One of the best of 21st Century Breakdown. The best live version in my opinion is 2007. [ Viva la Gloria at Saitama Super Arena, Saitama, Japan ].
The bittersweetness of Greenday who felt the sincerity of the Japanese people who welcomed them, as a band from a country that had dropped atomic bombs on Japan.
The bittersweetness of Greenday who felt the sincerity of the Japanese people who welcomed them, as a band from a country that had dropped atomic bombs on Japan.
[Intro]
E G#m A E
[Verse]
E G#m
Hey Gloria
A E
Are you standing close to the edge?
Are you standing close to the edge
E G#m
Lookout to the setting sun
Look in the direction of the sunset
A B
The brink of your vision
Threshold of your Vision
E G#m
Eternal youth is
Staying Young
A E
A landscape of the lie
Is a stretch of lies
E G#m
The cracks of my skin can prove
The cracks in my skin can attest
A B
As the years will testify
As the years will testify
[Bridge]
C#m G#m
Say your prayers and light a fire
Say your prayers and light the fire
A E
We’re going to start a war
We will start the war soon
C#m G#m
Your slogans a gun for hire
Your slogan is a gun for hire
A B
It’s what we waited for
Is what we are waiting for
[Verse]
E G#m
Hey Gloria,
A E
This is why we’re on the edge
This is why we are on the edge
E G#m
The fight of our lives has been drawn to
The battle of our lives has been drawn into
A E
This undying love.
This Eternal Love
[Chorus]
E G#m
Gloria, Viva La Gloria
C#m
You blast your name
You blow up the name
A
In graffiti on the walls
On Graffiti on the wall
A
Falling through broken glass that’s
Fall through broken glass
E B C#m
Slashing through your spirit
Cutting your spirit
A B
I can hear it like a jilted crowd
I can hear it like the rejected love of the crowd
E G#m
Gloria, where are you Gloria
C#m
You found a home
You found a house
A
In all your scars and ammunition
In all scars and ammunition
A E
You made your bed in salad days
You make the bed on salad day
B C#m
Amongst the ruins
Among the destruction
A B
Ashes to ashes of our youth
Ashes to ashes of our youth
[Verse]
E G#m C#m
She smashed her knuckles into winter
He smashed the pages of his book into the winter
A E B
As autumns wind fades into black
Like autumn the wind fades to black
E G#m C#m
She is the saint on all the sinners
He is the holy one in all sinners
A E B
The one that’s fallen through the cracks
One that has fallen through the cracks
A B
So don’t put away your burning light
So don’t get rid of your light
[Chorus]
E G#m
Gloria, where are you Gloria
C#m
Don’t lose your faith
Don’t lose your Faith
A
To your lost naivete
For your lost naivety
A
Weather the storm and don’t look
Stormy weather, and don’t look
E B C#m
Back on last November
Back in November
A B
When your banners were burning down
When your flag is on fire
E G#m
Gloria, viva la Gloria
C#m
Send me your amnesty down
Send me your forgiveness
A
To the broken hearted
To the broken heart
A
Bring us the season
Bring our season
E B C#m
That we always will remember
That we will always remember
A B
Don’t let the bonfires go out
Don’t let the campfire go out
[Outro]
A E
So Gloria,
A E
Send out your message of
Send your message from
A E B
The light that shadows in the night.
The light that shadows the night
A E
Gloria,
A E
where’s your undying love?
Where is your eternal love?
A E B
Tell me the story of your life
Tell me your life story
E – E – E – E – E
