Song Details
Platypus (I Hate You)
  • Track #8 from Nimrod
  • Released 1997
    Green Day has played this song live 81 times
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    Song Meaning
    "Platypus was written for Tim Yohanon. And I pray to god I misspelled his name. Rest in shit you fucking cunt" -- Billie Joe

    The song was written about Tim Yohannan, a founder of 924 Gilman St., and punk music critic. He openly disliked Green Day's breed of "pop-punk," and made it known in his post-"Dookie" reviews of the band. Yohannan would later die of lymphoma, which explains the lines, "I heard you're sick/Sucked on that cancer stick." The narrator later goes on to say that he's happy to hear of this man's coming death. So much hate.
    Lyrics
    Your rise and fall
    Back up against the wall
    What goes around is coming back and haunting you
    It's time to quit
    Cause you ain't worth the shit
    Under my shoes or the piss on the ground

    No one loves you and you know it
    Don't pretend that you enjoy it or you don't care
    Cause now I wouldn't lie or tell
    you all the things you want to hear
    I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU

    I heard you're sick
    Sucked on that cancer stick
    A throbbing tumor and a radiation high
    Shit out of luck
    And now your time is up
    It brings me pleasure just to know you're going to die

    Dickhead, fuckface, cock smoking, mother fucking,
    Asshole, dirty twat, waste of semen, I hope you die HEY

    Red eye, code blue
    I'd like to strangle you
    And watch your eyes bulge right out of your skull
    When you go down
    Head first into the ground
    I'll stand above you just to piss on your grave
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