Sassafras Roots

Track 9 on Dookie

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“Sassafras Roots” is about wasting time and being completely unproductive. Instead of wasting time all alone, the narrator invites some friends to waste time with them. … Read More

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Sassafras Roots Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Roaming 'round your house, wasting your time
No obligation, just wasting your time
So why are you alone, wasting your time?
When you could be with me, wasting your time?

[Chorus]
Well, I'm a waste like you
With nothin' else to do
May I waste your time too?

[Verse 2]
Warding off regrets, wasting your time
Smoking cigarettes, wasting your time
I'm just a parasite wasting your time
Applying myself to wasting your time

[Chorus]
Well, I'm a waste like you
With nothin' else to do
May I waste your time too?

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3]
So why are you alone, wasting your time?
When you could be with me, wasting your time?

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[Chorus]
Well, I'm a waste like you
With nothing else to do
May I waste your time too?

[Outro]
May I waste your time too?
May I waste your time too?
May I waste your time too?

About

“Sassafras Roots” is about wasting time and being completely unproductive. Instead of wasting time all alone, the narrator invites some friends to waste time with them.

The song was inspired by the same girl from “She”, while bassist Mike Dirnt added the unrelated title (head high on root beer).

Sassafras is a genus of three extant and one extinct species of deciduous trees in the family Lauraceae, native to eastern North America and eastern Asia. The genus is distinguished by its aromatic properties, which have made the tree useful to humans.