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Sleeping on a time bomb, staring into space There’s an ocean of unpleasantries we are not prepared to face Sitting on the fence post to watch the storm roll in And terrified of the damage it will bring when it begins It will begin Splintered dreams of unity (our lives are parallel) So far from [...]
And progress is not intelligently planned; It’s the facade of our heritage, the odor of our land. They speak of Progress, in red, white and blue. It’s the structure of the future as demise comes seething through. It’s Progress, ’til there’s nothing left to gain, As the dearth of new ideas makes us wallow in [...]
Heard a word, suicide, Not from one, but from thousands that tried. The lawyer’s wife and the teenage brat, One thing in common, they all wanted out. And it’s plain to see. It goes for you and it goes for me, And all the screwed up little girls and boys All thrown in without a [...]
You’re obsesssed and distressed Cause you can’t make any sense of the ludicrous nonsense and incipient senescence that will deem your common sense useless this aint no recess! I want to believe in you, but my plan keeps falling through I knoe I have to face the harshnes, grin and bear the truth And I [...]
The scientist purported that there ain’t no purpose and the theologian told me that it’s all been designed and I’m trying to maintain objectivity The world won’t illuminate what really matters and I’m an imperfect moral meaning extractor processing the complexity Born of the Earth (Are we blind?) We weren’t given a choice (There’s no [...]
Hey Do What You Want But Don’t Do It Around Me Idleness and dissipation breed apathy I sit on my ass all god damned day oh misanthropic anthropoid with nothing to say what you must , do all you can , break all the fucking rules , and go to hell with Superman and die [...]
Nothing comes easier than madness in the world today Mass paranoia is a mode not a melody Yeah I’d like to watch all thousand cable channels but there’s nothing on And my high speed connection’s monitored daily by the pentagon These things are seldom what they seem I’m not inclined to enjoy my dreams won’t [...]
in the city, the day is too hot and you’re hoping for relief, cuz your head is filled with pain, but you get no relief, cuz the night is the same . . . in the night, in the night you see through jaded eyes. in the night, in the night you feel barely alive. [...]
I see a white haired man, he’s got a suit on hand He’s telling people how they’re supposed to live Nobody’s listening to the politician No matter what sage advice he has to give He’s got a clumsy, outdated m.o. And he’s come to a fork in the road And there is only one direction [...]
everybody is talking about the girl who went and killed the delivery man, but she looks so kind and gentle, it just doesn’t stand to reason, i saw her right there just like the other night as stately as a slot machine, but when she looked my way something mad as hell came over me, [...]
a grizzly scene on my electron beam told a story about human rights so all of Kings horses and all of Kings men had a riot for two days and nights Well, the city exploded but the gates wouldn’t open so the company asked him to quit Now everybody’s equal Just don’t measure it Well [...]
So you waste another day getting older and gray in the head, And you’re hearing lots of stories ’bout the happy times you have ahead. There are other folks in power so you kick back and get farther behind, And although the world rotates itself the only thing you twist is your mind. You see, [...]
(words and music by Greg Graffin) take those potatoes out of your ear listen to the warnings verify all your fears there’s a world outside that’s ready to blow and we’re all to blame when it finally explodes you gotta listen up gotta listen to what they’re telling you gotta listen up and think about [...]
let’s gather ’round the carcass of the old deflated beast, we have seen it through the accolades and rested in its lea, syntactic is our elegance, incisive our disease, the swath endogenous of ourselves will be our quandary, we’ve nestled in its hollow and we’ve succkled at its breast, grandiloquent in attitude, impassioned yet inept, [...]
There’s a spectre in the corner of an illustrated page And a lonesome muted stripling with a rapt remedial gaze The poverty of his language and the wealth of his emotion Bring him endless murky musings and unexpected frustration Angst and madness weave the fabric of his life Tomorrow might be better But right now [...]
Hey, everybody’s looking but they never can see, All the angst, corruption and the dishonesty. Think about the times and places you’ve never known, You’re a man-swarm atom and yet you’re alone, So I give you me, I give you nothing! I give you me, I give you nothing! So you got a place that [...]
bad religion – tested Yeah they say there’s a place free of trouble and care, And you have to pass a test for, to make it there. It has something to do with a road that’s straight and narrow, And the only way to go it is by being like them… There’s always one more [...]
Do you know the cost of future misery? Have you lost your sense of sustainability? We are just a step away From realizing what we strive to be But we’ve got to break out From this insulated, blind and lame senility Wake up the new america wo-oh! Transcend the mass hysteria wo-oh! Change is the [...]
So here we are again to experience the bitter, scalding end And we’re the only ones who can perceive it. But others sing of beauty and the story that’s unfolded As one that deserves praise and ritual. My pessimistic lines, Your superstitious lives, And the modern age’s lies won’t absolve you. And the professorial truth, [...]
When everybody dies around you, from someone else’s gun, It really makes you stop and think about the years to come. Something good had to happen to the human race. We all had better stop hoping and set our heads on straight. You’ve gotta turn over a new leaf, ‘Cause that old one’s turning on [...]