Green Day - When I Come Around Music Video Lyrics

When I Come Around by Green Day , Music Video Lyrics

“When I Come Around” is a single from Green Day’s album Dookie from 1994.
It was the final single from the album, showing Green Day’s largely pop influences. It topped the Modern Rock Tracks for seven weeks.

The music video shows the band walking to different places in Berkeley and San Francisco, California at night along with various scenes of people doing common things all inter-related. One of the first scenes of the video eventually leads back to the scene at the end of the video. The band’s friend and now backup guitarist Jason White can be seen in the video, with his girlfriend at the time. Mark Kohr directed this video.

Before the video was filmed, MTV used live performance of the song by the band at the 1994 Woodstock Festival.

Green Day - When I Come Around Lyrics

I heard you crying loud,
all the way across town
You’ve been searching for that someone,
and it’s me out on the prowl
As you sit around feeling sorry for yourself
Well, don’t get lonely now
And dry your whining eyes
I’m just roaming for the moment
Sleazin’ my back yard so don’t get so uptight
you been thinking about ditching me

No time to search the world around
Cause you know where I’ll be found
When I come around

I heard it all before
So don’t knock down my door
I’m a loser and a user so I don’t need no accuser
to try and slag me down because I know you’re right
So go do what you like
Make sure you do it wise
You may find out that your self-doubt means nothing
was ever there

You can’t go forcing something if it’s just
not right

No time to search the world around
Cause you know where I’ll be found
When I come around
When I come around

No time to search the world around
Cause you know where I’ll be found
When I come around
When I come around
When I come around
When I come around

Green Day - When I Come Around Song Info

Released 1995
Recorded 1993
Genre Punk Rock
Length 2:58
Label Wea International/Reprise Records