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Fall Out Boy – Basket Case (2014) | Track profile | Dork

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Basket Case

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Basket Case

Release date: 4th January 2014

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About This Track

"Basket Case" is a track by Fall Out Boy, from the album Covers, released 4th January 2014. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 15 articles about Fall Out Boy.

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Lyrics

Basket Case

[Verse 1]

Do you have the time to listen to me whine

About nothing and everything all at once?

I am one of those melodramatic fools

Neurotic to the bone no doubt about it

[Chorus]

Sometimes I give myself the creeps

Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me

It all keeps adding up, I think I'm cracking up

Am I just paranoid or am I just stoned?

[Verse 2]

I went to a shrink to analyze my dreams

She said it's lack of sex that's bringing me down

I went to a whore, he said my life's a bore

So quit whining because it's bringing her down

[Chorus]

Sometimes I give myself the creeps

Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me

It all keeps adding up, I think I'm cracking up

Am I just paranoid or am I just stoned?

[Bridge]

Gasping to control, so I better hold on

Oh, oh, oh, oh

[Chorus]

Sometimes I give myself the creeps

Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me

It all keeps adding up, I think I'm cracking up

Am I just paranoid or am I just stoned?

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Track details

From Covers

2014

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Release year

2014

—American Boy
—So Sick (BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge)
—Only The Bulls
—Basket Case
—I Write Sins Not Tragedies
—Mr. Brightside
—The Night Begins to Shine
—Turnpike Gates
—I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tré Cool
Producer: Fall Out Boy
Drums: Andy Hurley
Vocals: Patrick Stump
Bass Guitar: Pete Wentz
Percussion: Andy Hurley
Rhythm Guitar: Patrick Stump