Green Day

Released: December 7, 2012

Songwriter: Billie Joe Armstrong

Producer: Tré Cool Mike Dirnt Billie Joe Armstrong Rob Cavallo

[Verse 1]
There's a trouble in the air
A rumble in the streets
A going out of business sale
And a race to bankruptcy
It's not one to 99, it's 99 to one
A common cause and a call to arms
For the health of our daughters and our sons

[Chorus]
It's 99 revolutions tonight
99 revolutions tonight
99 revolutions tonight
99 revolutions tonight

[Verse 2]
There's a rat in the company
A bailout on easy street
How the fuck did the working stiff
Become so obsolete?

Hit the lights and bang the drum
And let your flag unfold
Cause history will prove itself
In the halls of justice and lost souls

[Chorus]
It's 99 revolutions tonight
99 revolutions tonight
99 revolutions tonight
99 revolutions tonight

[Bridge]
We live in troubled times
From the ghettos to an empty suburban home
We live in troubled times
And I'm 99 percent sure that something's wrong
It’s all wrong

[Chorus]
It's 99 revolutions tonight
99 revolutions tonight
99 revolutions tonight
99 revolutions tonight
It's 99 revolutions tonight
99 revolutions tonight
99 revolutions tonight
99 revolutions tonight

[Outro]
9-9 to 1
To one

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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