Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) by Green Day

Artist: Green Day

Genre: Pop

Length: 2:33

Released: 1997

Vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong wrote “Good Riddance” after a break-up with a girlfriend who moved to Ecuador. Billie Joe said in Guitar World, “In the song, I tried to be level-headed about her leaving, even though I was completely pissed off. So I named it ‘Good Riddance’ just to express my anger." (Source 2) Just as Armstrong ‘pounded a beer backstage to get up the courage’ before premiering the song to a New Jersey audience, the narrator uses the pretense of sarcasm to hide ...

Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) lyrics

Another turning point
A fork stuck in the road
Time grabs you by the wrist
Directs you where to go
So make the best of this test
And don't ask why
It's not a question
But a lesson learned in time
It's something unpredictable
But in the end it's right
I hope you had the time of your life
So take the photographs
And still frames in your mind
Hang it on a shelf
In good health and good time
Tattoos of memories
And dead skin on trial
For what it's worth
It was worth all the while
It's something unpredictable
But in the end it's right
I hope you had the time of your life
It's something unpredictable
But in the end it's right
I hope you had the time of your life
It's something unpredictable
But in the end it's right
I hope you had the time of your life

More songs by Green Day