“Basket Case” spent five weeks at the top of the Modern Rock Tracks chart, becoming arguably Green Day’s signature song of the pre-American Idiot days.

It’s about Billie Joe Armstrong’s struggles with… Read More [Verse 1]

Do you have the time to listen to me whine

About nothin' and everything all at once?

I am one of those melodramatic fools

Neurotic to the bone, no doubt about it

[Chorus]

Sometimes, I give myself the creeps

Sometimes, my mind plays tricks on me

It all keeps adding up

I think I'm cracking up

Am I just paranoid?

Am I just stoned?

[Verse 2]

I went to a shrink to analyze my dreams

She says it's lack of sex that's bringin' me down

I went to a whore, he said my life's a bore

So quit my whinin' 'cause it's bringin' her down

[Chorus]

Sometimes, I give myself the creeps

Sometimes, my mind plays tricks on me

It all keeps adding up

I think I'm cracking up

Am I just paranoid?

Uh-yuh-yuh-yuh

(Ooh, ooh)

[Bridge]

Grasping to control

So I better hold on

[Chorus]

Sometimes, I give myself the creeps

Sometimes, my mind plays tricks on me

It all keeps adding up

I think I'm cracking up

Am I just paranoid?

Am I just stoned?