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When It’s TimeGreen Day

Released: June 11, 2010

Songwriter: Billie Joe Armstrong

Producer: Green Day

[Verse 1: Billie Joe Armstrong]
Words get trapped in my mind
Sorry I don't take the time to feel the way I do
'Cause the first day you came into my life
My time ticks around you

[Chorus: Billie Joe Armstrong]
But then I need your voice
As the key to unlock all the love that's trapped in me
So tell me when it's time to say I love you

[Bridge: Billie Joe Armstrong]
All I want is you to understand
That when I take your hand, it's 'cause I want to
We are all born in a world of doubt
But there's no doubt
I figured out
I love you

[Bridge: Billie Joe Armstrong]
All I want is you to understand
That when I take your hand, it's 'cause I want to
We are all born in a world of doubt
But there's no doubt
I figured out
I love you

[Verse 2: Billie Joe Armstrong]
And I feel lonely for
All the losers that will never take the time to say
What was really on their mind, instead
They just hide away

[Chorus: Billie Joe Armstrong]
Yet they'll never have
Someone like you to guard them and help along the way
Or tell them when it's time to say I love you
So tell me when it's time to say I love you

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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