Song Details
Panic Song
  • Track #8 from Insomniac
  • Released 1995
    Green Day has played this song live 1 time
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    Song Meaning
    The sounds of aggravation, panic, paranoia and worry pour from this song the second it starts. It gets under your skin before the words even begin, a minute and half of music to get you into the mindset for the song; dark music to match dark words. The lyrics talks of a "sick machine/breeding a mass of shit" and the confusion he feels to go alongside of that.
    Lyrics
    Ready for a cheap escape
    On the brink of self destruction
    Widespread panic
    Broken glass inside my head
    Bleeding down these thoughts of
    Anguish... mass confusion
    The world is a sick machine
    Breeding a mass of shit
    With such a desolate conclusion
    Fill the void with... I don't care
    There's a plague inside of me
    Eating at my disposition
    Nothing's left
    Torn out of reality
    Into a state of no opinion
    Limp with hate
    I wanna drop out (x4)
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