Track 9 from Insomniac
Released 1995
Green Day has played this song live 9 times.
Ever broken up with someone? Ever broken up with someone and then gone home to write a hate-filled, sneering, punk song about them? Well tha's exactly what Stuart and the Ave describes; a break up turned sour, when all you have left is bad memories and resentment.
Stuart and the Ave is a real location in Berkeley CA, it is an intersection between Stuart Street and Telegraph Avenue.
Standing on the corner of
Stuart and the Avenue
Ripping up my transfer
And a photograph of you
You're a blur of my dead past and rotting existance
As I stand laughing on the corner of insignificance
Destiny is dead
In the hands of bad luck
Before it might have made some sense
But now it's all fucked up
Seasons change as well as minds
And I'm a two faced clown
You're mommy's little nightmare
Driving daddy's car around
I'm beat down and half brain dead
The long lost king of fools
I may be dumb
But I'm not stupid enough to stay with you
"Stuart and the Ave" has been played 9 times live: