Jesus of Suburbia

"**Jesus of Suburbia"** był piątym i ostatnim singlem promującym siódmy album studyjny Green Day, *American Idiot*. Singiel został wydany 25 października 2007 roku. Oryginalna piosenka trwała nieco ponad 9 minut, co uznano za nieprzyjazne dla radia, więc skrócono ją do około 6,5 minuty na potrzeby edycji radiowej. Długa wersja była nadal odtwarzana w wielu stacjach radiowych z albumem rockowym i alternatywnym rockiem.

## Tekst Piosenki

I. Jesus Of Suburbia

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 never died for my sins in hell

As far as I can tell

At least the ones I got away with

But 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 fix

Sitting on my crucifix

The living room in 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

Who don’t believe in me

II. City Of The Damned

At the center of the earth

In the parking lot

Of the 7-11 were I was taught

The motto was just a lie

It says 'home is were 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

Sign 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 a 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 careless

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

III. 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 hipocrits

Hearts recycled but never saved

From the cradle 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 I don’t believe in me

Land of make believe

And I don’t believe

And I don’t care!

I don't care /x4

IV. Dearly Beloved

Dearly beloved are you listening?

I can't remember a word that you were saying

Are we demended? 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

V. Tales of another broken home

To live and not to breathe

Is to die in tragedy

To run, to run away

To find what to 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...

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