American Eulogy

Album: 21st Century Breakdown (2009)
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  • Sing us the song of the century
    That sings like American eulogy
    The dawn of my love and conspiracy
    Forgotten hope and the class of 13
    Tell me a story into that good night
    Sing us a song for me

    Hysteria
    Mass hysteria
    Mass hysteria
    Mass hysteria

    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 thoughts lead to full-throttle screaming
    And the welfare's asphyxiating
    Mass confusion is all the new rage
    And it's creating a feeding ground
    For the bottom feeders of hysteria

    Mass hysteria
    Mass hysteria
    Mass hysteria

    True sounds of maniacal laughter
    And the deaf-mute's misleading the choir
    The punch line 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 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 you
    Calling Christian and Gloria!

    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

    Well, 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, 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
    Fuckin' lies!

    Well, I wanna 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 is falling apart
    With money to burn on a minimum wage
    Well, 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

    Mass hysteria
    (I don't wanna live in the modern world)
    Mass hysteria
    (I don't wanna live in the modern world)
    Mass hysteria
    (I don't wanna live in the modern world)
    Mass hysteria
    (I don't wanna live in the modern world)

    Mass hysteria
    (I don't wanna live in the modern world)
    Mass hysteria
    (I don't wanna live in the modern world)
    Mass hysteria
    (I don't wanna live in the modern world)
    Mass hysteria
    (I don't wanna live in the modern world)

    Mass hysteria
    (I don't wanna live in the modern world)
    Mass hysteria
    (I don't wanna live in the modern world) Writer/s: BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG, FRANK E., III WRIGHT, FRANK EDWIN WRIGHT III, MICHAEL PRITCHARD, MIKE DIRNT, MIKE RYAN PRITCHARD, TRE COOL
    Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Michael from Staten Island, NyAwesome song from an overall decent album, best part has to be the ending when the two songs 'collide'.
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