Words I Might Have Ate by Green Day (Kerplunk)

Released On

Kerplunk 17 DEC 1991

Words By Billie Joe Armstrong

Music By Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tré Cool

Recorded At Art Of Ears

Producer Andy Ernst, Green Day

Live Performances 12

First Played 1990-10-26

Last Played 2010-06-29

Performances By Year

Staple (80-100%)

Regular (50-79%)

Sporadic (20-49%)

Rare (1-19%)

Inactive (0%)

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Doubtful

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(Calculated from the last 100 shows)

Song Notes

Words I Might Have Ate was about Nina. She broke my heart. I was a shitty boyfriend. Hahahaha!

The "school grounds" was a school [we] hung out at and [smoked] weed and [made] out and stuff. Oh to be young...
Billie Joe Armstrong (Twitter)

Lyrics

Now it seems 
I can't keep my mind above you
My brain drifts back to better days we've been through
Like sitting on blacktops of the school grounds
The love I bitched about, I finally had found

But now it's gone and I take the blame
But there's nothing I can do but take the pain
Why?

Now I dwell 
On what you remind me of
A sweet young girl who sacrificed her love
As for me, I am blind without a cause
And now I realized what I have lost

It was something real 
That I could've had
Now I play the fool whose stable soul's gone bad
Why?

Tell me what the words I might have said
That's pumping pressure deep inside my head
Was it bad enough to be too late
Just tell me the words I might have ate
The words I might have ate
The words I might have ate

But now it's gone 
And I take the blame
But there's nothing I can do but take the pain
Why?

Why? Why?
Why? Oh why?
Why? Why?