



Track 3 from Revolution Radio

Released 2016

Green Day has played this song live Revolution RadioTrack 3 from Revolution RadioReleased 2016Green Day has played this song live 69 time(s)

Lyrics

Scream with your hands up in the sky

Like you want to testify

For the life that's been deleted



Sing like a rebel's lullaby

Under the stars and stripes

For the lost souls that were cheated



We will be seen but not be heard



We are revolution radio

Operation no control

In the headline, my love's bullet proof

Give me cherry bombs and gasoline

Debutants in surgery

In the headline, legalize the truth



Give me rage

Like there's tear gas in the crowd

Do you want to live out loud

But the air is barely breathing



Rise, of the slums to the obsolete

Of the dawn of the new airwaves

For the anti-social media



We are revolution radio

Operation no control

In the headline, my love's bullet proof

Give me cherry bombs and gasoline

Debutants in surgery

In the headline, legalize the truth



We will be seen but not be heard

We are the songs of the disturbed



We are revolution radio

Operation no control

In the headline, my love's bullet proof

Give me cherry bombs and gasoline

Debutants in surgery

In the headline, legalize the truth

Song Meaning

"I was just watching this controlled chaos, and it was going and happening all over the country. I was feeling that people don't want to feel obsolete in the things that we care about. That's sort of what the song is about." - Billie Joe (Rolling Stone, Aug. 11, 2016)



"'Give me cherry bombs and gasoline!' Armstrong sings on the title track. The idea came to him in New York two years ago when he ran into a Black Lives Matter protest; before he knew it, Armstrong had gotten out of his car and was walking up Eighth Avenue with the throng. 'I was screaming, 'Hands up, don't shoot,' ' he says. 'I felt like I was on the right side of history. ... It's like something is breaking in the world. A lot of the old people are dying off and the values of the Fifties generation are starting to break and what happened in the Sixties and is starting to manifest more now than it ever has before.'' (Track by Track Guide, Rolling Stone)

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