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Ballyhoo Lyrics

[Verse 1: Billie Joe Armstrong]

Hurry up, hurry up, get moving

Just to fall down again

I'm looking like a jerk, looking like a jerk

And I'm feeling like a lunatic

Fuck it up, live it up, and give up

Stay-at-home wanderlust

I'm gonna lollygag in a sleeping bag

I'm as useless as a dumb and a crippled ballerina

[Chorus: Billie Joe Armstrong, Billie Joe Armstrong & Mike Dirnt]

Some days I'm reaching for a blade, I gotta let it go

Sometimes I'm reaching for a knife, I gotta let it go

So no hard feelings, climb the ceiling

Madness, ballyhoo

[Post-Chorus: Billie Joe Armstrong & Mike Dirnt]

Hey

Yuh

[Verse 2: Billie Joe Armstrong]

Listen up, listen I've been drinking

Touched by the hand of luck

I'm waiting on the sun, waiting on the sun

Like a star that's blowing up

It's a curse, it's at worst a blessing

God and his only son

Ah, mama raised the bomb, chewing bubblegum

With a head full of trouble and a lesser main offender

[Chorus: Billie Joe Armstrong, Billie Joe Armstrong & Mike Dirnt]

Some days I'm reaching for a blade, I gotta let it go

Sometimes I'm reaching for a knife, I gotta let it go

So no hard feelings, climb the ceiling

Madness, ballyhoo

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus: Billie Joe Armstrong, Billie Joe Armstrong & Mike Dirnt]

Some days I'm reaching for a blade, I gotta let it go

Sometimes I'm reaching for a knife, I gotta let it go

Some days I'm reaching for a blade, I gotta let it go

Sometimes I'm reaching for a knife, I gotta let it go

So no hard feelings, climb the ceiling

Madness, ballyhoo

[Outro: Billie Joe Armstrong & Mike Dirnt]

Hey

Yuh