Lagu ciptaan Mike Dirnt, Tré Cool, dan Billie Joe Armstrong itu bercerita tentang seorang remaja yang mengalami masa-masa sulit dalam hidupnya. Karakter remaja bernama Jesus itu merasa tidak cocok dengan lingkungan pinggiran kota tempat tinggalnya dan merasa seperti orang terbuang di sana.
Lirik lagu itu memiliki lima bagian dengan orkestrasi yang berbeda pula. Bagian pertama berupa pengenalan karakter "Jesus Of Suburbia", bagian kedua bertajuk "City of The Damned" menceritakan saat Jesus terlibat perkelahian dengan teman-teman satu tongkrongan dan saat dirinya mulai menyadari ketidakcocokan dengan teman-temannya itu.
Bagian ketiga dijuduli "I Don't Care", di sinilah Jesus menjadi orang buangan yang dijauhi semua orang dan segala hal di sekitarnya, dan juga dalam cerita ini di mana karakter St. Jimmy (yang diciptakan Jesus sendiri untuk menyembuhkan rasa sakitnya usai kehilangan pacar) muncul untuk mempengaruhi Jesus agar meninggalkan rumah.
Bagian keempat bertajuk "Dearly Beloved", memperlihatkan sisi lembut kepribadian Yesus. Penyamaran sarkasmenya menutupi teriakannya untuk meminta bantuan ("Oh therapy, can you please fill the void?"). Karena ia merasa lelah sendirian, ditolak dan tidak diterima orang-orang. Ia ingin membebaskan diri.
Bagian kelima dijuduli "Tales From Another Broken Home", di sini Jesus akhirnya menyerah dan memilih pergi meninggalkan semua orang yang membenci dan menyakitinya, dan memulai hidup baru.
Lirik lagu "Jesus of Suburbia" sebagai berikut: I'm the son of rage and love
The Jesus of Suburbia
From the bible of none of the above
On a steady diet of
Soda pop and Ritalin
No one ever died for my sins in hell
As far as I can tell
And there's nothing wrong with me
This is how I'm supposed to be
In a land of make believe
That don't believe in me
Sitting on my crucifix
The living room or my private womb
While the Moms and Brads are away
To fall in love and fall in debt
To alcohol and cigarettes and Mary Jane
To keep me insane,
Doing someone else's cocaine
This is how I'm supposed to be
In a land of make believe
That don't believe in me
At the center of the Earth
Of the 7-11 where I was taught
The motto was just a lie
It says home is where your heart is
But what a shame
Doesn't beat the same
It's beating out of time
City of the dead
At the end of another lost highway
Signs misleading to nowhere
City of the damned
No one really seems to care
I read the graffiti
In the bathroom stall
Like the holy scriptures of the shopping mall
It didn't say much
But it only confirmed that
The center of the earth
Is the end of the world
And I could really care less
City of the dead
Signs misleading to nowhere
City of the damned
Lost children with dirty faces today
No one really seems to care
I don't care if you don't
I don't care if you don't care
I don't care
Born and raised by hypocrites
Hearts recycled but never saved
From the cradle always to the grave
We are the kids of war and peace
We are the stories and disciples
Of the Jesus of suburbia
Land of make believe
And that don't believe in me
And I don't believe
And I don't care!
I don't care! [x4]
Dearly beloved are you listening?
Are we demented or am I disturbed?
The space that's in between insane and insecure
Oh, therapy, can you please fill the void?
Nobody's perfect and I stand accused
For lack of a better word, and that's my best excuse
To live and not to breathe
To run, to run away
To find what you believe
And I leave behind
This hurricane of fucking lies
This town that don't exist
So I run
I run away
To the light of masochist
And I leave behind
This hurricane of fucking lies
A million and one fucking times
But not this time
I don't feel any shame
I won't apologize
When there ain't nowhere you can go
When you've been victimized
Tales from another broken home
You're leaving...
You're leaving...
You're leaving...
Ah you're leaving home...