What does Give Me Novacaine mean?

Green Day: Give Me Novacaine Meaning

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Give Me Novacaine Lyrics

Take away the sensation inside
Bitter sweet migraine in my head
It's like a throbbing toothache of the mind
I can't take this feeling anymore

Drain the pressure from the swelling
This sensation's overwhelming
Give me a long kiss good...

  1. anonymous
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    Jan 11th 2012 !⃝

    American Idiot album is a rock opera, means that the whole album has a story in it. So the plot Give Me Novacaine is describing the insecurity and fear that Jesus of Suburbia is experiencing when he enters his new life. He's tired of being weak, so he fully surrenders to his alter ego, St. Jimmy. Now he's doing what Jimmy tells him to.

  2. anonymous
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    Jun 11th 2011 !⃝

    This song is about someone with an addiction and how they use drugs to help them forget about their problems and feel numb, hence the "novacaine" .

  3. anonymous
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    May 1st 2011 !⃝

    In the storyline of American Idiot, in Are We the Waiting, the main character Johnny's friend Tunny, finds the city life unbearably boring, and joins the US Army. In Give Me Novacaine, Tunny gets horribly wounded in Iraq, and is having medical treatment


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