Green Day Saved Me

[Nikki_Nimrod]

I'm not going to say they saved me from something like suicide, but Green Day always made sure life didn't seem as bad as I thought it was--like, say, all of middle school. It's kid of hard to put into words... only my other friends who love Green Day know what I'm talking about. it's just them, you know? There's nobody else like them.

This. I feel exactly the same way, they really helped me get a better perspective on life through some really shitty times. Middle School being one of them. I don't know how to describe it, they just make me feel so much better and happier!

[Anko]

Green Day haved saved my life and continuosly do so. I have nothing besides them. They make me realise I'm not actually completely insane and that there are other people out there, feeling what I feel too. I would definatly not be here if it weren't for them.

Same here.

I was 13,my mom and I had a fight (can't remember what it was about) and I went into my room,shut if off and took one of the decritive knives that I had and held it to my wrist and just started crying.Well I didn't have the guts to off myself,so I just slashed one of my pillows instead,turned on the radio and BOBD was playing,it helped so much to hear it.

So now wheneven I'm really pissed or depressed I just throw Green Day in my CD player and turin it up. I don't know if I'd still be here if it weren't for their music.

I think it's a flaw in people's thinking that they would have been fucked if they didn't find certain music. They do find it and they are very comforted by it. But if they never found it in the first place they'd find another coping mechanism of some kind.

I can't speak for everyone,but if I didn't hear BOBD and started listening to them constantly,I'd still be hurting myself on a regular basis.

[Chelsea Hotel]

This. I feel exactly the same way, they really helped me get a better perspective on life through some really shitty times. Middle School being one of them. I don't know how to describe it, they just make me feel so much better and happier!

I think it's carved into stone somewhere: "Middle School will suck for everyone. Don't try and avoid it. Unless you're popular and attractive. If not, you're screwed."

[GarinRichards]

I remember when I first started out at my new school. I hated everyone. Only because that i had to leave the friends that I have known to love and all.

I was seriously a loner and became severely depressed.

But that all changed when I discovered American Idiot and made some new friends because they like Green Day as well!

I think if it wasn't for their music or actually, music in general. I'd probably be in a different place than I am today.

And I thank them for that.

[Mari91]

I think it's carved into stone somewhere: "Middle School will suck for everyone. Don't try and avoid it. Unless you're popular and attractive. If not, you're screwed."

that should be carved into stone

its so true middle school truly sucks

but its when my best friend introduced me to green day

[Supermodel*Robot]

They just help me feel better about myself in general. you know, when you're pissed off at the world & it seems like no one could ever understand your contempt, there's Insomniac. Feeling lonely, like you'll never be enough for that person you want to be with? There's 1039 SOSH. It's just nice to have an energy that identifies with how you're feeling. They've also helped me figure out my beliefs & form a personal ideology. I can't say I'd be fucked without them, but I probably wouldn't be as awesome without them. haha

[LetItBeHappy]

During the AI time, I didn't really listen to music Dark times... Then a friend of mine (who doesn't like it anymore) introduced me Green Day and everything starting making sense for me...

Then, for my birthday, I didn't know that they have more than one CD (i wasn't a fan, i just liked the songs i had heared) so I ask for Green Day's CD to my uncle... Who bought the cheaper... Wich means that he gave me Insomniac. I'm so happy for that. I'm pretty sure I would be a complete different person if I had AI first. After that, Green Day has saved me from my worst moments like a million times (i think i was about to have depression last year, mostly because school) and it made me and my best friend (who is into Green Day because of me xD) more close

CONCLUSION: Green Day saves lives. That's a fact.

[gloria w]

yeah they've saved me. you dont know how screwd up my life is rite now or how it would be w/o them.

[JHyena86]

I think it's carved into stone somewhere: "Middle School will suck for everyone. Don't try and avoid it. Unless you're popular and attractive. If not, you're screwed."

And it doesn't end with high school...it gets worse for some people. Just fair warning. Though in collage nothing like that seems to matter...I get treated like a rock star now, and I was treated like shit in high school for being a GD/punk rock fan.

[thenextsexpistol_mak]

^Yeah I think I know what you mean. It's something you can share. Even though you can't talk to them or see them at that moment.

They are your Idols ..

you know?

Like,,,, it becomes suck an important thing....

'Mom they are my Idols'

'they aint just a bunch of hippies, they... get me'

... and she breaks into tears

CONCLUSION: Green Day saves lives. That's a fact.

AMEN

[Rae'n'shine]

They just help me feel better about myself in general. you know, when you're pissed off at the world & it seems like no one could ever understand your contempt, there's Insomniac. Feeling lonely, like you'll never be enough for that person you want to be with? There's 1039 SOSH. It's just nice to have an energy that identifies with how you're feeling. They've also helped me figure out my beliefs & form a personal ideology. I can't say I'd be fucked without them, but I probably wouldn't be as awesome without them. haha

Haha, agreed.

And it doesn't end with high school...it gets worse for some people. Just fair warning. Though in collage nothing like that seems to matter...I get treated like a rock star now, and I was treated like shit in high school for being a GD/punk rock fan.

It just depend on where you live, I think. My high school was full of burnouts and rejects. There was a small crowd that were the popular crowd, but they got treated like shit from everybody else. I was kind of the normal drama loser in my school

College is great. Nobody gives a shit what you were like in high school, and most everybody is open-minded. At least the people I've met are really open to everything.

[g l o r i a]

Call me crazy, but I can be in the worst mood ever after having the worst day of my life.

And listening to Green Day helps so much.

Listening to them makes me such a happy person, no matter what.

They've saved me in more ways then one.

[Klaus]

When I was six years old, I remember hearing Brain Stew for the first time, when it was released on the radio. I remember running around screaming because I loved it so much. But it wasn't because it sounded rad or that it had this really cool, gritty sound to it. When I was 5 years old, I was sexually assaulted by my neighbor in my own bed. I had no way to let out the anger and frustration, so when I heard that, I immediately felt a connection.

At 14, I was starting to figure out my sexuality and in reaction to that and a lot of problems with my life, I began to fall into depression. That and I had watched Bowling For Columbine for the first time and it made me think about the state of the world a lot more than I already was. Hearing American Idiot for the first time it was ever played on the radio in Vancouver made me go "Jesus, I use to love this band I haven't heard anything from them in ages! THANK GOD FOR GREEN DAY!" I was 15 when the album was released and by then, I had a house fire I had accidentally started, yet felt completely responsible for. My depression worsened and when I heard Boulevard Of Broken Dreams for the first time, I burst into tears because it felt like someone had finally noticed how I felt.

Because I started to become an even bigger Green Day fan, I started to go into their older stuff and when I heard One For the Razorbacks, I almost froze. I knew Billie-Joe was saying nothing at all to me, that I probably wasn't born when he wrote it and if I had been, he had no clue I existed. But hearing 'Open Up Your Worried World And Let Me In' was the first time someone had said it when I was listening. And to this day, I'm so grateful for Green Day.

Hearing 21 Guns when there was a chance to listen to five or six of the songs drove me nuts to where I started crying because I had just moved out and my life was so different and confusing. It begged me to start settling down all the crazy thoughts in my head and I felt another connection to it.

So the only thing I can say is 'Thank you Green Day for saving my life I don't know how many times.'

^_^

[Guest Hayley]

This.

They've helped me to be happy with myself and I've also made some amazing friends through their music, but I wouldn't say they 'saved' me.

Haha I know how it feels.

[Chelsea Hotel]

And it doesn't end with high school...it gets worse for some people. Just fair warning. Though in collage nothing like that seems to matter...I get treated like a rock star now, and I was treated like shit in high school for being a GD/punk rock fan.

Nah, I got into a arts/technology high school, so I'm having a good time. Usually. better than middle school.

[Whatsername868]

Green Day saves me almost every day.

I am beginning to think that the true love of my life isn't a person, but a trio.

[Ally]

I am beginning to think that the true love of my life isn't a person, but a trio.

i think that to sometimes

[Guest jetblackheart]

Like I said earlier in another thread, I don't know where I'd be if I hadn't heard 21CB this spring. It's a scary thought, but it's also kinda comforting to know that sometimes there IS something that can make you feel better just when you think that there isn't anything anymore.

[Brian]

They save me from everything.

[Rae'n'shine]

Like I said earlier in another thread, I don't know where I'd be if I hadn't heard 21CB this spring. It's a scary thought, but it's also kinda comforting to know that sometimes there IS something that can make you feel better just when you think that there isn't anything anymore.

I know exactly what you mean. It's like Green Day came to the rescue just in time with 21stCB. When I heard 21 Guns for the first time on the radio interview in May, I cried. I had just had my heart broken like a week before I heard that song, and it made me feel not so alone.

[L0205H]

Yes! Yes! Yes!

Holiday relieved me of my boredom a few years back when I spent my summer at my dad's work. Sitting in an office is incredibly boring. :verymad:

Chump helped me out when I found out a guy I was talking to was talking with another girl. That was the defining moment of my "listen to nothing but angry music" phase.

Macy's Day Parade and Murder City got me through a horrible night I spent in the East Bay. I felt closer to Green Day.

Waiting is my number one song for getting me through a time. I was driving to the district office to make a request to transfer to another school, and it came on the radio. I felt so blessed at that moment, and listened to it non-stop for days and days.

[mac16]

They've saved me from becoming another mindless teenager who wears Hollister and listens to the crap we call music today.

When I first heard Minority, I truly realized that being an individual is really what matters. I think after hearing American Idiot, I started to involve myself in world news/politics. I remember thinking, "Why is he singing this? What's going on?"And after East Jesus Nowhere, I really started to think hard about religion. I've come up with so many weird theories, it's strange what their music can do to me. And without them, I don't think I would know about half the bands I listen to today.

[Zalex]

If it werent for Green Day I wouldnt know half of my friends I have now, I wouldnt be so inspired to do what I love to do without caring what other people think, and I would be pretty bored with my life

[Mrs. Nobody]

Nah, not saved. But getting into GD music triggered a chain of reactions that led to me finding something that I really love, and makes be happy ;D

[MitchBob]

Saved me from listening to shit genres of music.