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Green Day Switches Up ‘Basket Case’ With Original Demo Lyrics at iHeartRadio Music Awards
Green Day perform 'Basket Case' at 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards with original demo lyrics not included in the 'Dookie' studio version.
Green Day scrapped the second verse of “Basket Case” and replaced it with a few bars from the original song demo during their recent performance at the iHeartRadio Music Awards. The Landmark Award recipients opened their set with Saviors track “Bobby Sox” before performing the hybrid version of the Dookie classic. “Around each other intoxicating their minds/Dancing in the street under suburban lights/They stumbled to the ground without a hurt,” Billie Joe Armstrong sings in place of the original verse about a therapist analyzing his dreams and telling him he should have more sex.
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