 Genius Meanings
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Green Day – Chump
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[Verse 1] / I don't know you, but I think I hate you / You're the reason for my misery / Strange how you've become my biggest enemy / And I've never even seen your face / [Chorus
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Green Day – Chump (4-Track Demo)
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[Verse 1] / I don't know you, but I think I hate you / You're the reason for my misery / Strange how you've become my biggest enemy / And I've never even seen your face / [Chorus
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Green Day – Chump (Live at the Electric Factory, Philadelphia 11/14/97
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[Intro] / Go! / [Verse 1] / I don't know you, but I think I hate you / You're the reason for my misery / Strange how you've become my biggest enemy / And I've never even seen your
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Green Day – Sassafras Roots
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“Sassafras Roots” is about wasting time and being completely unproductive. Instead of wasting time all alone, the narrator invites some friends to waste time with them.
The song
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Green Day – The Grouch (Live at the Electric Factory, Philadelphia 11/14/97)
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[Intro] / This song's for you, this song's called "The Grouch" / [Verse 1] / I was a young boy that had big plans / Now I'm just another shitty old man / I don't have fun and I
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Limp Bizkit – Nookie
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The lead single off Significant Other, “Nookie” is the band’s first big hit, reaching the top 10 on the Rock and Alternative charts and crossing over to pop at #80 on the Hot 100
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Green Day – You Irritate Me (Demo)
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[Verse] / You, you irritate me / Like a tick on a dog's dick gnawing at my veins / I can't stand your face / You're an ugly motherfucker that's taking up too much space / [Chorus
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Green Day – Basket Case
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“Basket Case” spent five weeks at the top of the Modern Rock Tracks chart, becoming arguably Green Day’s signature song of the pre-American Idiot days.
It’s about Billie Joe
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Green Day – Knowledge (Live at the Electric Factory, Philadelphia 11/14/97)
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[Verse 1] / I know things are getting tougher / When you can't get the top off the bottom of the barrel / Wide open road of my future now / It's looking fucking narrow / [Chorus
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Green Day – In the End
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“In The End” was written from Billie’s point of view as he saw his mother date other men after his father’s death. He had grown tired of seeing his mom with them and got sick of
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Green Day – Longview
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“Longview” describes intense boredom, with a title taken from a Washington town where it was first played. Lyrically, the song is about a day spent sitting around the house, doing
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Green Day – When I Come Around
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“When I Come Around” is about a boy who wants to be in a casual relationship, but has become involved with a girl who wants something more serious; his insecurities and poor self-
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Green Day – She
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The fifth and final single from Dookie. “She” was written by Billie Joe after one of his then-girlfriends showed him a feminist poem of the same title. He told VH1 that after
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Green Day – Having a Blast
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“Having a Blast” tells the story of a suicide bomber. Though the phrase usually signifies fun, in this context, a blast refers to the activation of the bomber’s explosives.
The
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Green Day – Burnout (4-Track Demo)
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[Verse 1] / I declare I don't care no more / I'm burnin' up and out and growing bored / In my smoked out boring room / My hair is shaggin' in my eyes / Draggin' my feet to hit the
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Green Day – Coming Clean
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“Coming Clean” is about lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong coming out as bisexual. Released when Billie Joe was 21, and just months before marrying his wife, Billie Joe reflects back
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Green Day – Christie Road (Dookie Outtake)
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[Verse 1] / Staring out of my window / Watching the cars go rolling by / My friends are gone, I've got nothing to do / So I sit here patiently / Watching the clock tick so slowly
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Green Day – She (4-Track Demo)
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[Verse 1] / She, she screams in silence / A sullen riot penetrating through her mind / Waiting for a sign / To smash the silence with the brick of self-control / [Chorus] / Are you
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Green Day – Welcome to Paradise
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“Welcome to Paradise” sees Billie Joe as a young man living in a crime-ridden cesspool like Oakland. It tells the story of when he left his mother’s home and how he felt facing the
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Green Day – All by Myself
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Hidden track on Dookie about masturbating. Written and performed by the drummer Tré Cool
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Green Day – The Grouch (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / I was a young boy that had big plans / Now I'm just another shitty old man / I don't have fun, and I hate everything / The world owes me, so fuck you / Glory days don't
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Green Day – Pulling Teeth (4-Track Demo)
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[Verse] / I'm all busted up / Broken bones and nasty cuts / Accidents will happen / But this time I can't get up / She comes to check on me / Making sure I'm on my knees / After
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Green Day – Alison (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / Oh, it's so funny now me seeing you after so long / But the way you look, I understand that you were not impressed / Well, I heard you let that little friend of mine
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Green Day – Sassafras Roots (4-Track Demo)
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[Verse 1] / Roaming 'round your house, wasting your time / No obligation, just wasting your time / So why are you alone wasting your time? / When you could be with me, wasting your
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Green Day – Burnout
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“Burnout” is an anthem for apathetic and uninterested outcasts. Its lyrics explore the idea of indifference to the problems of life, and are often seen as a description of the punk
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Green Day – 2000 Light Years Away
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The song was written by lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong. It is about his girlfriend, later wife, Adrienne. At the time, Adrienne lived in Minnesota, thousands of miles away from
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Green Day – 2000 Light Years Away (Live at the Electric Factory, Philadelphia 11/14/97)
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[Verse 1] / I sit alone in my bedroom / Starin' at the walls / I've been up all damn night long / My pulse is speedin', my love is yearnin' / [Chorus] / I hold my breath and close
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Green Day – Longview (Live In Barcelona)
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Q&A. Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning. Ask a question.
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Green Day – Hitchin’ A Ride (Live at the Electric Factory, Philadelphia 11/14/97)
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[Verse 1] / Hey, mister, where you headed? / Are you in a hurry? / Need a lift to happy hour? Say, "Oh, no" / Do you brake for distilled spirits? / I need a break as well / The
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Green Day – Walking The Dog (Demo)
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[Intro- Mike Dirnt, Tré Cool] / Rolling, bong it! / Take Five / [Verse 1- Billie Joe Armstrong] / Mary Mack, dressed in black / Silver buttons all down her back / High to low, tip
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Green Day – F.O.D.
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“F.O.D.” stands for “Fuck Off and Die.” The lyrics are narrated from the point of view of someone fed up with the people around him, and ready to cut all ties by telling them
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Green Day – Emenius Sleepus
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There are two interpretations of this song which was written by Mike Dirnt:
The first being a casual encounter with a one time friend. The encounter turns into disgust once the
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Green Day – In the End (4-Track Demo)
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[Verse 1] / All brawn and no brains, yeah, and all those nice things, yeah / You finally got what you want / Someone to look good with and light your cigarette / Is this what you
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Green Day – Pulling Teeth
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“Pulling Teeth” was written from the perspective of a man who is abused by his girlfriend, and how he can’t get out of his situation. The song has a very dark bit of humor to it
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Green Day – When I Come Around (Woodstock 1994)
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[Verse 1] / I heard you crying loud / All the way across town / You've been searching for that someone / And it's me out on the prowl / As you sit around feeling sorry for yourself
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Green Day – Tre Polka (Demo)
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[Instrumental]
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Green Day – 409 In Your Coffeemaker (Dookie Outtake)
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[Verse 1] / I sit in the state of a daydream / With all of your words flying over my head / Even more time gets wasted in a daze / It should seem obvious to you / Your screams and
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Green Day – Basket Case (4-Track Demo)
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[Verse 1] / I really don't know where this story began / My friend Houston had got himself a girl / Swank is her name, she's got the best of him / And he's got the best of her in
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Green Day – Christie Road
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When asked about this song by a British journalist Mike Dirnt said
[it’s] about bestiality, Satanism, and self-torture
This was obviously a joke, as “Christie Road” talks about a
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