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Brutal LoveGreen Day

Songwriter: Billie Joe Armstrong Sam Cooke

Producer: Tré Cool Mike Dirnt Billie Joe Armstrong Rob Cavallo

[Verse 1]
Turn out the lights
Close your eyes
Turn up the silence
The heartache of your life
Dance forever
Under the lights
This brutal love

[Verse 2]
Oh how you want it
You're begging for it
But you can't have it
Even if you try
It's in the clutches
In the hands of
This brutal love

[Verse 3]
Old toys
This plastic heart
Loners and fools
Are tearing me apart
Here comes trouble
The uninvited
This brutal love

[Verse 4]
Danger
Not quite at home
The eyes of temptation
The flesh on my bones
Hello stranger
I'm a disaster
This brutal love

[Chorus]
Bad luck
Bitters and soda
Anguish and shame
The modern fool
Bad sex
Buy me a train wreck
Something for my troubled
Mind

[Guitar solo]

[Chorus]
Bad luck
Bitters and soda
Anguish and shame
The modern fool
Bad love
Kiss me I'm loaded
Something for my troubled
Mind

[Post-Chorus]
Drop out
Drop-dead hideous
How low is this brutal love?
Drop out
Drop-dead hideous
How low is this brutal love?
Drop out
Drop-dead hideous
How low is this brutal love?
Drop out
Drop-dead hideous
How low is this brutal love?

[Outro]
This brutal love

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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