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This is also alluded to early on in Boulevard of Broken Dreams. "I'm walking down the line that divides me somewhere in my mind." This is talking about to the split JOS experiences when he creates Jimmy as an alternate persona.

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This is also alluded to early on in Boulevard of Broken Dreams. "I'm walking down the line that divides me somewhere in my mind." This is talking about to the split JOS experiences when he creates Jimmy as an alternate persona.persona.
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''AmericanIdiot'' doesn't explicitly say whether St. Jimmy was a separate character or an alternate persona of Jesus of Suburbia, but the first clue is in the [[AllThereInTheManual album book]] included in the CD. The song lyrics are written as entries in a journal. On first page of the journal, the diary has a label establishing that it is "property of Jimmy", who isn't introduced until his eponymous track in the middle of the album. So JOS and Jimmy must be the same person.

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''AmericanIdiot'' ''Music/AmericanIdiot'' doesn't explicitly say whether St. Jimmy was a separate character or an alternate persona of Jesus of Suburbia, but the first clue is in the [[AllThereInTheManual album book]] included in the CD. The song lyrics are written as entries in a journal. On first page of the journal, the diary has a label establishing that it is "property of Jimmy", who isn't introduced until his eponymous track in the middle of the album. So JOS and Jimmy must be the same person.



This is also alluded to early on in Boulevard of Broken Dreams. "I'm walking down the line that divides me somewhere in my mind." This is talking about to the split JOS experiences when he creates Jimmy as an alternate persona.

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This is also alluded to early on in Boulevard of Broken Dreams. "I'm walking down the line that divides me somewhere in my mind." This is talking about to the split JOS experiences when he creates Jimmy as an alternate persona.
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This is also alluded to early on in Boulevard of Broken Dreams. "I'm walking down the line that divides me somewhere in my mind." This is talking about to the split JOS experiences when he creates Jimmy as an alternate persona.
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It seems that the real character of Jimmy initially thinks of himself as the 'Jesus of Suburbia', leading his group of friends. Once he leaves for the city, this doesn't work as he doesn't know anyone, so invents a new persona of 'Saint Jimmy' in order to start afresh. Whatsername shoots this down, essentially telling Jimmy to stop kidding himself, during Letterbomb. The Saint Jimmy persona is then symbolically killed off in Homecoming.

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