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Basket Case

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Basket Case was released on February 1, 1994 by Reprise as a part of the album Dookie

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OVERVIEW

LYRICS

Music Video

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Billie Joe Armstrong

Billie Joe Armstrong

Lead Vocals

Mike Dirnt

Background Vocals

Tré Cool

Drums

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Billie Joe Armstrong

Billie Joe Armstrong

Composer

Mike Dirnt

Composer

Tré Cool

Composer

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Green Day

Producer

Casey McCrankin

Casey McCrankin

Additional Engineer

Jerry Finn

Mixing Engineer

Rob Cavallo

Producer

Neill King

Recording Engineer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Do you have the time to listen to me whine?

About nothing 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 or am I just stoned?

[Verse 2]

I went to a shrink to analyze my dreams

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

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

So quit my whining 'cause it's bringing 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? Huh, yeah, yeah, yeah

[Chorus]

Oh, oh

[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 or am I just stoned?

Written by: Billie Joe Armstrong, Frank E. Wright III, Michael Ryan Pritchard

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