Green Day
Viva La Gloria
21st Century Breakdown
2009 Reprise Records
Submitted by: paramore_fans@yahoo.com

This song will remind you of 2004 American Idiot's LETTERBOMB

Key: E

Tuning: Standard EADGBe

Chords used:
 -    022100
 -  466444
 -    x02220
 -   x02210
 -    x24442
 -  x46654
 - x698xx


[Intro] (Piano)
      

[Verse 1]
          
  Hey Gloria
             
Are you standi

              
ng close to th

  
e edge?
             
  Look out to 

    
the setting su

n
             
  The brink of

      
 your vision
         
  Eternal yout

h is
             
The landscape 

     
of a lie
             
  The cracks o

      
f my skin can 

prove
             
  As the years

      
 will testify

[Refrain 1]
           
  Say your pra

         
yers and light

 a fire
             
  We're going 

             
to start a war
           
  Your slogan'

    
s a gun for hi

re 
             
  It's what we

  (
 waited for

[Verse 2]
          
  Hey Gloria
             
This is why we

            
're on the edg

e
             
  The fight of

     
 our life's be

en drawn to
            
This undying l

 (
ove

[Interlude] Beat Changes from Ballad Piano to Fast Punk Rock

[Chorus 1]
             
Gloria! ¡Viva 

   
La Gloria!
 
  You blast yo

ur name
   
In graffiti on

 the walls

   Falling thr

ough broken gl

ass that's
            
Slashing throu

         
gh your spirit
             
  I can hear i

              
t like a jilte

  
d crowd

[Chorus 2]
             
Gloria! Where 

         
are you, Glori

a?

   You found a

 home
             
In all your sc

ars and ammuni

tion
            
  You made you

              
r bed in salad

 
 days
           
Amongst the ru


ins
             
  Ashes to ash

          
es of our yout

h

[Verse 3]
             
  She smashed 

           
her knuckles i

    
nto winter (Gl

oria!)
             
  As autumn's 

             
wind fades int

  
o black
            
  She is the s

#            
aint of all th

  
e sinners  (Gl

oria!)
             
  The one that

             
's fallen thro

        
ugh the cracks

[Refrain 2]
             
So don't put a

         
way your burni

ng light

[Chorus 3]
             
Gloria! Where 

         
are you, Glori

a?

   Don't lose 

your faith
        
To your lost n

aivety

  Weather the 

storm and don'

t look
            
Back on last N

 
ovember
             
  When your ba

              
nners were bur

   
ning down

[Chorus 4]
             
Gloria! ¡Viva 

   
La Gloria!

   Send me you

r amnesty down

To the broken 

hearted

   Bring us th

e season
             
That we always

       
 will remember
             
  Don't let th

              
e bonfires go 


out

[Outro]
       
So Gloria,
             
  Send out you

           
r message of t

he light
             
That shadows i

      
n the night
           
Gloria,  where

          
's your undyin

g love?
             
  Tell me the 

             
story of your 


life
           
Your life!