409 In Your Coffeemaker
Released On
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Basket Case (single) [1994] -
7" Vinyl Singles Box [2009] -
Billie Joe Armstrong
Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tré Cool
Art Of Ears
Andy Ernst, Green Day
48
1990-03-25
2016-10-08
Staple (80-100%)
Regular (50-79%)
Sporadic (20-49%)
Rare (1-19%)
Inactive (0%)
Performance Probability
0%
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Song Notes
John [Kiffmeyer] used to name some of our songs. Like 409 In Your Coffeemaker.
409 was a song about dropping out of school. I remember thinking I hit a new level of honesty with that song. Maybe even a sense of freedom.
Sometimes I wish 409 and Paper Lanterns [were] on Kerplunk. Slappy was a good era but Tre plays the shit out of those songs. Those 2 songs were written at the same time.
Billie Joe Armstrong (Twitter)
I’d just dropped out of high school, and I was feeling really lost — like a daydreamer who was being left behind. I didn’t know what life was going to be. I think that’s when I’m at my most honest as a songwriter, when I’m feeling lost. So I took this sad feeling and turned it into something that felt more empowering: “My interests are longing to break through these chains/These chains that control my future’s aims.” My songs were about infatuation up until that point. This one felt like a different version of who I am. I remember when we first started playing it, people were really receptive to it, especially the punks that were on the scene at the time. We had put out our first album and an EP, but this is where I felt like I had really found my rhythm as a songwriter. I was 18 years old.
Billie Joe Armstrong (Rolling Stone)
John [Kiffmeyer] used to name some of our songs. Like 409 In Your Coffeemaker.
409 was a song about dropping out of school. I remember thinking I hit a new level of honesty with that song. Maybe even a sense of freedom.
Sometimes I wish 409 and Paper Lanterns [were] on Kerplunk. Slappy was a good era but Tre plays the shit out of those songs. Those 2 songs were written at the same time.
Billie Joe Armstrong (Twitter)
I’d just dropped out of high school, and I was feeling really lost — like a daydreamer who was being left behind. I didn’t know what life was going to be. I think that’s when I’m at my most honest as a songwriter, when I’m feeling lost. So I took this sad feeling and turned it into something that felt more empowering: “My interests are longing to break through these chains/These chains that control my future’s aims.” My songs were about infatuation up until that point. This one felt like a different version of who I am. I remember when we first started playing it, people were really receptive to it, especially the punks that were on the scene at the time. We had put out our first album and an EP, but this is where I felt like I had really found my rhythm as a songwriter. I was 18 years old.
Billie Joe Armstrong (Rolling Stone)
Lyrics
I sit in the state of a daydream
With all of your words flying over my head
Even more time gets wasted
In a daze
It should seem obvious to you
Your screams and cries are never going to work
And all of your time gets wasted
In my daze
And I'm looking back now
At where I have gone wrong
And why I could not seem to get along
My interests are longing
To break through these chains
These chains that control
My future's aims, oh no
I sit in the state of a daydream
With all of your words flying over my head
Even more time gets wasted
In a daze
Maybe I'm just too damn lazy
Or maybe I was just brainwashed to think that way
And all of your time gets wasted
In my daze
And I'm looking back now
At where I have gone wrong
And why I could not seem to get along
My interests are longing
To break through these chains
These chains that control
My future's aims, oh no
I'm looking
Back now at
Where I have
Have gone wrong
And why I
Could not seem
Could not seem
To get along
And I'm looking back now
At where I have gone wrong
And why I could not seem to get along
My interests are longing
To break through these chains
These chains that control
My future's aims, oh no