I Was There Lyrics

Lyric discussion by DookieRookie 

Cover art for I Was There lyrics by Green Day

I'm not exactly blown away by 1039, but I love this song. To pieces.

Let's just put aside the artistic semantics for one moment; this song oozes with that energy they had in their early days. It's almost a child-like energy, whereas American Idiot for example has a more mature, political energy to it. But whenever I listen to their older stuff, particularly their thoughts on the past and future (Android comes to mind), I can just imagine BJA and MD rocking it as a couple of tearaway teens in some dingy backstreet location.

Oh, to be nostalgic.