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It's safe to say that summer has indeed come and passed now that the month of September is here—and like clockwork, people on social media are turning to Green Day's anthem,
"Wake Me Up When September Ends," to wallow in their sorrow over the changing seasons. Despite the masses yearly inclination to play the song repeatedly and share the lyrics on
Twitter, it's actual origins really don't have much to do with the falling of leaves, changes in weather or anything else usually associated with the usual summertime sadness
stirred up by September's arrival. And true fans of the band are reminding everyone of that as the feeds are flooded with memes and jokes about the hit song. "As a reminder,
September songs that ARE cool to joke about this month: *most of em. September songs that AREN'T cool to joke about this month: * green day—wake me up when September ends," one
Twitter user wrote on Tuesday. While it may seem like the most clever anecdote to mark the times, the history behind "When September Ends" creation is a particularly sad one.
Featured on Green Day's seventh studio album, _American Idiot_, the band's frontman Billie Joe Armstrong penned the song in homage to his late father, Andrew Armstrong, who died
from esophageal cancer when Billie Joe Armstrong was 10 years old in 1982. Billie Joe Armstrong opened up on the history of the song during Green Day's 2019 appearance on _The Howard
Stern Show,_ noting that the title stemmed from the phrase he told his mother when he first learned of his father's death. "I think it's something that just stayed with me;
the month of September being that anniversary that always is just, I don't know, kind of a bummer," he said. "But it's weird. When things happen like that when
you're that young, it's almost like life starts at year zero, or something like that." Although Billie Joe Armstrong admitted that there wasn't a day that went by when he
didn't think of his father, the musician said he struggled to write music about his dad for years. "I kind of avoided writing about him for many years and then finally having a
breakthrough like... It felt good. It wasn't a negative emotion so much, but just honoring him," he said. Considering the sensitivity and emotions equated with the track, Green Day
fans took to Twitter to ensure people were being respectful of Billie Joe Armstrong's past while enjoying the song on the first of September. "Since its September now, here's
ur reminder to please not joke about the green day song "Wake Me Up When September Ends" the song is about the singer's father who died of cancer when he was a kid. It's
just not funny," one person wrote on Twitter.