Insomniac
1.
Armatage Shanks
Posted by Matt M. on May 27 2009
In the opening song to Insomniac, Billie expresses his love/hate relationship with himself, including his frequent panic attacks, and bouts of loneliness. Similar to songs on Dookie, he illustrates his complete lack of trust in society as well as his insisting on being a constant pessimist in regards to his own life. This first song in a way illustrates the undeniably bratty punk rock tone that the album aggresively delivers.
Armatage Shanks
Posted by Matt M. on May 27 2009
In the opening song to Insomniac, Billie expresses his love/hate relationship with himself, including his frequent panic attacks, and bouts of loneliness. Similar to songs on Dookie, he illustrates his complete lack of trust in society as well as his insisting on being a constant pessimist in regards to his own life. This first song in a way illustrates the undeniably bratty punk rock tone that the album aggresively delivers.
2.
Brat
Posted by Lyndsey McNitt on May 27 2009
"Brat" is a song about all of the trust-fund babies, all of the surbubia kids, all of the rich kids, who don't have respect for their parents and just see them as a bank and cannot wait until the day they die so they get their parents money.
Brat
Posted by Lyndsey McNitt on May 27 2009
"Brat" is a song about all of the trust-fund babies, all of the surbubia kids, all of the rich kids, who don't have respect for their parents and just see them as a bank and cannot wait until the day they die so they get their parents money.
3.
Stuck With Me
Posted by Tommy Ten Fingers on May 28 2009
Stuck With Me is a song that was written for every person who has ever been put down in their life by somebody who thinks they are better. The lyrics reject that elitism, and describe the desperate sense of alone-ness the dejected constantly feel.
Stuck With Me
Posted by Tommy Ten Fingers on May 28 2009
Stuck With Me is a song that was written for every person who has ever been put down in their life by somebody who thinks they are better. The lyrics reject that elitism, and describe the desperate sense of alone-ness the dejected constantly feel.
4.
Geek Stink Breath
Posted by Adam on August 06 2009
FYI, BIllie had some meth bouts now and then in the early days. I think he realized how destructive and useless it was before getting clean and then writing this.
1/7
Posted by sean on June 07 2009
This song is about destroying yourself with meth.
2/7
Posted by Jen on June 06 2009
This song is about the side effects of doing drugs.
3/7
Posted by Katherine on June 02 2009
Billie Joe wrote this about how everyone in the Bay Area started getting into going Meth. The lyrics talk of the effects of doing meth.
4/7
Posted by H347H32 on June 02 2009
This song is about a meth addict. The lyrics "I made my decision/to lead a path of self-destruction" explain how, although he knows it's destroying him, he continues to get high and he can't control himself any longer.
5/7
Posted by Dana B on June 02 2009
This song is about someone who does drugs, and what effect the drugs have had on them: "Killing my complexion and rotting out my teeth"
6/7
Posted by 4thWarmasterKais on June 01 2009
'Geek Stink Breath' talks about the negative effects of drug usage; Billie Joe was sick of watching pople waste their lives away with drugs.
7/7
Geek Stink Breath
Posted by Adam on August 06 2009
FYI, BIllie had some meth bouts now and then in the early days. I think he realized how destructive and useless it was before getting clean and then writing this.
Posted by sean on June 07 2009
This song is about destroying yourself with meth.
Posted by Jen on June 06 2009
This song is about the side effects of doing drugs.
Posted by Katherine on June 02 2009
Billie Joe wrote this about how everyone in the Bay Area started getting into going Meth. The lyrics talk of the effects of doing meth.
Posted by H347H32 on June 02 2009
This song is about a meth addict. The lyrics "I made my decision/to lead a path of self-destruction" explain how, although he knows it's destroying him, he continues to get high and he can't control himself any longer.
Posted by Dana B on June 02 2009
This song is about someone who does drugs, and what effect the drugs have had on them: "Killing my complexion and rotting out my teeth"
Posted by 4thWarmasterKais on June 01 2009
'Geek Stink Breath' talks about the negative effects of drug usage; Billie Joe was sick of watching pople waste their lives away with drugs.
5.
No Pride
Posted by dallasthemenace on May 26 2009
just a feeling of not belonging, or being a black sheep, of sorts. and not identifying with certain moral ideals and/or standards of whats expected and acceptable. and not just not identifying, but denouncing those things at the same time.
No Pride
Posted by dallasthemenace on May 26 2009
just a feeling of not belonging, or being a black sheep, of sorts. and not identifying with certain moral ideals and/or standards of whats expected and acceptable. and not just not identifying, but denouncing those things at the same time.
6.
Bab's Uvula Who
Posted by Corey Ward on June 11 2009
This is mainly focusing on bipolar where you're happy one min. and at the slightest move you're pissed. It's also focusing on anger issues. It's also about getting worked up over little things. I have an anger issue, and I flip over the little things. It also relates to me because I often fuck up in relationships and just at life. 100% Karma's a BITCH!
1/3
Posted by chich. on June 03 2009
I jsut read a song meaning submitted for this....i also have ADHD and this song really speaks out to me. i loose my temper a lot (at school and home) and get stuck in situations i dont mean or want to be in. i think this song is about finding it hard to control yourself and you don't mean to suddenly snap, but you do and afterwards you feel shit about it. ive only really just noticed this song as one that speaks out to me, but now i have noticed it, it makes me feel as if im not alone anymore. and thts a good feeling :)
2/3
Posted by Brenda AKA Bryn or jinx33 on the forums on May 26 2009
As someone who has ADHD, I get this song. You get more and more wound up, you fly of the handle, your mind goes ninety miles an hour.
Once you are done, you feel terrible about it. Ashamed, and like a total fuck up. The song opens with "I've got a knack for fucking everything up, My temper flies and I get myself all wound up."
I think it is about that. The first time I heard it I related 110%
3/3
Bab's Uvula Who
Posted by Corey Ward on June 11 2009
This is mainly focusing on bipolar where you're happy one min. and at the slightest move you're pissed. It's also focusing on anger issues. It's also about getting worked up over little things. I have an anger issue, and I flip over the little things. It also relates to me because I often fuck up in relationships and just at life. 100% Karma's a BITCH!
Posted by chich. on June 03 2009
I jsut read a song meaning submitted for this....i also have ADHD and this song really speaks out to me. i loose my temper a lot (at school and home) and get stuck in situations i dont mean or want to be in. i think this song is about finding it hard to control yourself and you don't mean to suddenly snap, but you do and afterwards you feel shit about it. ive only really just noticed this song as one that speaks out to me, but now i have noticed it, it makes me feel as if im not alone anymore. and thts a good feeling :)
Posted by Brenda AKA Bryn or jinx33 on the forums on May 26 2009
As someone who has ADHD, I get this song. You get more and more wound up, you fly of the handle, your mind goes ninety miles an hour.
Once you are done, you feel terrible about it. Ashamed, and like a total fuck up. The song opens with "I've got a knack for fucking everything up, My temper flies and I get myself all wound up."
I think it is about that. The first time I heard it I related 110%
7.
86
Posted by sean on June 07 2009
this song is about how after Green Day went with Reprise Records how the local punk scene sort of disowned them.
1/5
Posted by Katherine on June 02 2009
This was written about a past girlfriend or something along those lines who wouldn't go away and move on.
2/5
Posted by DetonateNow on June 02 2009
This is about the Gilman street place they started out, and about how they are not accepted back there due to becoming mainstream!
3/5
Posted by 4thWarmasterKais on June 02 2009
This song is about being rejected, "Don't let the door kick you in the ass". This could be through shame or betrayal, but either way, you know you're never getting back in. Billie once said that it was about being rejected from their original scene when they had major success with 'Dookie'.
4/5
Posted by dallasthemenace on June 02 2009
a song about the unwelcomed, to the unwelcomed. just completely writing someone off...telling 'em to leave and not come back. billie actually wrote it after reading some pretty intense graffiti about himself in the ladies room at gilman st. following the band's initial mainstream breakout following dookie.
5/5
86
Posted by sean on June 07 2009
this song is about how after Green Day went with Reprise Records how the local punk scene sort of disowned them.
Posted by Katherine on June 02 2009
This was written about a past girlfriend or something along those lines who wouldn't go away and move on.
Posted by DetonateNow on June 02 2009
This is about the Gilman street place they started out, and about how they are not accepted back there due to becoming mainstream!
Posted by 4thWarmasterKais on June 02 2009
This song is about being rejected, "Don't let the door kick you in the ass". This could be through shame or betrayal, but either way, you know you're never getting back in. Billie once said that it was about being rejected from their original scene when they had major success with 'Dookie'.
Posted by dallasthemenace on June 02 2009
a song about the unwelcomed, to the unwelcomed. just completely writing someone off...telling 'em to leave and not come back. billie actually wrote it after reading some pretty intense graffiti about himself in the ladies room at gilman st. following the band's initial mainstream breakout following dookie.
8.
Panic Song
Posted by Nikki on August 19 2009
Maybe this is about having panic disorder, I'm not sure about that subject. I think it's about having bitter angst towards something to the point where you wear yourself out. The world is a sick machine... I don't care... limp with hate. Stuff is corrupt and I'm losing my mind.
1/3
Posted by Breanna on August 12 2009
I have panic attacks too, so i completely understand this song and can relate to it with ease. It's about having panic attacks and wanting to stop but not being able to, so in the end wanting to "destroy yourself" hence the line "headed for a cheap escape, on the brink of self destruction."
2/3
Posted by Crissie on June 08 2009
I think this song is talking about how it feels to have a panic disorder. It talks about the hopeless feelings and how you feel alone in the world during a panic attak.
3/3
Panic Song
Posted by Nikki on August 19 2009
Maybe this is about having panic disorder, I'm not sure about that subject. I think it's about having bitter angst towards something to the point where you wear yourself out. The world is a sick machine... I don't care... limp with hate. Stuff is corrupt and I'm losing my mind.
Posted by Breanna on August 12 2009
I have panic attacks too, so i completely understand this song and can relate to it with ease. It's about having panic attacks and wanting to stop but not being able to, so in the end wanting to "destroy yourself" hence the line "headed for a cheap escape, on the brink of self destruction."
Posted by Crissie on June 08 2009
I think this song is talking about how it feels to have a panic disorder. It talks about the hopeless feelings and how you feel alone in the world during a panic attak.
9.
Stuart and the Ave
Posted by Words-I-Might-Have-Ate on August 11 2009
This song is about moving on with your life when it gets too messed up. Whether it's leaving someone or something.
1/2
Posted by Niamh on June 02 2009
This song is about finally forgetting someone in your past and moving on with you life.
2/2
Stuart and the Ave
Posted by Words-I-Might-Have-Ate on August 11 2009
This song is about moving on with your life when it gets too messed up. Whether it's leaving someone or something.
Posted by Niamh on June 02 2009
This song is about finally forgetting someone in your past and moving on with you life.
10.
Brain Stew
Posted by Matt on July 26 2009
This song is about trying to fall asleep after a night of doing coke
1/2
Posted by Steven on May 27 2009
About Billie's insomnia.Or when joey was a baby,he was up all night crying and billie was up all night trying to calm him down
2/2
Brain Stew
Posted by Matt on July 26 2009
This song is about trying to fall asleep after a night of doing coke
Posted by Steven on May 27 2009
About Billie's insomnia.Or when joey was a baby,he was up all night crying and billie was up all night trying to calm him down
11.
Jaded
Posted by Marshall on August 07 2009
It makes sense that this song flows out of Brain Stew, where he cannot sleep, so he possibly uses drugs to ease the insomnia, and then he is "jaded." This song is partly about being high, but more importantly about always moving forward in life, regardless of how correctly you are moving (always move forward; going straight will get you nowhere)
1/4
Posted by Hailey on August 03 2009
This song is about how you feel when you get high. Billie got high when shooting the video for Jaded to "get the feel" for the video.
2/4
Posted by Doug on July 26 2009
The meaning of Jaded is about living fast and dying young. It's about getting high and living life to the fullest and eventually killing yourself from this crazy and wild life you're living.
3/4
Posted by Whatsername on June 16 2009
Jaded is about that funny feeling you get when your high and you couldn't care less about anything but that feeling
4/4
Jaded
Posted by Marshall on August 07 2009
It makes sense that this song flows out of Brain Stew, where he cannot sleep, so he possibly uses drugs to ease the insomnia, and then he is "jaded." This song is partly about being high, but more importantly about always moving forward in life, regardless of how correctly you are moving (always move forward; going straight will get you nowhere)
Posted by Hailey on August 03 2009
This song is about how you feel when you get high. Billie got high when shooting the video for Jaded to "get the feel" for the video.
Posted by Doug on July 26 2009
The meaning of Jaded is about living fast and dying young. It's about getting high and living life to the fullest and eventually killing yourself from this crazy and wild life you're living.
Posted by Whatsername on June 16 2009
Jaded is about that funny feeling you get when your high and you couldn't care less about anything but that feeling
12.
Wesbound Sign
Posted by Lucky on June 03 2009
Written by Billie about Adrienne, inspired by when she moved from her native Minnesota to live in California with him (California's southwest-ish from Minnesota, for those who don't know their state geography).
1/2
Posted by Petra on June 01 2009
This song is about a girl, who just decided to say fuck you to the world, and leave all she ever had behind - because it made her miserable. The only things worth taking with her she boxed, and all the rest 'she sold on rainy yard sale'. She made plans for the future - whether good or bad, only time will show.
2/2
Wesbound Sign
Posted by Lucky on June 03 2009
Written by Billie about Adrienne, inspired by when she moved from her native Minnesota to live in California with him (California's southwest-ish from Minnesota, for those who don't know their state geography).
Posted by Petra on June 01 2009
This song is about a girl, who just decided to say fuck you to the world, and leave all she ever had behind - because it made her miserable. The only things worth taking with her she boxed, and all the rest 'she sold on rainy yard sale'. She made plans for the future - whether good or bad, only time will show.
13.
Tight Wad Hill
Posted by Del Bishop on June 11 2009
This song is just about all the cheapskates in the world, and how they will NEVER give you money
Tight Wad Hill
Posted by Del Bishop on June 11 2009
This song is just about all the cheapskates in the world, and how they will NEVER give you money
14.
Walking Contradiction
Posted by Danielle on September 15 2009
I think that this song is a sarcastic remark on how contradictory they were when Dookie became a success. By contradictary, I mean the age old rule on punk going mainstream and how "true" punk stays underground. "I believe I'm a walking contradiction and I got no rights." Basically, I think they were sarcastically saying that yep, they were walking contradictions and they were not punk, even though they are.
1/6
Posted by THEamericanidiot04 on September 07 2009
I think this song is about a chain reaction of bad things happening to you and you just cant escape it.
2/6
Posted by Rachel on August 25 2009
Life itself is a walking contradiction. That's the message here I think. Basically, Billie's saying that everything is contradictory to everything else, and how people say one thing then five minutes later say/do something else.
3/6
Posted by joe on July 23 2009
I always saw it as autobiographical of the band--They were 3 punks who Dookie turned into multi-millionaires. "My wallet's fat...and so is my head".
4/6
Posted by Stan on June 08 2009
I believe this is about having the worst time, day, or week and nothing goes right. You have the worst luck and right now you feel like the biggest loser because nothing good is happening.
5/6
Posted by Mari on June 03 2009
I believe this song is about how hypocritical people are. Basically people say one thing and do something else
6/6
Walking Contradiction
Posted by Danielle on September 15 2009
I think that this song is a sarcastic remark on how contradictory they were when Dookie became a success. By contradictary, I mean the age old rule on punk going mainstream and how "true" punk stays underground. "I believe I'm a walking contradiction and I got no rights." Basically, I think they were sarcastically saying that yep, they were walking contradictions and they were not punk, even though they are.
Posted by THEamericanidiot04 on September 07 2009
I think this song is about a chain reaction of bad things happening to you and you just cant escape it.
Posted by Rachel on August 25 2009
Life itself is a walking contradiction. That's the message here I think. Basically, Billie's saying that everything is contradictory to everything else, and how people say one thing then five minutes later say/do something else.
Posted by joe on July 23 2009
I always saw it as autobiographical of the band--They were 3 punks who Dookie turned into multi-millionaires. "My wallet's fat...and so is my head".
Posted by Stan on June 08 2009
I believe this is about having the worst time, day, or week and nothing goes right. You have the worst luck and right now you feel like the biggest loser because nothing good is happening.
Posted by Mari on June 03 2009
I believe this song is about how hypocritical people are. Basically people say one thing and do something else
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