Firstly, watch this video.

Holiday on Piano

Then imagine the lyrics like this,

"Can you hear the falling rain?
Burning down like the armageddon flame.
The shame,
The ones who died without a name.

The dogs are howling out of key,
It's the hymn called faith and misery.
They bleed,
For the company that lost the war today..

I beg to dream,
To differ,
From that hollow life.
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives.
Our holiday.

Can you hear the drum falling out of time?
Another protester has crossed the line.
To find,
The money's on the other side.

Can I get another amen?
There's a flag buried with a score of men.
A gag,
A plastic bag on our monument...

I beg to dream,
To differ,
From that hollow life.
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives.
Our holiday."

It's amazing how much the song changes when you change instruments and the lyrics a little. The punk anthem becomes a sad depressing song about the end of the world.

This is totally blowing my mind.

All credit goes to Green Day.

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Yeah, with the video and your revised lyric I could hear it more like a later Springsteen song than Green Day.
That was a pretty cool interpretation.

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Your lyrics are awesome, the imagery is incredibly bleak. You've turned something mainstream and plastic into something appropriate for a funeral.

I agree. I think you should do it up with that awesome bass playing you do.

(NO WHITE NOISE! lol )

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