Greenday
Before The Lobotomy
21st Century Breakdown
2009 Reprise Records
Submitted by: paramore_fans@yahoo.com
Key: F# then C#
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
F# - 244322
C#/F - 143xxx
E - 022100
B - x24442
Bm - x24432
C# - x46664
G# - 466544
A - x02220
E - 022100
C#9 - x46644
C#sus - x46674
Intro: Plucking
e|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
B|---------2-------|-------2-4-2-----|-------2-4-2-----|---------4-------|-----3-----3-----|
G|-----------------|-----1-------1---|-----1-------1---|-----4-----4-----|-------------4---|
D|-------4---4-----|-----------------|-----------------|---4---4-----4---|---4-----4-----4-|
A|---1-4-------4-1-|---4-----------4-|---4-----------4-|-2-------------2-|-2-----2---------|
E|-2---------------|-1---------------|-0---------------|-----------------|-----------------|
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Verse 1:
Dreaming
I was only dreaming
Of another place and time
Where's my family is 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's no more laughter
Songs of yesterday
B Bm(hold)
Now live in the underground
Interlude: beat switch from slow to fast
x6
Verse 2:
Life before the lobotomy
Christian sang the eulo--gy
Sign my love a lost memory
From the end of the century
Refrain 1:
Well It's e--nough to make you sick
To cast a stone and throw a brick
And when the sky is falling down
It burned your dreams into the ground
Verse 3:
Christian's lesson is what he's been sold
We are normal and selfcontrolled
Remember to learn to forget
C#(hold) C# F# Ab F# Ab C#
Whiskey shots and cheap cigarettes
Refrain 2:
Well i'm not stoned
I'm just fucked up
I got so high I can't stand up
I'm not cursed Cause i've been blessed
I'm not in love Cause i'm a mess
Chorus:
Like refugees
We're lost to refugees
Like refugees
We're lost to refugees
The brutality of reality
C# C# (Guitar solo)
Is the freedom that keeps me from
Guitar 2: Solo
e|--------1--1h2-4--4h6-7--4--9---|
B|-2--2h4-----------------------7-|
G|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|
Outro:
Dreaming
I was only dreaming
Of another place and time
Where's my family is 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's no more laughter
Songs of yesterday
B Bm(hold)
Now live in the underground