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Dilemma
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Welcome to my problems! The thing I like about Green Day’s ‘Dilemma’ is that it’s Dookie but for later problems. With themes of relapsing into drink and drugs, this track has a full-bodied sound and jumping rhythm.
There are two weeks left until the album comes out and there have been four singles to date, so we kinda know what to expect at this stage. ‘The American Dream is Killing Me’ provided a punchy anti-anthem, ‘Look Ma, No Brains’ left the gates with pace, like an old Dickies track, and ‘One Eyed Bastard’ is an electrified nod to Warning.
With ‘Dilemma’, there’s an old rock and roll chassis beneath the punked-out body of the track. It proceeds at a steady (for Green Day) and precise 121 beats a minute.
The song talks about alcohol and drug abuse, as Billie Joe explains:
Dilemma was one of those songs that was kind of easy to write because it was so personal to me. We’ve seen so many of our peers struggle with addiction and mental illness. This song is all about the pain that comes from those experiences. As the track winds down, memories start to gain some colour as Billie gets hit with the cold hard sober truth: Drunk Billie made a mess of everything.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Green Day’s fourteenth studio album, Saviours, is out on the 19th of January.
Dilemma Video
Dilemma Lyrics
Welcome to my problems
It’s not an invitation
This is my dilemma
And it’s my obsessionI was sober now I’m drunk again
I’m in trouble and in love again
I don’t want to be a dead man walking
I don’t want to be a dead man walkingWelcome to my nightmare
Where dreams go to disappear
Sit around in rehab
Feeling like a lab ratStrange days are here again
And it’s getting weirder
Here’s to all my problems
I just want to drink the poisonI was sober now I’m drunk again
I’m in trouble and in love again
I don’t want to be a dead man walking
I don’t want to be a dead man walkingI was sober now I’m drunk again
I’m in trouble and in love again
I don’t want to be a dead man walking
I don’t want to be a dead man walkingOh, why
When I fall asleep tonight
On the wing
and prayer
Oh, why
For despair and obsession on you
You, yeahI was sober now I’m drunk again
I’m in trouble and in love again
I don’t want to be a dead man walking
I don’t want to be a dead man walkingI was sober now I’m drunk again
I’m in trouble and in love again
I don’t want to be a dead man walking
I don’t want to be a dead man walking
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