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21 Guns (Broadway)Green Day

Released: April 20, 2010

Featuring: John Gallagher Jr. Rebecca Naomi Jones

Songwriter: Green Day

Producer: Green Day

[WHATSERNAME]
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

[EXTRAORDINARY GIRL]
One, 21 guns
Lay down your arms, give up the fight

[HEATHER and EXTRAORDINARY GIRL]
One, 21 guns
Throw up your arms into the sky

[EXTRAORDINARY GIRL]
You and I

[TUNNY]
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

[JOHNNY]
Your faith walks on broken glass

[WILL]
And the hangover doesn't pass

[WILL and JOHNNY]
Nothing's ever built to last
You're in ruins

[WHATSHERNAME]
You're in ruins

[ALL]
One, 21 guns
Lay down your arms, give up the fight
One, 21 guns
Throw up your arms into the sky, you and I

[WHATSHERNAME]
(Did you?) Did you try to live on your own
(When you-) When you burned down the house and home?
(Did you?) Did you stand too close to the fire
Like a liar looking for forgiveness from a stone?

[EXTRAORDINARY GIRL]
When it's time to live and let die
And you can't get another try
Something inside this heart has died
You're in ruins

[ALL]
You're in ruins!

[ALL]
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

[HEATHER]
*Nobody likes you, everyone left you, they're all out without you having fun.*

Green Day

Formed in East Bay, California in 1986 and still going strong today, Green Day is one of the biggest punk rock acts in the world. Along with other punk bands in California such as The Offspring, Sublime, Bad Religion and Rancid, they have been credited with popularizing and reviving mainstream interest in punk rock in the U.S. in the 90s.

First starting in 1986 as Sweet Children, longtime friends Billie Joe Armstrong (guitar and lead vocalist) and Mike Dirnt (bass guitar) teamed up with John Kiffmeyer to produce their debut EP 1,000 Hours. They eventually dropped the name Sweet Children and called themselves Green Day due to the band members' fondness for cannabis (it even inspired a song featured on their first album) and for their second studio album Kerplunk they replaced Kiffmeyer with German-born drummer Tré Cool, who had been drumming since the age of 12 in a punk band, The Lookouts.

It was their 1994 record Dookie that sent the band to stardom and gave them mainstream success. Dookie, alongside their following albums Insomniac (1995) and Nimrod (1997) were certified double platinum. Eventually, the band started to fall in popularity with their 2000 record Warning which only reached gold.

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