The music group, Green Day chose to make another political statement by releasing “Troubled Times“, a single from the band’s album Revolution Radio on Martin Luther King day, just a few days before President-elect Trump takes office.
“What good is love and peace on earth when its exclusive,” sings band lead, Billie Joe Armstrong. “Where is the truth in the written word, if no one sees it?”
The release timing seems to sync with the video footage of the Civil Rights hero and the March on Washington in 1963 as well as images from the suffrage movement coinciding with an orange fiery figure wearing a “Make America Great Again” red hat and spreading hate.
“Today we celebrate love and compassion more than ever,” said Billie Joe Armstrong in a press release, which only included this one line.
The animated clip was put together by Manu Viqueira, with original typography by David Rodriguez Simón. This is not the first time the band is singing about a president. In 2004, Green Day released American Idiot, a concept album aimed at George W. Bush.
Full lyrics below: (From Google Play)
What good is love and peace on earth?
When it’s exclusive?
Where’s the truth in the written word?
If no one reads it
A new day dawning
Comes without warning
So don’t blink twice
We live in troubled times
We live in troubled times
What part of history we learned
When it’s repeated
Some things will never overcome
If we don’t seek it
The world stops turning
Paradise burning
So don’t think twice
We live in troubled times
We live in troubled times
We live in troubled times
We run for cover
Like a skyscraper’s falling down
Then I wander like a troubled mind
What good is love and peace on earth?
When it’s exclusive
Where’s the truth in the written word?
If no one reads it
A new day dawning
Comes without warning
So don’t look twice
