Green Day

Released: October 14, 1997

Songwriter: Billie Joe Armstrong Mike Dirnt Tré Cool

Producer: Rob Cavallo Green Day

[Intro]

[Verse 1]
Clenching my teeth tight, my head is like a sponge
Give it to me free

[Chorus]
I wanna get ripped off and drown in the airwaves
Another fatal wreck on the information highway
So go ahead and kill yourselves, it all amuses me
For I'll be damned to spend my life in hell, another wise ingrate

[Verse 2]
Bring me blood and pain of a stranger's fate
Give it all away, give it to me now
I'm desensitized, I wanna watch a bomb
Blow the masses high

[Chorus]
I wanna get ripped off and drown in the airwaves
Another fatal wreck on the information highway
So go ahead and kill yourselves, it all amuses me
For I'll be damned to spend my life in hell, another wise ingrate

[Bridge]
Bring me blood and pain of a stranger's fate
Give it all away

[Chorus]
I wanna get ripped off and drown in the airwaves
Another fatal wreck on the information highway
So go ahead and kill yourselves, it all amuses me
For I'll be damned to spend my life in hell, another wise ingrate

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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