Released: October 10, 1995
Songwriter: Billie Joe Armstrong
Producer: Tré Cool Mike Dirnt Billie Joe Armstrong Rob Cavallo
[Intro]
Fffff...
[Verse 1]
Stranded, lost inside myself
My own worst friend and my own closest enemy
I'm branded, maladjusted
Never trusted anyone, let alone myself
[Chorus]
I must insist on being a pessimist
I'm a loner in a catastrophic mind
[Verse 2]
Elected, the rejected
I perfect the science of the idiot
No meaning and no healing
Self-loathing freak and introverted deviant
[Chorus]
I must insist on being a pessimist
I'm a loner in a catastrophic mind
[Bridge]
Say whatever, oh-oh, woah-oh
Say whatever, oh-oh, woah-oh
Shoot!
[Verse 3]
Stranded, lost inside myself
My own worst friend and my own closest enemy
Elected, the rejected
I perfect the science of the idiot
[Chorus]
I must insist on being the pessimist
I'm a loner in a catastrophic mind
I'm gettin' pissed, I'm a worthless pessimist
I'm a loner in a claustrophobic mind
Fffff...
[Verse 1]
Stranded, lost inside myself
My own worst friend and my own closest enemy
I'm branded, maladjusted
Never trusted anyone, let alone myself
[Chorus]
I must insist on being a pessimist
I'm a loner in a catastrophic mind
[Verse 2]
Elected, the rejected
I perfect the science of the idiot
No meaning and no healing
Self-loathing freak and introverted deviant
[Chorus]
I must insist on being a pessimist
I'm a loner in a catastrophic mind
[Bridge]
Say whatever, oh-oh, woah-oh
Say whatever, oh-oh, woah-oh
Shoot!
[Verse 3]
Stranded, lost inside myself
My own worst friend and my own closest enemy
Elected, the rejected
I perfect the science of the idiot
[Chorus]
I must insist on being the pessimist
I'm a loner in a catastrophic mind
I'm gettin' pissed, I'm a worthless pessimist
I'm a loner in a claustrophobic mind
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- The Saints Are Coming
- Walking Alone
- All the Time
- Brat
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- Desensitized
- J.A.R. (Jason Andrew Relva)
- Poprocks & Coke
- Waiting
- Maria
- Fashion Victim
- Scumbag
- Suffocate
- Stuck with Me
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- Redundant
- The Grouch
- Walking Contradiction
- American Idiot
- Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
- Wake Me Up When September Ends
- She’s a Rebel
- St. Jimmy
- Boulevard of Broken Dreams
- Holiday
- Jesus of Suburbia
- Basket Case
- Geek Stink Breath
- Longview
- 21st Century Breakdown
- Nice Guys Finish Last
- Coming Clean
- She
- Chump
- Burnout
- Hitchin’ a Ride
- Minority
- Church on Sunday
- Blood, Sex, and Booze
- Warning
- Know Your Enemy
- Welcome to Paradise
- Insomniac (1995)
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- Greatest Hits (2010)
- Insomniac (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (2021)
- Boulevard of Broken Dreams
- American Idiot
- Holiday
- Basket Case
- Wake Me Up When September Ends
- Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
- 21 Guns
- Jesus of Suburbia
- Brain Stew
- Bang Bang
- Longview
- When I Come Around
- Homecoming
- She
- Whatsername
- Are We the Waiting
- Father of All...
- Letterbomb
- Still Breathing
- St. Jimmy
- Give Me Novacaine
- Welcome to Paradise
- 21st Century Breakdown
- Coming Clean