The lead singer’s father died in September, when he was a kid. He’s saying he’d rather sleep the whole month away and forget it so wake him up when the month is over so he won’t have to remember his father’s death.

I can hardly watch this video. I lived this for almost 8 years. My best friend and I enlisted and went thru basic training together. One minute we were laughing about high school and dating 2 sisters. The next minute I was holding him in my arms telling him we would be home soon. Two hours later I was writing his parents telling them that he wouldn’t be coming home. I hopped the C130 that carried his body home. I always thought I should have done more to save him and struggled with survivor guilt for many years, and caught 3 rounds myself getting him to cover. I go to Arlington National Cemetery every year since then , and talk to him about the emptiness inside since he passed. Last year, I said please give me a sign that you’re okay with me doing what I did. Amazing thing happened. It had been raining that day, and after asking for a sign, the rain immediately stopped and the sun shined. Miss you Tim. Someday we will see each other again.

My son passed 16 years ago, Sept 1. This song came out the following year and it said it all. Now, my father is gone, and his birthday was Sept 4 and this song carries even more meaning.

Green Day: Some of our songs are heart warming nostalgia songs, some are about life and death, some are about masturbation.

This song hits a whole level of different now that my farther has also passed away. Love you Greenday.

Lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong wrote this song about his father, who died of cancer on Semptember 1, 1982. At his father's funeral, Billie cried, ran home and locked himself in his room. When his Mother got home and knocked on the door to Billie's room, Billie simply said "Wake Me Up When September Ends" hence the title. The line "Seven Years Has Gone So Fast" is a reference to how Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt(bassis) band Sweet Children (which would morph into Green Day), was formed seven years after Armstrong father Died. "20 Years Has Gone So Fast" represents the time from his father's death to when Billie Joe Armstrong wrote the Song.

When I enlisted into the Army in 1984, my girlfriend at the time reacted just like that (and there wasn't a war on then). I'm 56 now, a combat veteran and a retired soldier. This song/video strikes a chord in me. Thank you for reacting/posting. Shout out to you too! :)

Isn't funny that as highschoolers we hear music one way, but as adults it takes on a whole new meaning

It's so hard telling a loved one your going into the service. Prayers for all of the men and women in the service

The song is about his dad dying when he was a kid, it's just the video that's about the war

Does anyone else hear this song and think "decades later and September still hasn't ended"? I know the song was written for his dad; but I miss how things used to be, before September 11, 2001.

This video hurts every single time I see it. I enlisted as a combat medic in 2008, shortly after this song came out. I didn't really believe in what I was doing, but I was also a naive 21yo kid. There were times when the urge to cry was so violent that it instead came out as vomit. Eight years and one PTSD later, I got out, came out, and occasionally now struggle to grasp the reality that I can never change my past no matter how much my past continues to change me still.

Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong wrote this song about his father, who died of cancer on September 1, 1982 when Billie was just 10 years old. At his father's funeral, Billie cried, ran home and locked himself in his room. When his mother got home and knocked on the door to Billie's room, Billie simply said, "," hence the title.

I feel ya Sushi, when I go back and listen to songs from High School, I find a deeper appreciation now than I did then.

Actors are Jamie Bell (Billie Elliot) and Evan Rachel Wood (Across the Universe, Westworld).

My mom passed away 2 years ago on two days from today. I understand this song wholeheartedly. Billy wrote this song bc his Dad died in September, and it’s always a hard time for him. He wants to just sleep through it. Hence the chorus.

This song came out when I was leaving for my first deployment in 2005. Got me through sitting in Kuwait.

This song to me is a PTSD song. No matter how long you are out of the war it's always there. As a Veteran that was in during 9-11 and the subsequent years. I relate so much of this song to those I lost. I miss you MT and JC.

I lost my wife to suicide last year. It seems like we all have our September's that we would like to sleep through or forget. I know a lot of songs Express a lot of people's feelings. I think that's how we make it through this life together with our hearts and souls striving for our own little salvations. Love you Sushi, keep your heart in it and we'll all be better for it.

This music video sort of woke me up back in the day. I was a soldier scheduled to go to Iraq 5 months later, I was young and didn't have a clue what to do with my life, so I continued as a soldier, after my mandatory period. I must have seen and heard this video so many times, and it woke me up, and made me realize going to Iraq wasn't for me, so I stopped as soldier a couple of weeks later... 15 years later I'm glad I did, thank you Green Day

People also say that he had september 11th in mind. Its a parallel to how people felt. Not only in the months and year following, but for almost a whole decade. I myself enlisted in the army in fall of 2007 in my senior year of high school. Because I had a sense of patriotism that many before me have felt. Since the American revolution young men such as myself have had this vocation to serve liberty. After all that is what the great experiment of our country was about. It was won by men and boys, women and girls yearning to be citizens of a free land. Today in this country alot of people don't take the time to think about the sacrifices that people made for us to have freedom. Since Vietnam the American people are skeptical of war, As they should be it is not a thing to take lightly. Plato said "Only those who have died have seen the end of war." Yet there are times where was is a just and noble cause. A necessary risk that a nation and a people must take to defend and uphold its most sacred experiment.

Fascinating how every American instinctively shouts out or thanks the troops when a soldier appears on screen (at least in these raction videos). Btw my absolute favourite song on that topic is Hero of War by Rise Against - I listen to that song regularly and it never fails to bring tears to my eyes. Might be a decent suggestion to react to.

I love and listen to GREENDAY since i was a kid in H/S. Now this give me NOSTALGIC 💕

I served a double in Afghanistan, love this song, had no idea what it was about.

This is one of my favorite songs by Green Day!!! Just love this entire band, awesome is in its own category...🥺

This song is actually about when Billy Joe's dad died.

Everytime I listen to this it always hits me inside, the lyrics and nostalgia of the song. Love this video!

The song is about his father and his struggles of how he deals with this fathers death when September rolls around

My friends and I play this song in our garage I play drums .. the early records I really love ❤️. This song is very emotional. I love it 🥰

The actors in the video was from the adaptation of "A Walk to Remember" The first time I remember hearing this song was on the anniversary of 9/11 and I was 28 years old. Love your comments. Great job.

This song always brings tears to my eyes...I lost a close dear love in September of 2013 to ovarian cancer...I still remember exactly what she was wearing and what she said to me the last time I saw her....I miss you and love you Glenda May....

One of Green Day's best songs, it takes me back to my senior year of HS! Happy you enjoyed this song for the right reasons.

I was on Active Duty Army when this video came out. I already knew it on guitar because the album was a out for a year or two. It was fun playing for my fellow soldiers.

I've seriously been surfing your channel looking for the most emotional songs. I love watching you feel. You're not actually a mumble rap fan, you just don't know it yet

My first deployment was in 2003 to Iraq, out of Texas. After getting back, I was sent to Germany, where my unit was preparing to deploy to Afghanistan. I was with some friends at the dining facility for lunch that had on American MTV when this video debuted for the first time. All conversation stopped and everyone's attention zeroed on the TV and we all intently watched this video in what felt like an eerie silence. Even during the break in music, when the girlfriend finds out he joined up and is shipping out, no one said a word. When the video ended, evening just kind of resumed and conversations picked right up. I was 20. Years later this video reminds me of that moment.

Agree great acting. Made me believe and shed some tears. Her crying like that just tore me up.

We played this at my fathers funeral he died of cancer 2.5 years ago. He would have been 53 if he was still alive

The song is actually about his father's death, but the video fit the time period in which the song was released.

Thank you Sushi for putting definition on what we are. I wouldnt have known what an empathst is. I know now why people, complete strangers tell me there life stories. Ive felt so alone in having to feel everything. Its a curse and and a blessing. I have, over time blocked people out, so as to not feel the pain. You have shown me that its ok to feel. And Im so thankful that you helped set me free....Love your reactions. And I love you. As my sister....

Did 12 years and 2 combat tours in Iraq. This song hits me because I knew dozens of kids like this. From a shit town with nothing to offer in life, turned to the Corps for a way out and up. And the action scene is pretty authentic. God damn me if I ever step foot in that desert again.

The song is about love and loss and dealing with major life events. Also, in an odd twist of fate, his youngest son's birthday is two days after his father's death date. It goes: his dad's passing/September 11th disaster/Joey's birth date. Rough week.

The song is about Billie Joe’s father who passed away

This song hit hard when it came out because my cousin who's more like a brother went to fight in Iraq . Thankfully he made it home but the thought of what he was going through shook me .

This song reminds me of when I was young and all the dreams I had, such great memories!!!!

Girl - Evan Rachel Wood Guy - Jamie Bell

This song is for my momma She pased in sept and i love her

I loved your reaction and love this song/ whole album, in my humble opinion this is green days most heartfelt album to date.. the early stuff is great but I heard this album and it struck a chord with me. 😊

This song took on a special meaning for myself and a lot of people in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina that hit us at the end of August 2005. Just having to get through that first month of September trying to survive and rebuild what we lost was one of the most brutal and trying times we ever had to deal with. And when Green Day played this song in the pre-game concert of the re-opening of the Superdome the following September brought back lots of hard memories and tears. And then the REBIRT\H truly began with that emotional win against the rival Atlanta Falcons on that Monday night nationally televised game. We never looked back since.

This is how I feel about the month of May, losing both my father and grandfather in that month. Wake me up when May is over.

So Idk if you’re still doing veteran requests. I am currently a Marine reservist, I’m with the 14th Marines 4th marine division communication company. The song I think you should react to is Where rainbows never die by The SteelDrivers. Since you like Chris Stapleton this is the band he was with before he went solo

Always enjoyed this song! Thanks for the reaction!!

When the part"Like my father come to pass seven years has gone so fast" I almost cry you know

I remember this song, I believe I was a junior in high school.. brings back the memories! Hope you can react to Gary Allan - Today.. or Gary Allan - it ain't the whiskey. Thanks Sushi!

I remember this song

The actress played the lead in "ACROSS THE UNIVERSE" a movie based on music by THE BEATLES The actor was the lead in "TURN".

1st video I ever saw of you cried a bit and you said you never cry. You're a softy in the the best possible way. Means you care.

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The sad thing about this song is ....September still hasn't ended

This is how I have felt this month. Everybody comes to my house for 4th of July for fireworks and my sister and my birthday. Mom died july 3rd this year. Needless to say not my favorite birthday year.. songs like these are hard to listen to but can be soothing as well.

This song always makes me cry...Green Day is an amazing band!

This song will always be important to me it was the last song I remember hearing 2 nights after my sister's funeral I woke up 2 days later in the hospital from an overdose I finally broke down I buried my brother and sister within 6 months of each other both took their own lives i got clean a little over 3 years ago and it's strange but this song has a complete different meaning to me now

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This is a beautiful song. Happy you enjoyed it so much!

He joined the service after 9 11 like my son.. that girl had the same reaction I did to my son after he graduated hs.. and joined the marines.. I screamed.. and hit him for the first time ever.. This was the worst thing he could do.. he came back safe... a few years later.. but never the same boy

Love the reaction! And if you haven't already, you need to do a react to Guns and Roses, November Rain.

Puedes hacer una reaccion de "falling down -Muse" por favor , tus reacciones son preciosas , mis favoritas ! Saludos desde Mexico !!

love your shows and true heartfelt reactions.

The young couple at the beginning of the video are actors Jamie Bell and Evan Rachel Wood. I believe they met on the set of this video. Dated and later got married became parents to a baby boy. The marriage failed. They divorced. The video is about the young man joining the Army. The song is about the lead singer’s Father who passed away from cancer in September. Have a beautiful day.

the last 3 seconds in the song got to me. god bless our troops and god bless anyone in your life whos there for you no matter what

I would like to suggest you to listen: What hurts the most.

I think as we get older, we actually get what musicians are saying because we actually experience it and can relate to it.

The actual song was written about his dad when he died when he was really young I watched a documentary on it and it was really sad his dad passing had a real impact on his life which a parents passing will have an impact it’s just sad.

Please try Five Finger Death Punch - Wrong Side of Heaven - to see the other of the Military part, of People getting thrown away after they were in the Army

It's interesting how September is always looked at as gloomy or a sad period. It's the end of summer but even tragic events have occurred in this month like 911 and Steve Irwin's death.

My grandma passed away in September 2008 and I still tell myself to wake me up when September ends. Great song!

This song gets to me as a vet as well as losing my father when I was a kid like Billie Jo Armstrong. Also Sushi is unbelievably beautiful. 😌

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they are 2 actors he made Billy Elliot and she made a film with Nikki Reed titled thirteen. they have a daughter together but they broke up years ago. if I remember correctly they got together after shooting this video.

The actors are Jamie Bell and Evan Rachel Wood (HBO's Westworld).....The song is about Billie Joe's father dying back in 1982 however the song holds a special place for me because I was born September 21, 1982. On September 22, 1994 (day after my 12th birthday)....On September 21, 2003 (my father was having open heart surgery on my 21st birthday)...On September 27, 2015 my father passed away (6 days after my 33rd birthday).....Just me personally September holds a lot of heartache with the memories so it's relatable to me in that aspect

Girl "Promise you will never leave me" Dude "I will never leave you"...... Dude joins the military and literally leaves her on her own. He then says "I did this for us".... what?

Why don't you review band Everclear song "Father of mine"

I like that she keeps an open mind about the music. and can listening to it with out the negative comments.

You did good girl ‼️♥️ Thank you for the upload 😘

Evan Rachel Wood is the girl. I have always loved her acting. Little did we know we were watching the future Spiderman Tom Holland.

I have two Green Day cds dookie and insomniac

I relate to this song in so many ways. It’s helped me through my own father/father figures in my life passing. This song is about him dealing with his own father’s death and the turmoil surrounding it.

My love to hate song. I first heard it 7 years after I lost my brother. He died on the 2nd of September. 17 sucky years without him.

Love this song from an incredible album!♥️♥️🎼🎶🎵🇨🇦

This one has a very closeness to my heart because I lost my dad back in 2016 on 9/13 and because it was written for his father whom died in September

Amazing, this was posted on my birthday and is one of my favorite songs! It reminds me of my mom's mom, who died of cancer on September 1st, 1980, she was just 49 and my mother was the tender age of 23! I never got to meet her, she passed away 11 years before i was born. This song is so beautiful and sacred, in the way that the bond between a parent and his or her child is so blessed. My grandmother was a preacher's wife who played organ and piano in the church and sang in the choir. She wasn't ready for life to deal a blow like this, but my mom is a such a strong woman who rose up and i remember the first time she heard this song in the car, my mother cried so much! I held her hand and told her that i loved her and that i cherished our relationship. This song really reminds me of how my mom has not had her mother for 40 years in her life, such a heartbreaking tragedy. Billie Joe Armstrong, the lead singer and main writer of Green Day actually cries sometimes when he plays this live! He did when i saw them in person at the LA Forum when i turned 22! You have to have a heart of stone not to feel the raw emotion of this amazing song! Thank you for your post!

I'm in the us army we thanks you for what you do from the bottom of my heart much love

Katrina song! After the hurricane, my family and all of us in New Orleans were trying to get our lives back together in September. Song is always a reminder.😞

I remember there first album I was in 7th grade and yes his voice is beautiful very much. He has the tear drop in his voice,.

First time I ever saw this video was on my first deployment... in September of 2005... it brings me to tears to this day. I’m 3:35 into your reaction and my prediction is it’s gonna hit you hard in the feels

To answer your question about the actors, the boy is Jamie Bell and the girl is Evan Rachel Wood. I don’t know a ton about either actor but Evan is currently one of the main characters on Westworld and Jamie was just in the Elton John biopic Rocketman which had some buzz going during awards season, he was also in a movie as a kid called Billy Elliot

I watched that music video probably a thousand times already, but never realized until now that Tré Cool is jumping of his drumset stand at the end :D

Beauty comes in limitless forms. It's all around us. Music, writing, video, even just a smile from a passerby on the street. We only have to look up from our smartphones. :')

The older you get, the more you can appreciate all music. All music has something special when the artist has something they want to express.