Walking Contradiction

{{Infobox song

| name = Walking Contradiction

| cover = Green Day - Walking Contradiction cover.jpg

| alt =

| type = promo

| artist = Green Day

| album = Insomniac

| released = August 20, 1996[{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=green day|chart=Alternative Songs}} Green Day Album & Song Chart History | Billboard.com]. Retrieved 2010-02-11.

| recorded = 1995

| studio = Hyde Street Studios, San Francisco, California

| venue =

| genre = Punk rock{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FSWZAAAAQBAJ&q=Green+Day+%22Walking+Contradiction%22+%22punk%22&pg=PT75|title=Nobody Likes You: Inside the Turbulent Life, Times, and Music of Green Day|date=7 November 2006|publisher=Marc Spitz|isbn=9781401385798|access-date=December 3, 2014|quote=...pummeling punk tracks like "Tightwad Hill" and "Walking Contradiction"...}}

| length = 2:31

| label = Reprise

| lyricist = Billie Joe Armstrong

| composer = Green Day

| producer =

• Rob Cavallo
• Green Day

| prev_title = Brain Stew / Jaded

| prev_year = 1996

| next_title = Hitchin' a Ride

| next_year = 1997

| misc = {{external music video|type=song|{{youtube|UymN5scMpZM|"Walking Contradiction"}}}}

}}

"Walking Contradiction" is a song by American rock band Green Day, released as a promotional single on August 20, 1996 from their fourth album Insomniac. Also the closing track on the album, the song reached number 21 on the Modern Rock Tracks in August 1996.[{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=green day|chart=Alternative Songs}} Billboard Chart History] The riff of this song originally appeared as the guitar solo for a demo version of "Haushinka", recorded but unused on previous album Dookie. "Haushinka" would eventually appear on their follow-up album Nimrod.