JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Pada 2009, grup band rock Green Day, membawakan lagu berjudul “21st Century Breakdown”.
Ditulis dan dikomposeri oleh sang vokalis, Billie Joe Armstrong, lagu tersebut muncul dalam album kedelapan mereka yang bertajuk sama dengan judul lagu, 21st Century Breakdown.
Album tersebut sukses secara komersial dan berhasil memenangkan Grammy Award untuk Best Rock Album.
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Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “21st Century Breakdown” dari Green Day.
[Intro]
D A G
[Verse]
D A G
Born into Nixon I was raised in hell
D A G
A welfare child where the teamsters dwelled
D A G
The last one born and the first one to run
D A G
My town was blind from refinery sun
Bm G
My generation is zero
Bm G A
I never made it as a working class hero
[Chorus]
D A G
21st century breakdown
D A G
I once was lost but never was found
D A G
I think I'm losing what's left of my mind
D A G
To the 20th century deadline
[Verse]
D A G
I was made of poison and blood
D A G
Condemnation is what I understood
D A G
Video games of the tower's fall
D A G
Homeland security could kill us all
Bm G
My generation is zero
Bm G A
I never made it as a working class hero
[Chorus]
D A G
21st century breakdown
D A G
I once was lost but never was found
D A G
I think I'm losing what's left of my mind
D A G
To the 20th century deadline
[Part 2]
A
A D
We are the class, of the class of '13
A D
Born in the era of humility
A D
We are the desperate in the decline
A
Raised by the bastards of 1969
D G A D
My name is 'No one' the long lost son
Born on the 4th of July
D G A D
Raised in the era of heroes and cons