Song Details
All The Time
  • Track #6 from Nimrod
  • Released 1997
    Green Day has played this song live 4 times
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    Song Meaning
    This song is most likely referring to drinking. Based on analysis of the lyrics, the narrator is making toasts. "All the time/A New Year's resolution/How soon that we forget" is possibly referring to a resolution that the narrator previously made to stop drinking. However, he seems to have either given up or lost sight of that goal. Also, the narrator realizes that he'll have to quit eventually, because his addiction isn't leading anywhere good.
    Lyrics
    All the time
    Every time I need it
    What's the time
    I'd say the time is right
    Here's to me
    Let's find another reason down the hatch
    And a bad attitude
    Salud
    Wasting time
    Wasting time
    Down a bum fuck road and
    I don't know where the hell it'll go
    Heirlooms and huffing fumes and I'm picking up the pace
    And I'm gonna smash straight into a wall

    All the time
    A new years resolution how soon that we forget
    Doing time
    Loving every minute
    Live it up on another let down
    Salud

    Promises
    Promises
    It was all set in stone
    Cross my heart and hope to die
    Sugar fix
    Dirty tricks and a trick question
    Guess I should have read between the lines
    Having the time of my life
    Watching the clock tick

    All the time
    Where did all the time go
    It's too late to say good night
    Time flies when you're having fun
    Times up when you work like a dog
    Salud
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