Green Day

Released: March 22, 2011

Songwriter: Billie Joe Armstrong

Producer: Green Day

[Verse 1]
Well, I don't wanna go back home and I don't wanna kiss
Goodnight, let us paralyze this moment 'till it dies
To the end of the earth under the Valley of the Stars
There's a car crashing deep inside my heart

[Pre-Chorus]
Take a ride through the avenues across the Great Divide
There's a siren screaming, "I'm alive," it cries
Red alert is the color of your paper valentines
Intertwined on this moment passing by

[Pre-Chorus]
Take a ride through the avenues across the Great Divide
There's a siren screaming, "I'm alive," it cries
Red alert is the color of your paper valentines
Intertwined on this moment passing by

[Chorus]
So come away, with me tonight
With cigarettes and valentines
Cigarettes and valentines!

[Guitar Solo]

[Chorus]
So come away with me tonight
With cigarettes and valentines
Oh, come away with me tonight
With cigarettes and valentines
Cigarettes and valentines!

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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