Genius Lyrics
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Green Day – ¿Viva la Gloria? (Little Girl)
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“¿Viva la Gloria? (Little Girl)” serves as a reprise to 21st Century Breakdown’s fourth track, “¡Viva la Gloria!”. Billie Joe Armstrong discussed this in a 2009 interview with Q
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Green Day – ¡Viva la Gloria!
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Being the fourth song on the album, “¡Viva La Gloria!” is where the album’s story between the two protagonists Christian and Gloria truly kicks in.
Although “21st Century
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Green Day – ¡Viva la Gloria!(Live At Dallas,Texas)
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Get those hands up / [Intro] / Hey, Gloria, are you standing close to the edge? / Look out to the setting sun, the brink of your vision / Eternal youth is a landscape of a lie
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Green Day – Green Day: Rock Band Setlist
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The Fox Theater – Oakland / Set 1 / "Song of the Century" / "21st Century Breakdown" / "Last Night on Earth" / "¿Viva La Gloria? (Little Girl)" / "Restless Heart Syndrome" / Set 2
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Green Day – Restless Heart Syndrome
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Singer and chief songwriter Billie Joe Armstrong told Q magazine May 2009 that the topic of this mid-tempo rocker is about prescription drug junkies. He explained:
It’s about
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Sol Bloom – The Streets of Cairo Interpolations
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See all of “The Streets of Cairo” by Sol Bloom’s interpolations
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Green Day – Before the Lobotomy
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The song’s title was inspired by a story from The San Francisco Chronicle about Howard Dully, who recalled how his stepmother forced him to have a transorbital lobotomy when he was
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Green Day – Last of the American Girls
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“Last of the American Girls” is about the increasing lack of American people willing to stand up for their ideals. The “last of the American girls” here refers both to Gloria—one
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Green Day – A Quick One, While He's Away
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“A Quick One While He’s Away” is a cover of a song which was originally performed by The Who. This is one of the bands that influenced Green Day through their childhood and this
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Green Day – 21 Guns
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“21 Guns”, the second single off 21st Century Breakdown, is a power ballad that questions war and shows a narrator looking for peace. When taken on its own out of the 21st Century
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Green Day – Peacemaker
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“Peacemaker” switches Green Day’s iconic punk sound to a fast-paced gypsy-rock tune that describes someone looking for vengeance.
Regarding the story of 21st Century Breakdown
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Coldplay – Viva La Vida
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Revered as an essential rock song of the 2000s, “Viva La Vida” tells the story of a monarch who’s lost his kingdom. In another aspect, the song is also seen as a narrative on the
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Green Day – Horseshoes and Handgrenades
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[Intro] / One, two, three, four! / [Verse 1] / I'm not fuckin' around / I think I'm comin' out / All the deceivers and cheaters, I think we've got a bleeder right now / Want you to
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Green Day – That's All Right
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For the iTunes pre-order edition of 21st Century Breakdown, Green Day covered the iconic song “That’s All Right” by Elvis Presley.
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Green Day – Last Night on Earth
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Singer Billie Joe Armstrong explained to Q magazine May 2009 that “‘Christian’s Inferno’ is like a subway ride to hell and you kind of end up in outer space with this” song
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Green Day – Christian's Inferno
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Christian is one of two reoccurring characters that feature on 21st Century Breakdown. Whilst the activist Gloria, who is fighting to hold on to her youthful idealism, is a
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Green Day – Murder City
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On several 21st Century Breakdown tracks, including this one, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong sings higher than on previous albums. He told Billboard magazine:
Even on our harder
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Green Day – American Eulogy: Mass Hysteria / Modern World
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“American Eulogy” is made up of two songs, “Mass Hysteria” and “Modern World.” Vocalist and chief songwriter Billie Joe Armstrong explained to Q magazine May 2009
It swirls all
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Green Day – Know Your Enemy
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The first official single from 21st Century Breakdown. A very politically charged song, reminiscent of “Holiday” from American Idiot, it discusses distrust of the system and how to
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Green Day – The Static Age
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Allegedly, Bruce Springsteen was a major influence on Green Day frontman and chief songwriter Billie Joe Armstrong’s writing during the making of 21st Century Breakdown. Armstrong
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