Say Goodbye

When Billie Joe Armstrong wrote this politically motivated track, he was reacting to images of armored military-style vehicles in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. The Green Day frontman told Zane Lowe on Beats 1: "If I'm at a party or something like that I tend to ask a lot more questions these days instead of just trying to come up with answers. Sometimes when you're ignorant about something it's sort of a virtue because it makes you curious about what's going on. I think that's what I do in my songs. I just stay curious about what it is that I'm feeling about, whether its personal on a song like 'Still Breathing' or if it's political like a song on there called 'Say Goodbye' which is basically about a military state right in your living room."

Teach your children well From the bottom of the well Armstrong contemplates here the drinking water contamination issue in Flint, Michigan. He explained to Rolling Stone: "It's thinking of Flint, Michigan, and trying to educate your kids while they're drinking toxic waste. You can't educate people if they're that desperate."