Song Details
Coming Clean
  • Track #11 from Dookie
  • Released 1994
    Green Day has played this song live 99 times
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    Lyrics
    Seventeen and strung out on confusion
    Trapped inside a roll of disillusion
    I found out what it takes to be a man
    Mom and Dad will never understand

    Secrets collecting dust but never forget
    SKELETONS come to LIFE in my closet

    I found out what it takes to be a man
    Mom and Dad will never understand
    WHAT'S HAPPENING TO ME

    Seventeen and COMING CLEAN for the first time
    I finally figured out myself for the first time
    I found out what it takes to be a man
    Mom and Dad will never understand
    WHAT'S HAPPENED TO ME
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