1. 2000 Light Years Away
  2. One for the Razorbacks
  3. Welcome to Paradise
  4. Christie Road
  5. Private Ale
  6. Dominated Love Slave
  7. One of My Lies
  8. 80
  9. Android
  10. No One Knows
  11. Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?
  12. Words I Might Have Ate
  13. Sweet Children
  14. Best Thing in Town
  15. Strangeland
  16. My Generation
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Kerplunk! (album cover)
Lookout Records
Recorded in May + September (Mostly), 1991 at Art of Ears Studio San, Francisco
Produced by: Andy Ernst and Green Day
Tracks 13-16 originally appeared on SKENE! Records No. 10,7"ep.
All Lyrics By Billie Joe except "Dominated Love Slave" by Tre
� 1992 Green Daze music, ASCAP *except* "My Generation" by the Who written by Pete Townsend
Drums on tracks 13-16 by Al Sobante



2000 Light Years Away
I sit alone in my bed room
Staring at the walls
I've been up all damn night long
My pulse is speeding
My love is yearning

I hold my breathe and close my eyes and dream about her
Cause she's 2000 light years away
She holds my malakite so tight so�
Never let go
Cause she's 2000 light years away

I sit outside and watch the sunrise
Lookout as far as I can
I can't see her, but in the distance
I hear some laughter,
We laugh together
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One for the Razorbacks
Juliet's trying to find out what she wants, but she don't know
Experience has got her down
Look this direction. I know its not perfection, it's just me�
I want to bring you up again now

I'm losing what's left of my dignity
A small price I'll pay to see that you're happy
Forget all the disappointments you have faced
Open up you worried world and let me in

Juliet's crying cause she's realizing love can be
Filled with pain and distrust
I know I am crazy, and a bit lazy
But I will try to bring you up again now.
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Welcome to Paradise
Pay attention to the cracked streets and broken homes
Some call it slums some call it nice
I want to take you through a wasteland I like to call my home
Welcome to Paradise

A gunshot rings out at the station
Another urchin snaps and left dead on his own
It makes me wonder why
I'm still here
For some strange reason it's still now feeling like my home
I'm never gonna go

Dear mother
Can you hear me laughin'
It's been six whole months since I have left your home
It makes me wonder why
I'm still here
For some strange reason it's still now feeling like my home
I'm never gonna go

Dear mother,
Can you hear me whinin'
It's been three whole weeks
Since I have left your home
The sudden fear has left me tremblin'
Cause now It seems I am out here on my own
And I'm feeling so alone
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Christie Road
Staring out of my window
Watching the cars go rolling by
My friends are gone
I've got nothing to do
So I sit here patiently
Watching the clock tick slowly
Gotta get away
Or my brains will explode

Give me something to do to kill some time
Take me to that place that call home
Take away the strains of being lonely
Take me to the tracks at Christie Road.

See the hills from afar
Standing on my beat up car
The sun went down and the night fills the sky
Now I fell like me once again
As the train comes rolling in
Smoked my boredom gone
Slapped my brains up so high

Mother stay out of my way of that place we go
We'll always seems to find our way to Christie Road.

If there's one thing that I need
That makes me feel complete
So I go to Christie Road
It's home�

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Private Ale
I wonder down these streets all by myself
Think of my future now
I just don't know
I don't seem to care
I stop to notice that
I'm by your home
I wonder if your sitting all alone
Or is your boyfriend there

Because I feel so right
Let my imagination go
Until you're in my sight
And through my veins temptation flows

So I sit down here on the hard concrete
Think of my future how
I just don't know
I don't seem to care
So I sit across the street from your home
I wonder if you're sitting all alone
Or is your boyfriend there
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Dominated Love Slave
I want to be your dominated love slave
I want to be the one that takes pain
You can spank me when I do not behave
Smack me in the forehead with a chain

Cause I love feelin' dirty
And I love feelin' cheap
And I love it when you hurt me
So drive those staples deep

I want you to slap me and call me naughty
Put a belt sander against my skin
I want to feel pain all over my body
Can't wait to be punished for my sins.
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One of My Lies
When I was younger
I thought the world circled around me
But in time I realized I was wrong
My immortal thoughts turned into just dreams of a dead future
It was a tragic case of my reality

Do you think you're indestructable
And no one can touch you
Well I think you're disposable
And it's time you knew the truth
Cause it's just one of my lies!

Why does my life have to be so small?
Yet death is forever
And does forever have a life to call its own?


Don't give me an answer cause you
Only know as much as I know
Unless you've been there once
Well I hardly think so

I used to pray all night
Before I lay myself down
My mother said it was right
Her mother said it too�
Why?
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80
My mental stability reaches its bitter end
And all my sense are coming unglued
Is there any cure for the disease
Someone called love
Not as long as there are girls like you

Everything she does questions my mental health
It makes me loose control
I just can't trust myself

If someone can here me slap some sense in me
But you turn your head and I end up talking to myself
Anxiety has got me strung out and frustrated
So I loose my head or I bang it up against the wall

Sometimes I wonder if I should be left alone
And lock myself up in a padded room
I'd sit and spew my guys out to the open air
No one wants to hear a drunken fool.

I do not mind if this goes on
Cause now it seems I'm too far gone
I must admit I enjoy myself
80 please keep taking me away
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Android
Hey old man in woman's shoes
I wonder if he knows I think he's crazy
When he was young did he have dreams of wearing woman's shoes and being crazy

It makes me wonder when
I grow to be that age
Will I be walking down the street
Begging for your spare change

Or will I grow that old?
Will I still be around?
The way I carry on I'll end up six feet underground
And waste away�

When the old man was in school
Did the golden rule make him crazy
Or did he hide away from hopes
Behind a smiles and smoking dope
It's crazy

It seems so frightening
Time passes by like lightning
Before you know it your struck down
I always waste my time on
My chemical emotions
It keeps my head spinning around
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No One Knows
Why should my fun have to end?
For me it's only the beginning
I see my friends begin to age
A short countdown to what end

Call me irresponsible
Call me habitual
But when you think of me
Do you fill your head with schems
Better think again
Cause no one knows

I don't want to cause no harm
But sometimes my actions hurt
Is there something I should find
To make plans for forever

Does it seem like all your memories fade
You soak up knowledge to fill the space
And still my answer remains�
I don't know
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Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?
A thought burst in my head and I need to tell you
It's news that I for thought
Was it just a dream
That happened long ago?
I think I just forgot
Well it hasn't been the first time
And it sure does drive me mad

There's a boy who fogs his mind and now he's getting lazy
There's no motivation and frustration makes him crazy
He makes a plan to take a stand by always ends up sitting
Someone help him up or he's gonn end up quitting

I shuffle through my mind
To see if I can find
The words I left behind
Was it just a dream
That happened long ago?
Oh well�
Never mind.
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Words I Might Have Ate
Now it seems I can't keep my mind of you
My brain drifts back to better days we've been through
Like sitting on blacktop of the school grounds
The love I bitched about I finally found

But now it's gone and I take the blame
So 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 sacraficed 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 have had
Now I play the fool who's stable soul's gone bed
Why?

Tell me 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.
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