BraedonHorbacio Posted October 17, 2009 Posted October 17, 2009 This is definitely single worthy. Now that billies hair is blonde and everything it would make a great music video. KNOW YOUR ENEMY. best part.
Library Girl Posted October 18, 2009 Posted October 18, 2009 I first didn't liked this one a lot. I don't know ... But I really, really love the part:I'm elated medicatedI am my own worst enemySo what ails you is what impales youYou are your own worst enemy!You're a victim of the system!You're your own worst enemy!
Shadow Posted October 21, 2009 Posted October 21, 2009 RHS is one of my favourite GD songs! I can´t stop listening to it! The only negative aspect of the 21st CB Tour is that GD doesn´t play RHS! I don´t know the reason for it, but I guess it´s because the song is so emotional, both for Billie to sing and for the audience to listen to it...Billie said it was the hardest song to write and I know I would probably start crying while hearing it live. But still, I wish they would add it to the setlist!
novacaine_kid Posted October 21, 2009 Posted October 21, 2009 Usually the songs released as singles are songs that are played live on the tours. So unless they include it on next years tour, its unlikely this will be a single. My money is on either The Static Age or Before The Lobotomy
Mistress.Kate Posted October 21, 2009 Posted October 21, 2009 Usually the songs released as singles are songs that are played live on the tours. So unless they include it on next years tour, its unlikely this will be a single. My money is on either The Static Age or Before The LobotomyI think Before The Lobotomy will, but who knows right? Why can't they make videos of every song of the CD this time?
Eirik Posted October 22, 2009 Posted October 22, 2009 RHS is one of my favourite GD songs! I can´t stop listening to it! The only negative aspect of the 21st CB Tour is that GD doesn´t play RHS! I don´t know the reason for it, but I guess it´s because the song is so emotional, both for Billie to sing and for the audience to listen to it...Billie said it was the hardest song to write and I know I would probably start crying while hearing it live. But still, I wish they would add it to the setlist!How is this song too emotional for Billie to sing on tour? He sang WMUWSE during every show of the AI tour...
Emjay Posted October 22, 2009 Posted October 22, 2009 RHS is really a wonderful song - i just love it,it's my favourite of 21stCB with 21 Guns H&H and MurderCity. It's as powerful as H&H even if it's slower andquite depressing. But you just feel how much emotionsthere are in that song and that's worth all the shoutingin H&H. The part after the "know your enemy" line iseven better, it's where the song is really getting powerful.And i love the whole "I'm elated, medicated" part, forthe music and for the lyrics. I was really sad they didn'tplay it on tour because RHS really is one of their best songs,and it really deserves to be the next single, even if that'sprobably not gonna happen. ><
Sister of Grace Posted October 22, 2009 Posted October 22, 2009 I first didn't liked this one a lot. I don't know ... But I really, really love the part:I'm elated medicatedI am my own worst enemySo what ails you is what impales youYou are your own worst enemy!You're a victim of the system!You're your own worst enemy!i agree with this. so so good!
Bastard of 1967 Posted October 26, 2009 Posted October 26, 2009 RHS is a mixed bag for me. When I first heard it, my initial reaction to it was "oh, there you go again blaming 'the system' for everything that's wrong with your life, didn't you take us there on American Idiot and now we're back in the same place again? ...show a little responsibliity and grow the f*ck up already". Now before y'all go leaping down my throat, that was back in May. Now with the benefits of a many months of listening to 21CB as a whole, my view is that although I still find RHS to be the hardest song on the album for me to get into, it does have its place there and I can see why Butch wanted to be sure it was included. As with most of the songs on the album, it has multiple messages depending on where you begin studying it from.On the plot level, Gloria is in the depths of her depression after running away from Christian (again) in Little Girl, and she recognizes the extent to which they both have relied on substance abuse (prescription? non-prescription?) to get by. She understands that it's killing her, that she's turning the pain she has been trying to avoid back in on herself, harming herself ever moreso (so what ails you/is what impales you). In Little Girl, Christian scolded her: "You're just a junkie preaching to the choir"; in RHS she acknowledges this and declares herself to be her own worst enemy -- in turn answering the rhetorical question she first asked back in Act I: "Do you know your enemy? (Right here)".Another message hit me this morning as I was humming the closing refrain to myself: You're a victim/of the system/You are your own worst enemy. The lyric highlights a vicious cycle in our psyche and in our politic that now threatens to destroy us in the first decade of the 21st century -- the system victimizes you, you react by victimizing yourself, by medicating the pain and suffering away on one level or by keeping yourself ignorant and uniformed on another -- not crossing the line, not speaking out or lashing out against what you know is wrong. This keeps "the system" in power over you, and you are thus your own worst enemy.Looked at it that way, you can just feel the pressure rising as the guitars build to their crescendo in the outro....and then Billie Joe uncorks the pressure at the beginning of Act III, in Horseshoes & Handgrenades.
champagne mami Posted October 26, 2009 Posted October 26, 2009 I love when it says "Know your enemy" I like it very much!!Ohh me too!It's so awesome! RHS is really a wonderful song - i just love it,it's my favourite of 21stCB with 21 Guns H&H and MurderCity. It's as powerful as H&H even if it's slower andquite depressing. But you just feel how much emotionsthere are in that song and that's worth all the shoutingin H&H. The part after the "know your enemy" line iseven better, it's where the song is really getting powerful.And i love the whole "I'm elated, medicated" part, forthe music and for the lyrics. I was really sad they didn'tplay it on tour because RHS really is one of their best songs,and it really deserves to be the next single, even if that'sprobably not gonna happen. >< I totally agree.
Mar Posted October 27, 2009 Posted October 27, 2009 RHS is a mixed bag for me. When I first heard it, my initial reaction to it was "oh, there you go again blaming 'the system' for everything that's wrong with your life, didn't you take us there on American Idiot and now we're back in the same place again? ...show a little responsibliity and grow the f*ck up already". Now before y'all go leaping down my throat, that was back in May. Now with the benefits of a many months of listening to 21CB as a whole, my view is that although I still find RHS to be the hardest song on the album for me to get into, it does have its place there and I can see why Butch wanted to be sure it was included. As with most of the songs on the album, it has multiple messages depending on where you begin studying it from.On the plot level, Gloria is in the depths of her depression after running away from Christian (again) in Little Girl, and she recognizes the extent to which they both have relied on substance abuse (prescription? non-prescription?) to get by. She understands that it's killing her, that she's turning the pain she has been trying to avoid back in on herself, harming herself ever moreso (so what ails you/is what impales you). In Little Girl, Christian scolded her: "You're just a junkie preaching to the choir"; in RHS she acknowledges this and declares herself to be her own worst enemy -- in turn answering the rhetorical question she first asked back in Act I: "Do you know your enemy? (Right here)".Another message hit me this morning as I was humming the closing refrain to myself: You're a victim/of the system/You are your own worst enemy. The lyric highlights a vicious cycle in our psyche and in our politic that now threatens to destroy us in the first decade of the 21st century -- the system victimizes you, you react by victimizing yourself, by medicating the pain and suffering away on one level or by keeping yourself ignorant and uniformed on another -- not crossing the line, not speaking out or lashing out against what you know is wrong. This keeps "the system" in power over you, and you are thus your own worst enemy.Looked at it that way, you can just feel the pressure rising as the guitars build to their crescendo in the outro....and then Billie Joe uncorks the pressure at the beginning of Act III, in Horseshoes & Handgrenades.Completely agree with you! RHS was, still is to an extent, the hardest song for me to listen to on the album. I like it now, but I was the same way, basically up until September.
Alan86 Posted October 27, 2009 Posted October 27, 2009 While having lunch today i was sitting in my car reading the newspaper with the 21st CB album playing in the background. I was reading a bit about michael jacksons death when restless heart syndrome came on and immediately it clicked with me how the song almost perfectly describes Michael Jacksons demise and final days. I know it couldn't possibly be about MJ cause it was written before his death. I just thought there was a very close correlation between the story in the song and MJ's end. Im not callin Billie a prophet or anything
St.jimmys_son@hotmail.com Posted October 29, 2009 Posted October 29, 2009 This song doesn't do it for me.Slow, dull. Practically emo.It just seems like a conclusion to 'Last Night on Earth'. :bored:
-Billiejoezee- Posted October 30, 2009 Posted October 30, 2009 This song doesn't do it for me.Slow, dull. Practically emo.It just seems like a conclusion to 'Last Night on Earth'. :bored:Did you just call a Green Day song Emo?Oh hell no.this is the best song ever.
Maddy. Posted October 31, 2009 Posted October 31, 2009 This song is so not emo. I reckon you listen to it a few more times. I think this song is one of the best on the album.
Metanoia Posted October 31, 2009 Posted October 31, 2009 one of the most amazing songs i've ever heard !!!!!!! really i ADORE it !!!!!!!!!i'd die to see it live and its just so incredibly great that i can't find words for it .... :wub: :wub: :wub:
Rosie May Posted November 19, 2009 Posted November 19, 2009 While having lunch today i was sitting in my car reading the newspaper with the 21st CB album playing in the background. I was reading a bit about michael jacksons death when restless heart syndrome came on and immediately it clicked with me how the song almost perfectly describes Michael Jacksons demise and final days. I know it couldn't possibly be about MJ cause it was written before his death. I just thought there was a very close correlation between the story in the song and MJ's end. Im not callin Billie a prophet or anything I thought the exact same thing about Micheal Jackson when he died. I think it just shows how relevant the lyrics of this song are to soceity nowadays. I think if I had to pick a favourite song from the album this would be it. No matter how many times I listen to it I don't get tired of it. I just love it really, I think the music and lyrics work really well together and I love the part straight after "Know Your Enemy", it's epic.
bjrules Posted November 19, 2009 Posted November 19, 2009 I really really think that they should play this and Peacemaker live. That would be fucking epic!
Elissa. Posted November 26, 2009 Posted November 26, 2009 This song doesn't do it for me.Slow, dull. Practically emo.It just seems like a conclusion to 'Last Night on Earth'. :bored:No. No no no no no no. It may sound sad, but it's one of those powerful songs on 21CB, far from emo if you ask meIt's a very good song, I love the "Know your enemy" part!
E!!i Posted December 3, 2009 Posted December 3, 2009 No. No no no no no no. It may sound sad, but it's one of those powerful songs on 21CB, far from emo if you ask me It's a very good song, I love the "Know your enemy" part! I love the "Know Your Enemy" part the most too because then it really rocks!
bjrules Posted December 7, 2009 Posted December 7, 2009 This song needs to be sang live.Yes! Definitely. I have no idea why they don't play this live. It'd be awesome if they did.
E!!i Posted December 11, 2009 Posted December 11, 2009 Yes! Definitely. I have no idea why they don't play this live. It'd be awesome if they did.They play enough ballads live so they don't play this too.
Spirited Away Posted December 11, 2009 Posted December 11, 2009 this is my favourite song on the album. i love it.
xLilyx Posted December 15, 2009 Posted December 15, 2009 This and American Eulogy are my favorite songs off of it. I'm so glad Billie finished it. I can't picture the album without it because I love it so much xDD
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