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Green Day - Westbound Sign

Green Day - Westbound Sign Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Insomniac
Released: 1995

Westbound Sign Lyrics

Boxed up
All of her favorite things
Sold the rest at a rainy yard sale
Big plans and leaving friends and
A Westbound Sign
Weighed out
Her choices on a scale
Prevailing nothing made sense
Just transportation and a
Blank decision... she's taking off
No time and no copping out
She's burning daylight and petrol
Blacked out the rear view mirror
Heading westward on
Strung out
On confusion road
And ten minute nervous breakdowns
Xanex a beer for thought
And she determined... She's taking off
Is it salvation?
Or an escape from discontent?
Will she find her name
In the California cement?
Punched out of the grind
That punched her one too many times...
Is tragedy two thousand miles away?
She's taking off

Writer/s: ARMSTRONG, BILLIE JOE / COOL, TRE / DIRNT, MIKE
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Westbound Sign

Billie Joe Armstrong wrote this about his wife Adrienne when she moved away from home to be with him.

Green Day - Tightwad Hill

Green Day - Tightwad Hill Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Insomniac
Released: 1995

Tightwad Hill Lyrics

Tightwad Hill

Green Day hit it big in Berkeley, California. Tightwad Hill is the nickname for the big hill that college students watch football on at Cal Berkeley (University of California).

Green Day - Walking Contradiction

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Green Day - Walking Contradiction Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Insomniac
Released: 1995

Walking Contradiction Lyrics

Walking Contradiction

Lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong also plays guitar and sings for a band called Pinhead Gunpowder. The same year Insomniac came out, Pinhead Gunpowder released an album containing a song called "Walkin' Catastrophe." Though the two songs were different, both were sung by Billie Joe.

Green Day - Geek Stink Breath

Green Day - Geek Stink Breath Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Insomniac
Released: 1995

Geek Stink Breath Lyrics

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 methamphetamine
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 roll
No self control
I'm blowing off steam with methamphetamine
Don't know what I want
That's all that I've got
And I'm picking scabs off my face

I'm on a mission
I've got no decision
Like a cripple running the rat race
Wish in one hand shit in the other
And see which one gets filled first

I'm on a roll
No self control
I'm blowing off steam with methamphetamine
Don't know what I want
That's all that I've got
And I'm picking scabs off my face

Writer/s: ARMSTRONG, BILLIE JOE / COOL, TRE / DIRNT, MIKE
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Geek Stink Breath Song Chart

This is about amphetamine and methamphetamine drug use. (thanks, Tom - New Hartford, CT)

This was the first single from Insomniac, which was Green Day's fourth album. Their first 2 were released on a small label and didn't sell well, but their third, Dookie, was one of the best-selling albums of 1993. This put high expectations on this album, which also sold well, but not as well as Dookie.

Like most Green Day songs, this was not sold as a single in the US, which helped sell more copies of the album. It earned the chart position because of radio play.

This song made it's debut months before the release of Insomniac. While still on the Dookie tour, the band made an appearance on Saturday Night Live. In addition to performing their current single "When I Come Around," they were told to perform either of their previous singles "Longview" or "Basket Case" for their second number. As a bit of rebellion against their management and the media, the band played a very crude version of this as their second song. It became Insomniac's first single when the album was released many months later. (thanks, George - Islip Terrace, NY)