Green Day - Before The Lobotomy Chords & Tabs

Greenday
Before The Lobotomy
21st Century Breakdown
2009 Reprise Records
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Key: F# then C#

Tuning: Standard EADGBe

Chords used:
F# -   244322
C#/F - 143xxx
E -    022100
B -    x24442
Bm -   x24432
C# -   x46664
G# -   466544
A -    x02220
E -    022100


Intro: Plucking
F#--C#/F--E--B-Bm


Verse 1:
F#
Dreaming
           C#/F
I was only dreaming
E
Of another place and time
B                    Bm
Where's my family is from
F#
Singing
                C#/F
I can hear them singing
E
When the rain had washed away
B                   Bm
All these scattered dreams
F#
Dying 
             C#/F
Everyone's reminded
E
Hearts are washed in misery
B               Bm
Drenched in gasoline
F#
Laughter
                C#/F
There's no more laughter
E
Songs of yesterday
         B           Bm(hold)
Now live in the underground 


Interlude: beat switch from slow to fast
C#--F#-G# x6


Verse 2:
C#                      C# F# G# F# G# C#
Life before the lobotomy
C#                       C# F# G# F# G# C#
Christian sang the eulogy
C#                        C# F# G# F# G# C#
Sign my love a lost memory
C#                         C# F# G# F# G# C#
From the end of the century

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Refrain 1:
     F#   C# G#       F#   C#  G#
Well It's e--nough to make you sick
   F#   C# G#       F#    C# G#
To cast a stone and throw a  brick
    F#   C#   G#    F# C#   G#
And when the sky is falling down
   F#     C#   G#       F# C#  G#
It burned your dreams into the ground


Verse 3:
C#                                       C# F# G# F# G# C#
Christian's lesson is what he's been sold
C#                              C# F# G# F# G# C#
We are normal and selfcontrolled
C#                         C# F# G# F# G# C#
Remember to learn to forget
C#(hold)                          C# F# G# F# G# C#
Whiskey shots and cheap cigarettes   


Refrain 2:
     F#  C#   G#
Well i'm not stoned
    F#   C#     G#
I'm just fucked up
  F#  C# G#     F#     C#   G#
I got so high I can't stand up
F#  C#  G#            F#   C#   G#
I'm not cursed 'Cause i've been blessed 
    F#  C# G#          F#  C# G#--
I'm not in love 'Cause i'm a  mess


Chorus:
     C#  G#
Like refugees
      C#          G#
We're lost to refugees
     C#  G#
Like refugees
      C#          G#
We're lost to refugees
       B   F#      A  E
The brutality of reality
       C#                    Guitar solo
Is the freedom that keeps me from


Outro:
F#
Dreaming
           C#/F
I was only dreaming
E
Of another place and time
B                    Bm
Where's my family is from
F#
Singing
                C#/F
I can hear them singing
E
When the rain had washed away
B                   Bm
All these scattered dreams
F#
Dying 
             C#/F
Everyone's reminded
E
Hearts are washed in misery
B               Bm
Drenched in gasoline
F#
Laughter
                C#/F
There's no more laughter
E
Songs of yesterday
         B           Bm(hold)
Now live in the underground