Reaction Wake Me Up When September Ends by Green Day

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Why I Reacted To This Song

I was in middle school when I heard Green Day for the first time. Evolving to recent days, Green Day was my jam. Father’s Day just passed and I’m missing my father, so this one hit differently this time around.

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About This Song

“Wake Me Up When September Ends” was written by Billie Joe Armstrong and released in 2004 on Green Day’s album American Idiot. Armstrong wrote it about losing his own father to cancer when he was just 10 years old and that grief runs through every line. It became one of the band’s biggest singles and despite later being associated with other tragedies because of its timing, remains at its core a deeply personal song about loss.

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A website about the things I cherish, games and music.

Gaming

I’ve been playing games for as long as I can remember. From the pixelated chaos of Doom and the endlessly satisfying loop of Tetris. Furthermore, the grand strategy and multiplayer of Warcraft II and the brutal competitiveness of Counter-Strike.

Some favorites that have stuck with me over the years:

Classics & Strategy Doom · Tetris · NHL 1995 · Master of Orion · Heroes of Might and Magic · Warcraft II · Age of Empires II · Starcraft