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A clever play on words with ‘alienation’, the feeling of isolation, and ‘alien nation’, a description of America’s surrounding of UFO pop culture. It sees Billie Joe separating his affections to his home country after realizing how much it has changed post 9/11.

The line also plays on the idea that the United States of America is a nation of immigrants (aliens) and that the nation is run by people who are like aliens to the citizens; i.e. they think different and care about other things.

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Billie Joe Armstrong identifies himself as bisexual, and he even wrote about coming out in the 1994 song “Coming Clean”.

The line serves as a cry of defiance and pride in identity, saying that activists, people who advocate for cultural change, and overall opposition to wars are perceived as soft and get called “faggots” by the conservative ‘rednecks’ of America (a point of view later shown in “Holiday”, which suggests killing “all the fags that don’t agree”).

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She might drown on his cum

RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on the 15th of April, 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK to New York City, US. The sinking of Titanic caused the deaths of 1,502 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in modern history.

The sinking of the Titanic has become one of the most famous ships in history because of the sinking and has been referenced in books, songs, and films.

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A reference to the idea of living your life fast and reckless. The “maker” that is being referred to is God. If someone is at a drop dead sprint they’re not taking time to think about anything, they’re just going.

James Dean is an example of someone who is perceived as having lived this kind of life leading to him meeting his maker following a car accident at the age of 24.

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A fine ass bitch is cool but a woman with money and power is preferred.

Oprah Winfrey is best known for her self-titled, multi-award-winning talk show “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” At one point she was the only black billionaire and is possibly the mos influential woman in the the world. According to Forbes she is worth upwards of $2.7 billion.

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Capital Punishment Organization, most commonly referred to as CPO, was a gangster rap group which formed in 1989 and consisted of rapper Lil' Nation (Vince Edwards), DJ Train (Clarence Lars) and producer Young D.

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He’s gonna kill fake ass rappers like Drake that get mainstream popularity from singing on record.

Note however that Jay Rock’s Black Hippy cohort Kendrick Lamar and Drake are close friends.

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He doesn’t want to get STD’s from all of the groupies that want him now that he’s getting big. He’s also showing that he’s a kid at heart by using cooties as a term to describe the diseases that bitches have.

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He was friends with white kids that acted white. Some black people would only be friends with white people that “act black” but not Skizzy.

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He’s addressed this before.

Oh she’s on her knees? I let that bitch pray

Music is the only thing that matters to him.

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