Green Day

Released: May 26, 1998

Songwriter: Green Day Tré Cool Mike Dirnt Billie Joe Armstrong

Producer: Billie Joe Armstrong Mike Dirnt Tré Cool Rob Cavallo Green Day

[Verse 1]
We're living in repetition
Content in the same old shtick again
Now the routine's turning to contention
Like a production line going
Over and over and over, roller coaster

[Chorus]
Now I cannot speak, I've lost my voice
I'm speechless and redundant
'Cause "I love you"'s not enough
I'm lost for words

[Verse 2]
Choreographed and lack of passion
Prototypes of what we were
Went full circle 'til I'm nauseous
Taken for granted, now I
Waste it and faked it, ate it, now I hate it

[Chorus]
'Cause I cannot speak, I've lost my voice
I'm speechless and redundant
'Cause "I love you"'s not enough
I'm lost for words

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
Now I cannot speak, I've lost my voice
I'm speechless and redundant
'Cause "I love you"'s not enough
I'm lost for words
Now I cannot speak, I've lost my voice
I'm speechless and redundant
'Cause "I love you"'s not enough
I'm lost for words

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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