Wake Me Up When December Ends (Wake Me Up When September Ends, Billie Joe Armstrong)

I'm one of those people who can't get enough of Christmas; in fact, I'm already starting to think about it. But for a lot of people, the month leading up to it is one big hassle. This little parody, to Green Day's Wake Me Up When September Ends, is for them.

Wake Me Up When December Ends

Autumn has come and passed.
My sanity could never last.
Wake me up when December ends.
Garland on the grocery shelves,
Visions of reindeer and elves.
Wake me up when December ends.
Hunting for gifts again, courting bankruptcy,
Fearing the rifts again within my family.
I would waste no applause
On that oaf called Santa Claus.
Wake me up when December ends. 

Autumn has come and passed.
My sanity could never last.
Wake me up when December ends. 
Blast! Jingle bells again
Pounding down into my brain.
Wake me up when December ends.
Hunting for gifts again, courting bankruptcy,
Fearing the rifts again within my family.
I would waste no applause
On that oaf called Santa Claus.
Wake me up when December ends. 

Wake Me Up When September Ends 

I Am a Lonely Toad (Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Billie Joe Armstrong)

Last year I went to a Green Day concert, and I actually enjoyed it. So I figured I'd temper all these oldies with Boulevard of Broken Dreams, a song that is practically brand-new. This parody imagines Toad from Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad books at a point in his life prior to meeting Frog. Unsurprisingly, he is feeling sorry for himself.

I Am a Lonely Toad

I am a lonely toad,
The loneliest that I have ever known.
I am in the throes
Of abject misery, and I walk alone.

I'm sitting in the stream,
Thinking about flowers and ice cream.
Oh, yes, I can dream
But never act because I must walk alone.
(I walk alone, I walk alone.
I walk alone, I walk a...)

The tadpole I once was cries out inside me.
Whatever happiness I feel is fleeting.
I wish a friendly frog would come and find me.
Till then, I walk alone.

Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Aaah-ah,
Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah

The whole world should be mine.
All the other toads are doing fine.
I can't help but whine,
I'm a lonely toad; I walk alone.

Can you see the lines
On my face from all the times I've cried?
Just send me a sign
To show that one day I will not walk alone.
(I walk alone, I walk alone.
I walk alone, I walk a...)

The tadpole I once was cries out inside me.
When I find happiness, the feeling's fleeting.
I wish a friendly frog would come and find me.
Till then, I walk alone.

Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Aaah-ah
Ah-ah, Ah-ah

I walk alone, I walk a...

I'm sitting in the stream,
Thinking about flowers and ice cream.
Oh, yes, I can dream
But never act because I must walk alone.

The tadpole I once was cries out inside me.
When I find happiness, the feeling's fleeting.
I wish a friendly frog would come and find me.
Till then, I walk alone.