Cover art for Words I Might Have Ate by Green Day

Words I Might Have Ate

Green Day
Track 12 on Kerplunk 

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Dec. 17, 19911 viewer8.9K views

Words I Might Have Ate Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Now it seems I can't keep my mind off of you
My brain drifts back to better days we've been through
Like sitting on blacktops of the school grounds
The love I bitched about, I finally had found

[Chorus]
But now it's gone and I take the blame
But there's nothing I can do but take the pain
Why?

[Verse 2]
Now I dwell on what you remind me of
A sweet young girl who sacrificed her love
As for me, I am blind without a cause
And now I realized what I have lost

[Chorus]
It was something real that I could've had
Now I play the fool whose stable soul's gone bad
Why?

[Bridge]
Tell me what the words I might have said
That's pumping pressure deep inside my head
Was it bad enough to be too late?
Just tell me the words I might have ate
The words I might have ate
The words I might have ate
[Chorus]
But now it's gone and I take the blame
But there's nothing I can do but take the pain
Why?

[Outro]
Why? Why?
Why? Oh why?
Why? Why?

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ords I Might Have Ate song meaning
In this song the narrator is admitting the mistakes he’s made in a relationship with someone he really loved. He confesses that this was “something real” that he could have had, but he lost it and it was solely his own fault. He has the best memories about the girl he loved and he regrets that he didn’t try hard enough to keep what they had together, but now it’s too late and all he can do is “take the pain”.
The song is filled with the spirit of the album expressing the difficulties of realizations of one’s mistakes and self-deceptions. The narrator takes the blame for his actions and admits everything he’s done wrong – but he can’t change anything, and once again he’s left without an answer to the one question that keeps dwelling in his mind: “Why?” from geekstinkbreath.net .

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