"Basket Case" menjadi salah satu single dari album ketiga Green Day "Dookie", yang dirilis pada tahun yang sama.
Lagu ciptaan personel Green Day Billie Joe Armstrong (vokal) bersama Mike Dirnt (gitar), dan Tré Cool (drum) itu mengisahkan tentang tantangan yang dihadapi oleh penderita masalah kesehatan mental saat berinteraksi dengan orang-orang di sekitarnya.
Armstrong mendapat inspirasi dari kisahnya masa kecilnya sendiri, ketika dia sering mendapat serangan panik.
Lirik lagu Green Day "Basket Case"
[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?
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