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Basket Case
  • Track #7 from Dookie
  • Released 1994
    Green Day has played this song live 876 times
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    Lyrics
    Do you have the time to listen to me whine
    About NOTHING and EVERYTHING all at once
    I am one of those
    Melodramatic fools
    Neurotic to the bone
    No doubt about it

    Sometimes I give myself the CREEPS
    Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
    It all keeps adding up
    I think I'm CRACKING UP
    Am I just PARANOID?
    I'm just STONED

    I went to a shrink
    To analyze my dreams
    SHE says it's lack of sex that's bringing me down
    I went to a whore
    HE said my life's a bore
    And quit my whining cause it's bringing HER down

    Grasping to CONTROL
    So you BETTER hold on
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