Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown (2009) by Green Day (보컬) on maniadb.com

Sing us a song of the century

That's louder than bombs

and eternity

an era of static and contraband

that's leading to the promised land

Tell us a story that's by candlelight,

Waging a war and losing a fight.



They're playing a song of the century

Of panic and promise and prosperity

Tell us a story into that goodnight

Sing us a song for me.

Born into Nixon, I was raised in hell.

A welfare child where the teamsters dwell.

The last one born, the first one to run.

My town was blind from the refinery sun.



My generation is zero.

I never made it as a working class hero.

21st century breakdown.

I once was lost but never was found.

I think I'm losing what's left of my mind

To the 20th century deadline.



I was made of poison and blood.

Condemnation is what I understood.

From Mexico to the Berlin wall.

Homeland security could kill us all.



My generation is zero.

I never made it as a working class hero.

21st century breakdown.

I once was lost but never was found.

I think I'm losing what's left of my mind

To the 20th century deadline.



We are the cries of the class of thirteen.

Born in the era of humility.

We are the desperate and in the decline.

Raised by the bastards of 1969.



My name is 'no-one', the long lost son.

Born on the 4th of July.

Raising the bygones of heroes and cons.

Left me for dead or alive.

There is the war that's inside my head

That questions the results and lies.

While breaking my back til I'm damn near well dead.

When enough ain't enough to survive.



I am a nation, a worker, a pawn.

My debt to the status quo.

The scars on my hands are a means to an end.

It's all that I have to show.



I'm taking a loan on my sanity.

For the redemption of my soul.

Well I am exempt from this tragedy and the 21st century fall.



Praise, Liberty

The freedom to obey

It's a song that strangles me

Well, don't cross the line



Oh dream, American dream.

I can't leave and see from rainstorms 'til dawn.

Oh bleed, America bleed.

Believe what you read from heroes and cons.

Do u know the enemy
do you know ur enemy
Well gotta know the enemy
Do u know the enemy
Do u know your enemy
Well gotta know the enemy
Do you know the enemy
Do you know your enemy
Well gotta know the enemy
Violence is an energy
Against the enemy
Violence is an energy
Bringing on the fury
The choir infantry
Revolt against the honor to obey
Overthrow the effigy
The vast majority
Burning down the foreman of control
Silence is the enemy
Against your urgency
So rally up the demons of your soul
Do u know the enemy
do you know ur enemy
Well gotta know the enemy
Do u know the enemy
Do u know your enemy
Well gotta know the enemy
The insurgency will rise
When the blood's been sacrificed
Don't be blinded by the
lies In your eyes
sing

Violence is an energy
From here to eternity
Violence is an energy
Silence is the enemy
So gimme gimme revolution

Do u know the enemy
Do you know your enemy
Well gotta know the enemy
Do you know the enemy
Do you know your enemy
Well gotta know the enemy
Do you know the enemy
Do you know ur enemy
Well gotta know the enemy
Overthrow the effigy
The vast majority
Burning down the foreman of control
Silence is the enemy
Against your urgency
So rally up the demons of your soul

Little girl, little girl

Why are you crying?

Inside your restless soul your heart is dying

Little one, little one

Your soul is purging

Of love and razor blades

Your blood is surging



Runaway

From the river to the street

Find yourself with your face in the gutter

Your a stray for the salvation army

There is no place like home

When you got no place to go



Little girl, little girl

Your life is calling

The charlatans and saints of your abandon

Little one, little one

The sky is falling

The lifeboat of deception is now sailing

In the wake all the way

No rhyme or reason

Your bloodshot eyes

Will show your heart of treason

Little girl, little girl

You dirty liar

You're just a junkie

Preaching to the choir



Runaway

You lost your tranquility

To find yourself with your face in the gutter

You're a stray for the dregs of humanity

There is no place like home

When you got no place to go



The traces of blood

Always follow you home

Like the mascara tears

From your getaway

Your walking with blisters

And running with shears

So unholy

Sister of grace



Runaway

From the river to the street

Find yourself with your face in the gutter

Your a stray for the salvation army

There is no place like home

When you got no place to go

Dreaming
I was only dreaming
Of another place and time
Where my family’s from

Singing
I can hear them singing
When the rain had washed away
All these scattered dreams

Dying
Everyone's reminded
Hearts are washed in misery
Drenched in gasoline

Laughter
There is no more laughter
Songs of yesterday now live
In the underground

Life before the lobotomy
Christian sang the eulogy
Sign my love a lost memory
From the end of the century

Well, it's enough to make you sick
To cast a stone and throw a brick
When the sky is falling down
It burned your dreams into the ground

Christian's lesson is what he's been sold (hey)
We are normal and self-controlled (hey)
Remember to learn to forget (hey)
Whiskey shots and cheap cigarettes

Well I'm not stoned, I'm just fucked up
I got so high, I can't stand up
Well I'm not cursed 'cause I've been blessed
I’m not in love 'cause I’m a mess

Like refugees
We're lost like refugees
Like refugees
We're lost like refugees

The brutality of reality
Is the freedom that keeps me from

Dreaming
I was only dreaming
Of another place and time
Where my family's from

Singing
I can hear them singing
When the rain had washed away
All these scattered dreams

Dying
Everyone's reminded
Hearts are washed in misery
Drenched in gasoline

Laughter
There is no more laughter
Songs of yesterday now live
In the underground

Whoa, Christian’s inferno
Whoa, Christian’s inferno
Whoa, Christian’s inferno
Whoa, Christian’s inferno

I got under the grip between this modern hell
I got the rejection letter in the mail and it was already ripped to shreds
Seasons in ruin and this bitter pill is chasing blood
There’s fire in my veins and it’s pouring out like a flood, I said, yeah, yeah

Whoa, Christian’s inferno
Whoa, Christian’s inferno
Oh, little darling, don’t shed no tears
Whoa, Christian’s inferno

This diabolic state is gracing my existence
Like a catastrophic baby, baby maybe you’re the chemical reaction
I am the atom bomb, I am the chosen one
Toxin your reservoir and then return man to ape, and while I’m gone

Everything’s gonna be alright
Everything’s gonna be alright
Everything’s gonna be alright, now
Everything’s gonna be alright
Everything’s gonna be alright, now
Everything’s gonna be alright

Whoa, Christian’s inferno, yeah
Whoa, Christian’s inferno
Whoa, Christian’s inferno
Whoa, Christian’s inferno

Whoa, Christian’s inferno, yeah
Whoa, Christian’s inferno
Whoa, Christian’s... (fade)

I text a postcard, sent to you

Did it go through?

Sending all my love to you

You are the moonlight of my life every night

Giving all my love to you



My beating heart belongs to you

I walked for miles til I found you

I'm here to honor you

If I lose everything in the fire

I'm sending all my love to you



With every breath that I am worth

Here on Earth

I'm sending all my love to you

So if you dare to second guess

You can rest assured

That all my love's for you



My beating heart belongs to you

I walked for miles til I found you

I'm here to honor you

If I lose everthing in the fire

I'm sending all my love to you



My beating heart belongs to you

I walked for miles til I found you

I'm here to honor you

If I lose everything in the fire

Did I ever make it through?

Raise your hands now to testify
Your confession will be crucified
You’re a sacrificial suicide
Like a dog that’s been sodomized

(Stand up!) All the white boys
(Sit down!) And the black girls
(Stand up!) You’re the soldiers
(Sit down!) Of the new world

Put your faith in a miracle
And it’s non-denominational
Join the choir we'll be singing
In the church of wishful thinking

A fire burns today
Of blasphemy and genocide
The sirens of decay
Will infiltrate the faith fanatics

Oh bless me Lord for I have sinned
It’s been a lifetime since I last confessed
I threw my crutches in "The River of a Shadow of Doubt"
And I’ll be dressed up in my Sunday best

Say a prayer for the family
Drop a coin for humanity
Ain’t this uniform so flattering?
I never asked you a goddamn thing

A fire burns today
Of blasphemy and genocide
The sirens of decay
Will infiltrate the faith fanatics

Don’t test me
Second guess me
Protest me
You will disappear

I want to know who’s allowed to breed
All the dogs who never learned to read
Missionary politicians
And the cops of the new religion

A fire burns today
Of blasphemy and genocide
The sirens of decay
Will infiltrate the inside, yeah

Well, I’ve got a fever, a non-believer
I’m in a state of grace
For I am the Caesar, I’m gonna seize the day
Well, call of the banshee hey hey
Hey hey hey hey hey
As God is my witness, the infidels are gonna pay

Well, call the assassin, the orgasm
A spasm of love and hate
For what will divide us? The righteous and the meek
Well, call of the wild hey hey
Hey hey hey hey hey
Well, death to the girl at the end of the serenade

Vendetta, sweet vendetta
This Beretta of the night
This fire and the desire
Shots ringing out on a holy parasite

Well, I am a killjoy from Detroit
I drink from a well of rage
I feed off the weakness with all my love
Well, call up the captain hey hey
Hey hey hey hey hey
Well, death to the lover that you were dreaming of

Well, this is a stand off, a Molotov
Cocktail's on the house
You thought I was a write off, you better think again
Well, call the peacemaker hey hey
Hey hey hey hey hey
I’m gonna send you back to the place where it all began

Vendetta, sweet vendetta
This Beretta of the night
This fire and the desire
Well, shots ringing out on a holy parasite

Well, now the caretaker’s the undertaker
So I’m gonna go out and get the peacemaker
This is the neo St. Valentine’s massacre
Well call up the Gaza hey hey
Hey hey hey hey hey
Death to the ones at the end of the serenade
Well, death to the ones at the end of the serenade
Well, death to the ones at the end of the serenade
Well, death to the ones at the end of the serenade

She puts her makeup on

Like graffiti on the walls of the heartland

She's got her little book of conspiracies

Right in her hand

She is paranoid like

Endangered species headed into extinction

She is one of a kind

She's the last of the American girls



She wears her overcoat

For the coming of the nuclear winter

She is riding her bike

Like a fugitive of critical mass

She's on a hunger strike

For the ones who won't make it for dinner

She makes enough to survive

For a holiday of working class



She's a runaway of the establishment incorporated.

She won't cooperate

She's the last of the American girls



She plays her vinyl records

Singing songs on the even of destruction

She's a sucker for

All the criminals breaking the laws

She will come in first

For the end of the western civilization

She's an endless war

Like a hero for the lost cause

Like a hurricane

In the heart of the devastation

She's a natural disaster

She's the last of the American girls



She puts her makeup on

Like graffiti on the walls of the heartland

She's got her little book of conspiracies

Right in her hand

She will come in first

For the end of western civilization

She's a natural disaster

She's the last of the American girls

Desperate
But not hopeless
I feel so useless
In the murder city

Desperate
But not helpless
The clock strikes midnight
In the murder city

I’m wide awake after the riot
This demonstration of our anguish
This empty laughter has no reason
Like a bottle of your favorite poison

We are the last call
And we’re so pathetic

Desperate
But not hopeless
I feel so useless
In the murder city

Desperate
But not helpless
The clock strikes midnight
In the murder city

Christian’s crying in the bathroom
And I just want to bum a cigarette
We’ve come so far, we’ve been so wasted
It’s written all over our faces

We are the last call
And we’re so pathetic

Desperate
But not hopeless
I feel so useless
In the murder city

Desperate
But not helpless
The clock strikes midnight
In the murder city

Desperate
But not hopeless
I feel so useless
In the murder city

Desperate
But not helpless
The clock strikes midnight
In the

I’ve got a really bad disease
It’s got me begging on my hands and knees
So take me to emergency
‘Cause something seems to be missing

Somebody take the pain away
It’s like an ulcer bleeding in my brain
So send me to the pharmacy
So I can lose my memory

I’m elated, medicated
Lord knows I've tried to find a way
To run away

I think they found another cure
For broken hearts and feeling insecure
You’d be surprised what I endure
What makes you feel so self-assured?

I need to find a place to hide
You never know what could be waiting outside
The accidents that you could find
It’s like some kind of suicide

So what ails you is what impales you
I feel like I’ve been crucified
To be satisfied

I’m a victim of my symptom
I am my own worst enemy
You’re a victim of your symptom
You are your own worst enemy
Know your enemy

I’m elated, medicated
I am my own worst enemy
So what ails you is what impales you
You are your own worst enemy

You’re a victim of the system
You are your own worst enemy
You’re a victim of the system
You are your own worst enemy

I’m not fucking around
I think I’m coming out
All the deceivers and cheaters
I think we’ve got a bleeder right now

Want you to slap me around
Want you to knock me out
Well, you missed me, kissed me
Now you better kick me down

Maybe you’re the runner-up
But the first one to lose the race
Almost only really counts in
Horseshoes and handgrenades

I’m gonna burn it all down
I’m gonna rip it out
Well, everything that you employ
Was meant for me to destroy to the ground now

So don’t you fuck me around
Because I’ll shoot you down
I’m gonna drink, fight and fuck
And I'm pushing my luck all the time now

Maybe you’re the runner-up
But the first one to lose the race
Almost only really counts in
Horseshoes and handgrenades

Demolition, self-destruction
What to annihilate
This age-old contradiction

Demolition, self-destruction
What to annihilate
This age-old contradiction

Demolition, self-destruction
What to annihilate
This old age

I’m not fucking around
I think I’m coming out
Well, I'm a hater, a traitor
In a pair of Chuck Taylor's right now

I’m not fucking around
G-l-o-r-i-a
G-l-o-r-i-a
G-l-o-r-i-a
G-l-o-r-i-a

Can you hear the sound of the static noise
Blasting out in stereo?
Cater to the class and the paranoid
Music to my nervous system

Advertising love and religion
Murder on the airwaves
Slogans on the brink of corruption
Visions of blasphemy, war and peace
Oh, screaming at you

I can’t see a thing in the video
I can’t hear a sound on the radio
In stereo in the static age

Billboard on the rise in the dawn’s landscape
Working your insanity
Tragic a la madness and concrete
Coca-Cola execution

Conscience on a cross and your heart's in a vice
Squeezing out your state of mind
Are what you own that you cannot buy
What a fucking tragedy, strategy
Oh, screaming at you

I can’t see a thing in the video
I can’t hear a sound on the radio
In stereo in the static age

I can’t see a thing in the video
I can’t hear a sound on the radio
In stereo in the static age

Hey, hey, it’s the static age
This is how the west was won
Hey, hey, it’s the static age millenium

All I want to know is a god-damned thing
Not what’s in the medicine
All I want to do is I want to breathe
Batteries are not included

What’s the latest way that a man can die
Screaming "Hallelujah"?
Singing out “The dawn’s early light”
The silence of the rotten, forgotten
Oh, screaming at you

I can’t see a thing in the video
I can’t hear a sound on the radio
In stereo in the static age

I can’t see a thing in the video
I can’t hear a sound on the radio
In stereo in the static age

I can’t see a thing in the video (woah)
I can’t hear a sound on the radio (woah)
In stereo in the static age

I can’t see a thing in the video (woah)
I can’t hear a sound on the radio (woah)
In stereo in the static age
The static age

Do you know what's worth fighting for

When it's not worth dying for?

Does it take you breath away

And you feel yourself suffocating?

Does the pain weight out the pride?

And you look for a place to hide?

Does someone break your heart inside?

You're in ruins



One, 21 guns

Lay down your arms

Give up the fight

One, 21 guns

Throw up your arms into the sky

You and I



When you're at the end of the road

And you lost all sense of control

And your thoughts have taken their toll

When your mind breaks the spirit of your soul

Your faith walks on broken glass

And the hangover doesn't pass

Nothing's ever built to last

You're in ruins



One, 21 guns

Lay down your arms

Give up the fight

One, 21 guns

Throw up your arms into the sky

You and I



Did you try to live on your own

When you burned down the house and home?

Did you stand too close to the fire?

Like a liar looking for forgiveness from a stone



When it's time to live and let die

And you can't get another try

Something inside this heart has died

You're in ruins



One, 21 guns

Lay down your arms

Give up the fight

One, 21 guns

Throw up your arms into the sky

You and I

Well I crossed the river
Fell into the sea
Where the non-believers
Go beyond belief

Then I scratched the surface
In the mouth of hell
Running out of service
In the blood I fell

Well I, I just want to see the light
And I, I don’t want to lose my sight
Well I, I just want to see the light
And I need to know what’s worth the fight

I’ve been wasted
Pills and alcohol
I’ve been chasing
Down the pool halls

Then I drank the water
From a hurricane
And I set a fire
Just to see the flame

Well I, I just want to see the light
And I, I don’t want to lose my sight
Well I, I just want to see the light
And I need to know what’s worth the fight

Well, I crossed the desert
Reaching higher ground
Then I pound the pavement
To take the liars down

But it’s gone forever
But never too late
Where the ever after
Is in the hands of fate

Well I, I just want to see the light
And I, I don’t want to lose my sight
Well I, I just want to see the light
And I need to know what’s worth the fight