Green Day – Chump

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I don't know you but I think I hate you
You're the reason for my misery
Strange, how you've become my biggest enemy
I have never even seen your face

Maybe it's just jealousy
Mixed up with a violent mind
A circumstance that doesn't make much sense
Or maybe I'm just dumb

You're the cloud hanging out over my head
Hail comes crashing down welting my face
Magic man, egocentric plastic man
Yet you still got one over on me

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Lyrics submitted by kevin

Track duration: 02:54

"Chump" as written by Billie Joe Armstrong, Frank E. Iii Wright, Michael Pritchard

Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.

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    General Comment:I can so relate to this song right now.

    Found out last night that the girl I like, but have always been too shy to ask out, has got a boyfriend now. I don't even know him, but I hate him.

    But yeh, that's basically what this song is about: You liking a girl, but she's with a guy you don't even know, yet you still hate him because you're jealous of him.
    Flag TheTuxedoon August 02, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:its about how he hates the guy who is dating with girl he likes,even though he doesnt know the guy he hates him "Maybe it's just jealousy mixing up with violent mind"
    it proves everything
    Flag strangegirl7658on July 20, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:ya i know its not the real meaning but that is just how i think of it to myself thats all
    Flag lineandsinker62on August 12, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:uhhh, no. it's about billie's girlfriend (turned wife). she had another boyfriend and billie didn't like him simply because he wanted to date adrienne.
    I don't know you, but i think i hate you (see? it all fits in)
    as to u, lineandsinker62 i can kind of see wut ur opinion is, but that's not the true meaning of THIS song.
    Flag missmurder233on July 30, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:if you think about it this song can mean the end of a fake friend ship
    "I don't know you
    But I think I hate you"
    might mean that you two were never really friends and now that you realized he or she was just using you now you hate them
    "You're the reason for my misery"
    could mean that this person you were once friends with used you to get to someone else, someone you liked
    "Strange that you became my biggest enemy
    And I've never even seen your face"
    this could mean that you've never seen the real side of this person and now you hate them for that and for taking the person that you like

    you have to think about it from the point of an unpopular kid becoming friends with a popular kid like over night

    its just another way to think about this great song
    Flag lineandsinker62on July 29, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:about Bille being angry at his creator - God
    Flag dejavulaon April 24, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:i love this song . . . it's about a pretty bad relationship....isn't it? Dookie must be Green Day's best album. Dookie and Nimrod.
    Flag 4everinloveon November 19, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:i love how much energy and feeling Green Day puts in this song. You can feel the anger billie joe is singing. The song to me is :Jealousy
    Flag MusicFanatic29on August 10, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:When I first heard, all I could think of the very very similliar sound of the intro, to the guitar in 2000 light years away, and thought it was just greenday taking the easy way and ripping off a better song, from what we be a less known album (as on independent label, vs major label of dookie). But since u dudes been saying it'a about a bad time he had with his wife, then maybe the starts a bit more clever than a basic rip off. As the guitar sound at start of this song is slight distorted when compared to start off 2000 light years away, maybe musically their expression the distortion he's had wife adrienne and how things that seem so prefect (since I assume billie is expressing how awesome it was to start going out with a girl of his dreams/adreenna in 2000 years) have for some reason turned to shit, I guess the line 'strange you've become my worst enemy' sums it up, life could be great but sucks, go figure,
    muscially brilliant, so guess I was wrong
    Flag Mr Grimon June 14, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:I like the first half of the song! the second half, it's kind of a welcome-to-paradise-interlude with the bass and all.. a little boring. whatever! the beginning is awesome.. they should have done an extended version of it.. oh well. CHUMP!!
    Flag substylinbabyon May 17, 2006   Link

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