Acte 1: Heroes and Cons

1.21st Century Breakdown - 5:09

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

My generation is zero
I never made it as a working class hero
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
Combination is what I understood
From Mexico to the Berlin wall
Homeland security could kill us all

My generation is zero
I never made it as a working class hero
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 cries of the class of the dead
Born in the year of humility
We are the desperate in the decline
Raised by the bastards of 1969

My name is 'no-one' your long lost son
Born on the 4th of July
Raised in the barnyards of heroes and cons
Left me for dead or alive

I am an agent, a worker, a pawn
My debt to the status quo
The scars on my hands and a means to an end
It's all that I have to show

I praise liberty
The freedom to obey
It's a song that strangles me
Well don't cross the line

Oh, dream, American dream
I can't sleep
From rainstorms 'til dawn

Oh, screem, America, screem
Believe what you read
From heroes and cons


2.Know Your Enemy - 3:10

Do you know the enemy
Do you know your enemy
Well, gotta know your enemy oh hey

Do you know the enemy
Do you know your enemy
Well, gotta know your enemy oh hey

Do you know the enemy
Do you know your enemy
Well, gotta know your enemy oh hey

Violence is an energy
Against the enemy
Violence is an energy oh hey

Bringing on the fury
The choir infantery
Revolt against the honor to obey
(oh hey oh hey)

Overthrow the effigy
The vast majority
Burning down the forman of control
(oh hey oh hey)

Silence is the enemy
Against your urgency
So rally up the demons of your soul
(oh hey ho hey)

Do you know the enemy
Do you know your enemy
Well, gotta know your enemy oh hey

Do you know the enemy
Do you know your enemy
Well, gotta know your enemy oh hey

Insurgency will rise
When bloods been sacrificed
We'll be blinded by the light
In your eyes

Oh hey oh hey
Oh hey oh hey

Violence is an energy
(oh hey ho hey)
From you to eternity
(oh hey ho hey)
Well, violence is an energy
(oh hey ho hey)
Well, silence is an enemy
(oh hey ho hey)
So gimme gimme revolution

Do you know the enemy
Do you know your enemy
Well, gotta know your enemy oh hey

Do you know the enemy
Do you know your enemy
Well, gotta know your enemy oh hey

Do you know the enemy
Do you know your enemy
Well, gotta know your enemy oh hey

Overthrow the effigy
The vast majority
Burning down the forman of control
(oh hey oh hey)

Silence is the enemy
Against your urgency
So rally up the demons of your soul
(oh hey ho hey)

3.¡ViVa la Gloria! - 3:30

hey gloria
are you standing close to the edge?
lookont to the setting sun
the brink of your vision
eternal youth is
a landscape of the life

the cracks of my skin can prove
as the years will testify
say your prayers and light a fire
where going to start a war
your slogan's a gun for hire
it's what we waited for

hey gloria
this is why where on the edge
the fight of our lives been drawn to
this undying love

gloria,viva la gloria

you blast your name
in grappiti on the walls
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 ruin
ashes to ashes of our youth

she smashed her knuckles into winter(gloria)
as autumns wind fades into black
she is the saint on 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 your faith
to your lost naivety
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,wheres your undying love?
tell me the story of your life
your life

4. Before the Lobotomy - 4:37

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 is no more laughter
Songs of yesterday
Now live in the underground

Life before the lobotomy
Christian sang the eulogy
Sign 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's what he's been told (HEY!)
We are normal and self-controlled (HEY!)
Remember to learn to forget (HEY!)
Whiskey shots and cheap cigarettes

Well I'm not stoned
I'm just fucked up
I got so high I can't stand up
Well 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 is no more laughter
Songs of yesterday
Now live in the underground

5.Christian's Inferno - 3:07

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

Woohoo! Christian's inferno
Woohoo! Christian's inferno
Woohoo! Christian's inferno
Woohoo! Christian's inferno

This diabolic state
Is gracing my existence
Like a catastrophic baby
Maybe maybe you're the chemical reaction

I am the atom bomb
I am the chosen one
Toxin your reservoir
And then return man to are

Woohoo! Christian's inferno
Woohoo! Christian's inferno
Woohoo! Christian's inferno
Woohoo! Christian's inferno

Woohoo! Christian's inferno
Woohoo! Christian's inferno
Woohoo! Christian's inferno
Woohoo! Christian's inferno


6.Last Night on Earth - 3:56

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 am 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
I'm sending all my love to you


Acte 2: Charlatans and Saints

7. East Jesus Nowhere - 4:34

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 a doubt"
And I'll be dressed 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 damned 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

8. Peacemaker - 3:24

One, two, three, four

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
were shot ringing out on a holy parasite

I am a killjoy from Detroit
I drink from a well of rage
I feed off the weakness with all my love
Call up the captain hey hey
Hey hey hey hey hey
Death to the lover that you were dreaming of

This is a stand off
A Molotov cocktail
On the house
You thought I was a write off
You better think again
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
were shot ringing out on a holy parasite

Well now the caretaker's the undertaker
Now I'm gonna go out and get the peacemaker
This is the neo St. Valentines 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

9. Last of the American Girls - 3:51

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 paranoid like
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 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
She's 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

10. Murder City - 2:54

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 favorite 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
But not hopeless
I feel so useless
In the murder city

Desperate
But not helpless
The clock strikes midnight
In the murder city

11. ¿Viva la Gloria? (Little Girl) - 3:47

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
The 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 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(gloria)
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

12. Restless Heart Syndrome - 4:21

I've got a really bad disease
It's got me begging on my hands and knees
Take me to the emergency
'Cause something seems to be missing
Somebody take the pain away
It's like an ulcer bleeding in my brain
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 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

I'm elated
Medicated
I am my own worst enemy
So what ails you is what impales you
You are you own worst enemy
You're a victim of the system
You are your own worst enemy
You're a victim of your symptom
You are your own worst enemy

Acte 3: Horseshoes and Handgrenades

13. Horseshoes and Handgrenades - 3:14

I'm not fucking 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 you fuck me around
Because I'll shoot you down
I'm gonna drink, fight and fuck
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 age-old contradiction
Demolition, self-destruction
What to annihilate
The old age

I'm not fucking around
I think I'm coming out
I'm a hater, a traitor
In a pair og chuck taylors right now
I'm not fucking around
G-L-O-R-I-A
G-L-O-R-I-A
G-L-O-R-I-A
G-L-O-R-I-A

14. The Static Age - 4:16

Can you hear the sound
Of the static noise
Blasting out in stereo
Later 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
Vision 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 a'la madness and concrete
Coca cola execution
Conscience on a cross and
Your heart's in a vice
Squeezing out your state of mind
Are what you own that you cannot buy ?
What a fucking 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

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
Millenium

All I want to know
Is a god damned thing
Not what's in the medecine
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

I can't see a thing in the video
I can't hear a sound on the radio
In stereo in the static age

I can't see a thing in the video
I can't hear a sound on the radio
In stereo in the static age

I can't see a thing in the video
I can't hear a sound on the radio
In stereo in the static age

In the static age

15. 21 Guns - 5:21

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 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

16. American Eulogy (A. Mass Hysteria & B. Mordern World) - 4:26

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 good night
Sing us a song for me

A.Mass Hysteria

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 thought leads to
Full-throttle screaming
And the welfare is asphyxiating
Mass confusion is all the new rage
And it's creating a feeding ground
For the bottom feedeers of 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 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 ya,
Calling Christian and Gloria

B.Modern World

I don't want to live
In the modern world
I don't want to live
In the modern world
I don't want to 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 want to live
In the modern world
I don't want to live
In the modern world
I don't want to live
In the modern world
I don't want to 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 then 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
'Cause I don't give a shit
About the modern age

I don't want to live
In the modern world
I don't want to live
In the modern world
I don't want to live
In the modern world
I don't want to live
In the modern world
(Mass hysteria)
In the modern world
(Mass hysteria)
In the modern world
(Mass hysteria)
In the modern world
(Mass hysteria)
In the modern world
(Mass hysteria)
In the modern world
(Mass hysteria)
In the modern world
(Mass hysteria)
In the modern world
(Mass hysteria)
In the modern world
(Mass hysteria)
In the modern world
(Mass hysteria)
In the modern world
(Mass hysteria)

17. See The Light - 4:35

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

I just want to see the light
I don't want to lose my sight
I just want to see the light
I need to know what's worth the fight

I've been wasted
Pills and alcohol
I've been chasing
Down the pool halls
Then I drank the water
From a hurricane
And I set a fire
Just to see the flame

I just want to see the light
I don't want to lose my sight
I just want to see the light
I need to know what's worth the fight

I crossed the desert
Reaching higher ground
Then I pound 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

I just want to see the light
I don't want to lose my sight
I just want to see the light
I need to know what's worth the fight