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Bibliography: Green Day is an American alternative rock band. The band was formed in 1986 and was a trio consisting of the artists Billie Joe Armstrong (vocalist/guitarist), Mike Dirnt (bassist) and Tre Cool (Drummer). They were joined by Jason White (guitarist) in 2012. They have released 16 albums including Demolicious (18 songs), Tre, Dos (13 songs), Uno (12 songs), Awesome as f*** (20 songs), 21st century (20 songs), Bullet in a Bible, American idiot (9 songs), Shenanigans, International, Warning, Nimrod, Insomniac, Dookie, Kerplunk and Smoothed. Dookie was one of their best successes and eventually sold 10 million copies in the US. From 1994-96 was some of their best years with ultimate success. From 1997-2002 they had a major decline in commercial success and was some of their harder years. From 2003-2015 they had a rise in popularity and are quite the success. Green Day's sound is often compared to first wave [|punk rock]  bands such as the [|Ramones] , [|The Clash] , [|Sex Pistols] , [|The Jam] , and the [|Buzzcocks] . Stylistically, they are characterized as punk rock, [|pop punk]  and  [|alternative rock] [|Stephen Thomas Erlewine]  of [|All Music]  described Green Day as " [|punk revivalists]  who recharged the energy of speedy, catchy three-chord punk-pop songs." While Armstrong is the primary songwriter, he looks to the other band members for organizational help. Billie Joe Armstrong has mentioned that some of his biggest influences are seminal alternative rock bands [|Hüsker Dü]  and [|The Replacements] , and that their influence is particularly noted in the band's chord changes in songs Green Day has covered Hüsker Dü's " [|Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">" as a b-side to the "Warning" single, and the character "Mr. Whirly" in their song "Misery" is a reference to the Replacements song of the same name. Among other influences, Green Day have also cited [|The Who] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;"> and [|power pop] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;"> pioneers [|Cheap Trick] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">. English rock musician [|Noel Gallagher] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;"> of [|Oasis] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;"> complained about the band semi-jokingly, claiming that they ripped off his song " [|Wonderwall] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">" with their song " [|Boulevard of Broken Dreams] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">"

Lyrics: 21 guns:

Verse: <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Do you know what's worth fighting for <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">When it's not worth dying for? <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Does it take your breath away <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">And you feel yourself suffocating <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Does the pain weigh out the pride? <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">And you look for a place to hide <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Did someone break your heart inside <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">You're in ruins

<span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chorus: <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">One, 21 Guns <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lay down your arms <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Give up the fight <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">One, 21 Guns <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Throw up your arms into the sky <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">You and I...

<span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Verse: <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">When you're at the end of the road <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">And you lost all sense of control <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">And your thoughts have taken their toll <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">When your mind breaks the spirit of your soul <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Your faith walks on broken glass <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">And the hangover doesn't pass <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nothing's ever built to last <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">You're in ruins

<span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chorus: <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">One, 21 Guns <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lay down your arms <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Give up the fight <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">One, 21 Guns <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Throw up your arms into the sky <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">You and I...

<span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bridge: <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Did you try to live on your own <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">When you burned down the house and home <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Did you stand too close to the fire? <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Like a liar looking for forgiveness from a stone

<span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">When it's time to live and let die <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">And you can't get another try <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Something inside this heart has died <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">You're in ruins

<span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chorus: <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">One, 21 Guns <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lay down your arms <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Give up the fight <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">One, 21 Guns <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Throw up your arms into the sky <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">One, 21 Guns <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lay down your arms <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Give up the fight <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">One, 21 Guns <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Throw up your arms into the sky <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">You and I

<span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">21 guns analysis: <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">0.16 minutes - electric guitar - Thin texture, low dynamics <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline;">0.30 minutes - electric guitar, voice - Thin texture, low dynamics 0.58 minutes - backing singers, voice, electric guitar - medium texture, medium dynamics 1.20 minutes - voice, violins - low texture, medium dynamics 1.28 minutes - harmony voices, violins - medium texture, medium dynamics 1.44 minutes - drums - low texture, high dynamics 1.50 minutes - drums, voice, electric guitar, piano - high texture, high dynamics 2.24 minutes - piano, harmony voices, backing voices, electric guitar, drums - high texture, high dynamics 3.29 - harmony voices, violins, piano - low texture, low dynamics 3,49 - backing, drums, guitar - low texture, high dynamics 4.48 - guitar, piano, drums - low texture, low dynamics 4.54 - end <span style="font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">"Boulevard Of Broken Dreams"

Verse: I walk a lonely road The only one that I have ever known Don't know where it goes But it's home to me and I walk alone

Chorus: I walk this empty street On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams Where the city sleeps And I'm the only one and I walk alone

I walk alone I walk alone I walk alone I walk a...

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me 'Til then I walk alone

Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, aaah-ah, Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah

Verse: I'm walking down the line That divides me somewhere in my mind On the border line Of the edge and where I walk alone

Read between the lines Of what's fucked up and everything's alright Check my vital signs To know I'm still alive and I walk alone Verse: I walk alone I walk alone I walk alone I walk a...

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me 'Til then I walk alone

Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, aaah-ah Ah-ah, ah-ah

I walk alone I walk a...

Bridge: I walk this empty street On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams Where the city sleeps And I'm the only one and I walk a...

Verse: My shadow's the only one that walks beside me My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me 'Til then I walk alone…

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