标题：21st century breakdown
专辑简介
专辑英文名: 21st Century Breakdown
歌手: Green Day
音乐风格: 流行朋克(Punk-Pop)
发行时间: 2009年05月15日
地区: 美国
语言: 英语
简介: 
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Label: Reprise Records
Asin: B001SAQVDQ
Genres: Punk
Bitrate: 320kbps CBR
专辑介绍：
21st Century Breakdown是美国流行庞克乐队Green Day的第八张录音专辑，于二零零九年五月十五日全球发行。
Green Day于二零零六年开始构思21st Century Breakdown。专辑主题主要围绕宗教、战争、爱及社会问题，而反战主题将会减少，整张专辑共有十六首歌曲更会被分为三部分"Heroes and Cons," "Charlatans & Saints"以及"Horseshoes & Hand grenades."专辑音乐风格加入一些经典的摇滚。专辑的封面是一对派对上的男女在亲吻。这次更偏向强力流行乐。
21st Century Breakdown is Green Day's eighth studio album.It is Green Day's first album to be produced by renowned producer 
and Garbage member Butch Vig, who has produced albums such as Nevermind by Nirvana and Siamese Dream by The Smashing 
Pumpkins.
This album follows 2004's critically acclaimed American Idiot. Billie Joe Armstrong has stated that "21st Century Breakdown is a 
snapshot of the era in which we live as we question and try to make sense of the selfish manipulation going on around us, whether it be the government, religion, media or frankly any form of authority." This is the longest gap between studio releases for Green Day, as their last album was released in September 2004. Green Day had been working on this album since 2006, but the band showed no signs of a new album until a video of the band recording in studio was posted on YouTube in October 2008.
专辑曲目
01. Song of the Century
02. 21st Century Breakdown
03. Know Your Enemy
04. !Viva La Gloria!
05. Before The Lobotomy
06. Christians Inferno
07. Last Night On Earth
08. East Jesus Nowhere
09. Peacemaker
10. Last Of The American Girls
11. Murder City
12. ?Viva La Gloria? (Little Girl)
13. Restless Heart Syndrome
14. Horseshoes And Handgrenades
15. The Static Age
16. 21 Guns
17. American Eulogy (Mass Hysteria/Modern World)
18. See The Light
歌词
【ACT I ：Heroes and Cons】
1.[Song of the Century]
Sing us a song of the century
That's louder than bombs
And eternity
The era of static and contraband
That's leading us to the promised land
Tell us a story that's by candlelight
Waging a war and losing the fight
They're playing the song of the century
Of panic and promise and prosperity
Tell me a story into that goodnight
Sing us a song for me
--
2.[21st Century Breakdown]
Born into Nixon I was raised in hell
A welfare child where the teamsters dwelled
The last one born, the first one to run
My town was blind from refinery sun
My generation is zero
I never made it as a working class hero
21st Century Breakdown
I once was lost but never was found
I think I am losing what's left of my mind
To the 20th Century Deadline
I was made of poison and blood
Condemnation is what I understood
Videogames to the tower's fall
Homeland Security could kill us all
My generation is zero
I never made it as a working class hero
21st Century Breakdown
I once was lost but never was found
I think I am losing what's left of my mind
To the 20th Century Deadline
We are the class of 13
Born in the era of humility
We are the desperate in the decline
Raised by the Bastards of 1969
My name is no one
The long lost son
Born of the 4th of July
Raised in an era of heroes and cons
That left me for dead or alive
I am a nation
A worker of pride
My debt to the status quo
The scars on my hands
And the means to an end
Is all that I have to show
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
Of flowers left over the grave
I sat in the waiting room
Wasting my time
And waiting for judgement day
I praise Liberty
The "Freedom to Obey"
Is the song that strangles me
Don't cross the line
Dream, America dream,
I can't even sleep
From the lights early dawn
Scream, America scream
Believe what you see from heroes and cons?
--
3.[Know Your Enemy]
Do you know the enemy?
Do you know your enemy?
Well, gotta know the enemy
Do you know the enemy?
Do you know your enemy?
Well, gotta know the enemy
Do you know the enemy?
Do you know your enemy?
Well, gotta know the enemy
Violence is an energy
Against the enemy
Violence is an energy
Bringing on the fury
The choir infantry
Revolt against the honor to obey
Overthrow the effigy
The vast majority
Burning down the foreman of control
Silence is the enemy
Against your urgency
So rally up the demons of your soul
Do you know the enemy?
Do you know your enemy?
Well gotta know the enemy
Do you know the enemy?
Do you know your enemy?
Well gotta know the enemy
The insurgency will rise
When the bloods been sacrificed
Don't be blinded by the lies
In your eyes.
Violence is an energy
From here to eternity
Violence is an energy
Silence is the enemy
So gimme gimme revolution
Do you know the enemy?
Do you know your enemy?
Well gotta know the enemy
Do you know the enemy?
Do you know your enemy?
Well gotta know the enemy
Overthrow the effigy
The vast majority
Burning down the foreman of control
Silence is the enemy
Against your urgency
So rally up the demons of your soul
--
4.[Viva la Gloria!]
Hey Gloria
Are you standing close to the edge?
Lookout to the setting sun
The brink of your vision
Eternal youth is
A landscape of the lie
The cracks of my skin can prove
As the years will testify
Say your prayers and light a fire
We're going to start a war
Your slogans 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 to
This undying love.
Gloria, Viva La Gloria
You blast your name
In graffiti on the walls
Falling through 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 ruin
Ashes to ashes of our youth
She smashed her knuckles into winter
As autumns wind fades into black
She is the saint on all the sinners
The one that's fallen through the cracks
So don't put away your burning light
Gloria, where are you Gloria
Don't lose your faith
To your lost naivete
Weather the storm and don't look
Back on last November
When your banners were burning 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
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.
--
5.[Before the Lobotomy]
Dreaming
I am only dreaming
Of another place and time
Where my family's 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 is no more laughter
Songs of yesterday
Now live in the underground
Life before the lobotomy
Christian sang the eulogy
Sign my love a lost memory
From the end of the century
Well it's enough to make you sick
To cast a stone and throw a brick
When the sky is falling down
It burned your dreams into the ground
Christian's lesson is what he's been sold
We are normal and self-controlled
Remember to learn to forget
Whiskey shots and cheap cigarettes
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
Like refugees
We're lost like refugees
Like refugees
We're lost like refugees
The brutality of reality
Is the freedom that keeps me from
Dreaming
I was only dreaming
Of another place and time
Where my family's 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 is no more laughter
Songs of yesterday
Now live in the underground
--
6.[Christian's Inferno]
I got under the grip
Between the modern hell
I got the rejection letter in the mail and
It was already ripped to shreds.
Seasons in a ruin and
This bitter pill is chased with blood.
There's fire in my veins
And it's pouring out like a flood
Whoa, Christian's inferno
Whoa, Christian's inferno
Whoa, Christian's inferno
Whoa, Christian's inferno
This diabolic state is gracing my existence
Like a catasrophic baby
Maybe you're the chemical reaction
I am the atom bomb
I am the chosen one
Toxin your reservoir
And then return man to ape
Whoa, Christian's inferno
Whoa, Christian's inferno
Whoa, Christian's inferno
Whoa, Christian's inferno
--
7.[Last Night on Earth]
I text a postcard, sent to you
Did it go through?
Sending all my love to you.
You are the moonlight of my life every night
Giving all my love to you
My beating 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 sending all my love to you.
With every breath that I am worth
Here on earth
I'm sending all my love to you.
So if you dare to second guess
you can rest assured
That all my love's for you
My beating 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 sending all my love to you.
My beating 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?
--
【ACT II ：Charlatans and Saints】
8.[East Jesus Nowhere]
Raise your hands now to testify
Your confession will be crucified
You're a sacrificial suicide
Like a dog that's been sodomized
Stand up! - All the white boys
Sit down! - All the black girls
You're the soldiers of the new world
Put your faith in a miracle
And it's non-denominational
Join the choir we will be singing
In the church of wishful thinking
A fire burns today
Of blasphemy and genocide
The sirens of decay
Will infiltrate the faith fanatics
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 in my Sunday best
Say a prayer for the family
Drop a coin for humanity
Ain't this uniform so flattering?
I never asked you a God damned thing
A fire burns today
Of blasphemy and genocide
The sirens of decay
Will infiltrate the faith fanatics
Don't test me
Second guess me
Protest me
You will disappear
I want to know who's allowed to breed
All the dogs who never learned to read
Missionary politicians
And the cops of a new religion
A fire burns today
Of blasphemy and genocide
The sirens of decay
Will infiltrate the inside
--
9.[Peacemaker]
Well, I've got a fever
A non-believer
I'm in a state of grace
For I am the Caesar
I'm gonna seize the day
Well, call of the banshee hey hey
Hey hey hey hey hey
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
Well, call of the wild hey hey
Hey hey hey hey hey
Death to the girl at the end of the serenade
Vendetta, sweet vendetta
This Beretta of the night
This fire and the desire 
Shots ringing out on a holy parasite
I am a killjoy from Detroit
I drink from a well of rage
I feed off the weakness with all my love
Call up the captain hey hey
Hey hey hey hey hey
Death to the lover that you were dreaming of
This is a stand off
A Molotov cocktail
On the house
You thought I was a write off
You better think again
Call the peacemaker hey hey
Hey hey hey hey hey
I'm gonna send you back to the place where it all began
Vendetta, sweet vendetta
This Beretta of the night
This fire and the desire
Shots ringing out on a holy parasite
Well now the caretaker's the undertaker
Now I'm gonna go out and get the peacemaker
This is the neo St. Valentines Massacre
Well call up the Gaza hey hey
hey hey hey hey hey
Death to the ones at the end of the serenade
Well, death to the ones at the end of the serenade
Well, death to the ones at the end of the serenade
Well, death to the ones at the end of the serenade
--
10.[Last of the American Girls]
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 like
Endangered species headed into extinction
She is one of a kind
She's the last of the American girls
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 working class
She's a runaway of the establishment incorporated.
She won't cooperate
She's the last of the American girls
She plays her vinyl records
Singing songs on the eve of destruction
She's a sucker for
All the criminals breaking the laws
She will come in first
For the end of western civilization
She's an endless war
Like a hero for the lost cause
Like a hurricane
In the heart of the devastation
She's a natural disaster
She's the last of the American girls
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
--
11.[Murder City]
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
--
12.[Little Girl]
Little girl, little girl
Why are you crying?
Inside your restless soul your heart is dying.
Little one, little one
Your soul is purging
Of love and razor blades
Your blood is surging
Runaway
From the river to the street
And find yourself with your face in the gutter
Your a stray for the salvation army
There is no place like home
When you got no place to go
Little girl, little girl
Your life is calling
The charlatans and saints of your abandon
Little one little one
The sky is falling
The lifeboat of deception is now sailing
In the wake 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
Preaching to the choir
Runaway
To your lost tranquility
And find yourself with your face in the gutter
You're a stray for the dregs of humanity
There is no place like home
When you got no place to go
The traces of blood
Always follow you home
Like the mascara tears
From your getaway
Your walking with blisters
and running with shears
So unholy.
Sister of grace.
Runaway
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
--
13.[Restless Heart Syndrome]
I've got a really bad disease
It's got me begging
On my hands and knees
Take me to the emergency
'Cause something seems to be missing
Somebody take the pain away
It's like an ulcer bleeding in my brain
Send me to the pharmacy
So I can lose my memory
I'm elated
Medicated
Lord knows I tried to find a way to run away.
I think they found another cure
For broken hearts and feeling insecure
You'd be surprised what I endure
What make you feel so self-assured?
I need to find a place to hide
You never know what could be
Waiting outside
The accidents that you could find
It's like some kind of suicide
So what ails you is what impales you
I feel like I've been crucified to be satisfied
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
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
--
【ACT III：Horseshoes and Handgrenades】
14.[Horseshoes and Handgrenades]
I'm not fucking around
I think I'm coming out
All the deceivers and cheaters
I've think we've 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
Maybe you're the runner up
But the first one to lose the race
Almost only really counts in
Horseshoes and hand grenades
I'm gonna burn it all down
I'm gonna rip it out
Well, everything that 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 pushing my luck
All the time now
Maybe you're the runner up
But the first one to lose the race
Almost only really counts in
Horseshoes and hand grenades
Demolition, self-destruction
What to annihilate
The age-old contradiction
Demolition, self-destruction
What to annihilate
The old age
I'm not fucking around
I think I'm coming out
All the deceivers and cheaters
I've think we've got a bleeder right now
I'm not fucking around
G-L-O-R-I-A
--
15.[he Static Age]
Can you hear the sound of the static noise?
Blasting out in stereo
Cater to the class and the paranoid
Music to my nervous system
Advertising love and religion
Murder on the airwaves
Slogans on the brink of corruption
Vision of blasphemy, war and peace
Screaming at you
I can't see a thing in the video
I can't hear a sound on the radio
In stereo in the static age
Billboard on the rise in the dawn's landscape
Working your insanity
Tragic a'la madness and concrete
Coca Cola execution
Conscience on a cross and
You're hearts in a vice
Squeezing out your state of mind
Are what you own that you cannot buy?
What a fucking tragedy, strategy
Screaming at you.
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
Hey hey it's the static age
This is how the west was won
Hey hey it's the static age millennium
All I want to know
Is a God-damned thing
Not what's in the medicine
All I want to do is
I want to breathe
Batteries are not included
What's the latest way that a man can die
Screaming hallelujah?
Singing out "The dawn's early light"
The silence of the rotten, forgotten
Screaming at you.
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
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
The static age
--
16.[21 Guns]
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
One, 21 guns
Lay down your arms
Give up the fight
One, 21 guns
Throw up your arms into the sky,
You and I
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.
One, 21 guns
Lay down your arms
Give up the fight
One, 21 guns
Throw up your arms into the sky,
You and I
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
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.
One, 21 guns
Lay down your arms
Give up the fight
One, 21 guns
Throw up your arms into the sky,
You and I
--
17.[American Eulogy]
(Part I :Mass HysteriaMass Hysteria)
Sing us the song of the century
That sings like American eulogy
The dawn of my love and conspiracy
Of forgotten hope and the class of 13
Tell me a story into that goodnight
Sing us a song for me
Mass Hysteria
Mass Hysteria
Mass Hysteria
Mass Hysteria
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 thought leads to full-throttle screaming
And the welfare is asphyxiating
Mass confusion is all the new rage
And it's creating a feeding ground
For the bottom feeders of hysteria
Mass Hysteria
Mass Hysteria
Mass Hysteria
Mass Hysteria
True sounds of maniacal laughter
And the deaf-mute is misleading the choir
The punch line is a natural disaster
And it's sung by the unemployed
Fight fire with a riot
The class war is hanging 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"
Mass Hysteria
Mass Hysteria
Mass Hysteria
Mass Hysteria
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, American is falling
Vigilantes warning you
Calling Christian and Gloria
(Part II :Modern World)
I don't want to live in the modern world
I don't want to live in the modern world
I don't want to live in the modern world
I don't want to live in the modern world
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
I don't want to live in the modern world
I don't want to live in the modern world
I don't want to live in the modern world
I don't want to live in the modern world
I am a nation
Without bureaucratic ties
Deny the allegation as it's written
I want to take a ride to the great divide
Beyond the "up to date"
And then 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 beating heart
That bleeds beyond a system
That's falling apart
With money to burn
On a minimum wage
'Cause I don't give a shit
About the modern age
I don't want to live in the modern world
I don't want to live in the modern world
I don't want to live in the modern world
I don't want to live in the modern world
I don't want to live in the modern world
Mass Hysteria
I don't want to live in the modern world
Mass Hysteria
I don't want to live in the modern world
Mass Hysteria
I don't want to live in the modern world
Mass Hysteria
--
18.[See the Light]
I crossed the river
Fell into the sea
Where the non-believers
Go beyond belief
Then I scratched the surface
In the mouth of hell
Running out of service
In the blood I fell
I just want to see the light
i don't want to lose my sight
I just want to see the light
I need to know what's worth the fight
I've been wasted 
Pills and alcohol
I've been chasing
Down the pool halls
Then I drank the water
From a hurricane
And I set a fire
Just to see the flame
I just want to see the light
I don't want to lose my sight
I just want to see the light
I need to know what's worth the fight
I crossed the desert
Reaching higher ground
Then I pound the pavement
To take the liars down
But it's gone forever
But never too late
Where the ever after
Is in the hands of fate
I just want to see the light
I don't want to lose my sight
I just want to see the light
I need to know what's worth the fight
21st C. B.乐评（未完版）
【ACT I HEROES AND CONS】 
第一乐章翻译过来是“英雄与反对派”，我认为是在讲底层人民与上级的对抗，表达了乐队对社会的不满，以及21世纪的大崩溃~ 
01.Song Of The Century 
这首歌也就是个前奏，其中电台音效让人以为是晚上且信号不好的情况下听收音机，不过好在声音没有太大变化。PUNK不老啊~ 
02.21st Century Breakdown 
前奏很有代入感，一开始好像是在做克瑞斯坦（男主角）的自我介绍，不过他如果出生在60年代末的话，到现在都已经40了还是一个底层阶级的人，别的不说，最起码对我来说是个长辈，怎么也要尊重啊（笑）。第2乐段，节奏感还算强，听着就会想到21世纪以来的混乱，以及人们的荒唐行为。第3乐段，缓慢且无力的节奏加上主唱无力的歌声，象征着美国梦的破碎。 
03.Know Your Enemy 这首歌是单曲之一，各位应该听过2、3遍，看过MV的都应该注意到主唱在监狱里面对天空竖中指的景象，或许这便是被囚禁在牢笼里心中充满对社会的愤怒想要发泄吧，想想我们不也是这样么？没错，我们不应该被蒙蔽视线，沉默是我们的大敌，革命吧，永恒就在这里！！！ 
04.!VIVA LA GLORIA! 前面的钢琴曲貌似是这张专辑的一大特色，表达了克瑞斯坦与格罗瑞亚这对恋人对岁月赞叹与对年轻时代的美好回忆，歌词里还提到了涂鸦，这就不由得让人联想起专辑的封面，就跟上一张专辑里面的“She Is A Rabel”一样。快节奏摇滚开始后克瑞斯坦表达出了对即将到来的战斗与革命的决心，后面的歌词提起格罗瑞亚要找回自己，不要回头看过去的11月，这里就明显了，女主人公格罗瑞亚就是美国的化身，呵呵，自由女神啊~末尾提出对美国的信心，等待光明的到来！ 
05.Before The Lobotomy 这首歌听着像是梦游一般，境界真是令人难以捉摸，听着很玄的调紧接着就是一阵重音，让人从梦中惊醒，然后遍开始会想21世纪以前美国的种种社会问题，比如说什么酗酒风啊，什么经济大萧条啊，再一次表达了对底层人民的同情（黑人？），这仿佛旨在提醒奥巴马也是一位黑人，也处在社会的底层。最后唱到克瑞斯坦“死”了，想必这是对下一首歌的妥协吧（请看下一首歌歌名），这便相当于上张专辑里面JOS离家出走。 
06.Christian's Inferno 这首歌把社会形象的比喻为了地狱，歌词里面有提到原子弹，灾难中生还的婴儿，上帝选民和向蓄水库里投毒之类，就一个词好了，“荒诞”。 
07.Last Night On Earth 非常抒情的一首歌，写克瑞斯坦在“革命”之路（大概是他又从地狱努力向人间走）奋战时对格罗瑞亚的回忆，以第二人称的亲切倾诉出了当初对她的无比爱恋之情，不远万里追求自己所爱，结尾处还问了句“我能通过考验吗？”真是……格罗瑞亚应该会给予肯定吧。 
【ACT II CHARLATANS AND SAINTS】 
第2乐章名字很难懂，不知各位有什么见解，直接翻译是“骗子和圣贤”，在我看来是对社会中虚伪人的讽刺和质疑，与对正直之人的赞颂吧。 
08.East Jesus Nowhere 值得一提的还是开头那段不知道是美利坚哪位总统的超级自恋讲话，真是讽刺啊。一开始还是呼吁种族不要歧视，白人男孩和黑人女孩都是战士，让他们一起接受耶稣（说白了就是克瑞斯坦吧）的信仰教育，我猜大概这些孩子会“有所为”吧，但愿出发点是和平的。中间还是唱到了人性，说是一场大火残害生灵亵渎神明种种，现在人们的趋炎附势，腐败之风盛行，也该反思了，虚伪的人，不要掺进信仰者之内（主人公克瑞斯坦在英文里面的意思就是基督徒，怪不得）！临近最后的一段不禁令我想起小时候玩合金弹头时候骑骆驼的情景，让人也到中东（耶稣诞生之地）神游了一遍。 
09.Peacemaker 还是在宗教圣地唱歌，这次更多提到了屠杀，唱起了罗马，艾萨辛（刺客），自然而然引起人们当今中东形式的反思，古代的，现代的，人性没有变，从出生到死都那么可笑可悲，死亡降临了，我们可怜生命的小夜曲也终止了。 
10.Last Of The American Girls 核冬天？没错，这就是冷战带来的恶果（幸好没发生）。GREENDAY描绘的是核冬天真正来临时一个美国女孩（最后的）对自己生活的安排。她善良，为了流浪的人而示威。她乐观，在人类即将灭绝时候还在唱着歌，当然这极有可能是她“犯罪”并“入狱”。她还是“幸运的”，因为她会第一个抵达西方文明的终点。说实在的，这个女孩真的像是“骆驼祥子”，只不过是个没有堕落的而已。我们高度法治的社会，是啊，那么多的限制，可到最后还是变为了“人治”，为了统治阶级的利益，相信人性的最后一点良知被GREENDAY赋予给了这个女孩。 
11.Murder City 屠杀，还是屠杀，十字军的东征，宗教，等等很乱的东西，信徒千里迢迢来到了这里，等来的却是遗弃。 
12.Viva La Gloria (Little Girl) 格罗瑞亚在这里成了救世军的代言人，她哭泣着，奋力逃跑。人类此时遇到了疾病，在恐慌中逃跑，渺小的人类此时被疾病追得无路可逃，再一次体现了人类无力的一面，就连救世军也无能为力。 
13.Restless Heart Syndrome 心乱综合症，任何一个突发意外就是生命的终结，当一个人在自己的心灵中逃避时，会不断的问自己“敌人在哪里，他有是谁呢，我在燃烧，让我了解他吧！”在一片迷雾中前行，永远不知到前面是什么。是啊，谁在这时候都需要庇护。 
【ACT III：Horseshoes and Handgrenades】 
马蹄铁与手榴弹，难道是铸剑为犁的意思？抑或是自我毁灭
本专辑获奖记录：2010年2月1日 Green Day凭借《21st Century Breakdown》获最佳摇滚专辑(Best Rock Album)奖
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