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The Static AgeGreen Day

Released: May 12, 2009

Songwriter: Tré Cool Mike Dirnt Billie Joe Armstrong

Producer: Green Day Butch Vig

[Verse 1]
Can you hear the sound of the static noise
Blasting out in stereo?
Cater to the class and the paranoid
Music to my nervous system
Advertising love and religion
Murder on the airwaves
Slogans on the brink of corruption

[Pre-Chorus]
Visions of blasphemy, war and peace
Oh-oh, screaming at you

[Chorus]
I can't see a thing in the video
I can't hear a sound on the radio
In stereo in the static age

[Verse 2]
Billboard on the rise in the dawn's landscape
Working your insanity
Tragic à la madness and concrete
Coca Cola execution
Conscience on a cross and your heart's in a vise
Squeezing out your state of mind
Are what you own that you cannot buy

[Pre-Chorus]
What a fucking tragedy, strategy
Oh-oh, screaming at you

[Chorus]
I can't see a thing in the video
I can't hear a sound on the radio
In stereo in the static age
I can't see a thing in the video
I can't hear a sound on the radio
In stereo in the static age

[Bridge]
Hey, hey, it's the static age
Well, this is how the west was won
Hey, hey, it's the static age millennium

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 3]
All I want to know is a god-damned thing
Not what's in the medicine
All I want to do is I want to breathe
Batteries are not included
What's the latest way that a man can die?
Screaming "Hallelujah" (Hallelujah)
Singing out "the dawn's early light"

[Pre-Chorus]
The silence of the rotten, forgotten
Oh-oh, screaming at you

[Chorus]
I can't see a thing in the video
I can't hear a sound on the radio
In stereo in the static age
I can't see a thing in the video
I can't hear a sound on the radio
In stereo in the static age
I can't see a thing in the video (Woah-oh)
I can't hear a sound on the radio (Woah-oh)
In stereo in the static age
I can't see a thing in the video (Woah-oh)
I can't hear a sound on the radio (Woah-oh)
In stereo in the static age

[Outro]
The static age

Green Day

Formed in East Bay, California in 1986 and still going strong today, Green Day is one of the biggest punk rock acts in the world. Along with other punk bands in California such as The Offspring, Sublime, Bad Religion and Rancid, they have been credited with popularizing and reviving mainstream interest in punk rock in the U.S. in the 90s.

First starting in 1986 as Sweet Children, longtime friends Billie Joe Armstrong (guitar and lead vocalist) and Mike Dirnt (bass guitar) teamed up with John Kiffmeyer to produce their debut EP 1,000 Hours. They eventually dropped the name Sweet Children and called themselves Green Day due to the band members' fondness for cannabis (it even inspired a song featured on their first album) and for their second studio album Kerplunk they replaced Kiffmeyer with German-born drummer Tré Cool, who had been drumming since the age of 12 in a punk band, The Lookouts.

It was their 1994 record Dookie that sent the band to stardom and gave them mainstream success. Dookie, alongside their following albums Insomniac (1995) and Nimrod (1997) were certified double platinum. Eventually, the band started to fall in popularity with their 2000 record Warning which only reached gold.

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