“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?