Standard (EADGBE)
Key:
Chords used:
Verse 1
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 by candlelight
Waging a war and losing the fight
Verse 2
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
2.) 21st Century Breakdown
Key: then
Chords used:
/ x365xx
Intro
Piano/Acoustic Guitar: Same Intro to the song See The Light
x8
Distortion: x2
Verse 1
Born into Nixon I was raised in hell
A welfare child where the teamsters dwelled
The last one born and the first one to run
My town was blind from refinery sun
Refrain
My generation is zero
I never made it as a working class hero
Chorus 1
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
Interlude
x2
Verse 2
I was made of poison and blood
Condemnation is what I understood
Video games to the tower's fall
Homeland Security could kill us all
(Repeat Refrain and Chorus 1)
Interlude
Beat Changes from slow to fast
Bridge
We are the cries of the class of '13
Born in the year of humility
we are the desperate in the decline
x4
Raised by the bastards of 1969
Verse 3
My name is 'No one'
your long lost son
Born on the 4th of July
Raised in the barnyards
of he roes and cons
Left me for dead or alive
Verse 4
I 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
Interlude
x4
Verse 5
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
Verse 6
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
Chorus 2
I praise liberty the freedom to o bey
It's a song that strangles me
Well don't cross the line
x3
Guitar solo
Outro
Oh Dream America dream
I can't even sleep
From the lights early dawn
Oh Scream America scream
Believe what you see
From heroes and cons?
3.) Know Your Enemy
Key:
Chords used:
Intro
Drumbeats x4
x2
Chorus
Do you know the enemy?
Do you know your enemy?
Well gotta know
the enemy Wah Ay
(Repeat x3)
Verse 1
Violence is an energy
Against the enemy
Well violence is
an energy Wah Ay
Bringing on the fu ry
The choir infantry
Revolt against the honor
to obey (Oh weh oh weh)
Overthrow the effigy
The vast majority
Well burning down the foreman
of control (Oh weh oh weh)
Silence is the enemy
Against your urgency
So rally up the demons of
your soul (Oh weh oh weh)
(Repeat Chorus but only twice)
Bridge
The insurgency will rise
When the bloods
been sacrificed
Don't be blinded by
the lies In your eyes Say!
Guitar 2: Bridge:
Key:
Chords used:
Intro
Drumbeats x4
x2
Chorus
Do you know the enemy?
Do you know your enemy?
Well gotta know
the enemy Wah Ay
(Repeat x3)
Verse 1
Violence is an energy
Against the enemy
Well violence is
an energy Wah Ay
Bringing on the fu ry
The choir infantry
Revolt against the honor
to obey (Oh weh oh weh)
Overthrow the effigy
The vast majority
Well burning down the foreman
of control (Oh weh oh weh)
Silence is the enemy
Against your urgency
So rally up the demons of
your soul (Oh weh oh weh)
(Repeat Chorus but only twice)
Bridge
The insurgency will rise
When the bloods
been sacrificed
Don't be blinded by
the lies In your eyes Say!
Guitar solo
| x2
x3 | x2
Verse 2
Well Violence is an energy
(Oh Weh Oh Weh)
Oh from here to eternity
(Oh Weh Oh Weh)
Well Violence is an energy
(Oh Weh Oh Weh)
Silence is the enemy
So gimme gimme revolution
Interlude
x2
(Repeat Chorus)
Outro
Overthrow the effigy
The vast majority
Well burning down the
foreman of control
(Oh weh oh weh)
Silence is the enemy
Against your urgency
So rally up the demons of
your soul (Oh weh oh weh)
Guitar solo
| x2
x3 | x2
Verse 2
Well Violence is an energy
(Oh Weh Oh Weh)
Oh from here to eternity
(Oh Weh Oh Weh)
Well Violence is an energy
(Oh Weh Oh Weh)
Silence is the enemy
So gimme gimme revolution
Interlude
x2
(Repeat Chorus)
Outro
Overthrow the effigy
The vast majority
Well burning down the
foreman of control
(Oh weh oh weh)
Silence is the enemy
Against your urgency
So rally up the demons of
your soul (Oh weh oh weh)
4.) Viva La Gloria
Key:
Chords used:
Intro
Piano
Verse 1
Hey Gloria
Are you standing close to the edge?
Lookout to the setting sun
The brink of your vision
Eternal youth is
A landscpe from the lie
The cracks of my skin can prove
As the years will testify
Refrain 1
Say your prayers and light a fire
Were going to start a war
Your slogans a gun for hire
It's what we waited for
Verse 2
Hey Gloria
This is what were on the edge
The fight of our lives been drawn to
This undying love
Interlude
Beat Changes from Ballad Piano to Fast Punk Rock
Chorus 1
Gloria, Viva La Gloria
You blast your name
In graffiti on the walls
Falling thought broken glass that's
Slashing thought your spirit
I can hear it like a jilted crowd
Chorus 2
Gloria, Where are you Gloria?
You found a home
In all your scars and ammunition
You made your bed in salad days
Amongst the ruins
Ashes to ashes of our youth
Verse 3
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 thought the cracks
Refrain 2
So don't put away your burning light
Chorus 3
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 banner where burning down
Chorus 4
Gloria, Viva La Gloria
Send me you amenesty down
To the broken hearted
Bring us the season
That we always will remember
Don't let the bonfires go out
Outro
So Gloria,
Send out your message of the light
That Shadow in the night
Gloria, Where's your undying love?
Tell me the story of your life
your life
5.) Before The Lobotomy
Key: then
Chords used:
/ 143xxx
Intro
Plucking
x2 x2 x2
Verse 1
Dreaming
I was only dreaming
Of another place and time
Where's my family is 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
Interlude
beat switch from slow to fast
x6
Verse 2
Life before the lobotomy
Christian sang the eulo gy
Sign my love a lost memory
From the end of the century
Refrain 1
Well It's e nough to make you sick
To cast a stone and throw a brick
And when the sky is falling down
It burned your dreams into the ground
Verse 3
Christian's lesson is what he's been sold
We are normal and selfcontrolled
Remember to learn to forget
Whiskey shots and cheap cigarettes
Refrain 2
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
Chorus
Like refugees
We're lost to refugees
Like refugees
We're lost to refugees
The brutality of reality
(Guitar solo)
Is the freedom that keeps me from
Outro
Dreaming
I was only dreaming
Of another place and time
Where's my family is 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
6.) Christian's Inferno
Key:
Chords used:
Intro
x2
Verse 1
I got under the grip
Between the modern hell
I got the rejection
letter in the mail and
It was already ripped to shreds
Season in a ruin and
This bitter pill is
chased with blood
There's fire in my veins
And it's pouring
out like a fool
Chorus
Woah Christian's Inferno
Woah Christian's Inferno
Woah Christian's Inferno
Woah Christian's Inferno
Interlude
x2
Verse 2
This diabolic state
is gracing my existence
Like a catrastophic baby
Maybe, Maybe you're a
chemical reaction
I am the atom bomb
I am the chosen one
Toxin our reservoir
And the return man to ape
(Repeat Chorus and Interlude)
Guitar solo
x4
(Repeat Chorus)
Outro
x4, (hold)
7.) Last Night On Earth
Key:
Chords used:
Intro
Piano
Verse 1
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
Chorus 1
My beating heart belong to you
I walk 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
Guitar solo
Verse 2
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
(Repeat Chorus 1)
Guitar solo
x2
Guitar 2:
Chorus 2
My beating heart belong to you
I walk for miles til i found you
I'm here to honor you
If I lose everything in the fire
Did I come and make it through
Outro
Act II. Charlatans And Saints
8.) East Jesus Nowhere
Key:
Chords used:
Intro
x8
Verse 1
Raise your hands now to testify
Your confessions 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
Refrain 1
Put your faith in a miracle
And it's non denominational
Join the choir we will be singing
In the church of wishful thinking
Chorus 1
A fire burns today
Of blasphemy and genocide
The sirens of decay
Will infiltrate the faith fanatics
Guitar solo
x4
Verse 2
Bass Lines
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"
pause
And I'll be dressed in my Sunday best
Refrain 2
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
(Repeat Chorus 1)
Guitar solo
x4
Bridge
Don't test me
Second guess me
Protest me
Refrain 3
I want to know who's allowed to breed
All the dogs who never learn to read
Missionary politicians
And the cops of a new religion
Guitar solo
x4
Chorus 2
Slow motion
A fire burns today
Of blasphemy and genocide
The sirens of decay
Will infiltrate the inside
Outro
x4 , (hold)
9.) Peacemaker
Key:
Chords used:
Intro
Guitar: x4
Verse 1
Well, Ive got a fever
non believer
Im in a state of grace
For I am the Caesar
Im 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
Chorus
Vendetta sweet vendetta
This Beretta of the night
This fire and the desire
well Shots ringing out on
a holy parasite
Verse 2
Well I am a killjoy from Detroit
I drink from a well of rage
I feed off the weakness
with all my love
Well Call up the captain hey hey
Hey hey hey hey hey
WellDeath to the lover that
you were dreaming of
Well 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
Im gonna send you back
to the place where it all began
(Repeat Chorus)
Breakdown
Guitar solo
Bridge
Well now the caretakers the undertaker
Now Im 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
Outro
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 sere nade
10.) Last Of The American Girls
Key:
Chords used:
Intro
Verse 1
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
Verse 2
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
Chorus 1
She's a runaway of the
establishment incorporated
She won't cooperate
She's the last of
the American girls
Verse 3
She plays her
vinyl records
Singing songs on the
even of destruction
She's a sucker for
All the criminals
breaking the laws
She will come in first
For the end of the
western civilization
She's an endless war
Like a hero for
the lost cause
Chorus 2
Like a hurricane
In the heart of
the devastation
She's a natural
disaster
She's the last of
the American girls
Guitar solo
x2
x2 x2 x2 x2
Chorus 3
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 the
western civilization
She's a natural
disaster
She's the last of
the American girls
11.) Murder City
Key:
Chords used:
Intro
Chorus
Desperate
But no hopeless
I feel so useless
In the murder city
Desperate
But no helpless
The clocks strikes midnight
In the murder city
Verse 1
I'm wide awake
After the riot
This demostration
Of our anguish
This empty laugher
Has no reason
Like a bottle
Of your favorite poison
Refrain
We are the last call
But we're still pathetic
(Repeat Chorus)
Guitar solo
x2
Guitar 2:
x2 x2
Verse 2
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
(Repeat Refrain)
(Repeat Chorus twice)
12.) Little Girl
Key:
Chords used:
Intro
Verse 1
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
Chorus 1
Runaway
From the river to the street
And find yourself with
your face in the gutter
Your a stray for the salvation ar my
There is no place like home
x2
When you got no place to go
Verse 2
Little girl, little girl
Your life is calling
The charlatans and
saints of your a bandon
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
(Repeat Chorus 1)
Bridge
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
Guitar solo
x4
Guitar 2:
Chorus 2
Runaway
From the river to the street
And find yourself with
your face in the gutter
Your a stray for the salvation ar my
There is no place like home
13.) Restless Heart Syndrome
Key:
Chords:
Intro
Piano
Verse 1
Ive got a really bad disease
It's got me begging on my hands and knees
So take me to emergency
Cause something seems to be missing
Verse 2
Somebody take the pain away
It's like an ulcer bleeding in my brain
So send me to the pharmacy
So I can lose my memory
Refrain 1
I'm elated Medicated
Lord knows I tried to
find a way to run away
Verse 3
I think they found another cure
For broken hearts and feeling insecure
You'd be surprised what I endure
What makes you feel so self assured?
Verse 4
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
Refrain 1
So what ails you
is what impales you
I feel like I've been
crucified to be satisfied
Chorus 1
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
Guitar solo
x4
Guitar 2: with effects pedal
Chorus 2
I'm elated Medicated
I am my own worst enemy
So what ails you
Is what impales you
You are your own
worst enemy
Chorus 3
You're a victim of the seizure
I am my own worst enemy
You're a victim of the seizure
You are your own
worst enemy
Outro
x4, (hold)
Act III. Horseshoes And Handgrenades
14.) Horseshoes And Handgrenades
Key:
Chords used:
Intro
| x6
Verse 1
I'm not fucking around
I think I'm coming out
All the deciever 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
Chorus
Maybe you're the runner up
But the first one
to lose the race
Almost only really counts in
Horsehoes and hand grenades
Verse 2
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
(Repeat Chorus)
Bridge
Demolition self destruction
What to annihilate
The age old contradiction
Interlude
x4, x2
Verse 3
Demolition self destruction
What to annihilate
The old age old contradiciton
Demolition self destruction
What to annihilate
The old age
Interlude
x2
Outro
I'm not fucking around
I think I'm coming out
All the hate and the time
destruct the paranoid
save us right now
I'm not fucking around
L O R I
L O R I
L O R I
L O R I
15.) The Static Age
Key: then then
Chords used:
Intro
x2
Verse 1
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
oh Screaming at you
Chorus 1
I can't see a thing in the video
I can't hear a sound on the radio
In stereo in the static age
Interlude
x2
Verse 2
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 on a vice
Squeezing out your state of mind
Are what you own that you cannot buy?
What a fucking tragedy, strategy
oh Screaming at you
Chorus 2
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
Bridge
Hey, hey it's the static age
This is how the West was won
Hey, hey it's the static age millennium
Guitar solo
Modultate from to
x4,
Verse 3
modulate from C to D
All I want to know
It's a god damned thing
Not what's in the medicine
All I want to do is
I want to breath
Batteries are not included
What's the latest way that a man can die
Screaming hallelujah?
Singing out "The Dawn's Early Light"
The silent of the rotten, forgotten
Oh Screaming at you
Chorus 3
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
Outro
The static age
16.) 21 Guns
Key:
Chords used:
Intro
Verse 1
Do you know what's worth fighting for
When it's not worth dying for?
Does it take you breath away
And you feel yourself suffocating?
Does the pain weight out the pride?
And you look for a place to hide?
Does someone break your heart inside?
You're in ruins
Chorus 1
One, 21 guns
Lay down your arms
Give up the fight
One, 21 guns
Throw up your
arms into the sky
You and I
Verse 2
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
(Repeat Chorus 1)
Bridge
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
Guitar solo
x2
Interlude
Verse 3
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
Chorus 2
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
17.) American Eulogy
Key: then then then
Chords used:
/ x365xx
17.1 Mass Hysteria
Intro
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
Chorus
hysteria
Mass hysteria
Mass hysteria
Mass hysteria
Verse 1
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
(Repeat Chorus)
Verse 2
True sounds of maniacal laughter
And the deaf mute is misleading the choir
The punchline 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"
(Repeat Chorus)
Bridge
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
America is falling
Vigilantes warning you
Calling Christian and Gloria
Guitar solo
17.2 Modern World
Intro
x2
Chorus
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
Verse 1
Mike Dirnt the bassist sings here instead of Billie
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 well
(Repeat Chorus)
Post Chorus:
I nation
Without bureaucratic ties
Deny the allegation as
it's written a fucking lies
Guitar solo
x3,
Verse 2
Mike sings again
I want to take a ride
to the great divide
Beyond the "up to date"
And the neo gentrified
The high definition for
the low resident
Where the value of your mind
Is not held in contempt
Verse 3
Still Mike Dirnt
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
(Repeat Chorus)
Outro
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
(Repeat)
18.) See The Light
Key: then
Chords used:
Intro
x4
Verse 1
Well 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
Chorus
Well I, I just want to see the light
And I, I don't want to lose my sight
Well I, I just want to see the light
And I need to know what's worth the fight
Verse 2
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
(Repeat Chorus)
Guitar solo
x3
Interlude
x2
Verse 3
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
It's the hands of fate
(Repeat Chorus)
Outro
x12
Bonus Track:
19.) Lights Out
Key:
Chords used:
Intro
Drum solo
Verse 1
Lights out
here comes the night
as the darkness falls
over the light
lights out
there goes the day
and this fear that
comes won't go away
Chorus 1
and i'm losing track of time
in the corners of my mind
and im living out my
private suicide (lights out)
Interlude
Verse 2
lights out
i lost myself
in the space between
heaven and hell
lights out
finding my way
did i waste my time
losing the way?
(Repeat Chorus 1)
Guitar solo
x2
Interlude
Bass solo
x2
Verse 3
lights out here
comes the night
as the darkness
falls over the
light lights out
i lost myself
in the space between
heaven and hell
Chorus 2
well i'm losing track of time
in the corners of my mind
and im living out my
private suicide (lights out)
Outro