Yeah, the lyrics of the song are clearly appropriate as a nice goodbye/farewell song. I always figured because they were a punk band they just named it Good Riddance ironically. But just now I googled for fun and found out that not only was it originally an angry song directed at his girlfriend, but that it could have been on dookie, but the producer didn't see a fit yet.
Dookie is already one of the best albums of all time, imagine it with that monster anthem as well?
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Billie Joe Armstrong wrote "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" in 1993 about his girlfriend named Amanda who moved to Ecuador, with him naming the song "Good Riddance" to show his anger towards her. He did not show the song to his bandmates until the Dookie recording sessions later the same year.[7] During the sessions, however, the song was determined to be too different from the rest of the songs on Dookie, and producer Rob Cavallo was unsure of how to structure the recording
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