Musical coincidences...

Why do these things always occur to me in the parking lot?

Green Day's Jesus of Suburbia was playing as I pulled in this morning, and I kept thinking a few of the lines sounded familiar (the music, not the lyrics)

City of the dead
At the end of another lost highway
Signs misleading to nowhere
City of the damned
Lost children with dirty faces today
And no one really seems to care

I kept wanting to stick other words where "City of Dead/Damned" was. I finally remembered the chorus of Bryan Adam's Summer of '69:

Standin' on your Mama's porch
You told me that you'd wait forever
Oh and when you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life

Totally opposite lyrics, but musically very similar. Adam's song is a positive paean to youth with a potentially bright future, and the Green Day's documents stagnation, hopelessness and despair. I wonder if it was intentional?

Musical coincidences...

Why do these things always occur to me in the parking lot?

Green Day's Jesus of Suburbia was playing as I pulled in this morning, and I kept thinking a few of the lines sounded familiar (the music, not the lyrics)

City of the dead
At the end of another lost highway
Signs misleading to nowhere
City of the damned
Lost children with dirty faces today
And no one really seems to care

I kept wanting to stick other words where "City of Dead/Damned" was. I finally remembered the chorus of Bryan Adam's Summer of '69:

Standin' on your Mama's porch
You told me that you'd wait forever
Oh and when you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life

Totally opposite lyrics, but musically very similar. Adam's song is a positive paean to youth with a potentially bright future, and the Green Day's documents stagnation, hopelessness and despair. I wonder if it was intentional?