21st Century Breakdown
See The Light
Song Meaning
Billie Joe Armstrong (Q Magazine, 2009): "This record is like the way American culture is right now, where a different week is a different crisis depending on where you're getting your news from, but there's also this feeling of hope that goes throughout the record. Life, I guess. And it ends up with See the Light."
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Lyrics
I crossed the river
Fell into the sea
Where the non-believers
Go beyond belief
Then I scratched the surface
In the mouth of hell
Running out of service
In the blood I fell
I just want to see the light
i don't want to lose my sight
I just want to see the light
I need to know what's worth the fight
I've been wasted
Pills and alcohol
I've been chasing
Down the pool halls
Then I drank the water
From a hurricane
And I set a fire
Just to see the flame
I just want to see the light
I don't want to lose my sight
I just want to see the light
I need to know what's worth the fight
I crossed the desert
Reaching higher ground
Then I pound the pavement
To take the liars down
But it's gone forever
But never too late
Where the ever after
Is in the hands of fate
I just want to see the light
I don't want to lose my sight
I just want to see the light
I need to know what's worth the fight
Fell into the sea
Where the non-believers
Go beyond belief
Then I scratched the surface
In the mouth of hell
Running out of service
In the blood I fell
I just want to see the light
i don't want to lose my sight
I just want to see the light
I need to know what's worth the fight
I've been wasted
Pills and alcohol
I've been chasing
Down the pool halls
Then I drank the water
From a hurricane
And I set a fire
Just to see the flame
I just want to see the light
I don't want to lose my sight
I just want to see the light
I need to know what's worth the fight
I crossed the desert
Reaching higher ground
Then I pound the pavement
To take the liars down
But it's gone forever
But never too late
Where the ever after
Is in the hands of fate
I just want to see the light
I don't want to lose my sight
I just want to see the light
I need to know what's worth the fight
Live History
Live History
- Total Plays
- 13 times / #174 most played
- Most Recent
- June 4, 2009 Hollywood, CA
- Earliest Known
- April 7, 2009 San Francisco, CA
18 tracks
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