Troublemaker
Released On
Billie Joe Armstrong
Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tré Cool, Jason White
Jingletown Recording
Rob Cavallo, Green Day
3
2011-08-11
2012-08-16
Staple (80-100%)
Regular (50-79%)
Sporadic (20-49%)
Rare (1-19%)
Inactive (0%)
Performance Probability
0%
Odds of being played at the next showDoubtful
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Song Notes
'Troublemaker' and a song like 'Rusty James' are kind of like a ‘f**k you’ to the old punk scene and the old guard a little bit. There are so many people who get to our age and they become bitter, and maybe their life isn’t going the way that they want it to. That’s what those songs are about. There’s a fine line between being an angry young man and being a bitter old fart, you know?
When you step over that line... I don’t know. I mean, a guy like John Lydon is just caustic and pissed off at the whole world, and doesn’t even really have a true reason for being angry at anything any more. He represented something so strongly – with this new poetry and this new way of thinking, or a new approach to music or things that f**kin’ piss you off about society. Then, to see him turn into this guy who’s not even inspiring any more, I don’t want to end up like that: where you start turning into the antithesis of why you started getting into it to begin with.
Billie Joe Armstrong (Total Guitar)
'Troublemaker' and a song like 'Rusty James' are kind of like a ‘f**k you’ to the old punk scene and the old guard a little bit. There are so many people who get to our age and they become bitter, and maybe their life isn’t going the way that they want it to. That’s what those songs are about. There’s a fine line between being an angry young man and being a bitter old fart, you know?
When you step over that line... I don’t know. I mean, a guy like John Lydon is just caustic and pissed off at the whole world, and doesn’t even really have a true reason for being angry at anything any more. He represented something so strongly – with this new poetry and this new way of thinking, or a new approach to music or things that f**kin’ piss you off about society. Then, to see him turn into this guy who’s not even inspiring any more, I don’t want to end up like that: where you start turning into the antithesis of why you started getting into it to begin with.
Billie Joe Armstrong (Total Guitar)
Lyrics
Yeah! Woo-ooh-ooh!
Hey! You're giving me a heart attack
You're giving me a cardiac arrest when I'm sitting at the traffic light
Hey! I wanna get inside of you
I wanna crack your cranium delirium on the lower east side of your mind
Wanna be a troublemaker
Wanna be a troublemaker
Wanna be a troublemaker
Wanna be a troublemaker
Hey! I like your BMW
I like your BM-excellent tits with a tattoo of a pig sniffin' glue
Hey! You're living at the W
You're looking like a Jezebel, hot as hell, sunburned in a pink bathing suit
Wanna be a troublemaker
Wanna be a troublemaker
Wanna be a troublemaker
Wanna be a troublemaker
Hey!
Woo-ooh-ooh!
Woo-ooh-ooh!
Woo-ooh-ooh!
Yeah!
Easy come and go, gonna go it alone
Knock yourself out with a shot of Patron
I wouldn't say I'm straight, 'cause I'm bent out of shape
From now 'til death do we party, just before it's too late
Hey! Aww, you're giving me a heart attack
You're giving me a cardiac arrest when I'm sitting at the traffic light
Hey! Woo-ooh-ooh!
Hey! Woo-ooh-ooh!
Hey! Woo-ooh-ooh!
Hey! Woo-ooh-ooh!
