Tight Wad Hill Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Cheapskate on the hill, a thrill seeker making deals
Sugar city urchin wasting time
Town of lunatics begging for another fix
Turning tricks for speedballs one more night

[Chorus]
Making your rounds once again
Turning up empty handed
Bumming a ride, burning daylight
Last up at dawn, Tight Wad Hill

[Verse 2]
Drugstore hooligan, another white trash mannequin
On display to rot up on the hill
Living out a lie, but having the time of his life
Hating every minute of his existence

[Chorus]
Making your rounds once again
Turning up empty handed
Bumming a ride, burning daylight
Last up at dawn, Tight Wad Hill

[Instrumental Break]
[Chorus]
Making your rounds once again
Turning up empty handed
Bumming a ride, burning daylight
Last up at dawn, Tight Wad Hill

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Genius Annotation

“Tight Wad Hill” is a location in Crockett, California where some people got high and did drugs. It may have been fun to those people back then, but the narrator no longer finds these things joyful anymore.

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What did Green Day say about "Tight Wad Hill"?
Genius Answer

In a cover story for Rolling Stone (published in 1995), Billie Joe talks a bit about the song title while cruising around Crocket, California:

“This is Tight Wad Hill,” announces Armstrong as we reach a cul-de-sac that looks down over the whole [John Swett High School] campus. “This is where all the losers, the cheapskates, would come up and watch the football games without paying for them. It’s actually the best view in the whole place.” The song “Tight Wad Hill,” from Insomniac, imagines a “drugstore hooligan” who makes the spot his outpost. “A lot of tweakers come and hang out up here, the crank victims and stuff.”

It was disparities like these – between the way things were supposed to be and the way things actually were – that first drew Armstrong to punk music. Unlike parents or teachers, punks told the cold, unvarnished truth.”They knew how to express themselves better,” Armstrong says. “Besides, I always thought anger was a lot more interesting than feeling good about yourself.”

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Hyde Street Studios (San Francisco, California)
Release Date
October 6, 1995
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