Song Details
Redundant
  • Track #4 from Nimrod
  • Released 1997
    Green Day has played this song live 25 times
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    Song Meaning
    The word "redundant" is an adjective, used to describe something that is overly repetitive. In the context of this song, it is used to describe a relationship. The narrator and his romantic partner have drifted apart. They still love each other, but the "spark" has now gone away, which resulted in circular arguing. The narrator isn't bitter toward his partner, because it isn't her fault. He feels like the phrase "I love you" has no meaning for the two of them, because it has been overused.
    Lyrics
    We're living in repetition
    Content in the same old shtick again
    Now the routine's turning to contention
    Like a production line going over and over and over
    Roller coaster

    Now I cannot speak, I lost my voice
    I'm speechless and redundant
    'Cause I love you's not enough
    I'm lost for words

    Choreographed and lack of passion
    Prototypes of what we were
    Went full circle 'til I'm nauseous
    Taken for granted now
    Now I waste it, I faked it, I ate it, now I hate it

    'Cause I cannot speak, I lost my voice
    I'm speechless and redundant
    'Cause I love you's not enough
    I'm lost for words, now I cannot speak

    Now I cannot speak, I lost my voice
    I'm speechless and redundant
    'Cause I love you's not enough
    I'm lost for words
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