Kerplunk!

This song is about a girlriend that Billie or one of the band memebers had. And the song talks about how it dosen't matter how far you are away from your love of your life whether its 2 mies 2,000 miles or 2,000 lightyears away you will always think about them and always love them.

This is the ultimate love song ever made by Green Day in my opinion. Pure love.

The very first verse is not as joyful as you might think, as Billie clearly states that this is a song about unhappy and somewhat forbidden love. The character tries to fokus his mind and get control over the raging feelings of pure love and possibly reject in his heart, he is alone, not loved by the one he wants the most (or atlest he thinks so).
The love almost drowns him and he cant control it anymore, but in respect for her or of fright for change and consequense, he choses not tell her the way he feels for her.

The Chorus basicly describes how madly in love he are with her, and that he does'nt have a choice anymore. She holds his heart (malekite) so tight. And he does'nt want her to neighter. He loves her.

The ending is hopeful, he can somewhere in the distance her them together. But at the moment, it feels far away. Maybe this is the courage he needs to really reach out to her and tell her how he feels. The end in the tunnel.
I love her, and got her by listening to this song. And that is why I identify with the song 2000 light years away by Green Day.

Billie Joe wrote this song after the first time he kissed Adrienne. Afterwards, he had to go home and be without her, and he realized how much he missed her. He realized how far away he felt from her, and exagerrated the length to, '2,000 Light Years Away.'

Billie Joe wrote this about missing Adrienne when he was on tour.

Billie wrote this song about Adrienne because she was so far away.

Its a song about beiing really far away from someone for a really long time.

I am from Arkansas so this is by far my favorite song. Its about a girl named Juliet from Arkansas, whom the band had met, the lyrics suggest that Juliet cannot find a guy who can make her happy so Billie's saying "Look this direction, i know its not perfection, its just me, i want to bring you up again now." so that she will see that Billie's standing there, for her if she needs him.

This song, personally, is one of my all-time favorites. It's about a girl (they call her Juliet probably because of Romeo and Juliet) a girl who has been hurt and is starting to think that life is full of pain and destruction. But there's a boy who is trying to tell her to open up her heart to him so he can meke her happy. It's kind of a sweet little love story. More romantic than Jesus and Whatsername.

Billie wrote this song because he and Mike had moved out of his mother's home and were now living on their own.

This song is about someone finally leaving their home, and basically they are saying "fuck you" to their parents. I think "Paradise" is a sarcastic way of saying wherever that person is living now ('slums', 'broken homes').

This song is about the ghetto. Yet...........you belong. It is paradise.

This song is about moving to a hellhole you hate, but growing to love it so much that when you have a chance to escape, you don't want to.

"Christie Road" was where Billie and his friends would go and get stoned. It just a song about boredom and pot.

It's about wanting to get away and free your mind at some place that makes you happy. Green Day is referring in this song to getting away and smoking pot to free their minds and it was probably on Christie road where they did that.

just a great song about wanting to get away and hang out someplace kinda quiet by yourself for a while. anyone can have a "christie road" that they go to.

In this song, a boy is in love/lust with a girl who already has a boyfriend. He goes for long walks alone, thinking about his future. But he can't make himself care about his future, because his thoughts are so focused on the girl he loves/wants. He realizes that he's ended up across the street from her house and starts thinking about her. He wonders if she's alone or with her boyfriend. For a little while, he gives his thoughts free rein and imagines everything he wants to do with her ("let my imagination go" ... "through my veins temptation flows." Then he sits down "on the hard concrete" and keeps thinking about her.

Tré song!

Essentially about being a kinky-minded person who enjoys pain for pleasure. Probably written about a fantasy and/or a past experience...

It's about wanting to be someone bitch in my eyes.

not coming of age, so much as just coming to the realization that little, if anything, ever comes out as ideal as we once imagined. the first of many instances where we figure out that there's fuckall we can do about certain things in life, so fuck it, let's get high and just write it off. a true "oh shit" moment in life.

Literally, it's about Billie Joe's wife, and how he felt about her.

In a general sense, it's just when your love for someone drives you up the wall, but you just can't muster up the courage to tell them, or if you just can't get through to them how you feel.

About Billie's love for his then-girlfriend now-wife Adrienne. Title comes from her nickname Adie, which sounds like 80.

Now THIS is a love song! Billie Joe wrote this song for his wife, Adrienne. Billie is expressing he has strong feelings for her. The title is actually derived from Adrienne's nickname.

80 was written about Billie Joe's wife, Adrienne, before they were married. Her nickname is Adie, which sounds like the number 80. Billie Joe loves Adrienne a lot, and longs to be with her. He is to the point where he's going to go mentally insane if he can't have her. He claims he can't trust himself anymore, and is afraid he'll hurt himself.

this song is about watching people and wondering how you're gonna be when your older

I think its about kids seeing adults acting stupid and fake ("hey old man in womans shoes,i wonder if he knows i think he's crazy") and wondering if they'll end up like that ("when he was young did he have dreams of wearing womans shoes and bein crazy"). Also its about wondering if you'll even make it that far in life ("or will i grow that old?will i still be around?the way i carry on I'll end up 6 feet underground,waste away").

I think it's about not wanting to grow up or change. But you see all the people around you excited about growing up so you keep your fear inside and put on a brave face. Or it could possibly be about you not wanting to grow up but your friends do and your actions to prevent growing up ends up hurting your friends.

more heartache about growing up, or rather witnessing your friends moving on and feeling left behind because you still wanna be the young, care free kids that you were...and being a bit intimidated and even scared of whats to come...

Basically, this song is about the character Holden Caulfield from the book The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, one of Billie's favorites.
It describes the personality and attitude of Holden about ending up doing nothing and being hopeless about people, for example: "There's a boy who fogs his world and now he's getting lazy, there's no motivation [...]"
And then "[...]Frustration makes him crazy[...]" is the conclusion to Holden's attitude.
Holden Caulfield is almost always saying things that he considers not important and then he quits an idea that he was really wanting to do, like calling someone on the phone.
There are so many things on the book related to the song that it would be hard to list them all in here, so I just added some examples.
Im conclusion, if you read the book and then listen to this song, it's is 100% sure that you will end up saying: "This song is so true" "Yeah, that is Holden" etc.

the theme song for any anxiety-riden, self concious, self analytical, self destructive soul who wants to take on the world, but is too chicken-shit to take a step forward.

This song is about losing someone and trying to think of everything you could have done differently to avoid losing them - especially things you said that you wish you could take back.

to me, this song is about being nervous around the person you like, and you're all geared up to say something to them but when you come face to face with them you can't speak, like you "ate" your words

this is a song that mike and billie wrote together. (it was their original band name) its about how bad kids always get blamed for things.

This song is about how innocent kids may seem, but how they always get blamed for everything.

This song seems to be about someone who had a girlfriend who broke up with him, and he really resents her after a while of being away from each other.

This song is about how "good" kids can get away with anything while the "bad" kids are blamed.

This song is about people (namely children) who have the good reputation and can get away with causing trouble because they're the "Sweet" favorite children.

To me this song has a double meaning. one is of acid and getting high, and the other is of a girl that Billie likes. Or possibly getting high with the girl he likes. The phrase, "come with me and lets go for a ride" I interpret as him talking to the girl saying do you want to get high with me? Then he says, "follow me into the other side" which i think is describing one of the feelings of getting high. Also he says, "seeing colors and all i hear are sounds," another thing i associate with getting high. But then again he also says, "cause i know that your the best thing in town." I tend to think that he's saying this to the girl.

This song is about a girl in town and shes reffered to the best thing in town and just hanging out with her and having a good time.

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This song talks about the loss of a generation. The hopes about a generation that everyone despises. its a typical song from the 60s and 70s cos' its the dawn of the punk movement with the famous saying "no future".

This is a cover of The Who.