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"Know Your Enemy" is a protest song [4] by American rock band Green Day. It is the third track on their eighth album, 21st Century Breakdown , and it was released as the lead single through Reprise Records on April 16, 2009, and the group's first single since " Jesus of Suburbia ", released 4 years earlier.
21st Century Breakdown is the eighth studio album by the American rock band Green Day, released on May 15, 2009, through Reprise Records.Green Day commenced work on the record in January 2006 and forty-five songs were written by vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong by October 2007, but the band members did not enter studio work until January 2008.
Lyrics Music "1,000 Hours" [a] Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day [b] 1,000 Hours (EP) 1989 "16" Green Day [b] 39/Smooth: 1990 "1981" Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day Saviors: 2024 "2000 Light Years Away" Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day Jesse Michaels Pete Rypins Dave E.C. Henwood Kerplunk: 1991 "21 Guns" Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day 21st Century ...
List of songs, with selected chart positions, showing year released and album name Title Year Peak chart positions Album HUN [194] MEX Eng. [173] NZ Hot [195] UK Rock [22] "Christie Road" 1991 — — — 40 Kerplunk "Letterbomb" 2004 — — — 32 American Idiot "Lights Out" 2009 — — — 25 "Know Your Enemy" single "Hearts Collide ...
God's Favorite Band features 20 of Green Day's previous hits, as well as 2 new songs: a new version of the Revolution Radio (2016) track "Ordinary World", featuring country singer Miranda Lambert, and a previously unreleased song entitled "Back in the USA".
Later in the song, lyrics begin to reference the song's musical influences: "Last one born / but first one to run" is an allusion to Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run, [4] while "I never made it as a working class hero" is a reference to the John Lennon song "Working Class Hero", which the band had previously released a cover of. [5]
The album also includes "When It's Time", a previously unreleased song written by Billie Joe Armstrong. Two versions of it appear on the album, one by The Cast and one by Green Day. It was originally released on mtv.com on April 13, 2010 and was released on CD on April 20, 2010. A vinyl version of the album was released on July 13, 2010.
[13] [14] The song was included on the set list for the Revolution Radio Tour in 2016, where the songs lyrics were adjusted to protest against Donald Trump's presidential campaign. [15] It was later included on the set list for the Hella Mega Tour , a concert tour for Green Day, Fall Out Boy , and Weezer that began in 2021. [ 16 ]