Standard (EADGBE)

Key:

Chords used:

Verse 1

Sing us a song of the century

That's louder than bombs

And Eternity

The era of static and contraband

That's leading us to the promised land

Tell us a story by candlelight

Waging a war and losing the fight

Verse 2

They're playing the song of the century

Of panic and promise and prosperity

Tell me a story into that goodnight

Sing us a song for me

2.) 21st Century Breakdown

Key: then

Chords used:

/ x365xx

Intro

Piano/Acoustic Guitar: Same Intro to the song See The Light

x8

Distortion: x2

Verse 1

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

Refrain

My generation is zero

I never made it as a working class hero

Chorus 1

21st century breakdown

I once was lost

but never was found

I think I'm losing

what's left of my mind

to the 20th century deadline

Interlude

x2

Verse 2

I was made of poison and blood

Condemnation is what I understood

Video games to the tower's fall

Homeland Security could kill us all

(Repeat Refrain and Chorus 1)

Interlude

Beat Changes from slow to fast

Bridge

We are the cries of the class of '13

Born in the year of humility

we are the desperate in the decline

x4

Raised by the bastards of 1969

Verse 3

My name is 'No one'

your long lost son

Born on the 4th of July

Raised in the barnyards

of he roes and cons

Left me for dead or alive

Verse 4

I 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

Interlude

x4

Verse 5

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

Verse 6

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 2

I praise liberty the freedom to o bey

It's a song that strangles me

Well don't cross the line

x3

Guitar solo

Outro

Oh Dream America dream

I can't even sleep

From the lights early dawn

Oh Scream America scream

Believe what you see

From heroes and cons?

3.) Know Your Enemy

Key:

Chords used:

Intro

Drumbeats x4

x2

Chorus

Do you know the enemy?

Do you know your enemy?

Well gotta know

the enemy Wah Ay

(Repeat x3)

Verse 1

Violence is an energy

Against the enemy

Well violence is

an energy Wah Ay

Bringing on the fu ry

The choir infantry

Revolt against the honor

to obey (Oh weh oh weh)

Overthrow the effigy

The vast majority

Well burning down the foreman

of control (Oh weh oh weh)

Silence is the enemy

Against your urgency

So rally up the demons of

your soul (Oh weh oh weh)

(Repeat Chorus but only twice)

Bridge

The insurgency will rise

When the bloods

been sacrificed

Don't be blinded by

the lies In your eyes Say!

Guitar 2: Bridge:

Key:

Chords used:

Intro

Drumbeats x4

x2

Chorus

Do you know the enemy?

Do you know your enemy?

Well gotta know

the enemy Wah Ay

(Repeat x3)

Verse 1

Violence is an energy

Against the enemy

Well violence is

an energy Wah Ay

Bringing on the fu ry

The choir infantry

Revolt against the honor

to obey (Oh weh oh weh)

Overthrow the effigy

The vast majority

Well burning down the foreman

of control (Oh weh oh weh)

Silence is the enemy

Against your urgency

So rally up the demons of

your soul (Oh weh oh weh)

(Repeat Chorus but only twice)

Bridge

The insurgency will rise

When the bloods

been sacrificed

Don't be blinded by

the lies In your eyes Say!

Guitar solo

| x2

x3 | x2

Verse 2

Well Violence is an energy

(Oh Weh Oh Weh)

Oh from here to eternity

(Oh Weh Oh Weh)

Well Violence is an energy

(Oh Weh Oh Weh)

Silence is the enemy

So gimme gimme revolution

Interlude

x2

(Repeat Chorus)

Outro

Overthrow the effigy

The vast majority

Well burning down the

foreman of control

(Oh weh oh weh)

Silence is the enemy

Against your urgency

So rally up the demons of

your soul (Oh weh oh weh)

Guitar solo

| x2

x3 | x2

Verse 2

Well Violence is an energy

(Oh Weh Oh Weh)

Oh from here to eternity

(Oh Weh Oh Weh)

Well Violence is an energy

(Oh Weh Oh Weh)

Silence is the enemy

So gimme gimme revolution

Interlude

x2

(Repeat Chorus)

Outro

Overthrow the effigy

The vast majority

Well burning down the

foreman of control

(Oh weh oh weh)

Silence is the enemy

Against your urgency

So rally up the demons of

your soul (Oh weh oh weh)

4.) Viva La Gloria

Key:

Chords used:

Intro

Piano

Verse 1

Hey Gloria

Are you standing close to the edge?

Lookout to the setting sun

The brink of your vision

Eternal youth is

A landscpe from the lie

The cracks of my skin can prove

As the years will testify

Refrain 1

Say your prayers and light a fire

Were going to start a war

Your slogans a gun for hire

It's what we waited for

Verse 2

Hey Gloria

This is what were on the edge

The fight of our lives been drawn to

This undying love

Interlude

Beat Changes from Ballad Piano to Fast Punk Rock

Chorus 1

Gloria, Viva La Gloria

You blast your name

In graffiti on the walls

Falling thought broken glass that's

Slashing thought your spirit

I can hear it like a jilted crowd

Chorus 2

Gloria, Where are you Gloria?

You found a home

In all your scars and ammunition

You made your bed in salad days

Amongst the ruins

Ashes to ashes of our youth

Verse 3

She smashed her knuckles into winter

As autumns wind fades into black

She is the saint on all the sinners

The one that's fallen thought the cracks

Refrain 2

So don't put away your burning light

Chorus 3

Gloria, Where are you Gloria?

Don't lose your faith

To your lost naivete

Weather the storm and don't look

Back on last november

When your banner where burning down

Chorus 4

Gloria, Viva La Gloria

Send me you amenesty down

To the broken hearted

Bring us the season

That we always will remember

Don't let the bonfires go out

Outro

So Gloria,

Send out your message of the light

That Shadow in the night

Gloria, Where's your undying love?

Tell me the story of your life

your life

5.) Before The Lobotomy

Key: then

Chords used:

/ 143xxx

Intro

Plucking

x2 x2 x2

Verse 1

Dreaming

I was only dreaming

Of another place and time

Where's my family is from

Singing

I can hear them singing

When the rain had washed away

All these scattered dreams

Dying

Everyone's reminded

Hearts are washed in misery

Drenched in gasoline

Laughter

There's no more laughter

Songs of yesterday

Now live in the underground

Interlude

beat switch from slow to fast

x6

Verse 2

Life before the lobotomy

Christian sang the eulo gy

Sign my love a lost memory

From the end of the century

Refrain 1

Well It's e nough to make you sick

To cast a stone and throw a brick

And when the sky is falling down

It burned your dreams into the ground

Verse 3

Christian's lesson is what he's been sold

We are normal and selfcontrolled

Remember to learn to forget

Whiskey shots and cheap cigarettes

Refrain 2

Well i'm not stoned

I'm just fucked up

I got so high I can't stand up

I'm not cursed Cause i've been blessed

I'm not in love Cause i'm a mess

Chorus

Like refugees

We're lost to refugees

Like refugees

We're lost to refugees

The brutality of reality

(Guitar solo)

Is the freedom that keeps me from

Outro

Dreaming

I was only dreaming

Of another place and time

Where's my family is from

Singing

I can hear them singing

When the rain had washed away

All these scattered dreams

Dying

Everyone's reminded

Hearts are washed in misery

Drenched in gasoline

Laughter

There's no more laughter

Songs of yesterday

Now live in the underground

6.) Christian's Inferno

Key:

Chords used:

Intro

x2

Verse 1

I got under the grip

Between the modern hell

I got the rejection

letter in the mail and

It was already ripped to shreds

Season in a ruin and

This bitter pill is

chased with blood

There's fire in my veins

And it's pouring

out like a fool

Chorus

Woah Christian's Inferno

Woah Christian's Inferno

Woah Christian's Inferno

Woah Christian's Inferno

Interlude

x2

Verse 2

This diabolic state

is gracing my existence

Like a catrastophic baby

Maybe, Maybe you're a

chemical reaction

I am the atom bomb

I am the chosen one

Toxin our reservoir

And the return man to ape

(Repeat Chorus and Interlude)

Guitar solo

x4

(Repeat Chorus)

Outro

x4, (hold)

7.) Last Night On Earth

Key:

Chords used:

Intro

Piano

Verse 1

I text a postcard sent to you

Did it go through?

Sending all my love to you

You are the moonlight

of my life every night

Giving all my love to you

Chorus 1

My beating heart belong to you

I walk for miles 'til i found you

I'm here to honor you

If I lose everything in the fire

I'm sending all my love to you

Guitar solo

Verse 2

With every breath that I am worth

Here on earth

I'm sending all my love to you

So if you dare to second guess

You can rest assured

That all my love's for you

(Repeat Chorus 1)

Guitar solo

x2

Guitar 2:

Chorus 2

My beating heart belong to you

I walk for miles til i found you

I'm here to honor you

If I lose everything in the fire

Did I come and make it through

Outro

Act II. Charlatans And Saints

8.) East Jesus Nowhere

Key:

Chords used:

Intro

x8

Verse 1

Raise your hands now to testify

Your confessions will be crucified

You're a sacrificial suicide

Like a dog that's been sodomized

[Stand up!] all the white boys

[Sit down!] all the black girls

You're the soldiers

of the new world

Refrain 1

Put your faith in a miracle

And it's non denominational

Join the choir we will be singing

In the church of wishful thinking

Chorus 1

A fire burns today

Of blasphemy and genocide

The sirens of decay

Will infiltrate the faith fanatics

Guitar solo

x4

Verse 2

Bass Lines

Oh bless me lord for I have sinned

It's been a lifetime since I last confessed

I threw my crutches in "the river

Of a shadow of doubt"

pause

And I'll be dressed in my Sunday best

Refrain 2

Say a prayer for the family

Drop a coin for humanity

Ain't this uniform so flattering?

I never asked you a god damned thing

(Repeat Chorus 1)

Guitar solo

x4

Bridge

Don't test me

Second guess me

Protest me

Refrain 3

I want to know who's allowed to breed

All the dogs who never learn to read

Missionary politicians

And the cops of a new religion

Guitar solo

x4

Chorus 2

Slow motion

A fire burns today

Of blasphemy and genocide

The sirens of decay

Will infiltrate the inside

Outro

x4 , (hold)

9.) Peacemaker

Key:

Chords used:

Intro

Guitar: x4

Verse 1

Well, I’ve got a fever

non believer

I’m in a state of grace

For I am the Caesar

I’m gonna seize the day

Well call of the banshee hey hey

Hey hey hey hey hey

As God as my witness

The infidels are gonna pay

Well, call the assassin

The orgasm

A spasm of love and hate

For what will divide us?

The righteous and the meek

Well call of the wild hey hey

Hey hey hey hey hey

Death to the girl at the

end of the serenade

Chorus

Vendetta sweet vendetta

This Beretta of the night

This fire and the desire

well Shots ringing out on

a holy parasite

Verse 2

Well I am a killjoy from Detroit

I drink from a well of rage

I feed off the weakness

with all my love

Well Call up the captain hey hey

Hey hey hey hey hey

WellDeath to the lover that

you were dreaming of

Well This is a stand off

A Molotov cocktail

On the house

You thought I was a write off

You better think again

Call the peacemaker hey hey

Hey hey hey hey hey

I’m gonna send you back

to the place where it all began

(Repeat Chorus)

Breakdown

Guitar solo

Bridge

Well now the caretaker’s the undertaker

Now I’m gonna go out and get the peacemaker

This is the neo St. Valentines Massacre

Well call up the Gaza hey hey

hey hey hey hey hey

Death to the ones at the end of the serenade

Outro

Well, death to the ones at the end of the serenade

Well, death to the ones at the end of the serenade

Well, death to the ones at the end of the sere nade

10.) Last Of The American Girls

Key:

Chords used:

Intro

Verse 1

She puts her makeup on

Like graffiti on the

walls of the heartland

She's got her little

book of conspiracies

Right in her hand

She is paranoid like

Endangered species

headed into extinction

She is one of a kind

She's the last of

the American girls

Verse 2

She wears her overcoat

For the coming of

the nuclear winter

She is riding her bike

Like a fugitive

of critical mass

She's on a hunger strike

For the ones who won't

make it for dinner

She makes enough to survive

For a holiday of working class

Chorus 1

She's a runaway of the

establishment incorporated

She won't cooperate

She's the last of

the American girls

Verse 3

She plays her

vinyl records

Singing songs on the

even of destruction

She's a sucker for

All the criminals

breaking the laws

She will come in first

For the end of the

western civilization

She's an endless war

Like a hero for

the lost cause

Chorus 2

Like a hurricane

In the heart of

the devastation

She's a natural

disaster

She's the last of

the American girls

Guitar solo

x2

x2 x2 x2 x2

Chorus 3

She puts her makeup on

Like graffiti on the

walls of the heartland

She's got her little

book of conspiracies

Right in her hand

She will come in first

For the end of the

western civilization

She's a natural

disaster

She's the last of

the American girls

11.) Murder City

Key:

Chords used:

Intro

Chorus

Desperate

But no hopeless

I feel so useless

In the murder city

Desperate

But no helpless

The clocks strikes midnight

In the murder city

Verse 1

I'm wide awake

After the riot

This demostration

Of our anguish

This empty laugher

Has no reason

Like a bottle

Of your favorite poison

Refrain

We are the last call

But we're still pathetic

(Repeat Chorus)

Guitar solo

x2

Guitar 2:

x2 x2

Verse 2

Christian's crying

In the bathroom

And i just want to

Bum a cigarette

We've come so far

We've been so wasted

It's written

All over our faces

(Repeat Refrain)

(Repeat Chorus twice)

12.) Little Girl

Key:

Chords used:

Intro

Verse 1

Little girl little girl

Why are you crying?

Inside your restless

soul your heart is dying

Little one, little one

Your soul is purging

Of love and razor blades

Your blood is surging

Chorus 1

Runaway

From the river to the street

And find yourself with

your face in the gutter

Your a stray for the salvation ar my

There is no place like home

x2

When you got no place to go

Verse 2

Little girl, little girl

Your life is calling

The charlatans and

saints of your a bandon

Little one little one

The sky is falling

The lifeboat of

deception is now sailing

In the wake all the way

No rhyme or reason

Your bloodshot eyes

Will show your

heart of treason

Little girl little girl

You dirty liar

You're just a junkie

Preaching to the choir

(Repeat Chorus 1)

Bridge

The traces of blood

Always follow you home

Like the Mascara tears

From your getaway

Your walking with blisters

And running with shears

So unholy Sister of grace

Guitar solo

x4

Guitar 2:

Chorus 2

Runaway

From the river to the street

And find yourself with

your face in the gutter

Your a stray for the salvation ar my

There is no place like home

13.) Restless Heart Syndrome

Key:

Chords:

Intro

Piano

Verse 1

I’ve got a really bad disease

It's got me begging on my hands and knees

So take me to emergency

Cause something seems to be missing

Verse 2

Somebody take the pain away

It's like an ulcer bleeding in my brain

So send me to the pharmacy

So I can lose my memory

Refrain 1

I'm elated Medicated

Lord knows I tried to

find a way to run away

Verse 3

I think they found another cure

For broken hearts and feeling insecure

You'd be surprised what I endure

What makes you feel so self assured?

Verse 4

I need to find a place to hide

You never know what

could be waiting outside

The accidents that you could find

It's like some kind of suicide

Refrain 1

So what ails you

is what impales you

I feel like I've been

crucified to be satisfied

Chorus 1

I'm a victim of my symptom

I am my own worst enemy

You're a victim of your symptom

You are your own

worst enemy Know your enemy

Guitar solo

x4

Guitar 2: with effects pedal

Chorus 2

I'm elated Medicated

I am my own worst enemy

So what ails you

Is what impales you

You are your own

worst enemy

Chorus 3

You're a victim of the seizure

I am my own worst enemy

You're a victim of the seizure

You are your own

worst enemy

Outro

x4, (hold)

Act III. Horseshoes And Handgrenades

14.) Horseshoes And Handgrenades

Key:

Chords used:

Intro

| x6

Verse 1

I'm not fucking around

I think I'm coming out

All the deciever and cheaters

I've think we've got

a bleeder right now

Want you to slap me around

Want you to knock me out

Well, you missed me kissed me

Now you better kick me down

Chorus

Maybe you're the runner up

But the first one

to lose the race

Almost only really counts in

Horsehoes and hand grenades

Verse 2

I'm gonna burn it all down

I'm gonna rip it out

Well, everything that you employ

Was meant for me to destroy

To the ground now

So don't you fuck me around

Because I'll shoot you down

I'm gonna drink, fight and

fuck And pushing my

luck All the time now

(Repeat Chorus)

Bridge

Demolition self destruction

What to annihilate

The age old contradiction

Interlude

x4, x2

Verse 3

Demolition self destruction

What to annihilate

The old age old contradiciton

Demolition self destruction

What to annihilate

The old age

Interlude

x2

Outro

I'm not fucking around

I think I'm coming out

All the hate and the time

destruct the paranoid

save us right now

I'm not fucking around

L O R I

L O R I

L O R I

L O R I

15.) The Static Age

Key: then then

Chords used:

Intro

x2

Verse 1

Can you hear the sound of the static noise?

Blasting out in stereo

Cater to the class and the paranoid

Music to my nervous system

Advertising love and religion

Murder on the airwaves

Slogans on the brink of corruption

Vision of blasphemy war and peace

oh Screaming at you

Chorus 1

I can't see a thing in the video

I can't hear a sound on the radio

In stereo in the static age

Interlude

x2

Verse 2

Billboard on the rise in the dawn's landscape

Working your insanity

Tragic a'la madness and concrete

Coca cola execution

Conscience on a cross and

You're hearts on a vice

Squeezing out your state of mind

Are what you own that you cannot buy?

What a fucking tragedy, strategy

oh Screaming at you

Chorus 2

I can't see a thing in the video

I can't hear a sound on the radio

In stereo in the static age

I can't see a thing in the video

I can't hear a sound on the radio

In stereo in the static age

Bridge

Hey, hey it's the static age

This is how the West was won

Hey, hey it's the static age millennium

Guitar solo

Modultate from to

x4,

Verse 3

modulate from C to D

All I want to know

It's a god damned thing

Not what's in the medicine

All I want to do is

I want to breath

Batteries are not included

What's the latest way that a man can die

Screaming hallelujah?

Singing out "The Dawn's Early Light"

The silent of the rotten, forgotten

Oh Screaming at you

Chorus 3

I can't see a thing in the video

I can't hear a sound on the radio

In stereo in the static age

I can't see a thing in the video

I can't hear a sound on the radio

In stereo in the static age

I can't see a thing in the video

I can't hear a sound on the radio

In stereo in the static age

Outro

The static age

16.) 21 Guns

Key:

Chords used:

Intro

Verse 1

Do you know what's worth fighting for

When it's not worth dying for?

Does it take you breath away

And you feel yourself suffocating?

Does the pain weight out the pride?

And you look for a place to hide?

Does someone break your heart inside?

You're in ruins

Chorus 1

One, 21 guns

Lay down your arms

Give up the fight

One, 21 guns

Throw up your

arms into the sky

You and I

Verse 2

When you're at the end of the road

And you lost all sense of control

And your thoughts have taken their toll

When your mind breaks the spirit of your soul

Your faith walks on broken glass

And the hangover doesn't pass

Nothing's ever built to last

You're in ruins

(Repeat Chorus 1)

Bridge

Did you try to live on your own

When you burned down the house and home?

Did you stand too close to the fire?

Like a liar looking for forgiveness from a stone

Guitar solo

x2

Interlude

Verse 3

When it's time to live and let die

And you can't get another try

Something inside this heart has died

You're in ruins

Chorus 2

One, 21 guns

Lay down your arms

Give up the fight

One, 21 guns

Throw up your

arms into the sky

One, 21 guns

Lay down your arms

Give up the fight

One, 21 guns

Throw up your

arms into the sky

You and I

17.) American Eulogy

Key: then then then

Chords used:

/ x365xx

17.1 Mass Hysteria

Intro

Sing us the song of the century

That sings like American eulogy

The dawn of my love and conspiracy

Of forgotten hope and the class of 13

Tell me a story into that goodnight

Sing us a song for me

Chorus

hysteria

Mass hysteria

Mass hysteria

Mass hysteria

Verse 1

Red alert is the color of panic

Elevated to the point of static

Beating into the hearts of the fanatics

And the neighborhood's a loaded gun

Idle thought leads to full throttle screaming

And the welfare is asphyxiating

Mass confusion is all the new rage

And it's creating a feeding ground

For the bottom feeders of

(Repeat Chorus)

Verse 2

True sounds of maniacal laughter

And the deaf mute is misleading the choir

The punchline is a natural disaster

And it's sung by the unemployed

Fight fire with a riot

The class war is hanging on a wire

Because the martyr

is a compulsive liar

When he said "It's just

a bunch of niggers

throwing gas into the"

(Repeat Chorus)

Bridge

There's a disturbance on the oceanside

They tapped into the reserve

The static response is so unclear now

Mayday, this is not a test!

As the neighborhood burns

America is falling

Vigilantes warning you

Calling Christian and Gloria

Guitar solo

17.2 Modern World

Intro

x2

Chorus

I don't want to live in the modern world

I don't want to live in the modern world

I don't want to live in the modern world

I don't want to live in the modern world

Verse 1

Mike Dirnt the bassist sings here instead of Billie

I'm the class of 13

In the era of dissent

A hostage of the soul

On a strike to pay the rent

The last of the rebels

Without a common ground

I'm gonna light a fire

Into the underground well

(Repeat Chorus)

Post Chorus:

I nation

Without bureaucratic ties

Deny the allegation as

it's written a fucking lies

Guitar solo

x3,

Verse 2

Mike sings again

I want to take a ride

to the great divide

Beyond the "up to date"

And the neo gentrified

The high definition for

the low resident

Where the value of your mind

Is not held in contempt

Verse 3

Still Mike Dirnt

I can hear the sound

of A beating heart

That bleeds beyond a system

That's falling apart

With money to burn

On a minimum wage

Cause I don't give a shit

About the modern age

(Repeat Chorus)

Outro

Mass hysteria

I don't want to live

in the modern world

Mass hysteria

I don't want to live

in the modern world

Mass hysteria

I don't want to live

in the modern world

Mass hysteria

(Repeat)

18.) See The Light

Key: then

Chords used:

Intro

x4

Verse 1

Well I crossed the river

Fell into the sea

Where the non believers

Go beyond belief

Then I scratched the surface

In the mouth of Hell

Running out of service

In the blood I fell

Chorus

Well I, I just want to see the light

And I, I don't want to lose my sight

Well I, I just want to see the light

And I need to know what's worth the fight

Verse 2

I've been wasted

Pills and alcohol

I've been chasing

Down the pool halls

Then I drank the water

From a hurricane

And I set a fire

Just to see the flame

(Repeat Chorus)

Guitar solo

x3

Interlude

x2

Verse 3

I crossed the desert

Reaching higher ground

Then I pound the pavement

To take the liars down

But it's gone forever

But never too late

Where the ever after

It's the hands of fate

(Repeat Chorus)

Outro

x12

Bonus Track:

19.) Lights Out

Key:

Chords used:

Intro

Drum solo

Verse 1

Lights out

here comes the night

as the darkness falls

over the light

lights out

there goes the day

and this fear that

comes won't go away

Chorus 1

and i'm losing track of time

in the corners of my mind

and im living out my

private suicide (lights out)

Interlude

Verse 2

lights out

i lost myself

in the space between

heaven and hell

lights out

finding my way

did i waste my time

losing the way?

(Repeat Chorus 1)

Guitar solo

x2

Interlude

Bass solo

x2

Verse 3

lights out here

comes the night

as the darkness

falls over the

light lights out

i lost myself

in the space between

heaven and hell

Chorus 2

well i'm losing track of time

in the corners of my mind

and im living out my

private suicide (lights out)

Outro