21st Century Breakdown

Green Day

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Song of the Century

00 : 57

21st Century Breakdown

05 : 09

Know Your Enemy

03 : 10

¡Viva la Gloria!

03 : 30

Before the Lobotomy

04 : 37

Christian's Inferno

03 : 07

Last Night on Earth

03 : 56

East Jesus Nowhere

04 : 34

Peacemaker

03 : 24

Last of the American Girls

03 : 51

Murder City

02 : 54

¿Viva la Gloria? (Little Girl)

03 : 47

Restless Heart Syndrome

04 : 21

Horseshoes and Handgrenades

03 : 14

The Static Age

04 : 16

21 Guns

05 : 21

American Eulogy: Mass Hysteria / Modern World

04 : 26

See the Light

04 : 35

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Track Lyrics

Song of the Century Lyrics

[Verse]

Sing us a song of the century

That's louder than bombs and eternity

The era of static and contraband

That's leading us into the promised land

Tell us a story that's by candlelight

Waging a war and losin' the fight

They're playing a song of the century

Panic and promise and prosperity

Tell me a story into that goodnight

Sing us a song for me

21st Century Breakdown Lyrics

[Part I]

[Verse 1]

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

[Pre-Chorus]

My generation is zero

I never made it as a working-class hero

[Chorus]

21st century breakdown

I once was lost, but never was found

I think I'm losin' what's left of my mind

To the 20th century deadline

[Verse 2]

I was made of poison and blood

Condemnation is what I understood

Video games to the tower's fall

Homeland Security could kill us all

[Pre-Chorus]

My generation is zero

I never made it as a working-class hero

[Chorus]

21st century breakdown

I once was lost, but never was found

I think I'm losin' what's left of my mind

To the 20th century deadline

[Part II]

[Intro]

We are the class of, the class of '13

Born in the era of humility

We are the desperate in the decline

Raised by the bastards of 1969

[Verse 3]

My name is No One, the long-lost son

Born on the 4th of July

Raised in the era of heroes and cons

That left me for dead or alive

I am a nation, a worker of pride (Pride)

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

[Interlude]

Hey

[Verse 4]

I swallowed my pride and I choked on my faith

I've given my heart and my soul

I've broken my fingers and lied through my teeth

The pillar of damage control

I've been to the edge and I've thrown the bouquet (Hey)

Of flowers left over the grave

I sat in the waiting room wasting my time

And waiting for Judgment Day

[Bridge]

I praise liberty

The freedom to obey

Is the song that strangles me

Well, don't cross the line

[Part III]

[Outro]

Oh, dream, America, dream

I can't even sleep from the light's early dawn

Oh, scream, America, scream

Believe what you see from heroes and cons

Know Your Enemy Lyrics

[Chorus]

Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy?

Well, gotta know the enemy, rah-eh

Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy?

Well, gotta know the enemy, rah-eh

Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy?

Well, gotta know the enemy, rah-eh

[Verse]

Well, violence is an energy against the enemy

Well, violence is an energy, rah-eh

Bringin' on the fury, the choir infantry

Revolt against the honor to obey (Oh-eh-oh-eh)

Overthrow the effigy, the vast majority

Well, burnin' down the foreman of control (Oh-eh-oh-eh)

Silence is an enemy against your urgency

So rally up the demons of your soul (Oh-eh-oh-eh)

[Chorus]

Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy?

Well, gotta know the enemy, rah-eh

Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy?

Well, gotta know the enemy, rah-eh

[Bridge]

The insurgency will rise

When the blood's been sacrificed

Don't be blinded by the lies in your eyes

Say

[Guitar Solo]

Oh-eh-oh-eh

[Breakdown]

Well, violence is an energy (Oh-eh-oh-eh)

Well, from here to eternity (Oh-eh-oh-eh)

Well, violence is an energy (Oh-eh-oh-eh)

Well, silence is the enemy, so gimme, gimme revolution

[Chorus]

Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy?

Well, gotta know the enemy, rah-eh

Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy?

Well, gotta know the enemy, rah-eh

Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy?

Well, gotta know the enemy, rah-eh

[Outro]

(Do you know the enemy?)

Overthrow the effigy, the vast majority

(Well, gotta know the enemy)

Well, burnin' down the foreman of control (Oh-eh-oh-eh)

(Do you know the enemy?)

Silence is an enemy against your urgency

(Well, gotta know the enemy)

So rally up the demons of your soul (Oh-eh-oh-eh)

¡Viva la Gloria! Lyrics

[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

The cracks of my skin can prove, as the years will testify

Say your prayers and light a fire, we're gonna start a war

Your slogan's a gun for hire, it's what we waited for

Hey, Gloria, this is why we're on the edge

The fight of our lives' been drawn, this undying love

[Chorus]

Gloria, viva la Gloria

You blast your name in graffiti on the walls

Fallin' in 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 ruins

Ashes to ashes of our youth

[Bridge]

She smashed her knuckles into winter (Gloria)

As autumn's wind fades into black

She is the saint of all the sinners (Gloria)

The one that's fallen through the cracks

So don't put away your burnin' light

[Chorus]

Gloria, where are you, Gloria?

Don't lose your faith to your lost naiveté

Weather the storm and don't look back on last November

When your banners were burnin' 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

[Outro]

So Gloria, send out your message of

The light that shadows in the night

Gloria, where's your undying love?

Tell me the story of your life

Your life

Before the Lobotomy Lyrics

[Intro]

Dreamin', I was only dreamin'

Of another place and time where my family's from

Singin', I can hear them singin'

When the rain had washed away all these scattered dreams

Dyin', 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

[Verse 1]

Life before the lobotomy

Christian sang the eulogy

Sign my love, a lost memory

From the end of the century

[Chorus]

Well, it's enough to make you sick

To cast a stone and throw a brick

Ooh, when the sky is falling down

You burned your dreams into the ground

[Verse 2]

Christian's lesson's what he's been sold (Hey)

We are normal and self-controlled (Hey)

Remember to learn to forget (Hey)

Whiskey shots and cheap cigarettes

[Chorus]

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

[Bridge]

Like refugees (Too late)

We're lost like refugees (Too late)

Like refugees (Too late)

We're lost like refugees (Too late)

The brutality of reality

Is the freedom that keeps me from

[Outro]

Dreamin', I was only dreamin'

Of another place and time where my family's from

Singin', I can hear them singin'

When the rain had washed away all these scattered dreams

Dyin', 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

Christian's Inferno Lyrics

[Verse 1]

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 ruin and this bitter pill is chased in blood

There's fire in my veins and it's pouring out like a flood

[Chorus]

Woah-oh, Christian's inferno

[Post-Chorus]

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha

[Verse 2]

This diabolic state is gracing my existence

Like a catastrophic baby, baby, maybe you're the chemical reaction

I am the atom bomb, I am your chosen one

Toxin your reservoir and then return man to ape

[Chorus]

Woah-oh, Christian's inferno

[Post-Chorus]

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha

[Guitar Solo]

[Chorus]

Woah-oh, Christian's inferno

Last Night on Earth Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I text a postcard sent to you, did it go through?

Sendin' all my love to you

You are the moonlight of my life every night

Givin' all my love to you

[Chorus]

My beatin' 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 sendin' all my love to you

[Verse 2]

With every breath that I am worth here on Earth

I'm sendin' all my love to you

So if you dare to second-guess, you can rest

Assured that all my love's for you

[Chorus]

My beatin' 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 sendin' all my love to you

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]

My beatin' 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

Did I ever make it through?

East Jesus Nowhere Lyrics

[Intro]

"Reberu rajio"

"Loss—"

"La última noche"

"Me—"

"And we will see how godless a nation we have become"

(em sseug-dnoceS) em tset t'noD

[Verse 1]

Raise your hands now to testify

Your confession will be crucified

You're a sacrificial suicide

Like a dog that's been sodomized, well

(Stand up) All the white boys

(Sit down) And the black girls

(Stand up) You're the soldiers

(Sit down) Of the new world

[Pre-Chorus]

Put your faith in a miracle

And it's nondenominational

Join the choir, we'll be singin'

In the church of wishful thinkin'

[Chorus]

A fire burns today

Of blasphemy and genocide

The sirens of decay

Will infiltrate the faith fanatics

[Verse 2]

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 doubt

And I'll be dressed up in my Sunday best

[Pre-Chorus]

Say a prayer for the family

Drop a coin for humanity

Ain't this uniform so flatterin'?

I never asked you a goddamned thing

[Chorus]

A fire burns today

Of blasphemy and genocide

The sirens of decay

Will infiltrate the faith fanatics

[Bridge]

Don't test me

Second-guess me

Protest me, you will disappear

[Pre-Chorus]

I wanna know who's allowed to breed

All the dogs who never learned to read

Missionary politicians

And the cops of the new religion

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]

A fire burns today

Of blasphemy and genocide

The sirens of decay

Will infiltrate the inside

[Outro]

Yeah

Peacemaker Lyrics

[Intro]

One, two, three, four

[Verse 1]

Well, I got a fever, a non-believer

I'm in a state of grace

For I am a Caesar, I'm gonna seize the day (Ay)

Well, call of the banshee, hey, hey

Hey-yay-yay-yay-yay

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 (Ay)

Well, call of the wild, hey, hey

Hey-yay-yay-yay-yay

Well, death to the girl at the end of the serenade

[Chorus]

Vendetta, sweet vendetta

This Beretta of the night

This fire and the desire

Well, shots ringin' out on the holy parasite

[Verse 2]

Well, I am a killjoy from Detroit

I drink from a well of rage

I feed off the weakness with all my love (Ah)

Well, call up the captain, hey, hey

Hey-yay-yay-yay-yay

Well, death to the lover that you were dreamin' of

Well, this is a standoff, a Molotov

Cocktail's on the house

You thought I was a write-off, you better think again (Ay)

Well, call the peacemaker, hey, hey

Hey-yay-yay-yay-yay

I'm gonna send you back to the place where it all began

[Chorus]

Vendetta, sweet vendetta

This Beretta of the night

This fire and the desire

Well, shots ringin' out on the holy parasite

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3]

Well, now the caretaker's the undertaker

So I'm gonna go out and get a peacemaker

This is a neo-Saint Valentine's massacre (Ah)

Well, call up the Gaza, hey, hey

Hey-yay-yay-yay-yay

Well, death to the ones at the end of the serenade

[Outro]

Well, death to the ones at the end of the serenade

Last of the American Girls Lyrics

[Intro]

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, endangered species headed into extinction

She is one of a kind, well, she's the last of the American girls

[Verse 1]

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 a hunger strike for the ones who won't make it for dinner

She makes enough to survive for a holiday of workin' class

[Chorus]

She's a runaway of the establishment incorporated

She won't cooperate, well, she's the last of the American girls

[Verse 2]

She plays her vinyl records, singin' songs on the eve of destruction

She's a sucker for all the criminals breakin' 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

[Chorus]

Like a hurricane in the heart of the devastation

She's a natural disaster, she's the last of the American girls

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]

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

[Outro]

Oh yeah

Alright

Oh yeah

Murder City Lyrics

[Chorus]

Desperate, but not hopeless

I feel so useless in the murder city

Desperate, but not helpless

The clock strikes midnight in the murder city

[Verse 1]

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

[Chorus]

Desperate, but not hopeless

I feel so useless in the murder city

Desperate, but not helpless

The clock strikes midnight in the murder city

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 2]

Christian's cryin' in the bathroom

And I just wanna 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

[Chorus]

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—

¿Viva la Gloria? (Little Girl) Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Little girl, little girl, why are you cryin'?

Inside your restless soul, your heart is dyin'

Little one, little one, your soul is purgin'

Of love and razor blades, your blood is surgin'

[Chorus]

Run away 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

[Verse 2]

Little girl, little girl, your life is callin'

The charlatans and saints of your abandon

Little one, little one, the sky is fallin'

Your lifeboat of deception is now sailin'

In the wake (Run away), 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 preachin' to the choir

[Chorus]

Run away 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

[Bridge]

The traces of blood always follow you home

Like the mascara tears from your getaway (Gloria)

You're walkin' with blisters and running with shears

So unholy, sister of grace

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]

Run away from the river to the street

And find yourself with your face in the gutter

You're a stray from the Salvation Army

There is no place like home

Restless Heart Syndrome Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I've got a really bad disease

It's got me beggin' on my hands and knees

So take me to emergency

'Cause somethin' seems to be missin'

Somebody take the pain away

It's like an ulcer bleedin' in my brain

So send me to the pharmacy

So I can lose my memory

[Chorus]

I'm elated, medicated

Lord knows I've tried to find a way

To run away

[Verse 2]

I think they found another cure

For broken hearts and feelin' 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 waitin' outside

The accidents that you could find

It's like some kinda suicide

[Chorus]

So what ails you is what impales you

I feel like I've been crucified

To be satisfied

[Bridge]

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

[Guitar Solo]

[Outro]

I'm elated, medicated

I am my own worst enemy

So what ails you is what impales you

You are your own worst enemy

You're a victim of the system

You are your own worst enemy

You're a victim of the system

You are your own worst enemy

Horseshoes and Handgrenades Lyrics

[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 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

[Chorus]

Maybe you're the runner-up, but the first one to lose the race

Almost only really counts in horseshoes and hand grenades

[Verse 2]

I'm gonna burn it all down

I'm gonna rip it out

Well, everything 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 I'm pushin' your luck all the time now

[Chorus]

Maybe you're the runner-up, but the first one to lose the race

Almost only really counts in horseshoes and hand grenades

[Breakdown]

Demolition, self-destruction

Want to annihilate this age-old contradiction

[Instrumental Break]

[Bridge]

Demolition, self-destruction

Want to annihilate this age-old contradiction

Demolition, self-destruction

Want to annihilate this old age

[Verse 3]

I'm not fuckin' around

I think I'm comin' out

Well, I'm a hater, a traitor in a pair of Chuck Taylors right now

[Outro]

I'm not fuckin' around

G-L-O-R-I-A

The Static Age Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Can you hear the sound of the static noise

Blastin' out in stereo?

Cater to the class and the paranoid

Music to my nervous system

Advertisin' love and religion

Murder on the airwaves

Slogans on the brink of corruption

[Pre-Chorus]

Visions of blasphemy, war and peace

Oh, screamin' at you

[Chorus]

I can't see a thing in the video

I can't hear a sound on the radio

In stereo in the static age

[Verse 2]

Billboard on the rise in the dawn's landscape

Working your insanity

Tragic à la madness and concrete

Coca-Cola execution

Conscience on a cross, and your heart's in a vise

Squeezin' out your state of mind

Are what you own that you cannot buy?

[Pre-Chorus]

What a fuckin' tragedy, strategy

Oh, screamin' at you

[Chorus]

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

[Bridge]

Hey, hey, it's the static age

Well, this is how the West was won

Hey, hey, it's the static age millennium

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 3]

All I wanna know is a goddamned thing

Not what's in the medicine

All I wanna do is I want to breathe

Batteries are not included

What's the latest way that a man can die

Screaming, "Hallelujah"?

Singin' out, "The dawn's early light"

[Pre-Chorus]

Silence of the rotten, forgotten

Oh, screamin' at you

[Chorus]

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 (Woah-oh)

I can't hear a sound on the radio (Woah-oh)

In stereo in the static age

I can't see a thing in the video (Woah-oh)

I can't hear a sound on the radio (Woah-oh)

In stereo in the static age

[Outro]

The static age

21 Guns Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Do you know what's worth fightin' for

When it's not worth dyin' for?

Does it take your breath away

And you feel yourself suffocatin'?

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

[Chorus]

One, twenty-one guns

Lay down your arms, give up the fight

One, twenty-one guns

Throw up your arms into the sky

You and I

[Verse 2]

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

[Chorus]

One, twenty-one guns

Lay down your arms, give up the fight

One, twenty-one guns

Throw up your arms into the sky

You and I

[Bridge]

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?

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 3]

When it's time to live and let die

And you can't get another try

Somethin' inside this heart has died

You're in ruins

[Chorus]

One, twenty-one guns

Lay down your arms, give up the fight

One, twenty-one guns

Throw up your arms into the sky

One, twenty-one guns

Lay down your arms, give up the fight

One, twenty-one guns

Throw up your arms into the sky

You and I

American Eulogy: Mass Hysteria / Modern World Lyrics

[Part I: American Eulogy]

[Intro: Billie Joe Armstrong]

Sing us a song of the century

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

[Part II: Mass Hysteria]

[Chorus: Billie Joe Armstrong]

Hysteria

Mass hysteria

[Verse 1: Billie Joe Armstrong]

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 screamin'

And the welfare's asphyxiatin'

Mass confusion is all the new rage

And it's creating a feeding ground for the bottom feeders of hysteria

[Chorus: Billie Joe Armstrong]

Mass hysteria

[Verse 2: Billie Joe Armstrong]

True sounds of maniacal laughter

And the deaf-mute's misleadin' the choir

The punchline is a natural disaster

And it's sung by the unemployed

Fight fire with a riot

The class war is hangin' 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"

[Chorus: Billie Joe Armstrong]

Mass hysteria

[Bridge: Billie Joe Armstrong]

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 fallin'

A vigilante's warnin' ya

Callin' Christian and Gloria

[Guitar Solo]

[Part III: Modern World]

[Chorus: Billie Joe Armstrong & Mike Dirnt]

I don't wanna live in the modern world

[Verse 1: Mike Dirnt]

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

[Chorus: Billie Joe Armstrong & Mike Dirnt]

I don't wanna live in the modern world

[Bridge: Billie Joe Armstrong]

I am a nation without bureaucratic ties

Deny the allegation as it's written, fuckin' lies

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 2: Mike Dirnt]

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 beatin' heart

That bleeds beyond a system that is fallin' apart

With money to burn on a minimum wage

Well, I don't give a shit about the modern age, yeah

[Chorus: Billie Joe Armstrong & Mike Dirnt]

I don't wanna live in the modern world

[Outro: Billie Joe Armstrong & Mike Dirnt]

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

See the Light Lyrics

[Instrumental Intro]

[Verse 1]

Well, I crossed the river

Fell into the sea

Where the nonbelievers

Go beyond belief

Then I scratched the surface

In the mouth of Hell

Runnin' out of service

In the blood, I fell

[Chorus]

Well, I, I just wanna see the light

And I, I don't wanna lose my sight

Well, I, I just wanna see the light

And I need to know what's worth the fight

[Verse 2]

Well, I've been wasted

Pills and alcohol

And I've been chasin'

Down the pool halls

Then I drank the water

From a hurricane

And I set a fire

Just to see the flame

[Chorus]

Well, I, I just wanna see the light

And I, I don't wanna lose my sight

Well, I, I just wanna see the light

And I need to know what's worth the fight

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 3]

Well, I crossed the desert

Reachin' higher ground

Then I pound the pavement

To take the liars down

But it's gone forever

Never too late

Where the ever after

Is in the hands of fate

[Chorus]

Well, I, I just wanna see the light

And I, I don't wanna lose my sight

Well, I, I just wanna see the light

And I need to know what's worth the fight

[Instrumental Outro]

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