21st CENTURY BREAKDOWN -GREEN DAY-

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 classhero.

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 myback 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 iam 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 brainstroms/rainstroms til dawn

Oh, bleed America bleed

believe what you read

from heroes and cons.