Song Details
Murder City
  • Track #11 from 21st Century Breakdown
  • Released 2009
    Green Day has played this song live 63 times
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    Lyrics
    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

    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
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