Two Weeks From Twenty

This song is about a 19-year-old guy named Jimmy who leaves his girlfriend to enlist in the military. He is killed by another soldier 2 weeks before his 20th birthday. The lines "There's still no shame from the man to blame" and "There's still no shame, and we're all to blame" show how much war affects the people involved.

Printz Board of The Black Eyed Peas provided the trumpet solo.

Yellowcard bassist Pete Mosely discussed the tune with Caught In The Crossfire: "It's the story of a G.I, it's got some anti-war sentiment in it, but it's not as openly political like – say – Propagandhi. It's very non-specific. It doesn't name names or point fingers, but it relates to an aspect of the American Armed Forces that I disagree with – the way they use cheap tricks to recruit kids out of high school. We're talking about kids that might not have the grades or money to move on to university, so the Forces come along and offer them this 'educational experience, get you ahead in life,' that kinda thing, and the kids often sign up for it – not really knowing that they'll end up going to war. In the song, Jimmy is a kid from a typical industrial town in New Jersey, who probably has a future working in a local factory ... but the factory gets shut down, so he has to take the only other opportunity he sees as available to him, and ends up going to war and dying at a young age. So it's not so much a song about war, as how it impacts on the lives of a young soldier and his family."