Dookie

BURNOUT
A song about doing drugs.
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This song is about apathy and not caring what happens to you.
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This song is about someone who has been put through a lot of shit and finally can't take anymore.
HAVING A BLAST
This song is about terrorism.
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Having everything in your life go wrong and then you just stop caring and what once meant someting now means nothing.
CHUMP
This song was written for the boyfriend of this girl that Billie Joe likes. He never even met the guy.
LONGVIEW
This song is about being bored and pretty much hating life because it's the same thing every day with nothing to do. "It's about boredom and masturbation and smoking dope." - Billie Joe
WELCOME TO PARADISE
This song was how it was like living in a house in Berkely with Mike and other members of the punk community. (also appears on Kerplunk!) "It's about West Oakland, living in a warehouse with a lot of people, a bunch of artists and musicians, punks and whatever just lived all up and down, bums and junkies and thugs and gang members and stuff that just lived in that area. It's no place you want to walk around at night, but it's a neat warehouse whee you can play basketball and stuff." - Billie Joe
PULLING TEETH
Billie Joe wrote this song about the time Mike and Anastasia (Mike's ex wife) were having a pillow fight and Mike accidentally broke both his arms. Billie and Mike laughed him all the way to the hospital. I also heard they took the song title from Metallica's song "Anasthesia Pulling Teeth".
BASKETCASE
Self explanitory, this song is about someone who is pananiod. Billie Joe suffers from panic disorder too, so that has some contribution to the song. "The only way I knew how to deal with it was to write a song about it." - Billie Joe
SHE
This song is about a girl and trying to find out who she really is. She wants to be herself but her parents and society don't let her be that person.
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This letter was a response to a letter Billie recieved from an ex-girlfriend.
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About Billie taking critism from his girlfriend.
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Based on a peom a girl gave Billie.
SASSAFRASS ROOTS
Sassafrass Roots is about being in a relationship that neither person really wants to be in and so you're both pretty much wasting your time.
WHEN I COME AROUND
This is a love sick song, when you take some space during an argument to calm down.
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Whoever has a reputation, good or bad, you'll know where they'll be, no matter what.
COMING CLEAN
This song is about somebody coming out of the closet for the first time. Billie talking about how he might be bi-sexual.
EMENIUS SLEEPUS
This song is about somebody you haven't seen in a long time and when you do see that person, he or she has completely changed. Mike wrote this song.
IN THE END
"That song is about my mother's husband, it's not really about a girl, or like anyone directly related to me in a relationship. In the End's about my mother." - Billie Joe
F.O.D. ( FUCK OFF & DIE )
This song is about hating someone who backstabbed him.
ALL BY MYSELF
Written and sung by Tre Cool, this song is about being loneliness and masturbation.