Last Of The American Girls

According to the Last of the American Girls Songfacts, one of the inspirations for this Pop-Punk number was the time vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong spent in New Orleans helping build houses for those made homeless by Hurricane Katrina. He explained to Q magazine May 2009: "I started writing it for my wife, but there's elements of Hurricane Katrina and (pro-cycling activists) Critical Mass. It adds those elements to one character who has this left wing strength."

[Intro] She puts her makeup on like graffiti on the walls of the heartland She's got her little book of conspiracies right in her hand She is paranoid, endangered species headed into extinction She is one of a kind, well she's the last of the American girls [Verse 1] She wears her overcoat for the coming of the nuclear winter She is riding her bike like a fugitive of Critical Mass She's on a hunger strike for the ones who won't make it for dinner She makes enough to survive for a holiday of workin' class [Chorus] She's a runaway of the establishment incorporated She won't cooperate, well she's the last of the American girls [Verse 2] She plays her vinyl records, singin' songs on the eve of destruction She's a sucker for all the criminals breakin' the laws She will come in first for the end of western civilization She's an endless war, she's a hero for the lost cause [Chorus] Like a hurricane in the heart of the devastation She's a natural disaster, she's the last of the American girls [Interlude] [Chorus] She puts her makeup on like graffiti on the walls of the heartland She's got her little book of conspiracies right in her hand She will come in first for the end of western civilization She's a natural disaster, she's the last of the American girls [Outro] Aw, yeah Alright Aw, yeah