Green Day

Released: October 7, 2016

Songwriter: Tré Cool Mike Dirnt Billie Joe Armstrong

Producer: Tré Cool Mike Dirnt Billie Joe Armstrong

[Intro]
Oh-oh, I love you
Oh-oh, I do
I got a sentimental illness for you
Please don't go away, oh yeah

[Verse 1]
I was a high school atom bomb
Going off on the weekends
Smoking dope and mowing lawns
And I hated all the new trends

[Pre-Chorus]
Me and my friends sang, "Woah-ooh-whoa-oh-oh"
(Whoa-ooh-whoa) "Here's to
The middle of the road
At least it's better than here"

[Chorus]
Looking for a cause
Well all I got was Santa Claus
I'm hanging on a dream that's too dumb to die
I feel like a cello
Lost somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high (Whoo! Way up high!)
Too scared to dream, but too dumb to die

[Verse 2]
My daddy always was on strike
Going off with the teamsters
He said that "Everything'll be alright
Not every Sunday can be Easter"

[Pre-Chorus]
The picket line screamed, "Woah-ooh-whoa-oh-oh!"
(Whoa-ooh-whoa) "Don't cross
Don't cross the line, because
You'll be a scab, not a martyr!"

[Chorus]
Looking for a cause
Well all I got was camouflage
I'm hanging on a dream that's too dumb to die
I feel like a cello
Lost somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high (Whoo! Way up high!)
Too scared to dream, but too dumb to...
Haha... Hehe... Yeah... Hey!

[Guitar Solo]

[Chorus]
Looking for a cause
Well all I got was camouflage
I'm hanging on a dream that's too dumb to die
I feel like a cello
Lost somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high (Whoo! Way up high!)
Too scared to dream, but too dumb to die

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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