Green Day

My favorite band is Green Day, because they sing songs with out holding anything back. For instance the song Holiday

There's a flag wrapped around a score of men (hey)

A gag

A plastic bag on a monument

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies

This is the dawning of the rest of our lives

On holiday

hey

The representative from California has the floor:

Zieg heil to the president gasman

Bombs away is your punishment

Pulverize the Eiffel Towers

Who criticize your government

Bang bang goes the broken glass  (

Trials by fire setting fire

Is not a way that's meant for me

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To me, the part where he sings a gag, a plastic bag on a monument means something along the line that there is no respect for peoples own country anymore. Another part is the heil to the president gasman. maybe he is saying that the people will respect the one who threatens them? or fear them, I haven't been able to figure it out. I think the trials by fire setting trials part is saying that he doesn't want to get justice by doing the same thing or worse to the person that hurt him.