Westbound Sign

Album: Insomniac (1995)
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  • Boxed up all of her favorite things
    Sold the rest at a rainy yard sale
    Big plans and leaving friends and a westbound sign
    Weighed out, her choices on a scale
    Prevailing nothing made sense
    Just transportation and a blank decision

    She's taking off
    Taking off
    Taking off
    Taking off

    No time and no copping out
    She's burning daylight and petrol
    Blacked out the rear-view mirror
    Heading westward on
    Strung out on confusion road
    And ten-minute nervous breakdowns
    Xanax, a beer for thought
    And she's determined

    She's taking off
    Taking off
    Taking off
    Taking off

    Oh, is this salvation?
    Or an escape from discontent?
    Will she find her name
    In the California cement?
    Punched out of the grind
    That punched her one too many times
    Is tragedy 2000 miles away?
    She's taking off

    Alright Writer/s: Billie Joe Armstrong, Frank E., III Wright, Michael Pritchard, Mike Dirnt, Tre Cool
    Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 6

  • Joe from St. Charles, IlDad gum! Boy, I’ll tell you what, son! I’d drive my tires over a mile of busted glass just to see that picture right there!
  • Joe from Chicago, IlI think of young Billy Zane because he moved away to LA right after high school on his own.
  • Corey from West Portsmouth, Oh, AfghanistanJust has a 90's feeling to it. Nice.
  • Tiffany from Oakland, Cahmmm.......i LOVE this song! ha, yeah.....coolness!
  • Caitlin from Durham, Nclove this song love this album
  • Tanya from London, EnglandInsomniac is one of their greatest albums
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