Song Details
Armatage Shanks
  • Track #1 from Insomniac
  • Released 1995
    Green Day has played this song live 51 times
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    Song Meaning
    A bleak song for the beginning of a fairly bleak album, lyric wise at least. The lyrics scream about not knowing which way to turn, who to trust, or even whether your own judgement is sound because you've "never trusted anyone/ let along myself." It highlights the pessimism that we all feel at times when we wonder whether we've done the right thing, when you doubt yourself to the point of the despair.
    Lyrics
    Stranded... lost inside myself
    My own worst friend
    My own closet enemy
    Branded... Maladjusted

    Never trusted anyone
    Let alone myself
    I must insist
    On being a pessimist

    I'm a loner in a catastrophic mind
    Elected the rejected
    I perfected the science of idiot

    No meaning... no healing
    Self loathing freak and introverted
    Deviot
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