Before The Lobotomy

[pols4tre]

I'm in love with this song, especially the beginning section; the lyrics paint the image of a downtrodden, hopeless world so well.

[P3AC3MAK3R]

i played this song soooo many times today i love it soo much !!

[Just Kate]

i absolutely love this song! i love it's power! the first part and it's reflection as the last part, but i mostly like the Like Refugees part. it's awesome. whole song. it's just amazing. and when there's a Green Day song in my head, then it's this one.

[Prisca]

I seriously hate Billie's voice at the beginning of this song. And I also hate the way he says refugees. Worst song on the album for me. It's just never really grown on me. I used to think Last Night on Earth was the worst, but that grew on me.

Really? I'm the complete opposite! I looooooove Billie's voice in this song, especially the beginning. And it's been my favorite since I heard it.

I love how this song builds up and then EXPLODES! It gets me so amped!

i absolutely love this song! i love it's power! the first part and it's reflection as the last part, but i mostly like the Like Refugees part. it's awesome. whole song. it's just amazing. and when there's a Green Day song in my head, then it's this one.

Completely agree with you!

[Marki.]

The lyrics are just SO BRILLIANT (as in every other GD song )

I think Before the Lobotomy is one of the most amazing songs Billie's ever written

I love how Billie sings

Dying

Everyone's reminded

Hearts are washed in misery

Drenched in gasoline

Laughter

There is no more laughter

Songs of yesterday

Now live in the underground

and

When It's enough to make you sick

to cast a stone and throw a brick

When the sky is falling down

it burned your dreams into the ground

and

The brutality of reality

Is the freedom that keeps me from

...

Dreaming

ok I'm gonna stop now sorry

[Just Kate]

i really love the power of this song... especially when it's really loud

[Mar]

I'm in love with this song, especially the beginning section; the lyrics paint the image of a downtrodden, hopeless world so well.

Really? I'm the complete opposite! I looooooove Billie's voice in this song, especially the beginning. And it's been my favorite since I heard it.

I agree with both of these comments. Even when Billie's exaggerating slightly in the beginning (at least exaggerating in terms of how I see the world, others may disagree), I still think it's incredibly accurate, somehow.

[Jacob.]

awesome song

my favorite part is the beginning

[Jacob.]

[mandajane]

im not stoned im just fucked up

i got so high i cant stand up<3

need i say more???

[Lotte]

This song is one of my favs of the album. Especially after I saw it live. The intro was just so beautiful

[Micky]

I want to see this live too.

[in_your_face]

aww.. it's one of my favorite songs!!! 'whiskey shots and cheap cigarettes' it's an amazing song!!! :wub:

[Christina.]

It really is a powerful song. It's so strange when one song can wound you up and calm you down so easily.

I especially love the middle parts. So great!

[UnderClassHero]

This song is probably one of the songs which have the best lyrics, they're beautiful and actually mean something unlike other random songs by other artists always talking about sex and other shit. great song, and nice guitar in here too

[Wretched & Divine]

I'm getting a tattoo of a lyric from this song... as soon as I have the cash to actually get it done haha.

I'm very indecisive about choosing favourite songs- especially with this whole album, because each and every track is amazing- but I think it would be within my top 3 favourites off 21st Century Breakdown =)

[penutt]

Most songs on this album sound like something I've heard before, especially this one. I just can't quite pinpoint it to any particular song, but they all sound familiar to me.

But yeah, awesome song.

[valeriaREBEL]

This song is amazing <3 i remember the first time i heard it i was like shocked. It's my third most played on my ipod...

[nimr0d.]

"well its enough to make you sick, to cast a stone and throw a brick. when the sky is falling down it burned your dreams into the ground"

Love that part

[champagne mami]

Ah, I like this song, not one of my favorites off of 21CB, but it's good.

I'm not that fond of the beginning, I really don't know why. I guess it's just too...slow, I don't know.

The middle part though, I love that part.

"Well I'm not stoned, I'm just fucked up. I got so high I can't stand up. I'm not cursed cause I've been blessed. I'm not in love cause I'm a mess."

Those lyrics are probably my favorite lyrics from this song.

And I also really love how it goes into a slower beat. Like right after "the freedom that keeps me from...Dreaming, etc"

I like how it all ties up at the end, yknow.

[green-day1972]

this song is awesome. My favorite part is "like refugees, we're lost like refugees"

[Mar]

Listening to the version from the musical just made me love this song all the more, and that's saying something, because I absolutely adore this song. But the way they perform it on the soundtrack just gives me chills.

[Green Day Cellist]

I really liked this song when I heard it on the album, but when I got to hear it live at their Denver concert last year....... man I effing fell in love with this song. I reeeeeeally really hope they play it again at the Englewood concert *crosses fingers*

[Billie Kristy]

Amazing song. The lyrics are just awesome <3

[Guest]

This has become my favorite song on the album. Seeing it live makes it even better. I feel it's the strongest song on the album lyrically, and musically it's incredible too. I love the transitions.