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The Static Age

Words ByBillie Joe Armstrong
Music ByBillie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tré Cool
21st Century Breakdown recording sessions:Studio 880
Ocean Way Recording
Costa Mesa Studios
Jet Studios
ProducerButch Vig, Green Day
Live Performances117
First Played 2009-04-07
Last Played 2010-06-26
Performances By Year
Staple (80-100%)
Regular (50-79%)
Sporadic (20-49%)

Rare (1-19%)
Inactive (0%)
Performance Probability
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Song Notes

I love old punk flyers. You'd see things like a crucifixion of Mickey Mouse: two things that aren't supposed to go together. That's kind of what the song is about. The music is almost Springsteenish.
Billie Joe Armstrong (Q Magazine)

Lyrics
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 Visions of blasphemy, war and peace Oh, 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 á la madness and concrete Coca-Cola execution Conscience on a cross and your heart's in a vice Squeezing out your state of mind Are what you own that you cannot buy What a fucking tragedy, strategy Oh, 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 Well, 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" (Hallelujah) Singing out "the dawn's early light" The silence of the rotten, forgotten Oh, 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
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