Track 2 from 21st Century Breakdown
Released 2009
Green Day has played this song live 151 times.
Released as an international single late in 2009 to supplement the incredible video created for the song.
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 from 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 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?
"21st Century Breakdown" has been played 151 times live:
| 1 | Song of the Century |
| 2 | 21st Century Breakdown |
| 3 | Know Your Enemy |
| 4 | ¡Viva La Gloria! |
| 5 | Before The Lobotomy |
| 6 | Christian's Inferno |
| 7 | Last Night On Earth |
| 8 | East Jesus Nowhere |
| 9 | Peacemaker |
| 10 | Last Of The American Girls |
| 11 | Murder City |
| 12 | ¿Viva La Gloria? (Little Girl) |
| 13 | Restless Heart Syndrome |
| 14 | Horseshoes And Handgrenades |
| 15 | The Static Age |
| 16 | 21 Guns |
| 17 | American Eulogy |
| 18 | See The Light |