WAKE ME UP WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS
Music: GREEN DAY
Album: American Idiot (2004)
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
Here comes the rain again
Falling from the stars
Drenched in my pain again
Becoming who we are
As my memory rests
But never forgets what I lost
Wake me up when September ends
(…)
(http://www.vagalume.com.br/green-day/wake-me-up-when-september-ends.html#ixzz2x4QQMCVj adapted.Acesso
em: 22 abr.2014)
Green Day’s songs are used as a form of protest against a negative time. In “Wake me up when September ends”, we can deduce that they are:Making apology to war;
Helping people in the war;
Giving emphasis to the period of America’s Independence;
Showing American people affected by current time period of 9/11.