Green Day

Released: April 19, 2014

Songwriter: Billie Joe Armstrong

Producer: Rob Cavallo

Year of the rat, last of the litter
Somebody shot the babysitter!
They say my middle name is danger
The kind you keep away from strangers

I say woah!
I'm out of control!
Oh baby when i see your pretty face
I say woah!
God rest your living soul!
'cause baby, baby i was born to kill!

I pulled the trigger from the shooting stars
I am the motor in your crashing car!
I am the cherub in the Arab spring
I am the bullet in your magazine

I say woah!
I'm out of control!
Oh baby when i see your pretty face
I say woah!
God rest your fucking soul!
'cause baby, baby eyes
Oh baby eyes
Well baby I was born to...kill!

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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