Song Details
Castaway
  • Track #5 from Warning
  • Released 2000
    Green Day has played this song live 54 times
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    Song Meaning
    With straightforward, uncomplicated lyrics, this track expresses the narrator's feeling that he's alone. He feels that in whatever he's going through, he has no one to aid him, and will have to be completely reliant on himself. In the line "I'm on a mission/into destination unknown," the narrator seems to know that he's embarking on a journey that has more than one possible outcome. He can't ask anyone else for help, and must stand alone in the face of adversity.
    Lyrics
    I'm on a sentimental journey
    Into sight and sound
    Of no returnand no looking back or down
    A conscientious objector to the
    war that's in my mind
    Leaving in a lurch and I'm
    taking back what's mine

    I'm on a mission
    Into destination unknown
    An expedition
    Onto desolation road
    Where am I

    Castaway - Going at it alone
    Castaway - Now I'm on my own
    Castaway - Going at it alone
    Castaway - Now I'm on my own
    Lost and found
    Trouble bound
    Castaway

    I'm riding on the night train and
    driving stolen cars
    Testing my nerves out on the blvd.
    Spontaneous combustion in the
    corners of my mind
    Leaving in a lurch
    and I'm taking back what's mine

    I'm on a mission
    Into destination unknown
    An expedition
    Onto desolation road
    Where I'm a

    Castaway - Going at it alone
    Castaway - Now I'm on my own
    Castaway - Going at it alone
    Castaway - Now I'm on my own
    Lost and found
    Trouble bound
    Castaway
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