2000 Light Years Away
Released On
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The Jerky Boys (soundtrack) [1995] -
7" Vinyl Singles Box [2009] -
God's Favorite Band [2017] -
Welcome To My Panic [2021]
Billie Joe Armstrong
Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tré Cool, Jesse Michaels, Rippinz, Dave E.C.
Art Of Ears
Andy Ernst, Green Day
550
1991-10-04
2025-07-02
Staple (80-100%)
Regular (50-79%)
Sporadic (20-49%)
Rare (1-19%)
Inactive (0%)
Performance Probability
4%
Odds of being played at the next showRare
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Song Notes
The first tour that Green Day ever went on, I met my wife, Adrienne, at a house party in Minneapolis. She asked for an address because we had run out of our vinyl. Then we started corresponding and kind of became pen pals, and having these long talks, running up phone bills.
Then Green Day booked this mini-tour. We drove from California all the way out to Minnesota. Nobody really knew why we were driving all the way to Wisconsin and Minnesota to just play, like, four shows, but I was really just going back to see her. On the way back, I wrote “2000 Light Years Away.” The song just wrote itself. I put it down on an acoustic guitar and sent her a cassette of it. When you write a song for a person that you’re falling for, you don’t know what the response is going to be. The last thing you want is for someone to go, “Oh, you’re a stalker!” But it’s been a staple in our set ever since, and it led into many, many, many songs I’ve been writing about her for the next almost 30 years.
Billie Joe Armstrong (Rolling Stone)
The first tour that Green Day ever went on, I met my wife, Adrienne, at a house party in Minneapolis. She asked for an address because we had run out of our vinyl. Then we started corresponding and kind of became pen pals, and having these long talks, running up phone bills.
Then Green Day booked this mini-tour. We drove from California all the way out to Minnesota. Nobody really knew why we were driving all the way to Wisconsin and Minnesota to just play, like, four shows, but I was really just going back to see her. On the way back, I wrote “2000 Light Years Away.” The song just wrote itself. I put it down on an acoustic guitar and sent her a cassette of it. When you write a song for a person that you’re falling for, you don’t know what the response is going to be. The last thing you want is for someone to go, “Oh, you’re a stalker!” But it’s been a staple in our set ever since, and it led into many, many, many songs I’ve been writing about her for the next almost 30 years.
Billie Joe Armstrong (Rolling Stone)
Lyrics
I sit alone in my bedroom
Staring at the walls
I've been up all damn night long
My pulse is speeding, my love is yearning
I hold my breath and close my eyes and
Dream about her
'Cause she's 2000 light years away
She holds my malachite so tight, so
Never let go
'Cause she's 2000 light years away
Years away!
I sit outside and watch the sunrise
Lookout as far as I can
I can't see her, but in the distance
I hear some laughter, we laugh together
I hold my breath and close my eyes and
Dream about her
'Cause she's 2000 light years away
She holds my malachite so tight, so
Never let go
'Cause she's 2000 light years away
Years away!
I sit alone in my bedroom
Staring at the walls
I've been up all damn night long
My pulse is speeding, my love is yearning
I hold my breath and close my eyes and
Dream about her
'Cause she's 2000 light years away
She holds my malachite so tight, oh
Never let go
'Cause she's 2000 light years away
Years away!
