21st Century Breakdown by Green Day
Key: CC | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

    


Intro :  C  G  F  (x2)
C                       G         F
Born into Nixon I was raised in hell
C                           G            F
A welfare child where the teamsters dwelled
C                        G           F
The last one born, the first one to run
C                         G      F
My town was blind from refinery sun
Am                F
My generation is zero
Am                     F            G
I never made it as a working class hero
C     G        F
21st Century Breakdown
C                    G     F
I once was lost but never was found
C                     G            F
I think I am losing what's left of my mind
C            G        F 
To the 20th Century Deadline
C               G         F
I was made of poison and blood
C                G         F
Condemnation is what I understood
C                  G       F
Videogames to the tower's fall
C                        G       F
Homeland Security could kill us all
Am                F
My generation is zero
Am                     F            G
I never made it as a working class hero
C     G        F
21st Century Breakdown
C                    G     F
I once was lost but never was found
C                     G            F
I think I am losing what's left of my mind
C            G        F 
To the 20th Century Deadline
C                F  C
We are the class of 13
C                        G
Born in the era of humility
C                     F        C   
We are the desperate in the decline
C                          G
Raised by the Bastards of 1969
C
My name is no one
F              C
The long lost son
                    G
Born of the 4th of July
C                    F          C
Raised in an era of heroes and cons
                          G
That left me for dead or alive
C
I am a nation
F            C
A worker of pride
                       G
My debt to the status quo
C
The scars on my hands
          F          C
And the means to an end
                       G
Is all that I have to show
C
I swallowed my pride
        F           C
And I choked on my faith
                            G
I've given my heart and my soul
C
I've broken my fingers
     F               C
And lied through my teeth
                         G
The pillar of damage control
C
I've been to the edge
            F           C
And I've thrown the bouquet
                           G
Of flowers left over the grave
C
I sat in the waiting room
 F           C
Wasting my time
                           G 
And waiting for judgement day
F           C
I praise Liberty
F                C
The "Freedom to Obey"
F                          C 
Is the song that strangles me
                  G
Don't cross the line
C          G      Am
Dream , America dream ,
G              F
I can't even sleep
Fm                     C
From the lights early dawn
C          G       Am
Scream , America scream
G                 F         Fm        C
Believe what you see from heroes and cons?