21st Century Breakdown chords by
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Key: Db major
Intro 1
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Intro 2
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Ooh
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Verse 1
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Born into Nixon, I was raised in hell
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A welfare child where the teamsters dwelled
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The last one born and the first one to run
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My town was blind from refinery sun
Chorus 1
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My generation is ze ro
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I never made it as a working class hero
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21st century breakdown
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I once was lost but never was found
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I think I'm losing what's left of my mind
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To the 20th century deadline
Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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I was made of poison and blood
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Condemnation is what I understood
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Video games of the Tower's fall
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Homeland security could kill us all
Chorus 2
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My generation is ze ro
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I never made it as a working class hero
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21st century breakdown
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I once was lost but never was found
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I think I'm losing what's left of my mind
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To the 20th century deadline
Bridge 1
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We are the class of the class of thirteen
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Born in the era of humility
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We are the desperate in the decline
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Raised by the bastards of nineteen sixty-
Interlude 2
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(nine)
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Verse 3
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My name is no one, the long lost son
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Born on the fourth of July
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Raised in the era of heroes and cons
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That left me for dead or alive
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I am a nation, a worker of pride (pride)
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My debt to the status quo
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The scars on my hands
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and the means to an end
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It's all that I have to show
Interlude 3
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(Hey)
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(Hey)
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Verse 4
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I swallowed my pride and I choked on my faith
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I've given my heart and my soul
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I've broken my fingers
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and lied through my teeth
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The pillar of damage control
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I've been to the edge
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and I've thrown the bouquet (hey)
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Of flowers left over the grave
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I sat in the waiting room, wasting my time
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And waiting for judgement day
Bridge 2
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Praise liber ty
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The freedom to o bey
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It's the song that strangles me
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Well, don't cross the line
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Interlude 4
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Outro 1
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Oh, dream, America, dream
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I can't even sleep
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From the light's early dawn
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Oh, scream, America, scream
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Believe what you see
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From heroes and cons

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