21st Century Breakdown is a title song and the fourth single off Green Day‘s eight studio album, 21st Century Breakdown, released on May 15, 2009. It became a follow-up to the band’s platinum selling punk opera American Idiot and earned the scrappy trio the 2010 Grammy Award for The Best Rock Album of the Year. The music video for 21st Century Breakdown was directed by Marc Webb and premiered on MTV in October 2009. You can read the song’s lyrics and enjoy the official video. Thanks for watching!
Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown Song Words
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
My generation is zero
I never made it
As a working class hero
21st century breakdown
I was once 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 of 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 was once lost but never was found
I think I am losing what’s left of my mind
To the 20th century deadline
We are the cries of 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 on the 4th of July
Raised in the era of heroes and cons
That left me for dead or alive
I am a nation
A worker of pride
My debt to 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 chocked on my faith
I’ve given my heart and my soul
I’ve broken my fingers
And lied though 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 Judgment Day
“21st Century Breakdown” lyrics are provided by Geniusbeauty.com
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 light’s early dawn
Scream, America scream
Believe what you see
From heroes and cons
