Green Day

Green Day is a band from California, consisting of Billie Joe Armstrong (lead vocals and guitar as well as the occasional harmonica), Mike Dirnt (born Michael Ryan Pritchard; bass, backing vocals), and Tré Cool (born Frank Edwin Wright III; drums, percussion, backing vocals). Since their sixth album, Warning, the band has included close friend Jason White as a back-up guitarist for live shows. Green Day is credited, along with The Offspring and Rancid, with popularizing and reviving mainstream interest of punk rock in the United States during the mid 1990s.

1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours (1990)

• "I do not mind if all I am is just a friend to you, but all I want to know right now is if you think about me too."
  • Paper Lanterns

• "I take a look around and all these things I found, I call it blind hatred"
  • Road to Acceptance

Kerplunk (1992)

• "My mental stability reaches its bitter end / And all my senses are coming unglued / Is there any cure for this disease someone called love / Not as long as there are girls like you"
  • 80

Dookie (1994)

• "I don't know you but I think I hate you"
  • Chump

• "I declare I don't care no more"
  • Burnout

• "Throw my emotions in the grave, hell who needs them anyway"
  • Burnout

• "Let's nuke the bridge we've torched 2,000 times before. / This time we'll blast it all to hell!"
  • F.O.D.

• "I went to a whore / who said my life's a bore / so quit my whining cause it's bringing her down"
  • Basket Case

• "Do you have the time/ to listen to me whine/ about nothing and everything all at once"
  • Basket Case

• "I am one of those melodramatic fools/ neurotic to the bone/ no doubt about it"
  • Basket Case

• "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"
  • Longview

• "I'm just roamin' for the moment / Sleazin' my backyard so don't get / So uptight, you've been thinkin' about ditchin' me"
  • When I Come Around

• "Pay attention to the cracked streets and the broken homes/ Some call it slums, some call it nice".
  • Welcome To Paradise
  • " Your just a fuck I cant explain it cause I think you suck. Im tak-en pride in tellin you to Fuck Off and Die" F.O.D

Insomniac (1995)

• "I'm not part of your elite, / I'm just alright!"
  • Stuck With Me

• "The world is a sick machine, / Breeding a mass of shit."
  • Panic Song

• "Always move forward / Going straight will get you nowhere / There is no progress / Evolution killed it all, / I found my place in nowhere"
  • Jaded

• "Talk is cheap and lies are expensive."
  • Walking Contradiction

• "So stand aside and let the next one pass / Don't let the door kick you in the ass".
  • 86

• "My mind is set on overdrive, / The clock is laughing in my face."
  • Brain Stew

• "Boxed up / All of her favorite things / Sold the rest at a rainy yard sale / Big plans and leaving friends and A westbound sign."
  • Westbound sign

Nimrod. (1997)

• "Red eye, code blue, / I'd like to strangle you."
  • Platypus (I hate you)

• "It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right. / I hope you had the time of your life."
  • Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

• "What's the difference between you and me? / I do what I want, and you do what you're told."
  • Reject

• "There's a drought at the fountain of youth / now I'm dehydrating."
  • Hitchin' A Ride

• "Don't pat yourself on the back / you might break your spine"
  • Nice Guys Finish Last

• "We're living in repetition / content in the same old schtick again"
  • Redundant

• "'Cause I love you's not enough / I'm lost for words."
  • Redundant

• "Sugar and spice and everything nice wasn't made for only girls / GI Joe in panty hose is making room / for the one for the one and only / King for a Day, Princess by dawn / King for a Day -- in a leather thong..."
  • "King for A Day"

Warning: (2000)

• "Sanitation, expiration date, QUESTION EVERYTHING!/ Or shut up and be a victim of authority."
  • Warning

• "I here by solemnly swear to tell the whole truth/ And nothing but the truth is what I'll ever hear from you."
  • Church On Sunday

• "Stepped out of the line/Like a sheep runs from the herd"
  • Minority

• "I wanna be the minority / I don't need your authority / down with the moral majority / 'cause I wanna the minority'
  • Minority

• "It's a lifetime guarantee/Stuffed in a coffin 10% more free".
  • Macy's Day Parade

American Idiot (2004)

• "Don't wanna be an american idiot/ Don't wanna nation under the new media/ and can you hear the sound of hysteria/The subliminal mind fuck america."
  • American Idiot

• "Now everybody do the propaganda, / and sing along to the age of paranoia."
  • American Idiot

• "Maybe I'm the faggot America, / I'm not part of a redneck agenda."
  • American Idiot

• "I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies, / This is the dawning of the rest of our lives / On Holiday!"
  • Holiday

• "I'm the son of rage and love, / The Jesus of Suburbia"
  • Jesus of Suburbia (Jesus of Suburbia)

• "And there's nothing wrong with me / This is how I'm supposed to be / In a land of make-believe / That don't believe in me"
  • Jesus of Suburbia (Jesus of Suburbia)

• "They say home is where your heart is / But what a shame / 'Cause everyone's heart / doesn't beat the same"
  • Jesus of Suburbia (City of the Damned)

• "I read the graffiti / In the bathroom stall / Like the holy scriptures of a shopping mall / And so it seemed to confess / It didn't say much / But it only confirmed / That the center of the earth / Is the end of the world / And I could really care less"
  • Jesus of Suburbia (City of the Damned)

• "Dearly beloved are you listening? / I can't remember a word that you were saying"
  • Jesus of Suburbia (Dearly Beloved)

• "Are we demented or am I disturbed? / The space that's in between insane and insecure"
  • Jesus of Suburbia (Dearly Beloved)

• "Oh therapy can you please fill the void? / Am I retarded of am I just overjoyed?"
  • Jesus of Suburbia (Dearly Beloved)

• "I don't care if you don't."
  • "Jesus of Suburbia (I don't care)"

• "To live and not to breathe / Is to die In tragedy / To run, to run away / To find what you believe"
  • Jesus of Suburbia (Tales of Another Broken Home)"

• "And I walked this line / A million and one fucking times / But not this time"
  • Jesus of Suburbia (Tales of Another Broken Home)"

• "Another Protester has crossed the line/ To find, the money's on the other side"
  • Holiday

• "Sieg Heil To The President Gasman"
  • Holiday

• "I walk this empty street/ On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams/ Where the city sleeps/ and I'm the only one and I walk alone"
  • Boulevard or Broken Dreams

• "Starry nights, city lights coming down over me"
  • Are We The Waiting

• "My name is Jimmy / and you'd better not wear it out / Suicide Commando that your momma talked about"
  • St. Jimmy

• "Are you talkin' to me? I'll give you something to cry about!"
  • ' St. Jimmy

• "Give me a long kiss goodnight, and everything will be alright / Tell me Jimmy, I won't feel a thing"
  • Give Me Novacaine

• "She's a Rebel / She's a Saint / She's salt of the Earth / And she's dangerous"
  • She's a Rebel

• "She's a rebel / Vigilante / Missing link on the brink of destruction"
  • "She's a Rebel

• "Nobody Likes You / Everyone Left You / They're all out without you / Having FUN"
  • Letterbomb

• "Where will all the martyrs go / when the virus cures itself? / and where will we all go when it's too late?"
  • Letterbomb

• "You're not the Jesus of Suburbia / The Saint Jimmy is a figment of / Your father's rage and your mother's love / made me the idiot America"
  • ' Letterbomb

• "Summer has come and passed, / the innocent can never last, / wake me up / when September ends."
  • Wake Me Up When September Ends

• "Here comes the rain again / falling from the stars / drenched in my pain again / becoming who we are
  • Wake Me Up When September Ends

• "He says, 'We're fucked up,' but we're not the same/ and mom and dad are the ones you can blame.'"
  • Homecoming (Death of St. Jimmy)

• "There's a glow of light / The St. Jimmy is the spark in the night / bearing gifts and trust / a picture in the city of lust"
  • Homecoming (Death of St. Jimmy)

• "Jimmy died today / he blew his brains out into the bay / In the state of mind / In my own private suicide"
  • Homecoming (Death of St. Jimmy)

• "Somebody Get me out of here / Anybody get me out of here / Somebody get me out of here / Get me the fuck right out of here"
  • Homecoming (East 12th Street)

• "Here they come / marching down the street / like a desperation murmur of a heartbeat."
  • Homecoming (We're Coming Home Again)

• "And forever in the darkest night / If my memory serves me right / I'll never turn back time / Forgetting you, but not the times"
  • Whatsername

• "From the bible of / None of the above / On a steady diet of / Soda Pop and Ritalin"
  • "Jesus of Suburbia

• "Rage and love / story of my life."
  • "Are we the waiting"

Bullet in a Bible (2005)

• "I want you to sing so loud that every fucking red-neck in America hears you tonight, alright!"
  • American Idiot [Live]

• "That's my name and don't you fucking wear it out"
  • St. Jimmy [Live]

• "This song is not anti-American, it's anti-war!"
  • Holiday [Live]

• "Why are there no clouds in the sky? Because God wants to see his favorite band again!"
  • -Tré

• "Roll roll roll a joint, twist it at the ends. Light it up, and take a puff, and pass it to your friends."
  • -Tré

• "Orange mocha frappachino!"
  • -Tré

• "This next song's a big 'fuck you' to all the politicians! This song's called...'Holiday'!!!"
  • Holiday [Live]

• "You have the fucking power, we are the fucking leaders: don't let these bastards dictate your life or try to tell you what to do, alright!"
  • Minority [Live]

• "We're Green Day from Oakland, California, but I just want to say that England is now the official home of Green Day from now on."
  • Minority [Live]

• "to do something that you feel in your heart is great you need to make a lot of mistakes, everything successful is a series of mistakes."
  • Billie Joe

• "American Idiot is a whole take on the planet sort of vibe, you should do it at least once in your life."
  • Tre

• "No man can eat 50 eggs"
  • Tre

• "I judge all you drummers, I'm watching you, hey."
  • Tre

• "I fully promote and love watching Tre be the best drummer in the world."
  • Billie Joe

• " Tre Cool plays the drums in Green Day and he snorts...doughnut sprinkles"
  • Tre

• "And my name's George W. Bush.... not really my name's ass hole"
  • Billie Joe

• "Tré Cool is the greatest drummer in the history of rock music."
  • Billie Joe

• "Music to me it's uhh... the air that I breathe, the blood that pumps through my veins, that keeps me alive, y'know? So uhh, without it, I - I dunno what I'd do - I mean, I'd probably have a job or something... people say to me, 'What would you do if you didn't have Green Day?' - Or you know, people say, 'What do you think of people that only talk to you or like you because you're in Green Day?' And I say, 'Well, I AM Green Day. That is me... that is, my life.'
  • Billie Joe

21st Century Breakdown (2009)

• "Violence is an energy/against the enemy/violence is an energy whoa-oh"
  • Know Your Enemy
• "I'm here to honor you/If I lose everything in the fire/I'm sendin' all my love to you"
  • Last Night on Earth
• "Silence is the enemy"
  • "Know Your Enemy"
• "Lay down your arms/Give up the fight"
  • "21 Guns"
• "We will see how godless a nation we have become"
  • "East Jesus Nowhere"
• "Did you try to live on your own?/When you burned down house and home/Did you stand too close to the fire?/Like a liar looking for forgiveness from a stone"
  • "21 Guns"
• "You're a victim/Of the system/You are your own worst enemy/Know your enemy"
  • "Restless Heart Syndrome"
• "Now call the assassin/The orgasm/ A spasm of love and hate"
  • "Peacemaker"
• "She smashed her knuckles into winter/ As autumn's wind fades into black/She is the saint of all the sinners? The one who's fallen through the cracks"
  • "!Viva La Gloria!
• "Little girl, Little girl you dirty liar/ You're just a junkie preaching to the choir"
  • "¿Viva La Gloria? (Little Girl)
• "I was made of poison and blood"
  • "21st Century Breakdown"