Christie Road

Album: Kerplunk! (1992)
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  • Staring out of my window watching the cars go rolling by
    My friends are gone I've got nothing to do
    So I sit here patiently watching the clock tick so slowly
    Gotta get away or my brains will explode

    Give me something to do to kill some time
    Take me to that place that I call home
    Take away the strains of being lonely
    Take me to the tracks at Christie Road

    See the hills from afar standing on my beat up car
    The sun went down and the night fills the sky
    Now I feel like me once again as the train comes rolling in
    Smoked my boredom gone, slapped my brains up so high

    Give me something to do to kill some time
    Take me to that place that I call home
    Take away the strains of being lonely
    Take me to the tracks at Christie Road

    Mother, stay out of my way of that place we go
    We'll always seem to find our way to Christie Road
    Mother, stay out of my way of that place we go
    We'll always seem to find our way to Christie Road

    If there is one thing that I need that makes me feel complete
    So I go to Christie Road, it's home, it's home
    It's home, it's home, it's home Writer/s: BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG, FRANK E., III WRIGHT, FRANK EDWIN WRIGHT III, MICHAEL PRITCHARD, MIKE DIRNT, MIKE RYAN PRITCHARD, TRE COOL
    Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 13

  • Kaitlyn from Somewhere On The Space Time Continuum i thought this was a suicide song
  • Amber from Indianapolis, Inhow can u not like Tre's songs!? yes hes a perv but thats what makes them funny... i love tre songs.. they brighten my day.. and tre is just a big of part of green day as Billie and Mike, so to say you hate Tre is like saying just anyone could replace him (which theoretically is true but Green Day would also lose a lot of fans to anything after him).. but anyway this isnt so much about tre.. I love this song :] ive heard it like 5 times today off my ipod cause it keeps shuffling to it and it makes me full of energy :D idk if i would ever choose just one favorite album, but Kerplunk is def. in the top for me.. i love every song on there, especially Who Wrote Holden Caulfield :]
  • Maddi from Buena Park, Cai dont have a fav. cd or song of green day, cause i LOVE everything that they make!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the only songs i dont like are the ones made by tre. he is a perv in my mind. i just HATE him so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!


    but i absolutely LOVE billie! billie and mike are BOTH HOTT!!!!!




    p.s. do u guys think that tre has a mis-shaped head?
  • Oliver from Fort Collins, Cook since those guys deleted my last comment im not goin to curse in this one. first off, i would agree that kerplunk and 39 smooth were there best albums. but dont go off saying that they are hardcore punk or even punk. because theyre not. they are their own fine brand of a special ska punk. until later when they went pop punk on us. so to all of u emos who love greenday, u can keep your american idiot, we still have 39 smooth and kerplunk.
  • Tom from Mead County, KyChristie Road is an awsome song, including that little (d guitar riff). Also the lyrics.
  • Tom from Mead County, KyI would have to totally not-agree Kerplunk is not the best Green day album. I believe insomniac is the best greenday album. Why you ask? Because it's a true hardcore punk rock album that is about there anger and drugs.
  • Alex from Gourockthis is the definitive track on kerplunk! i love it because it came out a week before i was born (strange, sad and true)and christie road just sums up how isolated i sometimes feel too
  • Geraldine from Sydney, AustraliaThis song [Christie Road] is about wanting to be alone for awhile." - Billie Joe
  • Tiffany from Oakland, Cai totaly love this song!it's one of my favorites
    and GREEN DAY ROCKS!!!!!!
  • Billy from Nanuet, Nyi love the live version of it on Comp'd
  • Caitlin from Durham, Nci got bullet in a bible the day it came out
  • Yuya from Kyoto, JapanI totally agree. Infact, Kerplunk is the BEST GD album EVER!!!!
  • Tanya from London, EnglandLOVE this song!!! woooohooo they put a fact on by me!! Kerplunk is one of their best albums to date n this is one of their best songs
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