Brain Stew

I think this song is the anthem for frying your brain with drugs, specifically methamphetamine since I know that was a habit the Green Day members had around the time Insomniac was made. Although with my own experiences with cocaine binging this song completely describes the after affects to me, even down to the prolonged speech in the verses and guitar riffs.

You want to sleep after heavy use of drugs, and you feel worn down but after you take a lot of stimulants you cannot sleep no matter how hard you try and you would must definitely do something like count sheep at times just sitting there wishing the after affects of the drugs you took were done and over with lying in bed in self induced agony. If you had more you would take them but you don't so on top of dealing with the come down you're now dealing with fiending out for more drugs.

Your eyes have been wide open for so long from being up for so long that repercussions from that are setting in (exaggerated bleeding). Your mouth is dry because you get dehydrated frequently on stimulants, and especially if you snort your drugs your face will go numb but even if you don't it will. Your just tripping out all by your lonesome in your room, trying to get through it by yourself.

Your body is tired but your mind and thoughts are moving at a fast pace that you can't keep up with, as time keeps passing and your still just as fucked up. As far as your body chemistry goes your altering many things so a crooked spine from drugs happens and your senses will either be dulled or heightened. Now you're on the verge of complete irrational thinking, along the lines of a legitimate crazy person because of the drugs and insomnia from not being able to sleep.

Also "here we go" tells me this is a reoccurring theme in the subject of this songs life, he's prepared for it and knows whats coming but at the same time it sucks but the short high is always worth it to him for the long come down and after affects.

I completely agree with Methany!! I downloaded this song while doing methamphetamines and it described EXACTLY how I felt! I mean, c'mon, anyone that has ever done any type of sp33d would know that this song is definitely talking about the effects of it. Geez, 'fucked up and SPUN out in my room'...HELLO PEOPLE! Some people just need to feel the effects and THEN listen to this song while on them. Nuff Sed.

man i can relate to this song......i dont think i've slept once in the past month.

i always woundered who sung that.. sweetness

Uppers in general. For anyone who has ever experianced A binge on any stimulant ( Blow, E, Meth, or Adderal) this song explains it's self.Just insomnia alone would probably not derive lyrics such as "My eyes feel like they're gunna bleed. Dried up and bulging out my skull. Mouth is dry, face is numb. Fucked up and SPUN out in my room"

I know Green Day has come out and said that this song is about Insomnia when Billie had his son. But I am willing to bet his publicist or manager or someone important at the time told him he should say something like that to keep a somewhat clean image as they climbed to fame. But let's face it people, anyone who has done coke or speed or any type of upper for an extended period really knows what this is about. Maybe he was writing this about a previous time in his life when he was using or whatever, but this isnt about insomnia. You dont use lyrics like "my face is numb" and "my body's spun" to describe not being able to sleep. This song is about laying in bed at 2 or 3am after you've done your last line of an 8ball of coke and your "mind's on overdrive" thinking about the hundred things you think you have to get done or want to do, with a numb face from the coke and you watch the hours tick by on your alarm clock because you have no chance of sleeping. Your eyes are huge and you have a sort of dull feeling to everything around you, especially if you get no sleep and go to work the next day. Every lyric points directly to an upper high, and a terrible comedown.

A lot of drugs prevent you from sleeping. Psychedelics and stimulants keep you up, even weed interrupts later stages of sleep. This song is just about being fried.

I love the guitar riff, it just sounds like taking a chainsaw to your mind. It's almost too accurate.

When I was in a DV relationship, esp after leaving I developed PTSD. My pregnancy survived for the first time in years, bc I decided to stay gone. I ended up with PTSD and PPD. Talk about sleep deprivation. I would take high dosages of Ambient and still end up hallucinating from them, instead of falling asleep. When I laid my head down to sleep it felt like I was on the World's Largest Roller Coaster. I used to listen to this song during those difficult times. I can't believe I am where I am today, and not lying in a cemetery instead. There were days I didn't think I could keep going, but I kept going. I guess for most ppl it's drug relatable, but I'm not sure our heads were in better places.

No, this song is about insomnia.... Billie wrote it when his son kept him awake at night.

Ive had the guitar beat part thing stuck in my head for weeks and i never knew that it was by Green Day...In my opinion....Dookie is the best album ever..The new stuff it shit.