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Private AleGreen Day

Released: December 17, 1991

Songwriter: Mike Dirnt Tré Cool Billie Joe Armstrong

Producer: Billie Joe Armstrong Mike Dirnt Tré Cool Andy Ernst

[Verse 1]
Wander down these streets all by myself
Think of my future now, I just don't know
Well, I don't seem to care
I do notice that I'm by your home
I wonder if you're sitting all alone
Or is your boyfriend there?

[Chorus]
Because I feel so right
Let my imagination go
Until you're in my sights
And through my veins, temptation flows
Whoa-oh-oh-oh, oh yeah

[Verse 2]
So I sit down here on the hard concrete
Think of my future now, I just don't know
Well I don't seem to care
I stop to notice that I'm by your home
I wonder if you're sitting all alone
Or is your boyfriend there?

[Chorus]
Because I feel so right
Let my imagination go
Until you're in my sights
And through my veins, temptation flows
Whoa-oh-oh-oh, oh yeah, oh-oh-oh

[Spoken Interlude]

[Chorus]
Because I feel so right
Let my imagination go
Until you're in my sights
And through my veins, temptation flows
Whoa-oh-oh-oh, oh yeah
Whoa-oh-oh, oh yeah

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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