Murder City
Released On
Billie Joe Armstrong
Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tré Cool
Studio 880
Ocean Way Recording
Costa Mesa Studios
Jet Studios
Ocean Way Recording
Costa Mesa Studios
Jet Studios
Butch Vig, Green Day
63
2009-04-07
2025-06-15
Staple (80-100%)
Regular (50-79%)
Sporadic (20-49%)
Rare (1-19%)
Inactive (0%)
Performance Probability
1%
Odds of being played at the next showRare
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Song Notes
This was the last song written for the record. Me, Mike and Tre were in downtown Oakland and we went out to have drinks. It was right after these demonstrations happened. This kid was shot by a cop. While handcuffed. We were walking in, "I’m wide awake after the riot". We weren’t there for the riot, but it was right after. So it was kind of like picturesque and you see these sort of blowing newspapers around and I remember it being particularly windy that night. And you kinda felt like there was a, I don’t know, like a ghost or something like that. But we were out, we were out just getting fucked up, we were getting hammered, so it was this kind of strange contradiction going on, you know. That song gets stuck in my head more than the other songs do.
Billie Joe Armstrong (Blunt Magazine)
This was the last song written for the record. Me, Mike and Tre were in downtown Oakland and we went out to have drinks. It was right after these demonstrations happened. This kid was shot by a cop. While handcuffed. We were walking in, "I’m wide awake after the riot". We weren’t there for the riot, but it was right after. So it was kind of like picturesque and you see these sort of blowing newspapers around and I remember it being particularly windy that night. And you kinda felt like there was a, I don’t know, like a ghost or something like that. But we were out, we were out just getting fucked up, we were getting hammered, so it was this kind of strange contradiction going on, you know. That song gets stuck in my head more than the other songs do.
Billie Joe Armstrong (Blunt Magazine)
Lyrics
Desperate but not hopeless
I feel so useless in the murder city
Desperate but not helpless
The clock strikes midnight in the murder city
I'm wide awake after the riots
This demonstration of our anguish
This empty laughter has no reason
Like a bottle of your favourite poison
We are the last call and we're so pathetic
Desperate but not hopeless
I feel so useless in the murder city
Desperate but not helpless
The clock strikes midnight in the murder city
Christian's crying in the bathroom
And I just want to bum a cigarette
We've come so far, we've been so wasted
It's written all over our faces
We are the last call and we're so pathetic
Desperate but not hopeless
I feel so useless in the murder city
Desperate but not helpless
The clock strikes midnight in the murder city
Desperate but not hopeless
I feel so useless in the murder city
Desperate but not helpless
The clock strikes midnight in the...