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.
Totally agreed. I took it to be meth instead of coke, because of the mention of crosstops and being "spun out." But yeah the part about his face being numb got me thinking about cocaine.
Totally agreed. I took it to be meth instead of coke, because of the mention of crosstops and being "spun out." But yeah the part about his face being numb got me thinking about cocaine.
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.
Totally agreed. I took it to be meth instead of coke, because of the mention of crosstops and being "spun out." But yeah the part about his face being numb got me thinking about cocaine.
Totally agreed. I took it to be meth instead of coke, because of the mention of crosstops and being "spun out." But yeah the part about his face being numb got me thinking about cocaine.
yea completely agree fits the description of coke more than anything in my experience
yea completely agree fits the description of coke more than anything in my experience