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21st Century Breakdown
Green Day
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This is a title song from Green Day's Album : 21st Century Breakdown... I have
listened this song many times and I think this is accurate but I am not 100% sure....
( Intro: C, G, F) X2
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Part 1 : C Chord
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 and 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'm losing what's left of my mind
C G F
To the 20th century deadline
(Intro) X2
C G F
I was made of poison and blood
C G F
Combination is what I understood
C G F
From Mexico to the Berlin Wall
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'm losing what's left of my mind
C G F
To the 20th century deadline
Part 2: G chord
G C
We are the cries of the class of '13
G C
Born in the year of humility
G C
We are the desperate in the decline
G
Raised by the bastards of 1969
C F G C
My name is 'No one' your long lost son
Born on the 4th of July
C F G C
Raised in the barnyards of heroes and cons
Left me for dead or alive
C F G C
There is a war that's inside my head
That questions the results and lies
C F G C
I'm breaking my back till I'm better off dead
We are not payed enough to survive
C F G G
I am an engine, a worker, a pawn
My debt to the status quo
C F G C
The scars on my hands and a means to an end
It's all that I have to show
C F G C
I'm taking a loan on my sa ni ty
For the redemption of my soul
C F G C
WelI am exempt from this tra ge dy
And the 21st century fall
F G C F G C
I praise liber ty, the freedom to o bey
C G C
It's a song that strangles me
F C G
Well don't cross the line
F, C, G (repeat x3)
Part 3 : Outro
C Cb A
Oh, dream, American dream
G F
I can't even sleep
G# C
From rainstorms till dawn
C Cb A
Oh, bleed, America bleed
G F
Believe what you read
G#
From heroes and cons