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21st Century Breakdown by Green Day, Music Video and Lyrics
21st Century Breakdown is the fourth single and the title track from Green Day’s eighth studio album, “21st Century Breakdown“.
Billie Joe Armstrong composed the song which is mainly based on his personal life and musical influences. The song is to be released as a single on December 21, 2009.
The music video was directed by Marc Webb and premiered on-air and online October 19, 2009 on MTV and a number of its subsidiary websites.
Listen the song here, this is the official video.
Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown Lyrics
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 blinded form refinery sun
My Generation is zero
I never made it as a working class hero
21st century breakdown
I was once 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
Video games of 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 was once 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 ‘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 on the 4th of July
Raised in the era of heroes and cons
That left me for dead or alive
I am a nation
A worker of pride
My debt to 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 chocked on my faith
I’ve given my heat and my soul
I’ve broken my fingers
And lied though 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 light’s early dawn
Scream, America scream
Believe what you see
From heroes and cons?
Song Information
“21st Century Breakdown” utilizes quiet-verse, loud-chorus dynamics reminiscent of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”. Its guitar usage is similar to that of the Edge.
Recorded 2008–2009 at Ocean Way Recording, Hollywood, California; Studio 880, Oakland, California; Jel Studios, Newport Beach, California; Costa Mesa Studios, Costa Mesa, California
Genre Punk rock, alternative rock
Length 5:09
Label Reprise
Writer Billie Joe Armstrong, Green Day
Producer Butch Vig
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