The video caused much controversy among fans to show Jason White as part of the band. The video sees the band playing background for a story between two young lovers, in which man enlists in the army to go to war in Iraq. This story is an interpretation that gave the director of the video to the song. An interesting detail is that the video is poor boy pays her fries "and he joins the army because he wants to marry her (in a scene, we see her with an engagement ring in his fingers) and has money . In the video, the military are entering a part of Iraq and are shooting at the U.S. military. The boy did not know if he survives. he is only scared.
This song is about Billie Joe's father, but also mentioned as part of the story in which Jesus of Suburbia it feels melancholy after away from Whatsername. In the words of Billie Joe, is the only song that no staff would be in line with the general theme of the disc.
