21st Century Breakdown (Extended Version) Lyrics - Green Day

1 Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome aboard the starship Green Day for our first passenger century breakdown.

2 Ready for count-down: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 - ignition - lift off

3 21st century breakdown

4 Way out there in space

5 21st century breakdown

6 Our new fav'rite place

7 21st century breakdown

8 We got the all clear

9 21st century breakdown

10 The moment is here

11 We are the class of the class of '13

12 Born in the era of humility

13 We are the desperate in the decline

14 Raised by the bastards of 1969

15 My name is no one, the long lost son

16 Born on the 4th of July

17 Raised in the era of heroes and cons

18 That left me for dead or alive

19 I am a nation, a worker of pride

20 My debt to the status quo

21 The scars on my hands and a means to an end

22 Is all that I have to show (21st century breakdown)

23 I swallowed my pride and I choked on my faith

24 I've given my heart and my soul

25 I've broken my fingers and lied through my teeth

26 The pillar of damage control (21st century breakdown)

27 Ladies and Gentlemen, we've had a successful take-off on this first 21st century breakdown.

28 Our flying time will be eight hours. We'll be travelling at a speed of 2183 miles per second.

29 That is, seven and one half million miles per hour.

30 The distance from Mother Earth to Venus is sixty million miles at this time.

31 I've been to the edge and I've thrown the bouquet

32 Of flowers left over the grave

33 I sat in the waiting room, wasting my time

34 And waiting for Judgement Day

35 I praise liberty

36 The "freedom to obey"

37 Is the song that strangles me

38 Oh, don't cross the line

39 Oh dream, America dream

40 I can't even sleep

41 From the light's early dawn

42 Oh scream, America scream

43 Believe what you see

44 From heroes and cons

45 To your left you can see the mountains of the Moon.

46 And right in the center under a huge plastic bubble, Moon City, a boom-town if ever there was one because of the huge gold and diamond fields.

47 As for Venus, it took almost ninety years to cool down the planet from its five hundred degrees to the current pleasant seventy-five degrees and to transform the atmosphere to make it habitable for Earth-people.

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49 Way out there in space

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51 Our new fav'rite place

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53 All systems are go

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55 The sky is aglow

56 Captain - unidentified object at 8 o'clock - 2 million miles away.

57 Stand by for emergency manoeuvre.

58 Object coming closer at the speed of light - we have eight more seconds.

59 Object coming closer - we have five more seconds.

60 Change course by four point six degrees.

61 Order executed.

62 That was a close one, Ladies and Gentlemen.

63 A meteor just passed us on its way to infinity.

64 Well, you can see, even in space traffic is getting heavier all the time.

65 Ladies and Gentlemen, in a few minutes we are going to be landing on Venus, push the button on your left side, the safety mechanism will do the rest for you.

66 We hope you enjoyed the world's first 21st century breakdown, have a good time there.