Green Day

Kerplunk - 1991

1. 2000 Light Years Away
2. One For The Razorbacks
3. Welcome To Paradise
4. Christie Road
5. Private Ale
6. Dominated Love Slave
7. One Of My Lies
8. 80
9. Android
10. No One Knows
11. Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?
12. Words I Might Have Ate
13. Sweet Children
14. Best Thing In Town
15. Strangeland
16. My Generation



1. 2000 Light Years Away


I sit alone in my bedroom
Staring at the walls
Iīve been up all damn night long
My pulse is speeding
My love is yearning

I hole my breath and close my eyes and dream about her
Cause sheīs 2000 light years away
She holds my malakite so tight so...
Never let go
Cause sheīs 2000 light years away

I sit outside and watch the sunrise
Lookout as far as I can
I canīt see her, but in the distance
I hear some laughter,
We laugh togethe



2. One For The Razorbacks


Julietīs trying to find out what she wants, but she donīt know
Experience has got her down
Look this direction, I know itīs not perfection, itīs just me...
I want to bring you up again now

Iīm losing whatīs left of my dignity
A small price to pay to see that youīre happy
Forget all the disappointments you have faced
Open up your worried world and let me in

Julietīs crying cause now sheīs realizing love can be
Filled with pain and distrust
I know I am crazy, and a bit lazy
But I will try to bring you up again now.



3. Welcome To Paradise


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

A gunshot rings out at the station
Another urchin snaps and left dead on his own
It makes me wonder why Iīm still here
For some strange reason itīs still now feeling like my home
Iīm never gonna go

Dear mother, can you hear me laughinī?
Itīs been six whole months since I have left your home
It makes me wonder why Iīm still here
For some strange reason itīs still now feeling like my home
Iīm never gonna go

Dear mother, can you hear me whininī?
Itīs been three whole weeks since I have left your home
This sudden fear has left me tremblinī
Cause now it seems I am out here on my own
And Iīm feeling so alone



4. Christie Road


Staring out of my window
Watching the cars go rolling by
My friends are gone
Iīve got nothing to do
So I sit here patiently
Watching the clock tick so slowly
Gotta get away
Or my brains will explode

Give me something to do to kill some time
Take me to that place that I call home
Take away the strains of being lonely
Take me to the tracks at christie road

See the hills from afar
Standing on my beat up car
The sun went down and the night fills the sky
Now I feel like me once again
As the train comes rolling in
Smoked my boredom gone
Slapped my brains up so high

Mother stay out of my way of that place we go
Weīll always seem to find our way to christie road

If thereīs one thing that I need that makes me feel complete
So I go to christie road
Itīs home...



5. Private Ale


I wonder down these streets all by myself
Think of my future now
I just donīt know
I donīt seem to care
I stop to notice that
Iīm by your home
I wonder if youīre sitting all alone
Or is your boyfriend there

Because I feel so right
Let my imagination go
Until youīre in my sight
And through my veins temptation flows

So I sit down here on the hard concrete
Think of my future now
I just donīt know
I donīt seem to care
So I sit across the street from your home
I wonder if youīre sitting all alone
Or is your boyfriend there



6. Dominated Love Slave


I want to be your dominated love slave
I want to be the one that takes the pain
You can spank me when I do not behave
Mack me in the forehead with a chain

Cause I love feelinī dirty
And I love feelinī cheap
And I love it when you hurt me
So drive those staples deep

I want you to slap me and call me naughty
Put a beltsander against my skin
I want to feel pain all over my body
Canīt wait to be punished for my sins.



7. One Of My Lies


When I was younger I thought the world circled around me
But in time I realized I was wrong
My immortal thoughts turned into just dreams of a dead future
It was a tragic case of my reality

Do you think youīre indestructable
And no one can touch you
Well I think youīre disposeable
And itīs time you knew the truth
Cause itīs just one of my lies!

Why does my life have to be so small?
Yet death is forever
And does forever have a life to call its own?

Donīt give me an answer cause you
Only know as much as I know
Unless youīre been there once
Well I hardly think so

I used to pray all night
Before I lay myself down
My mother said it was right
Her mother said it too...
Why?



8. 80


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

Everything she does questions my mental health
It makes me lose control
I just canīt trust myself

If someone can hear me slap some sense into me
But you turn your head and I end up talking to myself
Anxiety has got me strung out and frustrated
So I loose my head or I bang it up against the wall

Sometimes I wonder if I should be left alone
And lock myself up in a padded room
Iīd sit and spew my guts out to the open air
No one wants to hear a drunken fool.

I do not mind if this goes on
Cause now it seems Iīm too far gone
I must admit I enjoy myself
80 please keep taking me away.



9. Android


Hey old man in womanīs shoes
I wonder if he knows I think heīs crazy
When he was young did her have dreams
Of wearing womanīs shoes and being crazy?

It makes me wonder when I grow to be that age
Will I be walking down the street begging for your spare change

Or will I grow that old?
Will I still be around?
The way I carry on Iīll end up
Six feet underground
And waste away...

When the old man was in school
Did the golden rule make him go crazy
Or did he hide away from hopes
Behind a smile and smoking dope
Itīs crazy

It seems so frightening
Time passes by like lightning
Before you know it youīre struck down
I always waste my time on my chemical emotions
It keeps my head spinning around.



10. No One Knows


Why should my fun have to end?
For me itīs only the beginning
I see my friends begin to age
A short countdown to what end

Call me irresponsible
Call me habitual
But when you think of me
Do you fill your head with schemes
Better think again
Cause no one knows

I donīt want to cause no harm
But sometimes my actions hurt
Is there something I should find
To make plans for forever

Does it seem like all your memories fade
You soak up knowledge to fill the space
And still my answer remains...
I donīt know.



11. Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?


A thought burst in my head and I need to tell you
Itīs news that I for thought
Was it a dream that happened long ago?
I think that I just forgot
Well it hasnīt been the first time
And it sure does drive me mad

Thereīs a boy who fogs his world and now heīs getting lazy
Thereīs no motivation and frustration makes him crazy
He makes a plan to take a stand but always ends up sitting.
Someone help him up or heīs gonna end up quitting

I shuffle through my mind
To see if I can find
The words I left behind
Was it just a dream that happened long ago?
Oh well...
Never mind.



12. Words I Might Have Ate


Now it seems I canīt keep my mind of you
My brain drifts back to better days weīve been through
Like sitting on blacktop of the school grounds
The love I bitched about I finally found

But now itīs gone and I take the blame
So thereīs nothing I can do but take the pain
Why?

Now I dwell on what you remind me of
A sweet young girl who sacrificed her love
As for me... I am blind without a cause
And now I reazlied what I have lost

It was something real that I could have had
Now I play the fool whose stable soulīs gone bad
Why?

Tell me the words I might have said
Thatīs pumping pressure deep inside my head
Was it bad enough to be too late?
Just tell me the words I might have ate.



13. Sweet Children


See a young girl so soft and blonde.
Doesnīt attack me but she did once.
Intoxications in her veins.
Sweet young boy plays with her brain.
Lydiaīll bring to life.
What are your chance not to oblige.
Putting his hand on her thigh.
Ability has now been ripped.
Take it away, Iīd rather sit.
Sweet children, sweet children, sweet children. remember when.
Johnnyīs playing fun and games, or else heīs ?in the storage shed?.
Running from the light of day, or maybe lie and celebrate.
The funny circus from his head.
Follow me if you understand.
Iīll trick her so sheīll do it.
Then Iīll sing and now we run.
Sweet children, sweet children, sweet children. remember when.
Sweet children, sweet children, sweet children. remember when.



14. Best Thing In Town


Come with me and letīs go for a ride
Follow me to the other side
As I sit around and watch you pout

Cause I know that youīre the
Best thing in town -- best thing around
Best thing in town -- best thing around

Running wild and always running free
Doing things that I have never seen
Eerie colors and all I see are sounds

Now I know that youīre the
Best thing in town -- best thing around
Best thing in town -- best thing around

Come with me and letīs go for a ride
Follow me to the other side
As I sit around and watch you pout

Cause I know that youīre the
Best thing in town -- best thing around
Best thing in town -- best thing around

Running wild and always running free
Doing things that I have never seen
Eerie colors and all I see are sounds

Now I know that youīre the
Best thing in town -- best thing around
Best thing in town -- best thing around



15. Strangeland


Looking at the clouds in the sky
Floating image in my mind
?
Now I wonder where this place is from

Evidence is everywhere
I start to run, now Iīm scared
?
Strange beings all around.
Everyone come to this place Iīve found

Iīm feeling phyced
Walking?wonder why
All my joys are open
No more crimes

My eyes are clear and now Iīm cured
I only wanna be for sure
?
?

Get in my mind and you will find
Mother love from all mankind
?
?



16. My Generation


Well, people try to put us down.
Talkinī bout my generation.
Just because we get around.
Talkinī bout my generation.
The things they do look awful cold.
Talkinī bout my generation.
I hope I die before I get old.
Talkinī bout my generation.

My generation.

Why donīt you all just fade away?
Talkinī bout my generation.
And donīt try to dig what we all say.
Talkinī bout my generation.
Iīm not trying to cause a big sensation.
Talkinī bout my generation.
Iīm just talkinī bout my generation.
Talkinī bout my generation.

My generation.

(guitar solos)
Break it, fuck that shit!
(donīt think pete townsend wrote that part)

Why donīt you all just fade away?
Talkinī bout my generation.
And donīt try to dig what we all say.
Talkinī bout my generation.
Iīm not trying to cause a big sensation.
Talkinī bout my generation.
Iīm just talkinī bout my generation.
Talkinī bout my generation.

My generation.
Talkinī bout my generation.

This is my generation.
This is my generation, baby.


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