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Sex, Drugs & ViolenceGreen Day

Released: December 7, 2012

Songwriter: Billie Joe Armstrong

Producer: Tré Cool Mike Dirnt Billie Joe Armstrong Rob Cavallo

[Verse 1: Billie]
All my life trouble follows me like a mystery, girl
I've been chasing round a memory like a mystery, girl
I've been getting lost searching my soul all around this town
I took a wrong turn at growing up and it's freaking me out

[Pre-Chorus]
Back at school it never made much sense
Now I pay but I can't pay attention
Teaching me the hardest lessons of my life
Too dumb to die I guess, but that's the way it goes
Sometimes I must regress to

[Chorus]
Sex, drugs & violence
English, math & science
Safety in numbers
Give me, give me danger

[Bridge: Mike]
Well I don't want to be an imbecile
But Jesus made me that way

[Verse 2: Billie]
All my life I've been running wild like a runaway
Wherever the night takes me like a stowaway

[Pre-Chorus]
Back at home it never made much sense
Now I pay but I can't pay attention
Teaches me the hardest lessons of my life
Too dumb to die I guess, but that's the way it goes
Sometimes I must regress these

[Chorus]
Sex, drugs & violence
English, math & science
Safety in numbers
Give me, give me danger

[Guitar solo]

[Pre-Chorus]
Back at home it never made much sense
I can pay but I can't pay attention
Teaching me the hardest lessons of my life
Too dumb to die I guess, but that's the way it goes
Sometimes I must regress to

[Chorus]
Sex, drugs & violence
English, math & science
Safety in numbers
Give me, give me danger

Sex, drugs & violence
English, math & science
Safety in numbers
Give me, give me danger

[Outro]
Sex, drugs & violence
English, math & science
Safety in numbers
Give me, give me danger

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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