“Before the Lobotomy” Green Day Lyrics

“Before the Lobotomy” Lyrics from 21st Century Breakdown by Green Day.

The song itself is probably focused on the perspective of the character Gloria who runs around 21st Century Breakdown.

A lobotomy is a surgical procedure in which a part of the brain is removed. It's lyrical use in the title is to perhaps suggest that religion renders the brain lethargic as what happens post a lobotomy....

Before the Lobotomy Lyrics:

Dreaming, I was only dreaming
Of another place and time
Where my family's from

Singing, I can hear them singing
When the rain had washed away
All these scattered dreams

Dying, everyone's reminded
Hearts are washed in misery
Drenched in gasoline

Laughter, there's no more laughter
Songs of yesterday now live in the underground

Life before the lobotomy
Christian sang the eulogy
Sign of my love a lost memory
From the end of the Century

Well it's enough to make you sick
To cast a stone and throw a brick
When the sky is falling down
It burned your dreams into the ground

Christian's lesson
Is what he's been sold
We are normal and self-controlled
Remember to learn to forget
Whiskey shots and cheap cigarettes

Well I'm not stoned, I'm just fucked up
I got so high, I can't stand up
I'm not cursed cause I've been blessed
I'm not in love cause I'm a mess

Like refugees
We're lost like refugees
Like refugees
We're lost like refugees
The brutality of reality
Is the freedom that keeps me from

Dreaming, I was only dreaming
Of another place and time
Where my family's from

Singing, I can hear them singing
When the rain had washed away all these scattered dreams

Dying, everyone's reminded
Hearts are washed in misery
Drenched in gasoline

Laughter, there's no more laughter
Songs of yesterday
Now live in the underground

Before the Labotomy was produced by Mr Butch Vig of Garbage drums and Nirvana fame.

Green Day have played the song throughout their tour in just about all their sets.