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 for 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 am losing what's left of my mind

To the 20th Century deadline

I was made of poison and blood

Condemnation 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 am losing what's left of my mind

To the 20th Century Deadline

We are the class 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

The long lost son

Born of the 4th of July

Raised in an era 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 the means to an end

Is all that I have to show

I swallowed my pride

And I choked on my faith

I've given my heart and my soul

I've broken my fingers

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"

Is the song that strangles me

Don't cross the line

Dream, America dream,

I can't even sleep

From the lights early dawn

Scream, America scream

Believe what you see

From heroes and cons?

Basket case

Do you have the time to listen to me whine

About nothing and everything all at once?

I am one of those

Melodramatic fools

Neurotic to the bone

No doubt about it

Sometimes I give myself the creeps

Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me

It all keeps adding up

I think I'm cracking up

Am I just paranoid?

Or am I just stoned?

I went to a shrink

To analyze my dreams

She says it's lack of sex that's bringing me down

I went to a whore

She said my life's a bore

So quit my whining, 'cause it's bringing her down

Sometimes I give myself the creeps

Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me

It all keeps adding up

I think I'm cracking up

Am I just paranoid?

Uh, yuh, yuh, ya

Grasping to control

So I better hold on

Sometimes I give myself the creeps

Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me

It all keeps adding up

I think I'm cracking up

Am I just paranoid?

Or am I just stoned?

21 Guns

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 weight 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

One, 21 guns

Lay down your arms

Give up the fight

One, 21 guns

Throw up your arms into the sky

You and I

Boulevard of broken dreams

I walk a lonely road

The only one that I have ever known

Don't know where it goes

But it's home to me and I walk alone

I walk this empty street

On the Boulevard of broken dreams

Where the city sleeps

And I'm the only one and I walk alone

I walk alone

I walk alone

I walk alone

I walk a...

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me

My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating

Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me

'Till then I walk alone

Ahh ahh ahh ahhh

Ahh ahh ahh ahhh

I'm walking down the line

That divides me somewhere in my mind

On the borderline of the edge

And where I walk alone

Read between the lines of what's

Fucked up and everything's all right

Check my vital signs to know I'm still alive

And I walk alone

I walk alone

I walk alone

I walk alone

I walk a...

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me

My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating

Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me

'Till then I'll walk alone

Ahh ahh ahh ahhh

Ahh ahh ahh ahhh

I walk alone, I walk a...

I walk this empty street

On the Boulevard of broken dreams

When the city sleeps

And I'm the only one and I walk a...

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me

My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating

Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me

'Till then I walk alone

Wake me up when septemer ends

Summer has come and passed

The innocent can never last

Wake me up when September ends

Like my father's come to pass

Seven years has gone so fast

Wake me up when September ends

Here comes the rain again

Falling from the stars

Drenched in my pain again

Becoming who we are

As my memory rests

But never forgets what I lost

Wake me up when September ends

Summer has come and passed

The innocent can never last

Wake me up when September ends

Ring out the bells again

Like we did when spring began

Wake me up when September ends

Here comes the rain again

Falling from the stars

Drenched in my pain again

Becoming who we are

As my memory rests

But never forgets what I lost

Wake me up when September ends

Summer has come and passed

The innocent can never last

Wake me up when September ends

Like my father's come to pass

Twenty years has gone so fast

Wake me up when September ends

Wake me up when September ends

Wake me up when September ends

Jesus of Suburbia

Part I

Jesus of Suburbia

I'm the son of rage and love

The Jesus of Suburbia

From the bible of "none of the above"

On a steady diet of

Soda pop and Ritalin

No one ever died for my sins in hell

As far as I can tell

At least the ones I got away with

And there's nothing wrong with me

This is how I'm supposed to be

In a land of make believe

Who don't believe in me

Get my television fix

Sitting on my crucifix

The living room on my private womb

While the Moms & Brads are away

To fall in love and fall in debt

To alcohol and cigarettes

And Mary Jane

To keep me insane

Doing someone else's cocaine

And there's nothing wrong with me

This is how I'm supposed to be

In a land of make believe

That don't believe in me

Part II

City of the Damned

At the center of the earth

In the parking lot

Of the 7-11 where I was taught

The motto was just a lie

It says "home is where your heart is"

But what a shame

Cause everyone's heart

Doesn't beat the same

It's beating out of time

City of the dead

At the end of another lost highway

Signs misleading to nowhere

City of the damned

Lost children with dirty faces today

No one really seems to care

I read the graffiti

In the bathroom stall

Like the holy scriptures in a shopping mall

And so it seemed to confess

It didn't say much

But it only confirmed that

The center of the earth

Is the end of the world

And I could really care less

City of the dead

At the end of another lost highway

Signs misleading to nowhere

City of the damned

Lost children with dirty faces today

No one really seems to care

Part III

I don't care

I don't care if you don't

I don't care if you don't

I don't care if you don't care (x4)

I don't care...

Everyone is so full of shit

Born and raised by hypocrites

Hearts recycled but never saved

From the cradle to the grave

We are the kids of war and peace

From Anaheim to the Middle East

We are the stories and disciples of

The Jesus of Suburbia

Land of make believe

And it don't believe in me

Land of make believe

And I don't believe

And I don't care! (x5)

Part IV

Dearly beloved

Dearly beloved, are you listening?

I can't remember a word that you were saying

Are we demented?

Or am I disturbed?

The space that's in between insane and insecure

Oh, therapy, can you, please, fill the void?

Am I retarded?

Or am I just overjoyed?

Nobody's perfect and I stand accused

For lack of a better word and that's my best excuse

Part V

Tales of another broken home

To live, and not to breathe

Is to die, in tragedy

To run, to run away to find what to believe

And I leave behind this hurricane of fucking lies

I lost my faith to this, this town that don't exist

So I run ,I run away

To the light of masochist

And I, leave behind this hurricane of fucking lies

And I, walked this line a million and one fucking times

But not this time

I don't feel any shame, i wont apologize

When there ain't nowhere you can go

Running away from pain when you've been victimized

Tales from another broken home

You're leaving...

You're leaving...

You're leaving...

You're leaving home!

Holiday

Hear the sound of the falling rain

Coming down like an Armageddon flame (hey!)

The shame

The ones who died without a name

Hear the dogs howling out of key

To a hymn called "Faith and Misery" (hey!)

And bleed, the company lost the war today

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies

This is the dawning of the rest of our lives

On Holiday

Hear the drum pounding out of time

Another protestor has crossed the line (hey!)

To find, the money's on the other side

Can I get another amen? (amen!)

There's a flag wrapped around a score of men (hey!)

A gag, a plastic bag on a monument

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies

This is the dawning of the rest of our lives

On Holiday

(Hey!)

"The representative from California has the floor"

Zieg heil to the president Gasman

Bombs away is your punishment

Pulverize the Eiffel towers

Who criticize your government

Bang bang goes the broken glass

Kill all the fags that don't agree

Trials by fire, setting fire

Is not a way that's meant for me

Just cause (hey, hey) just cause, because we're outlaws, yeah!

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies

This is the dawning of the rest of our lives

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies

This is the dawning of the rest of our lives

This is our lives on Holiday