green day minority

1. "Minority" (Radio Version)
2. "Brat" (Live From Tokyo)
3. "86" (Live From Prague)

AU Single

1. "Minority" (Album Version) - 2:49
2. "Brat" (Live from Tokyo) - 1:42
3. "86" (Live from Prague) - 2:59
4. "Jackass" (Album Version) - 2:47

7"

Side A.

1. "Minority"
2. "Brat" (Live Version)

Side B.

1. "Jackass"
2. "86" (Live Version)

Meaning

In an interview, front man Billie Joe Armstrong said that "The song is about being an individual and how you have to drift through the darkness to find where you belong."^[1]

Billie Joe Armstrong commented that this was the point in which their song writing became slightly more politically based. The lyrics "I pledge allegiance to the under world, one nation under dog..." were taken from the American Pledge of Allegiance but "twisted upside down a bit." Many people see this song as the fore-runner for Billie Joe's political views that fueled the recent success of American Idiot.^{[citation needed]}

The lyric "down with the moral majority" from the chorus refers to the now dissolved socially conservative American organization called the Moral Majority.^{[citation needed]}