Brutal Love
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Billie Joe Armstrong
Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tré Cool, Jason White, Sam Cooke
Jingletown Recording
Rob Cavallo, Green Day
47
2013-03-13
2014-03-03
Staple (80-100%)
Regular (50-79%)
Sporadic (20-49%)
Rare (1-19%)
Inactive (0%)
Performance Probability
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Song Notes
In the past, whenever we did horns or strings, the person who was doing the orchestration had to fit the arrangement inside the melody and all the guitars and try to get it heard. But this time I talked to Tom Kitt, who did the all the arrangements, and I said, ‘I’m gonna leave it wide open so you can do whatever you want.’ So he wrote all the arrangements to just a bare-bones vocal and guitar track. That let him build that tension on ‘Brutal Love’ and give it that Otis Redding kind of feel.
Billie Joe Armstrong (Guitar World)
In the past, whenever we did horns or strings, the person who was doing the orchestration had to fit the arrangement inside the melody and all the guitars and try to get it heard. But this time I talked to Tom Kitt, who did the all the arrangements, and I said, ‘I’m gonna leave it wide open so you can do whatever you want.’ So he wrote all the arrangements to just a bare-bones vocal and guitar track. That let him build that tension on ‘Brutal Love’ and give it that Otis Redding kind of feel.
Billie Joe Armstrong (Guitar World)
Lyrics
Turn out the lights
Close your eyes
Turn up the silence
The heartache of your life
Dance forever
Under the lights
This brutal love
Oh how you want it
You're begging for it
But you can't have it
Even if you try
It's in the clutches
In the hands of
This brutal love
Old toys
This plastic heart
Loners and fools
Are tearing me apart
Here comes trouble
The uninvited
This brutal love
Danger
Not quite at home
The eyes of temptation
The flesh on my bones
Hello stranger
I'm a disaster
This brutal love
Bad luck
Bitters and soda
Anguish and shame
The modern fool
Bad sex
Buy me a train wreck
Something for my troubled mind
Bad luck
Bitters and soda
Anguish and shame
The modern fool
Bad love
Kiss me I'm loaded
Something for my troubled mind
Drop out
Drop dead hideous
How low is this brutal love?
Drop out
Drop dead hideous
How low is this brutal love?
Drop out
Drop dead hideous
How low is this brutal love?
Drop out
Drop dead hideous
How low is this brutal love?
This brutal love
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Brutal Love
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