DOOKIE SONG MEANINGS: If you have any ideas what the song means please tell me and I will add them :) Burnout: This song has said to have 3 different meanings: A song about doing drugs About apathy and not caring about what happens to you. About somebody who has had to cope with a lot of shit and cannot cope any longer. Having A Blast: either about terrorism, or/and when everything in your life suddenly goes wrong, and then you just stop caring and what your life once meant now means nothing… blast could be symbolising throwing your life away. Chump: This song is about the boyfriend of a girl that Billie Joe liked, he never even met the guy but he decided he hated him and wrote this song about him. Longview: (this song also appears on international superhits) "It is about boredom, masturbation and smoking dope" -Billie Joe also apparently, Billie Wrote this song while sleeping in the Berkeley Punk House with Mike.. (they did NOT sleep together for you lot with the warped homosexual minds) Welcome to Paradise: It's about West Oakland, living in a warehouse with a lot of people, a bunch of artists and musicians, punks and whatever just lived all up and down, bums and junkies and thugs and gang members and stuff that just lived in that area. It's no place you want to walk around at night, but it's a neat warehouse where you can play basketball and stuff." - Billie Joe this song also appears on Kerplunk and International Superhits, and the warehouse was the "Berkeley punk house" as referred to in Longview's meaning. Pulling teeth: This is about when Mike and his wife at the time, Anastasia, were having a pillow fight, Mike fell back, hit his arms against a beam and accidentally broke both his arms,   Billie and Mike laughed him all the way to hospital and Billie wrote this song about it, apparently the title "pulling teeth" is from Metallica's "anasthesia pulling teeth" Basketcase: This song is probably one of Green Day's most famous songs, if you've heard of green day you know basket case or good riddance (time of your life) which are the two songs which make dookie so famous. The song is about someone who is paranoid, Both Mike and Billie Joe suffer/suffered from Panic attacks and Billie Joe said: "the only way I knew how to deal with it, was to write about it". She: this song has thought to have 4 different meanings: 1) a girl trying to be herself, and find out whom she really is, but her parents and society don't let her find out and be that person. 2) This was a response to a letter Billie Joe received from a ex-girlfriend (she's probably kicking herself that she let Billie Joe seeing as he's so successful) 3) About Billie taking criticism from his girlfriend. 4) Based on a poem that a girl once gave Billie. Sassafrass Roots: this is about being in a relationship where neither person really wants to be in anymore, so it seems that your both wasting your time. Most probably about a relationship Mike was in during his past… When I come Around: this is either about being love sick, when you need to take some space from each other during a argument to calm down or it is about whoever has a reputation, good or bad, you'll always know where they'll be, no matter what. Coming Clean: this is supposedly when Billie Joe came "out his closet" for the first time and talking about how he might be bi-sexual. Emenius Sleepius: this song is about somebody whom you haven't seen in a long time and how he or she has completely changed. In the End: a lot of bands seems to have a song called in the end, Green Day, Linkin Park etc etc.. each one has a different meaning, this one has been thought to have two… 1) about a girl whom is only concerned about image, and Billie didn't want to be there when she changed her views. 2) probably about Billie Joe's mom's boyfriend. F.O.D (fuck off and die): pretty simple explanation: about someone who backstabbed him, and he wants him to just fuck off and die. All By Myself: another song written by Tré, about masterbation and loneliness, this song was not recorded in a studio, but in a house when they were all stoned.