Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown








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 town was blind from 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

Combination is what I understood

Videogames to the tower's fall

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 year of humility

We are the desperate in the decline

Raised by the bastards of 1969



My name is 'No one'

The long lost son

Born on the 4th of July

Raised in the barnyards of heroes and cons

That left me for dead or alive



I am a nation

A worker of pride

My debt to the status quo

The scars on my hands

And a means to an end

It's all that I have to show



I swallowed my pride

And I choked on my faith

I've given my heart and my soul

And lied through my teeth

The pillar of damage control



I've been to the edge

And I've thrown the bouquet

Of flowers left over the grave

I sat in the waiting room

Wasting my time

And waiting for judgement day



I praise liberty

The "Freedom to obey"

It's a song that strangles me,

Don't cross the line



Oh, dream, American dream

I can't even sleep

From the light's early dawn



Oh, bleed, America bleed

Believe what you read

From heroes and cons