Green Day - Who Wrote Holden Caulfield? Lyrics

I think I just forgot!!

Another good reason for you to post this is that Apple Music has made it unavailable in the US.

Who wrote Holden Caulfield?
A goddamn phoney

It’s that old Green Day song! That killed me. Honest, it did.

This is the real Green Day.

I shuffled through my mind
to see if I could find
the world I left behind
🤔.....was it just a dream
that happened long ago
🤔.....oh well NEVER MIND...

Kerplunk is awesome

Pop Punk at its best !!!!! killer hook and soaring harmonies played fast and furious ~420

🔥🔥🔥

Oh well (whatever) nevermind

My favorite band and my favorite book :D

In my first high school year my literature teacher made us read Catcher in the rye and showed this song to us. I've never actually finished the book, but i'm a freshman at college now and I figured I turned into fucking Holden Caulfield. I think I'll finish that book.

You should really finish it, it's a great book indeed :)

They wrote a goddam song about me. It kills a guy, it really does, to have a song written about you and all.

My favourite song💘

Jerome David Salinger.

I love Billie Joe’s lazy vocals. He sounds so much like a teenager in a garage band.

benden başka kaç kişiyi daha holden'a benzettin?

When you're a fan of punk rock but you're also into classic literature (as an English lit student I relate)

Not until I read The Catcher in the Rye did I know who Holden Caulfield is.

i shuffle through my mind to see if i can find the words i left behind

A though burst in my head, it really did

I loved you for the minute
when you decided to tell me the truth
I heard you and that night I cried for you
I know that you're alone just like everyone else in the world
Don't tell me that things don't get better
'cause sometimes they do
Sometimes they do and I know they will for you
The days are getting shorter
and you're forgetting the things you just said
I'm hoping that you'll move ahead
I wonder if you'll ever come to realize what I always knew
I wrote Holden Caulfield and so did you
I wanna know if you wanna wake up
I wanna know when you'll stop dying
for what you've done
stop crying for what you've done
it's only the past
it's only life
what have you done that's so bad
it's only life so don't waste time
why don't you stop crying
for what's done for what is done

A great song but, so underrated

still my all time favorite song
!!!!

Those who Disliked this are phony

Good one. Goddam phonies gotta ruin everything

22 people didn't write Holden Caulfield.

The problem with the first 2 records is that the songs are great, but the recordings are not great quality. I understand it's cause of money but I wish they would re-record these.

insert name here Please I like the fact that the quality isn't great, I think it gives a nice sound

Jared Dines wrote it.

Wtf what

I love green day and the catcher in the rye. So this is a double like.

This song will kick your ass if you try to play it on drums haha

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Who wrote Holden Caulifield? J.D Salinger
Tfw that i am reading The Catcher in The Rye now and this song is so awesome

My English teacher played this in class! Still one of the highlights of the class in general. I was so hyped and crazy when I heard it. I really was.

Malina Cantemir my teacher only put shitty music. Thats sad.

I like the "I really was", a definite nod to Holden Caulfield's way of talking

oh, well my teacher played Bohemian Rhapsody once.

That just made me depressed. It always makes you depressed or something when you find out somebody else gets to listen to that record you bought but broke, for Chrissakes.

@Malina Cantemir Dude, I live in Romania too! My teachers don't play Green Day tho, they mostly put me absent while I'm in class. I guess you were just lucky

Uma das melhores músicas deles!!! e poucas pessoas conhecem..aff

Brandon T.Soza kerplunk é o melhor.

Sounds like Billie Joe is just a vocal and someone else is playing guitar.

Or he recorded the 2 on different occasions?

I wish there was a Vocals Only for this song.

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote Holden Caulfield old sport.

catchiest shit i've ever heard, hands down

The guys that write this song are morons. I would say more about this but I'm not in the mood, you have to be in the mood for those kind of things. The way they sing this song it kills me.

Logan Smith No offense but you're retarded. This song is lyrical greatness and the way they sing it is just fine you twink.

fuck off in hell

all of these people not realising the reference... R/WOOOOSH

Holden would say phonies not morons

Soňa Juhásziová not necessarily. He calls Stradlater a moron quite a few times. I find it rather funny all the people who don't get this, especially the guy that commented on the lyrical genius without knowing the meaning apparently. That really kills me. What a prince, I mean it too.

J.D. Salinger

best green day song ever, hands down

orbitable Welcome To Paradise is the best in the album, Homecoming is the best.

good, better, best -It's al subjective.

for me its basket case, but i have big love for this song too

No one knows.

Isn't Holden Caulfield a character in "Catcher and The Rye"?

I didn't expect to see you here hehe

The book that supposedly drove David Mark Chapman to kill a rock god, one named John Lennon.

Yup, Basket Case is also inspired by Catcher in the Rye

Mike: Hey, does anybody know Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?
Tre: No One Knows.

hehehehehehe i get it

Chrysalis jeff matika, thats sure okno

I see what you did there

Is it me or does he have a slight little lisp when he says "a thought burst in my head...", it sounds so adorable lol

It's more like mispronouncing a consonant. "a thhtghought burst in my head".

AANickFan omg that is perfect

how do you go from this and all of kerplunk and 39 smooth to 21 guns and good riddance???

Green day wanted to be more popular because in the kerplunk era they were not but that's when they produced the best music EVER

They weren't "huge" but they were definitely rising during this era. Dookie is when they really skyrocketed, though.

He wrote Good Riddance in 1990, but he didn't share what he wrote until Nimrod was being made. The only thing that was added on the record was the violin part.

Wait so that album can be called 39 smooth? I thought it was that but then I though people only called it 1039 or smoothed out slappybacks.

It sickens me how underrated this song is.
One of their absolute best.

NHL 17 my personal favorite

Agreed. The songs with the catchy harmonies and chorus's seem to be my favorite for some reason...I also really like 80 from this album as well as others. The "poppier" bass line combined with the slightly heavier guitar with palm muting just works imo. I also sorta dig the older "thinner yet still high gain" guitar sound, but i do love the later sound too.

Bee Tay well said brother, well said.

Both albums released before "Dookie" are both absolute gems of masterpiece and anyone who disagrees is a hater and should re-evaluate their entire existence!!!🤨

Yes, and perhaps it's not too much of a bother to get a couple more people who remember to keep posted up on this one!!?!??

At first I liked "Catcher In The Rye" but now I realized how depressing and crappy that book is..

+kitty luver73 its not for adults, its for kids, stuck between adolescents and adulthood. It won't impact an adult in the same way. And I believe it needs to be read right at the awkward age before adulthood hits for it to have any meaningful impact.It's about not wanting to let go of the innocence of childhood, and needs to be read by those in that stage of their life.

+Bee Tay I believe that the book could really be for any age, not just teenagers. An adult could most certainly understand and appreciate that interpretation of the book. You don't have to be in the situation it is presenting to appreciate it. Also, it definetely, at least in my eyes, has other meaning. One that I think is significant is if you look at the United States and the time period it is set in, right after WWll. After WWll the US became a world superpower and in a sense "matured" into some kind of adulthood. This is exemplified through Holden who could reflect not just teenage angst and denial of adulthood, but the overall transition of America into a superpower of the world.

+Bee Tay It was actually originally intended to be for adults, though.

I love cats too. Well . . . I don't love love them, like not in a gross way but you know what I mean. I really like them a lot. I have a cat actually.

I read it for the first time at 25. Could totally see my 17 year old self portrayed on the book. It's kind of a shame that I didn't discover the book back then, but for some reason, when I think of The Catcher in the Rye, I think of that time in my life. So, it actually made an impact on me because I don't forget that I were a teenager once..

THATS WHEN I SAID THERE'S A BOY WHO FIGHTS HIS WORLD AND NOW HE'S GETTING LAZY
THERE'S NO MOTIVATION AND FRUSTRATION MAKES HIM CRAZY
HE MAKES A PLAN TO TAKE A STAND BUT ALWAYS ENDS UP SITTING
SOMEONE HELP HIM UP OR HE IS GONNA END UP QUITTING

@SkillerFiftyOne oh well nevermiiiiiiiiiind

SO GOOD!!

It's "That's when I said there's a boy who FOGS his world and now he's getting lazy. There's no motivation and fustration makes him crazy. He makes to take a stand but always ends up QUITTING." :)

yeah its about smoking pot and drugs in general.

As soon as I saw this comment those lyrics come on

I think I wrote the song? I can't remember so I came here

+James Smith no you didn't you're just lazy.  good try though!

GOOD LYRICS 

I'm here because I'm reading The Catcher in the Rye and I was curious but I kind of like this song now.

Joana Monteiro Same! I’m reading it for my sophomore class!

Actually Screeching Weasel wrote it

@G Gerrit I think that was the joke. I think that his comment was in response to the title of the song. They were asking who wrote Holden Caulfield and responded that Screeching Weasel wrote "I Wrote Holden Caulfield"

@G Gerrit i think Screeching Weasel and Green Day had a bet on who could record a record the cheapest. i think Green Day won by like $100 bucks. Kerplunk vs My brain Hurts

+noah fehks Yeah, except My Brain Hurts is a MUCH better album...

My Brain Hurts is a great record,... my favorite song is Guest List

+Con Man r/woooosh

J. D. Salinger wrote Holden Caulfield

+Jason Krok he wrote "catcher in the rye"

If he wrote the book, he probably also wrote the characters in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8eu6tNlpt8

although 1039/smoothed and Insomniac are my favorites of green day, Kerplunk, Nimrod and American Idiot have to be their best albums expressing all of the stages/genres the band has toyed with

Dookie?

This is the best song on kerplunk!

I disagree man! I like myself some 80

Christie road m8

Billie Joe agrees with you 😄

only one word: PERFECT

great lyrics for a great song!

But Nimrod is one of my favorites. (:

I'm a Nimrod baby. /:

Beautiful years...

...You were born in 2000?!

me too, 1996

try 1998 :(

I am a warning baby

no bullshit????

this guy is a fucking dumbass "Like" if you think his throat should be slit

didn't even like catcher in the rye and this song is awesome

'99, *sigh*.

'97! I'm a Nimrod baby!

This song killed me.

as do i

i totally agree!!!! damn it 1998!!!!!!!!!!!!

used to?

This is my favourite song from Kerplunk, by the way.

Catcher in the Rye is an awesome book. And the song is just as.

you sir, are wrong

wow they used to be a good band

Wow,Green Day makes Holden Caulfield awesome.

Read that book. It sucks.

This song never gets old.

Oh, I love this song :D

This is true...

I wanted to give this song it's first thumbs down.... but I cant do it, I like it too much.

maybe to late for early green day... but the punk scene is still alive and well at 924 gilman where they got their start. I go down there every saturday...

conquerer117 is it still like that?

at this time green day didn´t record with a metronome :D

I was born way too late as well...

damn 1998...

I was born too late... WAY too late...
1995 FML!

its not every day you see 144 likes and 0 dislikes...

lol I read that book and is awful and boring!

MegaCrashXD what a goddam prince. I mean it too.

god i feel old

@TheRockRockish not to me. I think it's just more professional. They're growing up, Billie will be 40 this Friday. They're moving on to things they're interested in and with age comes change. But I do think they should record the lost album and set that out there for their listeners too. So far they've only performed one song.

green day should have followed this musical direction. their old music was excellent, but they're new music is too mainstream and what the record labels wanted

TheRockRockish You're Holden Claufield

Then they most likely wouldn't of been as successful as they are now.

this is the only video I've seen on youtube without a single dislike

R.I.P. Lookout! studios :'(

Happy B-day kerplunk!

@JelloCellos
Favourite Kerplunk Song

@ScratchSound90
i know, its awesome as fuck, innit. *wink* *wink*

"This is my favourite Song from Kerplunk, by the way."

@JelloCellos yeppers :P At least it's his favorite off of Kerplunk

JB=DOG
BJ=GOD

95 likes and not a single dislike....with well over 17 thousand views! Tell me Greenday dont have some awesome fans from every corner of the world. Probably shouldn't have posted this because some jack off will dislike it now....oh well.