Green Day’s best lyrics

29 November 2020, 16:00 | Updated: 3 May 2023, 18:19

Green Day
Green Day. Picture: Pamela Littky/Press

Let's look back at Billie Joe Armstrong's finest lyrical moments...

  1. “I walk a lonely road / The only one that I have ever known / Don't know where it goes / But it's home to me and I walk alone.”

    Green Day - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams

    Green Day: "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" - [Official Video]

  2. “Do you have the time / To listen to me whine / About nothing and everything / All at once.”

    Green Day - Basket Case

    Green Day - Basket Case [Official Music Video]

  3. “Down with the moral majority / 'Cause I want to be the minority.”

    Green Day - Minority

    Green Day - Minority (Video)

  4. “Dear mother / Can you hear me whining?”

    Green Day - Welcome To Paradise

    Green Day - Welcome To Paradise (Video)

  5. “No time to search the world around / 'Cause you know where I'll be found / When I come around.”

    Green Day - When I Come Around

    Green Day - When I Come Around [Official Music Video]

  6. “Can you hear the sound of hysteria? / The subliminal mind f**k America.”

    Green Day - American Idiot

    Green Day - American Idiot [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

  7. “Summer has come and passed / The innocent can never last / Wake me up when September ends.”

    Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends

    Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends [Official Music Video]

  8. “It's something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right / I hope you had the time of your life.”

    Green Day - Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)

    Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) [Official Music Video]

  9. “Hear the sound of the falling rain / Coming down like an Armageddon flame."

    Green Day - Holiday

    Green Day: "Holiday" - [Official Video]

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