Uploaded January 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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From album: "American Idiot" (2004)

Jesus, after being home and living in normality, still regrets losing Whatsername. It’s been so long, he can’t even remember her name. He wonders what happened to her. All he has is his memories of her. The album ends with him still trying to forget her.

LYRICS


[Instrumental Intro]

[Verse 1]
Thought I ran into you down on the street
Then it turned out to only be a dream

[Chorus]
I made a point to burn all of the photographs
She went away and then I took a different path
I remember the face, but I can't recall the name
Now I wonder how Whatsername has been

[Verse 2]
Seems that she disappeared without a trace
Did she ever marry old Whatshisface?

[Chorus]
I made a point to burn all of the photographs
She went away and then I took a different path
I remember the face, but I can't recall the name
Now I wonder how Whatsername has been

[Guitar Solo]

[Bridge]
Remember, whatever
It seems like forever ago
Remember, whatever
It seems like forever ago
The regrets are useless in my mind (Remember, whatever)
She's in my head, I must confess (It seems like forever ago)
The regrets are useless in my mind (Remember, whatever)
She's in my head from so long ago (It seems like forever ago)
Go, go, go, go
Go, go, go, go, go

[Outro]
And in the darkest night
If my memory serves me right
I'll never turn back time
Forgetting you, but not the time