We’ve just heard the news that Green Day will be opening the halftime show for the Super Bowl this year, ahead of Bad Bunny, and we couldn’t be more excited.
The pop-punk legends, who first formed in 1987, have released 14 albums since their debut and mesmerized listeners everywhere with their sometimes irreverent, sometimes deeply political, lyricism and power-chord heavy sound. As you get ready for the rock legends to hit the stage, consider using one of their gritty lyrics as the caption to your next Instagram post.
To show off your introverted spirit:
“I walk a lonely road.”
-“Boulevard of Broken Dreams”
(Warning via Reprise)
When you dream of companionship:
“Sometimes, I wish someone out there will find me.”
-“Boulevard of Broken Dreams”
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For your picture on Sunset Boulevard:
“I walk this empty street on the Boulevard of Broken Dreams.”
-“Boulevard of Broken Dreams”
For feeling in awe of the big city:
“Starry nights, city lights comin’ down over me. Skyscrapers, stargazers in my head.”
-“Are We the Waiting”
For living your authentic truth:
“And there’s nothin’ wrong with me. This is how I’m supposed to be.”
-“Jesus of Suburbia”
For not feeling in tune with the rest of the world:
“‘Home is where your heart is,’ but what a shame, ’cause everyone’s heart doesn’t beat the same.”
-“City of the Damned”
For feeling apathetic:
“I don’t care if you don’t, I don’t care if you don’t, I don’t care if you don’t care.”
-“I Don’t Care”
For knowing you need to make something of your life:
“To live and not to breathe is to die in tragedy.”
-“Tales of Another Broken Home”
When you don’t ascribe to society’s norms:
“Don’t wanna be an American idiot.”
-“American Idiot”
For finding nothing to watch, even with countless options:
“I sit around and watch the tube, but nothing’s on.”
-“Longview”
For waiting around for someone else to make plans:
“I sit around and watch the phone, but no one’s callin’. Call me pathetic, call me what you will.”
-“Longview”
For deciding you’re burnt out and need a break:
“I declare I don’t care no more.”
-“Burnout”
When you go against the grain:
“Because we’re outlaws, yeah.”
-“Holiday”
For deciding to set yourself apart from the crowd:
“I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies.”
-“Holiday”
When you need to vent:
“Do you have the time to listen to me whine about nothing and everything all at once?”
-“Basket Case”
When you cringe at yourself:
“Sometimes, I give myself the creeps.”
-“Basket Case”
For clinging to the little control you still have:
“Grasping to control, so I better hold on.”
-“Basket Case”
For when real life feels like a wild fiction:
“It’s comedy and tragedy.”
-“St. Jimmy”
For your end of summer wrap-up:
“Summer has come and passed.”
-“Wake Me Up When September Ends”
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For your rainy day photos:
“Here comes the rain again, falling from the stars.”
-“Wake Me Up When September Ends”
When the event finally ends:
“I hope you had the time of your life.”
-“Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)”
For not regretting the time you shared together:
“For what it’s worth, it was worth all the while.”
-“Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)”
For feeling hopeful about the future:
“I’m like a child lookin’ off in the horizon.”
-“Still Breathing”
When the relationship wasn’t meant to be:
“You can’t go forcing something if it’s just not right.”
When you made many great memories with them:
“You taught me how to live.”
-“Homecoming”
When you dream of leaving your hometown:
“Somebody get me out of here.”
-“Homecoming”
For keeping certain things to yourself:
“Secrets collecting dust, but never forget. Skeletons come to life in my closet.”
-“Coming Clean”
For that moment of self-discovery and truth:
“Seventeen and coming clean for the first time. I finally figured out myself for the first time.”
-“Coming Clean”
For dreaming of someone who used to be in your life:
“Thought I ran into you down on the street. Then it turned out to only be a dream.”
-“Whatsername”
When you randomly dream of that one person:
“I wonder how whatsername has been.”
-“Whatsername”
When you reminisce on the past:
“Remember, whatever, it seems like forever ago.”
-“Whatsername”
For knowing you can’t change the past:
“I’ll never turn back time.”
-“Whatsername”
For keeping all your angst to yourself:
“She, she screams in silence. A sullen riot penetrating through her mind.”
-“She”
For finding confidence in thinking for yourself:
“She, she’s figured out all her doubts were someone else’s point of view.”
-“She”
For refusing to be who everyone else has decided you are:
“Are you locked up in a world that’s been planned out for you?”
-“She”
When you can’t find your place in this world:
“Are you feeling like a social tool without a use?”
-“She”
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When you’ve been miserable for weeks:
“I can’t take this feeling anymore.”
-“Give Me Novocaine”
For figuring yourself out:
“She’s a rebel, she’s a saint. She’s the salt of the earth and she’s dangerous.”
-“She’s a Rebel”
For knowing someone can do some serious damage to your heart:
“She’s holdin’ on my heart like a hand grenade.”
-“She’s a Rebel”
For living by yourself for the first time:
“Now it seems that I am out here on my own and I’m feelin’ so alone.”
-“Welcome to Paradise”
When your home isn’t the most picturesque:
“I want to take you through a wasteland I like to call my home.”
For your getaway photos:
“Welcome to paradise.”
-“Welcome to Paradise”
For finally acclimating once you’ve moved:
“For some strange reason, it’s now feelin’ like my home, and I’m never gonna go.”
-“Welcome to Paradise”
For feeling someone’s love, even when they can’t be near:
“You are the moonlight of my life every night. Givin’ all my love to you.”
-“Last Night on Earth”
For refusing to give up until you literally can’t go on:
“It’s not over ’til you’re underground. It’s not over before it’s too late.”
-“Letterbomb”
For when you can’t keep your anger to yourself any longer:
“I’ve had this burning in my guts now for so long.”
-“F.O.D.”
For when insomnia gets to you:
“I’m havin’ trouble tryin’ to sleep. I’m countin’ sheep, but runnin’ out.”
-“Brain Stew”
For when you have no one to rely on but yourself:
On my own, here we go
-“Brain Stew”
When you have a tendency to overthink:
“My mind is set on overdrive.”
-“Brain Stew”
For when the sound of your alarm clock gets personal:
“The clock is laughin’ in my face.”
-“Brain Stew”
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