21st Century Breakdown Lyrics Green Day

Green Day Show Set List, GM Place, Vancouver

2009-07-12T04:39:00.001-07:00

Green Day Show Set List, GM Place, Vancouver

Greenday played their set at the GM Place, Vancouver, BC, Canada on July 4th 2009

21st Century Breakdown World Tour Set List:

Song of the Century
21st Century Breakdown
Know Your Enemy
East Jesus Nowhere
Holiday
The Static Age
Before the Lobotomy
Are We the Waiting
St. Jimmy
Geek Stink Breath
Hitchin' A Ride
Brain Stew
Jaded
Longview
Basket Case
She
King For A Day
Shout (The Isley Brothers cover)
Stand By Me (Ben E. King cover)
21 Guns (lyrics)
American Eulogy

Green Day Set Encore:

American Idiot
Jesus Of Suburbia
Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
Minority
Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)

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Green Day Tour Dates for July - August 2009

2009-05-11T17:49:00.001-07:00

Green Day have anounced an early tranche of tour dates for the promotion of 21st century breakdown.

Greenday Tour Dates July - August 2009:

7/03/09 - Seattle, WA (Key Arena)
7/11/09 - Minneapolis, MN (Target Center)
7/13/09 - Chicago, IL (United Center)
7/14/09 - Detroit, MI (Palace of Auburn Hills)
7/20/09 - Boston, MA (TD Bank)
7/22/09 - Pittsburgh, PA (Mellon Arena)
7/24/09 - Hartford, CT (XL Center)
7/25/09 - Albany, NY (Times Union Center)
7/27/09 - New York, NY (MSG)
7/31/09 - Nashville, TN (Somet Center)
8/01/09 - Atlanta, GA (Gwinnet)
8/05/09 - Orlando, FL (Amway Arena)
8/08/09 - Houston, TX (Toyota Center)
8/09/09 - San Antonio, TX (AT & T Center)
8/13/09 - Omaha, NE (Qwest)
8/16/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (Energy Sol Arena)
8/18/09 - San Jose, CA (HP Pavilion)
8/20/09 - San Diego, CA (Cox Arena)
8/21/09 - Las Vegas, NV (Mandalay)
8/24/09 - Sacramento, CA (Arco Arena)

The set lists for some of these dates will be on The Spaghetti Incident?

The source for the dates is Greenday's Official Website

I heard you crying all the way across town

2009-04-19T17:28:00.000-07:00

The Guardian newspaper has written a review of Green Day’s new album, 21st Century Breakdown, which is all nice and dandy. I thought the final paragraph was way interesting and worth some further comment:

“Green Day have become so accustomed to viewing the American Dream as a nightmare that they've lost sight of another significant interpretation. That three punks who named their band after slacker slang for sitting around getting stoned can become the most prescient polemicists of their age is as good a justification of the American ideal as you could hope to find.”

This is an interesting insight as on face value, it could be very true, Green Day are now the American Dream. Young people everywhere want to have their success. Their songs, their money, their houses, their face on the cover of a magazine. They want it all and they want it now. They are the new ideal American Idol. They stuck it to the man with their songs and now they are the Man about the House. Game over, man.

Going deeper though, predictable people could parrot on that Green Day have now actually become part of the corporate machine (by the way which one of you is Pink?), indeed a global commercial juggernaut selling boat loats of songs, t shirts and concert tickets, giving the apathetic consumer whores something else to suckle from the tit of commercial greed. This view, however, could just simply be myself echoing the familiar cry against every band who ever tasted mainstream success having come from initial humble punk roots as having sold out to the Man. Man, there is NO return to 86.

Or you could just say Green Day are just three guys making their way through the universe who got very lucky.

Where I disagreed with the paragraph was where it described Green Day as being “prescient polemicists”. Prescient means to have an ability to see the future. A polemicist is a person who puts forward a controversial view. For the Guardian to suggest that Green Day have the ability to see the future is quite odd, because American Idiot (of which its lyrical themes presumably precipitated the comment) was actually a comment on what had happened to America under the watch of George Bush. It was not a guess as to what would happen. St Jimmy blew his brains out, Green Day did not foresee this but commented on the fact. As for being polemic, that fact Green Day are soooo popular suggests they are not actually putting forward a controversial view, in fact they could just be singing what everybody is thinking.

Originally published as Do you have the time to listen to me whine?

Pictures from Green Day's secret gig at Oakland's Uptown Night Club

2009-04-17T19:28:00.000-07:00

Pictures from Green Day's secret gig at Oakland's Uptown Night Club

Green Day are warming up for a world tour to promote 21st Century Breakdown album with some warm up gigs. Here's some pictures of them performing their third 'secret' gig.

April 2009

Billie Joe did you hear us crying loud?

All the way across town?

Don't you wanna be an american idiot?

Images sourced from here, with more of Green Day.

See the Light Lyrics Green Day

2009-04-12T21:04:00.000-07:00

See the Light Lyrics Green Day

The final song in Green Day's epic 21st Century Breakdown.

The lyrics suggested a tired character, not quite converted, not quite sure of they want but wanting something but not getting it from religion. What do you think?

The references to fighting echo that of 21 guns.

See the Light lyrics:

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

I just want to see the light
i don't want to lose my sight
I just want to see the light
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

I just want to see the light
I don't want to lose my sight
I just want to see the light
I need to know what's worth the fight

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

I just want to see the light
I don't want to lose my sight
I just want to see the light
I need to know what's worth the fight

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American Eulogy Part Two: Modern World Lyrics Green Day

2009-04-12T21:00:00.000-07:00

American Eulogy Part Two: Modern World Lyrics Green Day

Here's Part One: Mass Hysteria of American Eulogy

I don't want to live in the modern world
I don't want to live in the modern world
I don't want to live in the modern world
I don't want to live in the modern world

I'm the class of 13
In the era of dissent
A hostage of the soul
On a strike to pay the rent
The last of the rebels
Without a common ground
I'm gonna light a fire
Into the underground

I don't want to live in the modern world
I don't want to live in the modern world
I don't want to live in the modern world
I don't want to live in the modern world

I am a nation
Without bureaucratic ties
Deny the allegation as it's written

I want to take a ride to the great divide
Beyond the "up to date"
And then neo-gentrified
The high definition for the low resident
Where the value of your mind
Is not held in contempt
I can hear the sound of
A beating heart
That bleeds beyond a system
That's falling apart
With money to burn
On a minimum wage
'Cause I don't give a shit
About the modern age

I don't want to live in the modern world
I don't want to live in the modern world
I don't want to live in the modern world
I don't want to live in the modern world
I don't want to live in the modern world
Mass Hysteria
I don't want to live in the modern world
Mass Hysteria
I don't want to live in the modern world
Mass Hysteria
I don't want to live in the modern world
Mass Hysteria

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American Eulogy Part One: Mass Hysteria Lyrics Greenday

2009-04-12T20:57:00.000-07:00

American Eulogy Part One: Mass Hysteria Lyrics Greenday

Green Day have bravely used the term 'niggers' in the lyric. It will be interesting to see how people react to it.

Here's Part II: Modern World

American Eulogy Lyric:

Sing us the song of the century
That sings like American eulogy
The dawn of my love and conspiracy
Of forgotten hope and the class of 13
Tell me a story into that goodnight
Sing us a song for me

Mass Hysteria
Mass Hysteria
Mass Hysteria
Mass Hysteria

Red alert is the color of panic
Elevated to the point of static
Beating into the hearts of the fanatics
And the neighborhood's a loaded gun
Idle thought leads to full-throttle screaming
And the welfare is asphyxiating
Mass confusion is all the new rage
And it's creating a feeding ground
For the bottom feeders of hysteria

Mass Hysteria
Mass Hysteria
Mass Hysteria
Mass Hysteria

True sounds of maniacal laughter
And the deaf-mute is misleading the choir
The punch line is a natural disaster
And it's sung by the unemployed
Fight fire with a riot
The class war is hanging on a wire
Because the martyr is a compulsive liar
When he said
"It's just a bunch of niggers throwing gas into the hysteria"

Mass Hysteria
Mass Hysteria
Mass Hysteria
Mass Hysteria

There's a disturbance on the oceanside
They tapped into the reserve
The static response is so unclear now
Mayday this is not a test!
As the neighborhood burns, American is falling
Vigilantes warning you
Calling Christian and Gloria

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The Static Age Lyrics Green Day

2009-04-12T20:49:00.000-07:00

The Static Age Lyrics Green Day

The Static Age is from Green Day's album 21st Century Breakdown. The lyrics appear to suggest the character cannot get any meaning from the world's means of communication as there is too much static - which is in the form of religion, advertising and corporate giant market power e.g. the coca cola reference.

The Static Age Lyrics:

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
Vision of blasphemy, war and peace
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
You're hearts in a vice
Squeezing out your state of mind
Are what you own that you cannot buy?
What a fucking tragedy, strategy
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 millennium

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
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
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
The static age

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Horseshoes and Handgrenades Lyrics Green Day

2009-04-12T20:35:00.000-07:00

Horseshoes and Handgrenades Lyrics Green Day

What do Horseshoes and Handgrenades have in common? You can throw them both...as noted in the comments by onto person, it's actually an expression and kind of an be translated as close but no cigar... kinda.

Horseshoes and Handgrenades is the first song from Act III of Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown. The Act is also named Horseshoes and Hand Grenades.

Horseshoes and Handgrenades:

I'm not fucking around
I think I'm coming out
All the deceivers and cheaters
I've 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 hand grenades

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 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 hand grenades

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

I'm not fucking around
I think I'm coming out
All the deceivers and cheaters
I've think we've got a bleeder right now
I'm not fucking around
G-L-O-R-I-A

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¿Viva la Gloria? (Little Girl) Lyrics Green Day

2009-04-12T20:18:00.000-07:00

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
And 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
To your lost tranquility
And 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
And find yourself with your face in the gutter
You're a stray for the salvation army
There is no place like home
When you got no place to go

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¿Viva la Gloria? (Little Girl) Lyrics Green Day

This is the second song off 21st Century Breakdown with Viva la Gloria in the title. It's a companion piece to the song of the same name.

¿Viva la Gloria? (Little Girl) Lyrics:

Murder City Lyrics Green Day

2009-04-12T20:16:00.001-07:00

Murder City Lyrics Green Day

Murder City is from Green Day's album, 21st Century Breakdown and is the follow up to their phenomenal American Idiot.

Murder City Lyrics:

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

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

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Last of the American Girls Lyrics Green Day

2009-04-12T20:13:00.000-07:00

Last of the American Girls Lyrics Green Day

Last of the American Girls is from Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown album:

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 eve of destruction
She's a sucker for
All the criminals breaking the laws
She will come in first
For the end of 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

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Peacemaker Lyrics by Green Day

2009-04-12T20:10:00.000-07:00

Peacemaker Lyrics by Green Day

Peacemaker is from Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown album which is the follow up to the hugely popular American Idiot.

Peacemaker:

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 as 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
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

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

This is a stand off
A Molotov cocktail
On the house
You thought I was a write off
You better think again
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
Shots ringing out on a holy parasite

Well now the caretaker's the undertaker
Now I'm gonna go out and get the peacemaker
This is the neo St. Valentines 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

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East Jesus Nowhere Lyrics Green Day

2009-04-12T20:03:00.001-07:00

East Jesus Nowhere Lyrics Green Day

East Jesus Nowhere is from Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown album. It starts of Act II known as 'Charlatans and Saints'

A Charlatan is a swindler or con artist type player. A Saint is your mother or the one called Theresa (though technically she's not a saint).

East Jesus No Where:

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! - All the black girls
You're the soldiers of the new world

Put your faith in a miracle
And it's non-denominational
Join the choir we will 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 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 God damned 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 a new religion

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

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Before the Lobotomy Lyrics Greenday

2009-04-12T19:50:00.000-07:00

Before the Lobotomy Lyrics Greenday

What is a Lobotomy? It's the ultimate sanction when The Man comes to take you down. He takes away your ability to think and renders you useless as person. "The procedure has since been characterized "as one of the most barbaric mistakes ever perpetrated by mainstream medicine". Think about that when you read the lyrics and the equivalent damage that has been done in the name of Christianity...

Before the Lobotomy:

Dreaming
I am 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
We are normal and self-controlled
Remember to learn to forget
Whiskey shots and cheap cigarettes

Well I'm not stoned
I'm just fucked up
I got so high I can't stand up
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

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21st Century Breakdown Album Track Listing and Lyrics

2009-04-12T19:40:00.000-07:00

21st Century Breakdown Album Track Listing and Lyrics

Act I - Heroes and Cons
Song Of The Century
21st Century Breakdown
Know Your Enemy
!Viva La Gloria!
Before The Lobotomy
Christian's Inferno
Last Night On Earth

Act II - Charlatans and Saints
East Jesus Nowhere
Peacemaker
Last Of The American Girls
Murder City
?Viva La Gloria? (Little Girl)
Restless Heart Syndrome

Act III - Horseshoes and Handgrenades
Horseshoes and Handgrenades
The Static Age
21 Guns
American Eulogy
a) Mass Hysteria
b) Modern World
See The Light

Song of the Century Lyrics Green Day

2009-04-12T19:32:00.001-07:00

Song of the Century Lyrics Green Day

These lyrics are from Green Day's Song of the Century from their album 21st Century Breakdown. Clearly Green Day are not singing about Oasis' Wonderwall (which I think is the song of any century... ;) )

Song of the Century

Sing us a song of the century
That's louder than bombs
And eternity
The era of static and contraband
That's leading us to the promised land
Tell us a story that's by candlelight
Waging a war and losing the fight

They're playing the song of the century
Of panic and promise and prosperity
Tell me a story into that goodnight
Sing us a song for me

The' Sing us a song' lyric is very reminds me of Billy Joel's Piano Man. What do you think?

More Heroes and Cons here

Green Day Show Set List DNA Lounge

2009-04-10T13:35:00.000-07:00

Green Day Show Set List DNA Lounge, San Fancisco, California

The follow up night to their shown at The Independent, Green Day appeared to intend to play a near identical set, dropping Welcome to Paradise:

Here's the intended set list:

“Welcome to Paradise”
“21st Century Breakdown”
“Know Your Enemy”
“Gloria”
“Lobotomy”
“Christian’s Inferno”
“All My Love”
“East Jesus Nowhere”
“Peace Maker”
“LOTAG”
“Desperate”
“Little Girl”
“Restless Heart”
“Static”
“21 Guns”
“American Eulogy”
“See the Light”
“American Idiot”
“St. Jimmy”
“Holiday”
“Minority”
“She”
“Longview”
“2000 Light Years Away”
“Going to Pasalacqua”
“Who Wrote Holden Caulfield”
“Stuck with Me”
“King for a Day”

However, according the person who put the pix on flikr, A couple of songs into the second half, Billie Joe ripped up the set list as if to say he was liberated of it. Green Day apparently then played the following songs:

American Idiot
Jesus Of Suburbia
St. Jimmy
Give Me Novocaine
Burnout
Coming Clean
The Grouch
80
Stuck With Me
Blood, Sex & Booze
She
Worry Rock
Basket Case
Going To Pasalacqua (Davey Havok guest vocal)
King For A Day
Minority

Either way you get the gist of Green Day's Set List

21 Guns Lyrics Green Day

2009-04-07T03:38:00.000-07:00

21 Guns Lyrics by Green Day from the new album 21st Century Breakdown

21 Guns is the second single from Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown album. The song was featured in Transformers 2.

21 Guns Lyrics:

Do you know what's worth fighting for,
When it's not worth dying for?
Does it take your breath away
And you feel yourself suffocating?
Does the pain weigh out the pride?
And you look for a place to hide?
Did 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

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21st Century Breakdown released May 15th

2009-04-07T03:36:00.000-07:00

Reprise Records will release Green Day's long-awaited eighth studio album, entitled 21^st Century Breakdown, on Friday, May 15^th, 2009. The album is the best-selling trio's first studio album since 2004's two-time Grammy Award-winning punk-rock opera American Idiot, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard chart, spawned five hit singles, and went on to sell more than 12 million copies worldwide.

Singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tre Cool have been at work writing, arranging, and recording 21^st Century Breakdown since early 2006 and are currently making finishing touches with producer Butch Vig, who is known for his work with Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage, and many others.

The first single from 21^st Century Breakdown is "Know Your Enemy," which will impact radio and be available for purchase from all online retailers this April.

Sauce: 21

Know Your Enemy Single Cover from Green Day

2009-04-07T03:33:00.000-07:00

Know Your Enemy Single Cover from Green Day

Green Day are to shortly release the first single of 21st Century Breakdown. It's sure to be huge! Even with the disappearance of the American Idiot! Here's the Know Your Enemy Lyrics

Restless Heart Syndrome Lyrics Green Day

2009-03-01T22:14:00.000-08:00

Restless Heart Syndrome Lyrics Green Day

The opening lyric of this song is "I've got a really bad disease" and is a possibly a reference or a nod to the Red Hot Chilli Peppers' 'Soul to Squeeze' which has the same opening lyric.

The song has its place as the last place of 21st Century Breakdown's Act II - Charlatans and Saints

Restless Heart Syndrome:

I've got a really bad disease
It's got me begging
On my hands and knees
Take me to the emergency
'Cause something seems to be missing
Somebody take the pain away
It's like an ulcer bleeding in my brain
Send me to the pharmacy
So I can lose my memory
I'm elated
Medicated
Lord knows I 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 make 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

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Last Night on Earth Lyrics by Green Day

2009-03-01T22:13:00.000-08:00

Last Night on Earth Lyrics Green Day

U2 has a Last Night on Eath song, and now so do Green Day from their album, 21st Century Breakdown:

Last Night On Earth

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 everything 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?

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Christian's Inferno Lyrics Green Day

2009-03-01T22:11:00.000-08:00

Christian's Inferno Lyrics Green Day

This song is from Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown album.

Christian's Inferno

I got under the grip
Between the modern hell
I got the rejection letter in the mail and
It was already ripped to shreds.
Seasons in a ruin and
This bitter pill is chased with blood.
There's fire in my veins
And it's pouring out like a flood

Whoa, Christian's inferno
Whoa, Christian's inferno
Whoa, Christian's inferno
Whoa, Christian's inferno

This diabolic state is gracing my existence
Like a catasrophic 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

Whoa, Christian's inferno
Whoa, Christian's inferno
Whoa, Christian's inferno
Whoa, Christian's inferno

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Viva la Gloria Lyrics Green Day

2009-03-01T22:10:00.001-08:00

Viva la Gloria Lyrics Green Day

Van Morrisson has a gloria song, so do U2 and now Greenday...

Viva La Gloria Lyrics:

Hey Gloria
Are you standing close to the edge?
Lookout to the setting sun
The brink of your vision
Eternal youth is
A landscape of the lie

The cracks of my skin can prove
As the years will testify
Say your prayers and light a fire
We're going to start a war
Your slogan's a gun for hire
It's what we waited for

Hey Gloria,

This is why we're on the edge
The fight of our lives been drawn to
This undying love.

Gloria, Viva La Gloria
You blast your name
In graffiti on the walls
Falling through broken glass that's
Slashing through your spirit
I can hear it like a jilted crowd

Gloria, where are you Gloria
You found a home
In all your scars and ammunition
You made your bed in salad days
Amongst the ruin
Ashes to ashes of our youth

She smashed her knuckles into winter
As autumns wind fades into black
She is the saint on all the sinners
The one that's fallen through the cracks
So don't put away your burning light

Gloria, where are you Gloria
Don't lose your faith
To your lost naivete
Weather the storm and don't look
Back on last November
When your banners were burning down

Gloria, viva la Gloria
Send me your amnesty down
To the broken hearted
Bring us the season
That we always will remember
Don't let the bonfires go out

So Gloria,
Send out your message of the light
That shadows in the night.
Gloria, where's your undying love?
Tell me the story of your life

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“March of the Dogs” Lyrics by Green Day

2009-02-16T23:59:00.000-08:00

“March of the Dogs” Lyrics by Green Day

Green Day are back with new album 21st Century Breakdown. Produced by Butch Vig the March of the Dog Lyrics hint at Pink Floy's Dogs of War but the song's lyrics really reflect an a concern with religtion:

"“I want to know who’s allowed to breed/All the dogs who never learned to read/Missionaries, politicians/And the cops of a new religion.”

According to Rolling Stone magazine It’s a biting indictment of contemporary religion that starts intense and never lets up, even for a marching-drum bridge."

Hard and fast from start to finish, this spiky four-and-a-half-minute tune finds Armstrong ranting, "I threw my conscience in the river in the shadow of doubt," referencing the famous Biblical passage, Psalm 23:4, which reads, "I will walk through the valley of the shadow of death... I will fear no evil."

“Before the Lobotomy” Green Day Lyrics

2009-02-16T23:51:00.000-08:00

“Before the Lobotomy” Lyrics from 21st Century Breakdown by Green Day.

The song itself is probably focused on the perspective of the character Gloria who runs around 21st Century Breakdown.

A lobotomy is a surgical procedure in which a part of the brain is removed. It's lyrical use in the title is to perhaps suggest that religion renders the brain lethargic as what happens post a lobotomy....

Before the Lobotomy Lyrics:

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's no more laughter
Songs of yesterday now live in the underground

Life before the lobotomy
Christian sang the eulogy
Sign of 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
We are normal and self-controlled
Remember to learn to forget
Whiskey shots and cheap cigarettes

Well I'm not stoned, I'm just fucked up
I got so high, I can't stand up
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's no more laughter
Songs of yesterday
Now live in the underground

Before the Labotomy was produced by Mr Butch Vig of Garbage drums and Nirvana fame.

Green Day have played the song throughout their tour in just about all their sets.

“Know Your Enemy” Green Day Lyrics

2009-02-16T23:49:00.000-08:00

“Know Your Enemy” Green Day Lyrics

The first single off Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown. Produced by Butch Vig of Garbage drums and Nirvana production fame.

Know Your Enemy Lyrics:

Do you 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 your enemy?
Well, gotta know the enemy

Violence is an enemy
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 you 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

The insurgency will rise
When the bloods been sacrificed
Don't be blinded by the lies
In your eyes

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

Do you 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

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

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21st Century Breakdown Song Lyrics by Green Day

2009-02-16T23:48:00.000-08:00

21st Century Breakdown Song Lyrics by Green Day

The title track from the new Green Day album. Produced by Butch Vig of Garbage drums and Nirvana

production fame, 21st Century Breakdown, and according to Rolling Stone:

21st Century Breakdown"kicks into a familiar Green Day three-chord blast, but morphs into multiple movements like some of the more rock-opera-heavy numbers on American Idiot. “My generation is zero, I never made it as a working class hero,” Armstrong sings, making a reference to the John Lennon track the band covered in 2007 for a John Lennon tribute album. Still in a grumpy mood afterAmerican Idiot then...

Born into Nixon, I was raised in hell.
A welfare child where the teamsters dwelled.
The last one born, the first one to run,
My dad/town was blind by 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 13
born in the era of humility
we are the desperate in the decline
raised by the bastards of 1969!!!

My name is no one, your 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 an agent, 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 even sleep/see
from brainstorms/rainstorms til dawn
Oh, bleed America bleed
believe what you read
from heroes and cons.

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Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) Lyrics by Green Day

2009-02-15T00:31:00.000-08:00

Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) was a surprise crossover hit for Green Day from their Insomniac album. It is a break up song and despite the lyrics, it is widely used as inspiration for happier events.

On the album version, at the beginning, the song's lyrics writer and singer Billie Joe Armstrong makes a mistake (the 3rd and 4th strings of the open G/D chord are played instead of the 2nd and 3rd), tries again, repeats the mistake, and in anger swears.

This "mistake" was deliberately included in the song to provide comic relief, as the lyrics clearly show it's one of their more serious songs.

Good Riddance (Time of your Life) Lyrics:

Another turning point;
a fork stuck in the road.

Time grabs you by the wrist;
directs you where to go.

So make the best of this test
and don't ask why.

It's not a question
but a lesson learned in time.

It's something unpredictable
but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

So take the photographs
and still frames in your mind.

Hang it on a shelf
In good health and good time.

Tattoos of memories
and dead skin on trial.

For what it's worth,
it was worth all the while.

It's something unpredictable
but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

(music break)

It's something unpredictable
but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

It's something unpredictable
but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

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Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown album cover

2009-02-12T21:57:00.000-08:00

Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown album cover

The long awaited Green Day album is to be released in May. 21st Century Breakdown's song structure into three chapters, Heroes and Cons, Charlatans and Saints, and Horseshoes and Handgrenades.

The album cover was inspired by the artist, Sixten. Talking about the inspiration for the picture of the couple kissing Sixten has said:

"I actually don't know who they are... they [the couple] were just friends of a friend at a party in Eskilstuna, Sweden, sometime in uh... 2000? Something like that. I wasn't even there." Instead the artist explained a mutual friend snapped a picture of the pair kissing, which then inspired Sixten. "I love their passion, and just had to make a stencil out of it to spread the love,"

Check out Sixten's Blog which explains in better detail.

Someone in the Green Day camp then produced the album cover. (when I figure out who I'll give credit!)

21st Century Breakdown will be Green Day's 8th Studio album and the follow up to the mega selling American Idiot.