I'll die for you and this compromise

Green Day - Church on Sunday

Today is the first day of the rest of our lives

Tomorrow is too late to pretend everything's all right

Well, I'm not getting any younger as long as you don't get any older

I'm not gonna state that yesterday never was

Bloodshot deadbeat 

Will I go to sleep making your mascara bleed

Tears down your face leaving traces of my mistakes

(When I say)

If I promise to go to church on Sunday

Will you go with me on Friday night?

If you live with me, I'll die for you and this compromise

I hereby solemnly swear to tell the whole truth

And nothing but the truth is what I'll ever hear from you

Trust is a dirty word that comes from such a liar

But respect is something I will learn if you have faith

Bloodshot deadbeat 

Will I go to sleep making your mascara bleed

Tears down your face leaving traces of my mistakes

(When I say)

If I promise to go to church on Sunday

Will you go with me on Friday night?

If you live with me, I'll die for you and this compromise

"It's a song about when you're in a long term relationship with somebody, you have to keep reinventing it, and it takes a lot of compromise. Church on Sunday deals with compromises in the relationship I have with my wife. You have to compromise in every relationship. If you want it to work out you've always got to look ahead, have a future in front of your eyes and work on your relationships, no matter if they're with your partner or with friends. There will always be problems, but you've got to find solutions, or at least try to find solutions. I really hope there is a solution for every problem" - Billie Joe Armstrong.

There is nothing complicated or confusing about this song -it's a calm and quiet expression of one's feelings, charming in its simplicity. The song describes a point in a long-term relationship, when you decide to stop faking and finally face your problems -after this you can't pretend anymore. A kind of a point of no return ("first day of the rest of our lives"). Realizing his mistakes, the narrator offers his other half a compromise - "if you live with me, I'll die for you". And that might sound banal and exaggerated, but even the most trivial cliché can become honest and meaningful when it's coming from your heart. He admits that all the words about trust don't mean anything, but what matters is how much tolerance and faith in each other you have. Compromising and helping each other out through the hard times is what keeps a relationship running; and this song just might be one of the best marriage-saving serenades ever written

Will you?