["'Cause that's the way I want to live","And I think that it's all right that I do what I like","","If he gave all he could give","And so I give and I'm still givin'","'Cause he lived his life like I live mine","","I can't live my life like you","Got to make a plan, got to do what's right","And so I give and I'm still givin'","Is you got to live 'cause life goes on","'Cause that's the way I wanna live","","And I think that it's all right that I do what I like","Then you'd start to understand","","Got to live it up, while life goes on","If you could see inside my head","You know that, I know that","Now he's gone and all they say","'Cause that's the way I want to live","And now I wonder 'bout my friend","You're watchin' me","Can't run around in circles if you wanna build a life","","But now I see I'm mortal, too","My friend drove off the other day","","","And so I give and I'm still givin'","","","While I'm young and while I'm able, all I want to do is","And I think that it's all right that I do what I like","But I don't want to make a plan for a day far away","The things I value in my heart"]
Performed by: Green Day Written by: Billie Joe Armstrong; Michael Pritchard; Frank E., Iii Wright
Credits: Armstrong, Billie Joe (Songwriter); Pritchard, Michael (Songwriter); Wright, Frank E., Iii (Songwriter); GREEN DAZE MUSIC (Publisher); WB MUSIC CORP. (Publisher)
"J.A.R." is a song by American punk rockbandGreen Day. The song is featured on the Angus motion picture soundtrack. The acronym stands for 'Jason Andrew Relva', a childhood friend of Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt. Jason Relva died at the age of 19 on April 18, 1992 as the result of injuries sustained from a car accident. Mike Dirnt wrote the song in remembrance of his friend. The song reached number one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in 1995.
The song was featured in the end credits of the movie Angus. It is also a B-side to the album Insomniac and is track eight on Green Day's 2001 greatest hits collection International Superhits!.