Can you explain the meaning of the song and the issue it is speaking out against?..here are the lyrics its called "minority" by Green Day
I want to be the minority
I don't need your authority
Down with the moral majority
'Cause I want to be the minority
I pledge allegiance to the underworld
One nation under dog
There of which I stand alone
A face in the crowd
Unsung, against the mold
Without a doubt
Singled out
The only way I know
I want to be the minority
I don't need your authority
Down with the moral majority
'Cause I want to be the minority
Stepped out of the line
Like a sheep runs from the herd
Marching out of time
To my own beat now
The only way I know
One light, one mind
Flashing in the dark
Blinded by the silence of a thousand broken hearts
"For crying out loud" she screamed unto me
A free for all
F*** 'em all
You are your own sight
I want to be the minority
I don't need your authority
Down with the moral majority
'Cause I want to be the minority We dont need the government or teachers or our parents to tell us what to do he wants to be a rebel he pledges alegiance with Satan or Hell (The under world) and he doesnt want to be like the rest of the world and live a normal life he wants to stand out and be the minority he is his own person he doesnt want to be the "moral" - good people he is basicly wanting to be bad minority - the only one that stands out - ya get it now? I believe this song is saying that they wanna be their own person and go against the crowd and what society thinks is right. In an interview, front man Billie Joe Armstrong said that "The song 'Minority' is about being an individual and how you have to drift through the darkness to find where you belong."
Billie Joe Armstrong commented that this was the point in which their song writing became slightly more political based. The lyrics "I pledge allegiance to the under world, one nation under dog..." were taken from the American Pledge of Allegiance but "twisted upside down a bit."
The lyric "down with the moral majority" from the chorus refers to the now dissolved socially conservative American organization called the Moral Majority. | 