Song: Wake Me Up When September Ends
Artists: Green Day
3 Phrases that Strike me.
“Summer has come and passed”
“But never forget what I lost”
“Wake Me Up When September Ends”
The song strikes me because of the background of the song about a son of a US Marine Corps soldier, whose father died in a war. The father who has to leave his family for the sake of fighting to end all kinds of terrorism activities being executed on innocent humans that are against human rights. I myself relate to this as well because I am training to become a future US Army Officer, and I hope and pray that I can still see my wife and kids in the future, and to the people serving in the military; even to the people in the law enforcement.
Repetition I noticed
“Here comes the rain again, Falling from the stars”
“Like my father come to passed”
“Wake Me Up When September Ends”
The changes I noticed is that the song started from a low tone to a grieving son. I also notice how the son misses his father who he needs to be with while growing up. In this song, it appears that the son followed the footsteps of his father to avenge his death from the hands of the terrorists.
