Green Day Trivia / Ponderings
I’m a self confessed Green Day punk. Think they are without question one of the greatest damn bands in the whole wide world…
HOWEVER
I have a pondering - Who is St. Jimmy?
Been listening to the Boulevard of Broken Dreams and St Jimmy in particular and I’m trying to work out the meaning of the song (ja ja very philosophical I know….).
Here are the lyrics to the song:
St. Jimmy’s coming down across the alleyway
Up on the boulevard like a zip gun on parade
Light of a silluoette
He’s insubordinate
Coming at you on the count of 1,2, 1,2,3,4!My name is Jimmy and you better not wear it out
Suicide commando that your momma talked about
King of the forty theives
And I’m here to represent
That needle in the vein of the establishment
I’m the patron saint of the denial
With an angel face and a taste for suicidal
Cigarettes and ramen and a little bag of dope
I am the son of a bitch and Edgar Allan Poe
Raised in the city under a halo of lights
The product of war and fear that we’ve been victimized
I’m the patron saint of the denial
With an angel face and a taste for suicidal
You talkin’ to me?
I’ll give you something to cry about.
ST. JIMMY!
My name is St. Jimmy I’m a son of a gun
I am the one that’s from the way outside
A teenage assassin executing some fun
And the cult of the life of crime
I really hate to say it but I told you so
So shut your mouth before I shoot you down ol’ boy
Welcome to the club and give me some blood
And the resident leader of the lost and found
It’s comedy and tragedy
It’s St. Jimmy
And that’s my name…and don’t wear it out!
I Googled it (I mean I used Google) to look into it and read up some of the history behind it.
According to Song Facts here’s what they say:
This is about a run-of-the-mill punk kid that the main character of the record, Jesus Of Suburbia, creates in his mind to make himself less vulnerable toward the world. Jesus Of Suburbia creates the St. Jimmy character in his mind to make himself less vulnerable toward the world. St. Jimmy is JOS’s “rage” counterpart. When Jesus loses Whatsername, his tough side dies (”Jimmy died today, he blew his brains out into the bay”), and he reverts back to the vulnerable Jesus Of Suburbia.
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