Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown: chords

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

A#m               F#
My generation is zero
A#m                   F#            G#
I never made it as a working class hero

Chorus:
C#    G#      F#
21st century breakdown
  C#
I once was lost
     G#    F#
but never was found
   C#
I think I'm losing
 G#             F#
what's left of my mind
        C#   G#      F#
to the 20th century deadline

I was made of poison and blood
Condemnation is what I understood
Video games through the tower's fall
Homeland security could kill us all

My generation is zero
I never made it as a working class hero

Chorus

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#                           C#
Raised by the bastards of 1969

C#
My name is 'No one'
     F#   G#   C#
your long lost son
C#                   G#
Born on the 4th of July
C#
Raised in the barnyards
   F# G#       C#
of heroes and cons
C#                    G#
Left me for dead or alive

C#
I am A nation
  F#     G#  C#
A worker of pride
   C#                 G#
My debt to the status quo
     C#
The scars on my hands
        F#    G#    C#
And the means to an end
   C#                 G#
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

Chorus:
   F#      G# C#      F#       G# C#
I praise liberty the freedom to obey
       F#              G#   C#
It's a song that strangles me
     F#           C#  G#
Well don't cross the line

    C#     G#/C   A#m
Oh Dream America dream
  G#          F#
I can't even sleep
          A            C#
From the lights early dawn
     C#     G#/C    A#m
Oh Scream America scream
  G#             F#
Believe what you see
      A
From heroes and cons?