Lyrics For 21st Century Breakdown album got lyrics off A-Z lyrics but checked them with the words in the booklet in cd, if I got some lyrics wrong please tell me and I will correct them as soon as I can.
SONG OF THE CENTURY
Sing us a song of the century
That's louder than bombs and eternity
The era of statistic and contraband
That's leading us to the promised land
Tell us a story that's by candlelight
Waging a war and losing the fight
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
ACT I HEROES AND CONS
21st CENTURY BREAKDOWN
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
[Pre-chorus:]
My generation is zero
I never made it as a working class hero
[Chorus:]
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
I was made of poison and blood
Condemnation is what I understood
Video games of the towers fall
Homeland security could kill us all
[Pre-chorus]
My generation is zero
I never made it as a working class hero
[Chorus]
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
We are the class 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 the status quo
The scars on my hands
And the means to an end
Is all the 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"
It's the song that strangles me
Well, don't cross the line
Oh, dream, America, dream
I can't even sleep
From the light's early dawn
Oh, scream, America, scream
Believe what you see
From heroes and cons?
KNOW YOUR ENEMY
Do you know the enemy
Do you know your enemy
Well gotta' know the enemy, ohaooh!
Do you know the enemy
Do you know your enemy
Well gotta' know the enemy, ohaooh!
Do you know the enemy
Do you know your enemy
Well gotta' know the enemy, ohaooh!
Violence is an energy
Against the enemy
Well violence is an energy,
Bringing on the fury, The choir infantry
Revolt against the honor to obey (Ohaooh)
Overthrow the effigy
The vast majority
We're burning down the foreman of control (Ohaooh)
Silence is the enemy
Against your urgency
so rally up the demons of your soul (Ohaooh)
Do you know the enemy
Do you know your enemy
well gotta know the enemy, ohaooh.
Do you know the enemy
Do you know your enemy
well gotta know the enemy, ohaooh.
Insurgency will rise,
When the blood's been sacrificed
Don't be blinded by the lies in your eyes.
Say!
Ohaooh
Ohaooh
Violence is an energy, ohaooh
From here to Eternity
Violence is an energy, ohaooh
Silence is the enemy
So give me, give me revolution!
Do you know the enemy
Do you know your enemy
Well gotta' know the enemy, ohaooh!
Do you know the enemy
Do you know your enemy
Well gotta' know the enemy, ohaooh!
Do you know the enemy
Do you know your enemy
Well gotta' know the enemy, ohaooh!
Overthrow the effigy
The vast majority
We're burning down the foreman of control
Silence is the enemy
Against your urgency
so rally up the demons of your soul (Ohaooh)
¡VIVA LA GLORIA!
Hey Gloria
Are you standing close to the edge?
Lookout to the setting sun
The brink of your vision
Eternal youth is a landscape of the lie
The cracks of my skin can prove
As the years will testify
Say your prayers and light a fire we're going to start a war
Your slogan's a gun for hire
It's what we waited for
Hey Gloria
This is why we were on the edge
The fight of our lives been drawn to this undying love
Gloria, Viva La Gloria!
You blast your name in graffiti on the walls (oh)
Falling through broken glass that's slashing through your spirit
I can hear it like a jilted crowd
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
She smashed her knuckles into winter (Gloria)
As autumns wind fades into black
She is the saint of all the sinners (Gloria)
The one that's fallen through the cracks
So don't put away your burning light
Gloria,Where are you Gloria?
Don't lose you faith to your lost naivete
Weather the storm and don't look back on last November
When your banners were burning down
Gloria,Viva La Gloria!
Send me your amnesty down to the broken hearted
Bring us the season that we always will remember
Don't let the bonfires go out
So Gloria
Send out your message of the light that shadows in the night
Gloria where's your undying love?
Tell me the story of your life ...
(Your life!)
BEFORE THE LOBOTOMY
I am only dreaming
Of another place and time
Where my family's 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
Life before the lobotomy
Christian sang the eulogy
Sign of my love a lost memory
From the end of the Century
Well it's enough to make you sick
To cast a stone and throw a brick
When the sky is falling down
It burned your dreams into the ground
Christian's lesson
Is what he's been sold
We are normal and self-controlled
Remember to learn to forget
Whiskey shots and cheap cigarettes
Well I'm not stoned, I'm just f****d 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
Like refugees
We're lost like refugees
Like refugees
We're lost like refugees
The brutality of reality
Is the freedom that keeps me from
Dreaming, I was only dreaming
Of another place and time
Where my family's 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
CRISTIAN'S INFERNO
I got under the grip
Between this modern hell
I got the rejection letter in the mail
And it was already ripped to shreds
Seasons in a ruin and this bitter pill is chased with blood
There's fire in my veins and it's pouring out like a flood
(Wooaahhooohh!) Christian's Inferno!
(Wooaahhooohh!) Christian's Inferno!
This diabolic state is gracing my existence
Like a catastrophic baby
Maybe,maybe you're the chemical reaction
I'm the atom bomb
I'm the chosen one
Toxin your reservoir
And then return man to ape
(Wooaahhooohh!) Christian's Inferno!
(Wooaahhooohh!) Christian's Inferno!
(Wooaahhooohh!) Christian's Inferno!
(Wooaahhooohh!) Christian's Inferno!
LAST NIGHT ON EARTH
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
My beating heart belongs to you
I walked 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
With every breath that I'm 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
My beating heart belongs to you
I walked 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
My beating heart belongs to you
I walked for miles 'til I found you
I'm here to honor you
If I lose everything in the fire
Did I ever make it through?
ACT II CHARLATANS AND SAINTS
EAST JESUS NOWHERE
Raise your hands now to testify
Your confession will be crucified
You're a sacrificial suicide
Like a dog that's been sodomized
Stand Up! All the white boys
Sit Down! And the black girls
You're the soldiers Of the new world
Put your faith in a miracle
And it's non-denominational
Join the choir we will be singing
In the church of wishful thinking
A fire burns today
Of blasphemy and genocide
The sirens of decay
Will infiltrate the faith fanatics
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"
And I'll be dressed up in my Sunday best
Say a prayer for the family
Drop a coin for humanity
Ain't this uniform so flattering?
I never asked you a god damn thing
A fire burns today
Of blasphemy and genocide
The sirens of decay
Will infiltrate the faith fanatics
Don't test me
Second guess me
Protest me
You will disappear
I want to know who's allowed to breed
All the dogs who never learned to read
Missionary politicians
And the cops of a new religion
A fire burns today
Of blasphemy and genocide
The sirens of decay
Will infiltrate the inside
PEACEMAKER
Well, I've got a fever
A 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
Well, death to the girl at the end of the serenade
Vendetta, sweet vendetta
This Beretta of the night
This fire and the desire
Well, shots ringing out on a holy parasite
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
Well, death of the lover that you were dreaming of
This is a stand off a Molotov
Cocktail's on the house
You thought I was write off you better think again
Well, call the peacemaker (Hey, hey)
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
I'm gonna send you back to the place where it all began
Vendetta, sweet vendetta
This Beretta of the night
This fire and the desire
Well, shots ringing out on a holy parasite
Well, now the caretaker's
The undertaker
So, I'm gonna go out
And get the peacemaker
This is the Neo
St. Valentine's massacre
Well, call up the Gaza (Hey, hey)
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
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 serenade
Well, death to the ones at the end of the serenade!
LAST OF THE AMERICAN GIRLS
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 a paranoid endangered species headed into extinction
She is one of a kind
She's the last of the American Girls
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
She's a runaway of the establishment incorporated
She won't cooperate
She's the last of the American Girls
She plays her vinyl records singing songs on the eve of destruction
She's a sucker for all the criminals breaking the laws
She will come in first for the end of western civilization
She's an endless war, like a hero for the lost cause
Like a hurricane in the heart of the devastation
She's a natural disaster
She's the last of the American Girls
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 western civilization
She's a natural disaster
She's the last of the American Girls
MURDER CITY
Desperate but not hopeless
I feel so useless in the murder city
Desperate but not helpless
The clock strikes midnight in the murder city
I'm wide awake after the riot
This demonstration of our anguish
This empty laughter has no reason
Like a bottle of your favourite poison
We are the last call and we're so pathetic
Desperate but not hopeless
I feel so useless in the murder city
Desperate but not helpless
The clock strikes midnight in the murder city
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
We are the last call and we're so pathetic
Desperate but not hopeless
I feel so useless in the murder city
Desperate but not helpless
The clock strikes midnight in the murder city
Desperate
I feel so
Desperate
The clock strikes midnight in the murder city
¿VIVA LA GLORIA? (LITTLE GIRL)
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
Runaway
From the river to the street and find yourself with your face in the gutter
You're a stray for the salvation army
There is no place like home when you got no place to go
Little girl, little girl, your life is calling
The charlatans and saints of your abandon
Little one, little one, the sky is falling
Your 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're dirty liar
You're just a junkie preaching to the choir
Runaway
From the river to the street and find yourself with your face in the gutter
You're a stray for the salvation army
There is no place like home when you got no place to go
The traces of blood always follow you home like the mascara tears from your getaway
You're walking with blisters and running with shears
So unholy sister of grace!
Runaway
From the river to the street and find yourself with your face in the gutter
You're a stray for the salvation army
There is no place like home
RESTLESS HEART SYNDROME
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
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
I'm elated, medicated
Lord knows I tried to find a way to run away
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
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
So what ails you, is what impales you
I feel like I've been crucified to be satisfied
I'm elated, medicated
I am my own worst enemy
So what ails you is what impales you
You are your own worst enemy
You're a victim of the system
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
ACT III HORSESHOES AND HANDGRENADES
HORSESHOES AND HANDGRENADES
I'm not f**king around
I think I'm coming out
All the deceivers and cheaters
I 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
Maybe you're the runner up
But the first one to lose the race
Almost only really counts in
Horseshoes and Handgrenades
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 f**k me around because I'll shoot you down
I'm gonna drink,fight and f**k and pushing my luck all the time now
Maybe you're the runner up
But the first one to lose the race
Almost only really counts in
Horseshoes and Handgrenades
Demolition,self-destruction
What to annihilate, the age-old contradiction
Demolition,self-destruction
What to annihilate, the old age
I'm not f**king around
I think I'm coming out
I'm a hater, a traitor
In a pair of Chuck Taylors right now
I'm not f**king around
G-L-O-R-I-A!
THE STATIC AGE
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
Visions of blasphemy,war and peace
Screaming at you
I can't see a thing in the video
I can't hear a sound on the radio
in stereo in the static age
Billboard on the rise in the dawn's landscape, working your insanity
Tragic ala madness and concrete Coca Cola execution
Conscious on a cross and your hearts in a vice,
Squeezing out your state of mind
Are what you own that you cannot buy
What a f**king tragedy,strategy
Screaming at you
I can't see a thing in the video
I can't hear a sound on the radio
in stereo in the static age
Hey, hey it's the static age
This is how the west was won
Hey, hey it's the static age millennium
All I want to know is a god damned thing
Not what's in the medicine
All I want to do is I want to breathe, batteries are not included
What's the latest way that a man can die?
Screaming hallelujah?
Singing out "the dawn's early light"
The silence of the rotten,forgotten
Screaming at you
I can't see a thing in the video
I can't hear a sound on the radio
in stereo in the static age
21 GUNS
Do you know what's worth fighting for?
When it's not worth dying for?
Does it take your breath away and you feel yourself suffocating?
Does the pain weigh out the pride?
And you look for a place to hide?
Did someone break your heart inside,you're in ruins
One, 21 Guns
Lay down your arms
Give up the fight
One, 21 Guns
Throw up your arms into the sky
You and I ...
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
One, 21 Guns
Lay down your arms
Give up the fight
One, 21 Guns
Throw up your arms into the sky
You and I ...
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
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
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
AMERICAN EULOGY
[XIII AMERICAN EULOGY]
Sing us a song of the century
It sings like American Eulogy
The dawn of my love and conspiracy
Forgotten hope and the class of 13
Tell me a story into that goodnight
Sing us a song for me
[A. MASS HYSTERIA]
Hysteria, mass hysteria!
Mass hysteria!
Mass hysteria!
Red alert is the colour of panic
Elevated to the point of static
Beating into the hearts of the fanatics
And the neighborhood's a loaded gun
Idle thought lead to full-throttle screaming
And the welfare is asphyxiating
Mass confusion is all the new age and it's creating a feeding ground for the bottom feeders of hysteria
Hysteria, mass hysteria!
Mass hysteria!
Mass hysteria!
Mass hysteria!
True sounds of maniacal laughter
And the deafmute 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 n**gers throwing gas into the hysteria"
Hysteria, mass hysteria!
Mass hysteria!
Mass hysteria!
Mass hysteria!
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 ya,
calling christian and Gloria
[Bridge + Solo]
[B. MODERN WORLD]
I don't wanna live in the modern world!
I don't wanna live in the modern world!
I don't wanna live in the modern world!
I don't wanna live in the modern world!
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
I don't wanna live in the modern world!
I don't wanna live in the modern world!
I don't wanna live in the modern world!
I don't wanna live in the modern world!
I am a nation without bureaucratic ties
Deny the allegation as it's written (fucking lies!)
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
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
I don't give a shit about the modern age
I don't wanna live in the modern world!
I don't wanna live in the modern world!
I don't wanna live in the modern world!
I don't wanna live in the modern world!
I don't wanna live in the modern world! (Mass hysteria!)
"See The Light"
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
I've been wasted
Pills and alcohol
I've been chasing
Down the pool halls
I drank the water from a hurricane
I set a fire just to see the flame
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
I crossed the desert
Reaching higher ground
Then I found the pavement to take the liars down
But it's gone forever,but never too late
Where the ever after is in the hands of fate
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
SONG OF THE CENTURY
Sing us a song of the century
That's louder than bombs and eternity
The era of statistic and contraband
That's leading us to the promised land
Tell us a story that's by candlelight
Waging a war and losing the fight
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
ACT I HEROES AND CONS
21st CENTURY BREAKDOWN
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
[Pre-chorus:]
My generation is zero
I never made it as a working class hero
[Chorus:]
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
I was made of poison and blood
Condemnation is what I understood
Video games of the towers fall
Homeland security could kill us all
[Pre-chorus]
My generation is zero
I never made it as a working class hero
[Chorus]
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
We are the class 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 the status quo
The scars on my hands
And the means to an end
Is all the 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"
It's the song that strangles me
Well, don't cross the line
Oh, dream, America, dream
I can't even sleep
From the light's early dawn
Oh, scream, America, scream
Believe what you see
From heroes and cons?
KNOW YOUR ENEMY
Do you know the enemy
Do you know your enemy
Well gotta' know the enemy, ohaooh!
Do you know the enemy
Do you know your enemy
Well gotta' know the enemy, ohaooh!
Do you know the enemy
Do you know your enemy
Well gotta' know the enemy, ohaooh!
Violence is an energy
Against the enemy
Well violence is an energy,
Bringing on the fury, The choir infantry
Revolt against the honor to obey (Ohaooh)
Overthrow the effigy
The vast majority
We're burning down the foreman of control (Ohaooh)
Silence is the enemy
Against your urgency
so rally up the demons of your soul (Ohaooh)
Do you know the enemy
Do you know your enemy
well gotta know the enemy, ohaooh.
Do you know the enemy
Do you know your enemy
well gotta know the enemy, ohaooh.
Insurgency will rise,
When the blood's been sacrificed
Don't be blinded by the lies in your eyes.
Say!
Ohaooh
Ohaooh
Violence is an energy, ohaooh
From here to Eternity
Violence is an energy, ohaooh
Silence is the enemy
So give me, give me revolution!
Do you know the enemy
Do you know your enemy
Well gotta' know the enemy, ohaooh!
Do you know the enemy
Do you know your enemy
Well gotta' know the enemy, ohaooh!
Do you know the enemy
Do you know your enemy
Well gotta' know the enemy, ohaooh!
Overthrow the effigy
The vast majority
We're burning down the foreman of control
Silence is the enemy
Against your urgency
so rally up the demons of your soul (Ohaooh)
¡VIVA LA GLORIA!
Hey Gloria
Are you standing close to the edge?
Lookout to the setting sun
The brink of your vision
Eternal youth is a landscape of the lie
The cracks of my skin can prove
As the years will testify
Say your prayers and light a fire we're going to start a war
Your slogan's a gun for hire
It's what we waited for
Hey Gloria
This is why we were on the edge
The fight of our lives been drawn to this undying love
Gloria, Viva La Gloria!
You blast your name in graffiti on the walls (oh)
Falling through broken glass that's slashing through your spirit
I can hear it like a jilted crowd
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
She smashed her knuckles into winter (Gloria)
As autumns wind fades into black
She is the saint of all the sinners (Gloria)
The one that's fallen through the cracks
So don't put away your burning light
Gloria,Where are you Gloria?
Don't lose you faith to your lost naivete
Weather the storm and don't look back on last November
When your banners were burning down
Gloria,Viva La Gloria!
Send me your amnesty down to the broken hearted
Bring us the season that we always will remember
Don't let the bonfires go out
So Gloria
Send out your message of the light that shadows in the night
Gloria where's your undying love?
Tell me the story of your life ...
(Your life!)
BEFORE THE LOBOTOMY
I am only dreaming
Of another place and time
Where my family's 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
Life before the lobotomy
Christian sang the eulogy
Sign of my love a lost memory
From the end of the Century
Well it's enough to make you sick
To cast a stone and throw a brick
When the sky is falling down
It burned your dreams into the ground
Christian's lesson
Is what he's been sold
We are normal and self-controlled
Remember to learn to forget
Whiskey shots and cheap cigarettes
Well I'm not stoned, I'm just f****d 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
Like refugees
We're lost like refugees
Like refugees
We're lost like refugees
The brutality of reality
Is the freedom that keeps me from
Dreaming, I was only dreaming
Of another place and time
Where my family's 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
CRISTIAN'S INFERNO
I got under the grip
Between this modern hell
I got the rejection letter in the mail
And it was already ripped to shreds
Seasons in a ruin and this bitter pill is chased with blood
There's fire in my veins and it's pouring out like a flood
(Wooaahhooohh!) Christian's Inferno!
(Wooaahhooohh!) Christian's Inferno!
This diabolic state is gracing my existence
Like a catastrophic baby
Maybe,maybe you're the chemical reaction
I'm the atom bomb
I'm the chosen one
Toxin your reservoir
And then return man to ape
(Wooaahhooohh!) Christian's Inferno!
(Wooaahhooohh!) Christian's Inferno!
(Wooaahhooohh!) Christian's Inferno!
(Wooaahhooohh!) Christian's Inferno!
LAST NIGHT ON EARTH
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
My beating heart belongs to you
I walked 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
With every breath that I'm 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
My beating heart belongs to you
I walked 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
My beating heart belongs to you
I walked for miles 'til I found you
I'm here to honor you
If I lose everything in the fire
Did I ever make it through?
ACT II CHARLATANS AND SAINTS
EAST JESUS NOWHERE
Raise your hands now to testify
Your confession will be crucified
You're a sacrificial suicide
Like a dog that's been sodomized
Stand Up! All the white boys
Sit Down! And the black girls
You're the soldiers Of the new world
Put your faith in a miracle
And it's non-denominational
Join the choir we will be singing
In the church of wishful thinking
A fire burns today
Of blasphemy and genocide
The sirens of decay
Will infiltrate the faith fanatics
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"
And I'll be dressed up in my Sunday best
Say a prayer for the family
Drop a coin for humanity
Ain't this uniform so flattering?
I never asked you a god damn thing
A fire burns today
Of blasphemy and genocide
The sirens of decay
Will infiltrate the faith fanatics
Don't test me
Second guess me
Protest me
You will disappear
I want to know who's allowed to breed
All the dogs who never learned to read
Missionary politicians
And the cops of a new religion
A fire burns today
Of blasphemy and genocide
The sirens of decay
Will infiltrate the inside
PEACEMAKER
Well, I've got a fever
A 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
Well, death to the girl at the end of the serenade
Vendetta, sweet vendetta
This Beretta of the night
This fire and the desire
Well, shots ringing out on a holy parasite
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
Well, death of the lover that you were dreaming of
This is a stand off a Molotov
Cocktail's on the house
You thought I was write off you better think again
Well, call the peacemaker (Hey, hey)
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
I'm gonna send you back to the place where it all began
Vendetta, sweet vendetta
This Beretta of the night
This fire and the desire
Well, shots ringing out on a holy parasite
Well, now the caretaker's
The undertaker
So, I'm gonna go out
And get the peacemaker
This is the Neo
St. Valentine's massacre
Well, call up the Gaza (Hey, hey)
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
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 serenade
Well, death to the ones at the end of the serenade!
LAST OF THE AMERICAN GIRLS
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 a paranoid endangered species headed into extinction
She is one of a kind
She's the last of the American Girls
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
She's a runaway of the establishment incorporated
She won't cooperate
She's the last of the American Girls
She plays her vinyl records singing songs on the eve of destruction
She's a sucker for all the criminals breaking the laws
She will come in first for the end of western civilization
She's an endless war, like a hero for the lost cause
Like a hurricane in the heart of the devastation
She's a natural disaster
She's the last of the American Girls
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 western civilization
She's a natural disaster
She's the last of the American Girls
MURDER CITY
Desperate but not hopeless
I feel so useless in the murder city
Desperate but not helpless
The clock strikes midnight in the murder city
I'm wide awake after the riot
This demonstration of our anguish
This empty laughter has no reason
Like a bottle of your favourite poison
We are the last call and we're so pathetic
Desperate but not hopeless
I feel so useless in the murder city
Desperate but not helpless
The clock strikes midnight in the murder city
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
We are the last call and we're so pathetic
Desperate but not hopeless
I feel so useless in the murder city
Desperate but not helpless
The clock strikes midnight in the murder city
Desperate
I feel so
Desperate
The clock strikes midnight in the murder city
¿VIVA LA GLORIA? (LITTLE GIRL)
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
Runaway
From the river to the street and find yourself with your face in the gutter
You're a stray for the salvation army
There is no place like home when you got no place to go
Little girl, little girl, your life is calling
The charlatans and saints of your abandon
Little one, little one, the sky is falling
Your 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're dirty liar
You're just a junkie preaching to the choir
Runaway
From the river to the street and find yourself with your face in the gutter
You're a stray for the salvation army
There is no place like home when you got no place to go
The traces of blood always follow you home like the mascara tears from your getaway
You're walking with blisters and running with shears
So unholy sister of grace!
Runaway
From the river to the street and find yourself with your face in the gutter
You're a stray for the salvation army
There is no place like home
RESTLESS HEART SYNDROME
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
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
I'm elated, medicated
Lord knows I tried to find a way to run away
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
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
So what ails you, is what impales you
I feel like I've been crucified to be satisfied
I'm elated, medicated
I am my own worst enemy
So what ails you is what impales you
You are your own worst enemy
You're a victim of the system
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
ACT III HORSESHOES AND HANDGRENADES
HORSESHOES AND HANDGRENADES
I'm not f**king around
I think I'm coming out
All the deceivers and cheaters
I 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
Maybe you're the runner up
But the first one to lose the race
Almost only really counts in
Horseshoes and Handgrenades
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 f**k me around because I'll shoot you down
I'm gonna drink,fight and f**k and pushing my luck all the time now
Maybe you're the runner up
But the first one to lose the race
Almost only really counts in
Horseshoes and Handgrenades
Demolition,self-destruction
What to annihilate, the age-old contradiction
Demolition,self-destruction
What to annihilate, the old age
I'm not f**king around
I think I'm coming out
I'm a hater, a traitor
In a pair of Chuck Taylors right now
I'm not f**king around
G-L-O-R-I-A!
THE STATIC AGE
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
Visions of blasphemy,war and peace
Screaming at you
I can't see a thing in the video
I can't hear a sound on the radio
in stereo in the static age
Billboard on the rise in the dawn's landscape, working your insanity
Tragic ala madness and concrete Coca Cola execution
Conscious on a cross and your hearts in a vice,
Squeezing out your state of mind
Are what you own that you cannot buy
What a f**king tragedy,strategy
Screaming at you
I can't see a thing in the video
I can't hear a sound on the radio
in stereo in the static age
Hey, hey it's the static age
This is how the west was won
Hey, hey it's the static age millennium
All I want to know is a god damned thing
Not what's in the medicine
All I want to do is I want to breathe, batteries are not included
What's the latest way that a man can die?
Screaming hallelujah?
Singing out "the dawn's early light"
The silence of the rotten,forgotten
Screaming at you
I can't see a thing in the video
I can't hear a sound on the radio
in stereo in the static age
21 GUNS
Do you know what's worth fighting for?
When it's not worth dying for?
Does it take your breath away and you feel yourself suffocating?
Does the pain weigh out the pride?
And you look for a place to hide?
Did someone break your heart inside,you're in ruins
One, 21 Guns
Lay down your arms
Give up the fight
One, 21 Guns
Throw up your arms into the sky
You and I ...
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
One, 21 Guns
Lay down your arms
Give up the fight
One, 21 Guns
Throw up your arms into the sky
You and I ...
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
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
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
AMERICAN EULOGY
[XIII AMERICAN EULOGY]
Sing us a song of the century
It sings like American Eulogy
The dawn of my love and conspiracy
Forgotten hope and the class of 13
Tell me a story into that goodnight
Sing us a song for me
[A. MASS HYSTERIA]
Hysteria, mass hysteria!
Mass hysteria!
Mass hysteria!
Red alert is the colour of panic
Elevated to the point of static
Beating into the hearts of the fanatics
And the neighborhood's a loaded gun
Idle thought lead to full-throttle screaming
And the welfare is asphyxiating
Mass confusion is all the new age and it's creating a feeding ground for the bottom feeders of hysteria
Hysteria, mass hysteria!
Mass hysteria!
Mass hysteria!
Mass hysteria!
True sounds of maniacal laughter
And the deafmute 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 n**gers throwing gas into the hysteria"
Hysteria, mass hysteria!
Mass hysteria!
Mass hysteria!
Mass hysteria!
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 ya,
calling christian and Gloria
[Bridge + Solo]
[B. MODERN WORLD]
I don't wanna live in the modern world!
I don't wanna live in the modern world!
I don't wanna live in the modern world!
I don't wanna live in the modern world!
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
I don't wanna live in the modern world!
I don't wanna live in the modern world!
I don't wanna live in the modern world!
I don't wanna live in the modern world!
I am a nation without bureaucratic ties
Deny the allegation as it's written (fucking lies!)
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
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
I don't give a shit about the modern age
I don't wanna live in the modern world!
I don't wanna live in the modern world!
I don't wanna live in the modern world!
I don't wanna live in the modern world!
I don't wanna live in the modern world! (Mass hysteria!)
"See The Light"
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
I've been wasted
Pills and alcohol
I've been chasing
Down the pool halls
I drank the water from a hurricane
I set a fire just to see the flame
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
I crossed the desert
Reaching higher ground
Then I found the pavement to take the liars down
But it's gone forever,but never too late
Where the ever after is in the hands of fate
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
