I'm the son of rage and love
The Jesus of Suburbia
From the bible of none of the above
On a steady diet of
Soda pop and Ritalin
No one ever died for my sins in hell
As far as I can tell
At least the ones I got away with

And there's nothing wrong with me
This is how I'm supposed to be
In a land of make believe
That don't believe in me

Get my television fixed
Sitting on my crucifix
The living room or my private womb
While the Moms and Brads are away
To fall in love and fall in debt
To alcohol and cigarettes and Mary Jane
To keep me insane,
Doing someone else's cocaine

And there's nothing wrong with me
This is how I'm supposed to be
In a land of make believe
That don't believe in me

[Part 2: City Of The Damned]

At the center of the Earth
In the parking lot
Of the 7-11 where I was taught
The motto was just a lie
It says home is where your heart is
But what a shame
Cause everyone's heart
Doesn't beat the same
It's beating out of time

City of the dead
At the end of another lost highway
Signs misleading to nowhere
City of the damned
Lost children with dirty faces today
No one really seems to care

I read the graffiti
In the bathroom stall
Like the holy scriptures of the shopping mall
And so it seemed to confess
It didn't say much
But it only confirmed that
The center of the earth
Is the end of the world
And I could really care less

City of the dead
At the end of another lost highway
Signs misleading to nowhere
City of the damned
Lost children with dirty faces today
No one really seems to care

[Part 3: I Don't Care]

I don't care if you don't
I don't care if you don't
I don't care if you don't care
[X4]

I don't care

Everyone is so full of shit
Born and raised by hypocrites
Hearts recycled but never saved
From the cradle always to the grave
We are the kids of war and peace
From Anaheim to the middle east
We are the stories and disciples
Of the Jesus of suburbia
Land of make believe
And that don't believe in me
Land of make believe
And I don't believe
And I don't care!
I don't care! [x4]

[Part 4: Dearly Beloved]

Dearly beloved are you listening?
I can't remember a word that you were saying
Are we demented or am I disturbed?
The space that's in between insane and insecure
Oh, therapy, can you please fill the void?
Am I retarded or am I just overjoyed
Nobody's perfect and I stand accused
For lack of a better word, and that's my best excuse

[Part 5: Tales Of Another Broken Home]

To live and not to breathe
Is to die In tragedy
To run, to run away
To find what you believe
And I leave behind
This hurricane of fucking lies

I lost my faith to this
This town that don't exist
So I run
I run away
To the light of masochist
And I leave behind
This hurricane of fucking lies
And I walked this line
A million and one fucking times
But not this time

I don't feel any shame
I won't apologize

When there ain't nowhere you can go
Running away from pain
When you've been victimized
Tales from another broken home

You're leaving...
You're leaving...
You're leaving...
Ah you're leaving home...

All Comments (21)
  • As a near 45yo married/father, this tune still rocks. To the young people: go out an live life and do not give up. Kick ass.
  • Moral of the story - the thicker the black eyeliner, the more broken a person is
  • @MadZoltan1
    Weird how Green Day have a song for every mood we have
  • @weedy1718
    For me personal this is the best song ever. The structure, the lyrics, the music. I can listen to it over and over again and it still gives me goosebumps. Makes me feel something I never felt in other songs.
  • @gutterslug276
    you dont even have to like green day to admit that this song is an absolute masterpiece.
  • @afroinness
    I'm getting so old that i sympathize with the convenience store owner more than Jimmy
  • @ronvargas3927
    Rock: Bohemian Rhapsody Emo: Welcome to the Black Parade Punk: Jesus of Suburbia
  • Fun fact: Lou Taylor (who played jesus) and Kelli Garner (who played the love interest) actually briefly dated in real life
  • @pixiesouter9461
    Anyone else feeling like they lived this music video in their younger years? I'm an adult now, with a stable home life that I built myself. I'm still every bit the gothic hippie punk I was at 17, but I'm medicated and I'm happy. It's kind of like nostalgia when I watch this, but a more real nostalgia, where you remember the good, the bad and the horrific all with the same bittersweet smile.
  • @sl4dja
    "It says home is where your heart is, but what a shame, 'cause everyone's heart, doesn't beat the same."
  • @susiemurray8599
    I remember when I was 11 and my dad gave me a lecture on how St Jimmy is not some one to idolize. I've been disappointing him ever since
  • @hollyking3536
    My son Gabriel loved you guys so much that he started playing a bass and would play your songs every day jamming out and singing your stuff every day ! So much that I became a Greenday fan myself well my son at 16 decided life was to much and took his own life no doubt listening to one last Greenday song before he left this earth .All I would like to say you guys are awesome it's the connection my son and I had every day when he played and sang to me thank you ! ❤ 🎶💯🎸