Song Details
Misery
  • Track #6 from Warning
  • Released 2000
    Green Day has played this song live 3 times
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    Song Meaning
    This song tells the story of four characters who cross paths, mostly because of drugs. All these characters meet their ends because of their treacherous lifestyles. One is a drug dealer, one is a whore, and one is a bankrupt businessman. They all run into trouble and don't handle it the right way. They kill and run, all in the name of money and drugs. The narrator stresses the trouble that one can get into when they take the wrong path. Once you're in trouble, you can easily spiral into more and more bad fortune, just like the characters in this song. All of the choices they made left them miserable in the end.
    Lyrics
    Virginia was a "lot lizard" from F.L.A.
    She had a compound fracture in the "trunk"
    It started when she ran away
    Thumbs out out on the interstate
    She hitched a ride to misery

    "Mr. Whirly" had a catastrophic incident
    He fell into the city by the bay
    He liquidated his estate
    Now he sleeps upon the Haight
    Panhandling misery

    He's gonna get high
    When he's low
    The fire burns from better days
    And she screamed why
    I said I don't know
    The catastrophic hymns from yesterday
    Of misery

    Vinnie was a hustler out of Amsterdam
    He ran the drug cartel in "tinseltown"
    They found him in a cadillac
    Bludgeoned with a baseball bat in the name
    Of misery

    Gina hit the road to New York City
    Mysteriously the night Vinnie croaked
    She stopped in Vegas to elope
    With Virgina and the dope
    And kissed the bride eternally

    And they're gonna get high
    When they're low
    The fire burns from better days
    And she screamed why
    I said I don't know
    The catastrophic hymns from yesterday
    Of misery

    Hell hounds on your trail now once again..boy
    It's groping on your leg until it sleeps
    The emptiness will fill your soul with sorrow
    Because it's not what you make....it's what you leave

    And we're gonna get high
    When I'm low
    The fire burns from better days
    And she screamed why
    I said I don't know
    The catastrophic hymns from yesterday
    Of misery
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