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Where everything isnt meant to be okay. Television dreams of tomorrow.
Were not the ones whore meant to follow. For thats enough to argue.
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Well maybe Im the faggot America. Im not a part of a redneck agenda.
Now everybody do the propaganda. And sing along to the age of paranoia.
Dont want to be an American idiot.
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One nation controlled by the media. Information age of hysteria.
Its calling out to idiot America.
2. God Save the Queen Sex Pistols a. Background of Song
God Save the Queen was the second single released by the punk rock
band Sex Pistols. It was released during Queen Elizabeth IIs Silver Jubilee in 1977. The records lyrics, as well as the cover, were controversial at the time, and
both the BBC and the Independent Broadcasting Authority refused to play the song. The single reached number one on the NME charts in the UK, but only made
it to 2 on the official UK Singles Chart as used by the BBC. This led to accusations by some that the charts had been fixed to prevent the song from
reaching number one. The single was released on 27 May 1977, and was regarded by much of
the general public to be an assault on Queen Elizabeth II and the monarchy. The title is taken directly from God Save the Queen, the British national anthem. At
the time it was highly controversial, firstly for its equation of the Queen with a fascist regime, and secondly for the apparent claim that England had no
future.
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Although many believe it was created because of the Jubilee, the band denies it, Paul Cook saying that, It wasnt written specifically for the Queens
Jubilee. We werent aware of it at the time. It wasnt a contrived effort to go out and shock everyone. Johnny Rotten has explained the lyrics as follows: You
dont write a song like God Save The Queen because you hate the English race. You write a song like that because you love them, and youre fed up of seeing
them mistreated. His intentions were apparently to evoke sympathy for the English working class, and a general resentment for the monarchy.
The phrase no future, the songs closing refrain, became emblematic of the punk rock movement. The lyric provided the title of Jon Savages award-
winning 1991 history of the Sex Pistols and punk rock, Englands Dreaming. This lyric has eight stanzas and thirty seven lines. This lyric is very
interesting and unique because the word “God Save the Queen” always repeated in the fist line in almost stanza was starting. This proves that the composer of the
song really wants giving us information that the title is taken directly from God Save the Queen, the British national anthem it was highly controversial at the
time. Firstly, for the equation of the Queen with a fascist regime, and secondly for the apparent claim that England had no future.
b. Lyric
“God Save the Queen” lyric by: Sex pistols
God save the Queen the fascist regime,
they made you a moron
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a potential H-bomb. God save the Queen
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she aint no human being. There is no future
in Englands dreaming Dont be told what you want
Dont be told what you need.
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Theres no future theres no future
theres no future for you God save the Queen
we mean it man
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we love our queen God saves
God save the Queen cos tourists are money
and our figurehead
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is not what she seems Oh God save history
God save your mad parade Oh Lord God have mercy
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all crimes are paid. When theres no future
how can there be sin were the flowers
in the dustbin
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were the poison in your human machine
were the future youre future
No future
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no future for you no future for me
B. Data Analysis
1. Explication a. American Idiot Green Day
