Sorry if this is 'old news' but i only just noticed it. I was litening to this song and I'm sure its 'Blakean'.
Quote:"Wake Me Up When September Ends"
Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
wake me up when september ends
like my fathers 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
summer has come and passed
the innocent can never last
wake me up when september ends
ring out the bells again
like we did when spring began
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
Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
wake me up when september ends
like my father's come to pass
twenty years has gone so fast
wake me up when september ends
...
I'm just studying Blake's 'Songs of Innocence and Experience' at the moment and Greenday's got strong echos of those poems in this song.
Blake uses light and dark to represent innocence and experience; in the same way, Greenday seem to be making use of 'summer' and its end - september being the last month in summer. Also the 'rain' at night, but what are we to make of the hopeful 'stars', which it falls from. The number '7' is significant, traditionally, 7 was the age of reason when a child learned right from wrong. Christian imagery of the number 7 is too deep to go into right now (Blake was a Christian)
Quote:...
Seven summers old
Lovely Lyca told.
... -- The Little Girl Lost by William Blake
"as my memory rests/ but never forgets what I lost" innocence is, perhaps, seen as a dream here. Maybe I am overinterpreting what is in fact merely a peice of popular culture, but I think 'memory' could represent the mind in a state of inocence, before it is 'woken up'
'Ring out the bells' is perhaps joy in experience but im not sure on this one.
Sorry for such a long post but I wanted to all my thoughts down. Please share your thoughts, I appreciate it.
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