Maria by Green Day

She smashed the radio
with the board of education
turn up the static left of
the state of the nation

Turn up the flame
step on the gas
burning the flag at half mast
she's a rebel's forgotten son
an export of the revolution

She is the first voice
of the last ones in the line
she'll drag the lake
to keep the vendetta alive

Bring in the head of the government
the dog ate the document
somebody shot the President
and noone knows where Maria went?

Maria,
Maria,
Maria, where did you go?...

Be careful what your offering
your breath lacks the convicion
drawing the line in the dirt
because the last decision.. is no!

Poprocks & Coke by Green Day

Wherever you go, you know I'll be there
If you go far, you know I'll be there
I'll go anywhere, so i'll see you ther
You place the name you know I'll be there
You name the time you know i'll be there
I'll go anywhere, so I'll see you there

I don't care if you don't mind
I'll be there not far behind
I will dare, keep in mind
I'll be there for you

Where there's the truth
you know I'll be there
Amongst the lies
you know I'll be there
I'll go anywhere
So I'll see you there

If you should fall, you know I'll be there
To catch the call, you know I'll be there
I'll go anywhere, so I'll see you there

Longview by Green Day

Sit around and watch the tube but, nothing's on
Change the channels for an hour or two
Twiddle my thumbs just for a bit
I'm sick of all the same old shit
In a house with unlocked doors
And I'm fucking lazy

Bite my lip and close my eyes
Take me away to paradise
I'm so damn bored I'm going blind
And I smell like shit

Peel me off this velcro seat and get me moving
I sure as hell can't do it by myself
I'm feeling like a dog in heat
Barred indoors from the summer street
I locked the door to my own cell
And I lost the key

I got no motiviation
Where is my motiviation?
No time for motiviation
Smoking my inspiration

Sit around and watch the phone, but no one's calling
Call me pathetic, call me what you will
My mother says to get a job
But she don't like the one SHE'S got
When masturbation's lost its fun
You're fucking breaking

Bite my lip and close my eyes
Take me away to paradise
I'm so damn BORED
I'm going blind
And loneliness has to suffice
Bite my lip and close my eyes
Slipping away to Paradise
Some say, "Quit or I'll go blind"
But It's just a myth

Welcome to Paradise Verison 2 off Dookie by Green Day

Dear mother,
Can you hear me whining?
It's been three whole weeks
Since I left your home
This sudden fear has left me trembling
Cause now it seems that I am out here on my own
And I'm feeling so alone

Pay attention to the cracked streets and the broken homes
Some call it slums some call it nice
I want to take you to a wasteland I like to call my own
Welcome to paradise.

A gunshot rings out at the station
Another urchin snaps and left dead on his own
It makes me wonder why I'm still here
For some strange reason it's now
Feeling like my home
And I'm never gonna go

Dear mother
Can you hear me laughing
It's been six whole months since that
I have left your home
It makes me wonder why I'm still here
For some strange reason it's now
Feeling like my home
And I'm never gonna go.

Basket case by Green Day

Do you have the time to listen to me whine
About NOTHING and EVERYTHING all at once
I am one of those
Melodramatic fools
Neurotic to the bone
No doubt about it

Sometimes I give myself the CREEPS
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
It all keeps adding up
I think I'm CRACKING UP
Am I just PARANOID?
I'm just STONED

I went to a shrink
To analyze my dreams
SHE says it's lack of sex that's bringing me down
I went to a whore
HE said my life's a bore
And quit my whining cause it's bringing HER down

Grasping to CONTROL
So you BETTER hold on

When I Come Around by Green Day

I heard you crying loud all the way across town
You've been searching for that someone and it's me out on the prowl
As you sit around feeling sorry for yourself
Don't get lonely now
Dry your whining eyes
I'm just roaming for the moment
Sleazin' my back yard so don't get so uptight you been thinking about
ditching me

No time to search the world around
Cause you know where I'll be found
When I come around

I heard it all before
So don't knock down my door
I'm a loser and a user so I don't need no accuser to try and slag me down
because I know I'm right
So go do what you like
Make sure you do it wise
You may find out that your self doubt means nothing was ever there

You can't go forcing something if it's just not right

She by Green Day

She screams in silence
A sullen riot penetrating through her mind
Waiting for a sign to smash the silence with a brick of self control

Are you locked up in a world
That's been planned out for you?
Are you feeling like a social tool without a use?

Scream at me until my ears bleed
I'm taking heed just for you

She's figured out all her doubts
Were someone else's point of view
Waking up this time to smash the silence with the brick of self control

J.A.R. (JASON ANDREW RELVA) by Green Day


My friend drove off the other day,
And now he's gone and all they say,
Is you gotta live cause life goes on
But now I see i'm mortal too
I can't live my life like you
Gotta live it up while life goes on

And I think it's alright
That I do what I like cause that's the way I wanna live
And so I give
And i'm still giving

And now I wonder about my friend
If he gave all he could give
Cause he lived his life like I live mine
If you could see inside my head
Then you'd start to understand
The things I value in my heart

You know that,
I know that,
Your watching me

Geek Stink Breath by Green Day

I'm on a mission
I made my decision
To lead a path of self-destruction
A slow progression
Killing my complexion
And it's rotting out my teeth

I'm on a roll
No self control
I'm blowing off steam with
Meth Amphetamine
Don't know what I want
That's all that I've got
And I'm picking scabs off my face
Every hour my blood is turning sour

And my pulse is beating out of time

I found a treasure
Filled with sick pleasure
And it sits on a thick white line
I'm on a mission
I got no decision like a cripple
Running the rat race
Wish in one hand and shit in the other
And see which one gets filled first

Brain Stew by Green Day

I'm having trouble trying to sleep
I'm counting sheep but running out
As time ticks by
And still I try
No rest for crosstops in my mind
On my own... here we go

My eyes feel like they're going to bleed
Dried up and bulging out my skull
My mouth is dry
My face is numb
Fucked up and spun out in my room

On my own... here we go
My mind is set on overdrive
The clock is laughing in my face
A crooked spine
My sense dulled
Passed the point of delirium
On my own... here we go

Jaded by Green Day

Somebody keep my balance
I think I'm falling off
Into a state of regression
The expiration date
Rapidly coming up
It's leaving me behind to rank
Always move forward
Going "straight" will get you nowhere
There is no progress
Evolution kill it all
I found my place in nowhere
I'm taking one step sideways
Leading with my crutch
Got a fucked up equilibrium
Count down from 9 to 5
Hooray! We are gonna die!
Blessed into our extinction

Walking Contradiction by Green Day

Do as I say not as I do because
The shit so deep you can't run away
I beg to differ on the contrary
I agree with every word that you say
Talk is cheap and lies are expensive
My wallet's fat and so is my head
Hit and run and then, I'll hit you again
I'm a smart-ass but I'm playing dumb.
Standards set and broken all the time
Control the chaos behind a gun
Call it as I see it even if
I was born deaf, blind and dumb.
Losers winning big on the lottery
Rehab rejects still sniffing glue
Constant refutation with myself
I'm a victim of a catch 22
I have no belief
But I believe
I'm a walking contradiction
And I ain't got no right

Stuck With Me by Green Day

I'm not part of your elite
I'm just alright
Class structure waVing colors
Bleeding from my throat
Not subservient to you I'm just alright
Down classed by the poWers that be
Give me loss of hope

Cast out... Buried in a hole
Struck down... forcing me to fall
Destroyed... giving up the fight

I know I'm not alright
What's my price and will you pay it
If it's alright?
Take it from my dignity
Waste it until it's dead
Throw me back into the gutter
'Cause it's alright

Find another pleasure fucker
Drag them down to hell

Hitchin' a Ride by Green Day

Hey mister, where you headed?
Are you in a hurry?
I need a lift to happy hour
Say oh no
Do you brake for distilled spirits?
I need a break as well
The well that inebriates the guilt. 1,2. 1,2,3,4.

Cold turkeys getting stale, tonight I'm eating crow
Fermented salmonella poison oak no.

There's a drought at the fountain of youth, and now I'm dehydrating
My tongue is swelling up, as say 1,2. 1,2,3,4.
Troubled times, you know I can not lie
I'm off the wagon and I'm hitchin' a ride

There's a drought at the fountain of youth, and now I'm dehydrating
My tongue is swelling up, I say Shit!

Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) by Green Day



Another turning point
A fork stuck in the road
Time grabs you by the wrist
Directs you where to go
So make the best of this test
And don't ask why
It's not a question
But a lesson learned in time


It's something unpredictable
But in the end it's right
I hope you had the time of your life


So take the photographs
And still frames in your mind
Hang it on a shelf of good health and good time
Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial
For what it's worth
It was worth all the while
It's something unpredictable
But in the end it's right
I hope you had the time of your life.....


It's something unpredictable
But in the end it's right
I hope you had the time of your life.....






It's something unpredictable
But in the end it's right
I hope you had the time of your life.....



�1999

Reductant by Green Day

We're living in repetition.
Content in the same old shtick again.
Now the routine's turning to contention;
like a production line going over and over and over, roller coaster.

Now I cannot speak, I lost my voice.
I'm speechless and redundant.
'Cause I love you's not enough.
I'm lost for words.
Choreographed and lack of passion.
Prototypes of what we were.
Went full circle 'til I'm nauseous.
Taken for granted now.
Now I waste it, faked it, ate it, now I hate it.
Now I cannot speak, I lost my voice.
I'm speechless and redundant,
'cause I love you's not enough.
I'm lost for words, now I cannot speak

Nice Guys Finish Last by Green Day

Nice guys finish last
You're running out of gas
Your sympathy will get you left behind
Sometimes you're at your best, when you look the worst
Do you feel washed up, like piss going down the drain

Pressure cooker pick my brain and tell me I'm insane
I'm so fucking happy I could cry
Every joke can have it's truth and now the joke's on you
I never knew you were such a funny guy.

Oh nice guys finish last, when you are the outcast
Don't pat yourself on the back, you might break your spine

Living on command
You're shaking lots of hands
Kissing up and bleeding all your trust, taking what you need
Bite the hand that feeds
You kill your memory

Minority by Green Day


I wanna be the minority
I don't need your authority
Down with the moral majority
Cause I wanna be the minority

I pledge allegiance to the underworld
One nation under dark
There of which I stand alone
A face in the crowd
A song that gets the mold
Without a doubt singled out
The only way I know

Cause I wanna be the minority
I don't need your authority
Down with the moral majority
Cause I wanna be the minority

Stepped out of the line
Like a sheep runs from the herd
Marchin' out of time
To my own beat now
The only way I know

One light
One mind
flashin' in the dark
Blinded by the silence of a thousand broken hearts
For cryin' out loud
She screams unto me
A free for all
Fuck em' all
You or you aside

Cause I wanna be the minority
I don't need your authority
Down with the moral majority
Cause I wanna be the minority

One light
One mind
flashin' in the dark
Blinded by the silence of a thousand broken hearts
For cryin' out loud
She screams unto me
A free for all
Fuck em 'all
You or you own sight

Cause I wanna be the minority
I don't need your authority
Down with the moral majority
Cause I wanna be the minority........
The Minority.......
The Minority.......
The Minority.......
The Minority.......

Warning by Green Day

This is a public service annoncement
This only a test
emergency evacuation protest
may impair your ability to operate machinery
can't quite tell just what it means to me
keep out of reach of children
Don't talk to strangers
get your philosophy from a bumper sticker

Warning: Live without warning
Warning: Live without warning

better home and safety-sealed communities?
did you remember to pay the utility?
Caution: police line: you better not cross
Is it the cop or am I the one that's really dangerous?
Sanitation, Expiration date, Question everything?
Or shut up and be a victim of authority

Warning: Live without warning
Warning: Live without warning

better home and safety-selled communities?
did you remember to pay the utilty?
Caution: police line: you better not cross
Is it the cop or am I the one that's really dangerous?
Sanitation, Expiration date, Question everything?
Or shut up and be a victim of authority

Warning: Live without warning
Warning: Live without warning
This is a public service annoncement this is only a test.

Waiting by Green Day

I've been waiting a long time
For this moment to come
I'm destined
For anything at all
Downtown light will be shining
On me like a new diamond
Ring out under the midnight hour
No one can touch me now
And I can't turn my back
It's too late ready or not at all

I'm so much closer than
I have never known ...wake up

Dawning of a new era
Calling don't let it catch up you falling
Ready or not at all
Well so close enough to taste it
Almost... I can embrace this
Feeling.... on the tip of my tongue

Well I'm so much closer than
I have never known ...wake up
Better thank you're lucky stars.....

Dumbstruck
colour me stupid
Good luck
you're gonna need it
Where I'm going if I get there
at all

Wake Up
Better thank you're lucky stars....

Macy's Day Parade by Green Day

Today's the Macy's Day Parade
Night of the living dead is on its way
With a credit report for duty call
It's a lifetime guaranteed
Stuffed in a coffin "10 % more free"
Red light special at the mausoleum

Give me something that I need
Satisfaction guaranteed to you
What's the consolation prize?
Economy sized dreams of hope

When I was a kid I thought
I wanted all the things that I haven't got
Oh but I learned the hardest way
Then I realized what it took
To tell the difference between
thieves and crooks
when all along it was me and you

Give me something that I need
Satisfaction guaranteed
Because I'm thinking about
a brand new hope
The one I've never known
Cause now I know
It's all that I wanted

What's the consolation prize?
Economy sized dreams of hope
Give me something that I need
Satisfaction guaranteed
Because I'm thinking about
a brand new hope
The one I've never known
And where it goes
And I'm thinking 'bout
the only road
The one I've never known
And were it goes

And I'm thinking about
a brand new hope
The one I've never known
Cause now I know
It's all that I wanted