Green Day

Released: December 17, 1991

Songwriter: Billie Joe Armstrong Mike Dirnt Tré Cool

Producer: Andy Ernst Billie Joe Armstrong Mike Dirnt Tré Cool

[Verse 1: Billie Joe Armstrong]
My mental stability reaches its bitter end
And all my senses are coming unglued
Is there any cure for this disease someone called love?
Not as long as there are girls like you

[Pre-Chorus: Billie Joe Armstrong]
Everything she does questions my mental health
It makes me lose control, I wanna hurt myself

[Chorus: Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, & Both]
If anyone can hear me, slap some sense in me
But you turn your head, and I end up talking to myself
Anxiety has got me strung out and frustrated
So I lose my head, or I bang it up against a wall

[Verse 2: Billie Joe Armstrong]
Sometimes I wonder if I should be left alone
And lock myself up in a padded room
I'd sit and spew my guts out to the open air
'Cause no one wants to hear a drunken fool

[Pre-Chorus: Billie Joe Armstrong]
Everything she does questions my mental health
It makes me lose control, I just can't trust myself

[Chorus: Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, & Both]
If anyone can hear me, slap some sense in me
But you turn your head, and I end up talking to myself
Anxiety has got me strung out and frustrated
So I lose my head, or I bang it up against a wall

[Bridge: Billie Joe Armstrong]
I do not mind if this goes on
'Cause now it seems I'm too far gone
I must admit that I am enjoying myself
80, please keep taking me away, away

[Pre-Chorus: Billie Joe Armstrong]
Everything she does questions my mental health
It makes me lose control, I just can't trust myself

[Chorus: Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, & Both]
If anyone can hear me, slap some sense in me
But you turn your head, and I end up talking to myself
Anxiety has got me strung out and frustrated
So I lose my head, or I bang it up against a wall

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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