Bad Religion is an American punk rock band founded in Southern California in 1980 by Jay Bentley (bass), Greg Graffin (vocals), Brett Gurewitz (guitars), and Jay Ziskrout (drums). They are often credited for being involved in the revival of punk rock and inspiring several subsequent punk bands
To date, Bad Religion has released fourteen studio albums (with a fifteenth due in 2010), two EPs Extended play , three compilation albums, one live... [read more] - Prove It
Hit the road in wander mode inquire along the way Savoir faire in full despair while living day to day My heart is not a cold cauldron of proof I don't ever need to prove myself to you No! Looking back I'm off the...
- The Lie
How do you know what you can be if you can't see where you are going What breaks the silence Misery Can make you see where you belong It's a dangerous stage but the show must go on Why do you lie Why do you lie Would...
- Bored And Extremely Dangerous
With nothing better to do No one to come home to I woefully conclude To take it out on you I'm bored to the extreme This world of foolish dreams Disillusion I am not who I seem to be Yeah sure I might do harm and bear...
- Destined For Nothing
Who do you believe can put some meaning in your life meaning in your life meaning in your life Who do you conceive to provide you guidance and light guidance and light guidance and light Are they waiting for you in...
- Materialist
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...
- Broken
She said Thanks but I'm broken I guess You must have misspoken What a laugh I've never been chosen by anyone She was barely a teen Hanging out in between Just a part of the scene With mercurial smile And incurable...
- Supersonic
Well am I making haste or could it be haste is making me What's time but a thing to kill or keep or buy or lose or live in I gotta go faster Keep up the pace Just to stay in the human race I could go supersonic the...
- You Don't Belong
Hey you Is there something worth aspiring to And can it be found in a record store Well it's not there anymore Just think of all the things we did We were different Just like all the other kids Missy was a teen blue...
- Evangeline
She came from Heaven well there's no point belaboring that I've seen some trouble and I must admit that I'm in demand I confront rejection with magnetic good intentions yet hey Jack Get back in fact Don't do that I...
- Kyoto Now!
It's a matter of prescience No, not the science fiction kind It's all about ignorance, and greed, and miracles for the blind the media parading, disjointed politics founded on petrochemical plunder and we're its...
- Can't Stop It
I'm incurable but durable it's easy to see Lack of restraint is a complaint of those around me I know that others postpone Gratification well I lack that affectation Let's get it right there's no end in sight And I...
- Out Of Hand
DonÂ’t wanna have to take your shit anymoreI finally concluded that life is way too shortOh, the ticking of the hourglass, the tiny grains of sandIt beckons me like gravity, like signposts on the landAnd you got what...
- Skyscraper
Come let us make bricksand burn them hardWe'll build a citywith a tower for the worldand climb so we can reachanything at allBuild me up, Tear me downlike a skyscraperBuild me up, then tear downThese joining WallsSo...
- Modern Day Catastrophists
take those potatoes out of your earlisten to the warningsverify all your fearsthere's a world outsidethat's ready to blowand we're all to blamewhen it finally explodesyou gotta listen upgotta listen to whatthey're...
- Struck A Nerve
there's an old man on a city busholding a candy caneand it is'nt even christmashe see's a note in the obituarythat his last friend has diedthere's an infant clingingto his overweight mother in the coldas they go to...
- My Poor Friend Me
i know a manwho doesnt have many friendsi know a place he liveswhere trouble never endsi know its hard for himto read 'tween the linesand his days are getting so much shorterhe simply turns awayand dawns a bitter...
- Portait Of Authority
Nothing more, nothing less,An icon on the wall, decoration and duress,That which many strive to be,It's the marble statue staring over me,And nobody has the will to tear it down,it determines wrong and right,but to me...
- Don't Pray On Me
a grizzly scene on my electron beamtold a story about human rightsso all of Kings horsesand all of Kings menhad a riotfor two days and nightsWell, the city explodedbut the gates wouldn't openso the company asked him...
- Man With A Mission
rescue me when I get too deep,talk to me there's nothing to tell,Everyone, is a hydocrite,look to me,I'll save your soulNow somebody out there must bereading my mailCuz' everybody knowsI'm a man with a mission,coming...
- American Jesus
i don't need to be a global citizenbecause i'm blessed by nationalityi'm member of a growing populacewe enforce our popularitythere are things thatseem to pull us underand there are thingsthat drag us downbut there's...
- All Good Soldiers
all good soldiers crack like bouldersThe sun climbs up to a razon,violins, new boots, and numbers on a chainAll good soldiersall good soldiers fall in linewhen they march and shout-are a spectaclemarching and...
- Portrait Of Authority
Nothing more, nothing less,An icon on the wall, decoration and duress,That which many strive to be,It's the marble statue staring over me,And nobody has the will to tear it down,it determines wrong and right,but to me...
- Watch It Die
I was born on planet earththe rotating ball where man comes firstit's been around for a long, long timebut now it's time to watch it dieI saw a man on my big blue screenhe ruled the world economyhe said the rich would...
- Kerosene
everywhere I look I seeexclusive huddleduninviting shelteris privilegeof the same and competentkerosene keeps me warmI'm alone to watch it burnkeroseneexposure is a pitifuland pointless way of dyingbefore it gets...
- Lookin' In
suddenly, it came to mea potent dosage of realityi saw myself in the broad daylightand it made me thinkabout lifeim not the kinda guywho nods his headwith closed eyesi scoff at labelsi defy censusesand despise group...
- Recipe For Hate
can't you feel it can't you see itthe promise of prosperityit's overwhelming you and meit afflicts us like a diseaseubiquitous compelling toowe cling to you like crazy glueand inject such a potent seedit's best for...
- Unacceptable
Irreducible is the word for today, plastic compounds and nuclear waste,What the hell's the matter with the people on this planet?Have we all gone insane?The stigma of industrial progress killing us over and over...
- Flat Earth Society
Lie lie lie... Lie lie lie... Lie lie lie...Lie lie lie... Lie lie lie... Lie lie lie...The full moon is rising over dark waterAnd the fools below are picking up sticksAnd the man in the gallows lies permanently...
- Get Off
Lascivious, It's all that I can think of as I drag my feet, searching Like a Diogenes, Dangerous, The adjectives of the decade and of your alluring intricacies, Yes I see your green-screen mentality And I can feel the...
- Quality Or Quantity
Offer me eternity, and I'll trade a cup of coffee and a time,Looking for a handout on behalf of those who have so little time,But who wants to live on just 70 cents a day?Padding your pockets doesn't make this a...
- Modern Man
i've got nothing to say,i've got nothing to do,all om my neruons arefunctioning smoothlyyet still i'm a cyborg just like you,i am one big myoma that thinks,my planet supports only me,i've got this one big problem:...
- Misery And Famine
So proud a history, replete with sanctity,Orbs in their harmony, they sing their code to me,Have you ever heard yourself, the orbit you are in?The terse, oppressive blanket that's instilled here by our spin,It's...
- Operation Rescue
It is an S.O.S. sent out telepathically,Signs of our distress don't allow complacency,We need restoration now of our integrityAnd a drastic bold reminder of our morality,The rectifying troop is here, the ones we've...
- Blenderhead
Flying through a dark prismatic tunnel on a carousel, The earth is turning and you know it very well, Your mind is reeling like ten helicopters wheeling And you're gonna hit the ceiling like a mallet on a bell, Hey,...
- Anesthesia
Everybody's 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 the other night as stately as a slot machine,But...
- Against The Grain
Three thousand miles of wilderness overcome by the flow,A lonely restitution of pavement, pomp and show,I seek a thousand answers, I find but one or two,I maintain no discomfiture, my path again renewed,Against the...
- Faith Alone
Heard a sermon from a creaky pulpit with no one in the nave,I paid a visit to the synagogue and I left there feeling blame,No one could tell me what to do,They had not the capacity to answer me,What the world needs...
- Ain't Too Good
Well, it ain't too good,The way you treat your man,It's less than good,It sure ain't kind,It's your mistake,You'll see in time,When I'm gone, when I'm gone.Well, it's been so long,Since I felt that glow,The flame was...
- Turn On The Light
I had a friend, who kept a candle in his pocket,He used to touch it when the wind was blowing high,I guess it mad him feel like he could buck the system And when it flickered out we laid him down to die,Turn on the...
- 21st Century (Digital Boy)
I can't believe it,The way you look sometimes,Like a trampled flag on a city street.Oh yeah.And i don't want it,The things you're offering me, symbolized bar code, quick i.d.Oh yeah.Cause I'm a 21st century digital...
- God Song
And did those feet in ancient timesTrod on America's pastures of green?And did that anthropocentric godWane with their thoughts and beliefs all unseen?I don't think so, he's up there with the others laying low,Vying...
- The Positive Aspects Of Negative Thinking
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...
- Walk Away
Shut off the TV and peel off those sunday gloves,And I'll stain the clean that you've been counting,Old Mr. Fletcher passed by here today,After 40 years of toil he just up and walked away,Fantastic the panic that...
- *** Armageddon... This Is Hell
there's people out there that say I'm no good,'cause I don't believe the things that I should,and when the final conflict comes, I'll be so sorry I did wrong,and hope and pray that our lord god will think I'm...
- Voice Of God Is Government
neighbors, no one loves you like he loves you,and no one cares like he cares.neighbors, let us join today in the holy love of God and money,because neighbors, no one loves you like He loves you.and what better way to...
- Damned To Be Free
death and the shadow that it casts on life scares me little or none.people tell me of a divine right and the happy chosen one.I'm a freak 'cause my morals clash with others in the world.I go home while they work hard,...
- Doing Time
see the fight, old men crying, deny their ruin.watch them try. the cynic laughs at the optimist's closed eyes.darkness falls, curtain calls, the cynic's beer soon overflows.other watches, has a drink, and from the...
- American Dream
I hate my family, hate my school, speed limits and the golden rule.hate people who aren't what they seem, more than anything else, American Dream.American Dream's gonna swallow you whole, it's bursting at the...
- Eat Your Dog
weak and sick, dying in the sand, no such thing as a promised land.don't lose faith in a better life--reincarnation, poor excuse.you're dying you assholes, your religion can't help you now.dying and starving in the...
- In The Night
in the city, the day is too hotand 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,...
- Faith In God
it's all right to have faith in godbut when you bend to their rules and their *** liesthat's when I start to have pity on you.you're living on a mound of dirt,but you can't explain your reason for existenceso you...
- Oligarchy
presidential election every four yearsbut neither man we can see or hearurgent cries for societybut he can't see the blood on medo you see?do you see too much for me?try that with our oligarchy,try that with our...
- White Trash (2nd Generation)
wasted children, fixed blank eyes, blood and sweat, we socializebroken homes from which they come, beer-stained dad, compliant Mom.fear and love, much despised, replaced by comfortable lies.teenage classic, more...
- Pity
I show pity on the human race,on the ignorant plenty who devote their livesto an icon that they've never known.I show pity on eons past,when early man started the first civilizationand human aggression was born.I show...
- Tiny Voices
the brown and orange sky holds its breathas the sun retreats to the distant horizon,and our hearts palpitate anxiously as we soon will lay supine,and wait for sleep to overcome usand from somewhere in our...
- Better Off Dead
I'm sorry about the sun.How could I know?That you'd get burned?And I'm Sorry about the moon.How could I know you'd disapprove?I'll never make the same mistake.The next time I create the universeI'll make sure we...
- Hooray For Me...
I can see my teenage father standing straight on a desolate corner,in the shadow of tentacled towers by the red light of America,I imagine how his mother felt when she heard that her husband was dying,and that...
- Television
television, television, television, televisionoh yeah! I want to bask in your golden light,submerge in electric waves,I need my connection to the world outsidethe world outside is buzzing like an angry wasp in...
- What It Is
there's a purpose, there's a goal,there's a virtuos, and immoral,there's a reason for all of this,and I don't know what it isI am one, and plural too,I accept them but they exclude,I could make sense of all of...
- Stranger Than Fiction
a febrile shocking violent smackthe children are hoping for a heart attack,tonight the windows are watching,the streets all conspire,and the lamppost can't stop crying,if I could fly high above the world,would I see a...
- Slumber
So, you're feeling unimportant,'Cuz you've got nothing to say.And your live is just a rambleNo one understand you anywayWell, I got a piece of news son,That might make you change your mindYour life is historically...
- Marked
if I'm a monster,I am a willing one,this roller coaster ride is an enticing one,on the tip of a continuum flowing wavelikethrough disorder carry me like a vessel to watereverything you see leaves a mark on your...
- The Handshake
every time you shake someone's hand and it feels like your best friend,could it be that it's only superficiality?,without regard to well-being, without an inkling of compromise, handshakes are nothing but a subtle...
- Inner Logic
automatons with business suits clinging black boxes,sequestering the blueprints of daily lifecontented, free of care, they rejoice in morning ritualas they file like drone ant colonies to their office in the skyI...
- Individual
individuals run for cover,for the multitudes of thoughtless clones have reached a critical mass,individuals hide in fear, under cover,sheltered by the wafer thin veil of intelligenceindividuals, nowhere to be...
- Leave Mine To Me
There are desperate times upon us,There are codes of white and black,Political resentment and people start to crack,There’s hate and opposition,There’s fumbling dialog,Yet you sit there and judge meAnd you...
- Incomplete
mother, father, look at your little monster,I'm a hero, I'm a zero,I'm the butt of the worst joke in history,I'm a lock without a key,a city with no door, a prayer without faith,a show without a score,I'm a bad word,...
- Markovian Process
You will all say that I am surely crazyOnly an unrepentant pessimist whose thoughts should be detainedBut facts are sterile, not vulgar nor sublimeAnd they're not religion, they're for everyone and signify the...
- Infected
now here I go,hope I don't break down,I won't take anything, I don't need anything,don't want to exist, I can't persist,please stop before I do it again,just talk about nothing, let's talk about nothing,let's talk...
- News From The Front
Blood is a river,Flowing darkly amidst the tangled roots of the tall shining cityCrazy flowing mantide migrationsEngorge the big ventricle of heartbroken AmericaSo many heaven hoping, hopeful groping breathersAll tap...
- Let Them Eat War
theres a prophet on a mountain and he's making up dinner with long division and writing crop anybody can feel like a winner when it's served up piping hot but the people aren't looking for a handout they're America's...
- Atheist Peace
Maybe itÂ’s too late for an intellectual debate, but a residue of confusion remains. Changing with the times, and amphetamine tortured minds are average the citizenÂ’s sources of pain. Tell me what weÂ’re fighting...
- God's Love
Striking at mental apparitions Like a drunk on a vacant street Silently beset by the hands of time And elegant in its fury An aberrant crack as skeletons yield To unrelenting gravity While viruses prowl for helpless...
- Boot Stamping On A Human Face Forever
Drop dead, it doesnÂ’t matter, she said It only hurts when I laugh, she said Sometimes itÂ’s never a crime To spend the day in bedShe made certain that the curtains were red To d***better by the light they would...
- Live Again - The Fall Of Man
The road is narrow the horizon wide,And to say what's waiting on the other side, It's so wanted; the untimate prize, But what good is something if you can't have it until you die?Desperate, tenacious, clinging like a...
- The Quickening
The quickening is an ephemeral thing That only happens in the dark Like catching lightning in a jar And the pain that it brings Is just the promise of spring ItÂ’s madness on the way Oh, what does it meanÂ… To come...
- Social Suicide
Right nowWell it's finally time to face my fearsGunna get the hell out of hereAnd create a fresher atmosphereBut the consequences clearThere's a furnace set on highAnd the yearning undefyedBut it's time to turn the...
- Los Angeles Is Burning
somewhere high in the desert near a curtain of a blue the sane man skirts under the wind but down here in the city of the lime lights the fans of santa ana are witherin' and you canÂ’t deny that living is easy if you...
- To Another Abyss
Not long ago, and yet the image is so vague I hesitate to label it a memory There was a show of local color and I failed to stray Cause I had nothing to offer but insufficiency And you know that itÂ’s such a bitch...
- Beyond Electric Dreams
No one here can show you where it is but I can point to a signOn the roof of the world without apparent designThe frozen definition of a lunatic ambition to riseThe air is thin, the future dim, dimension hard to...
- Sinister Rouge
Innocents burned alive at the stakeTortured and dumped in nameless gravesCenturies waned, authority diedScattering seeds of ancient liesSinister RougeComing back for more to even the scoreSinister RougeComing back for...
- All There Is
This song goes out to all the hopeless sinners,with grave allegiances so meaningless and vainThe walking wounded,in a pageant of contenders,who balance on a rail of pain just for a pail of rain.And everything, is...
- The Empire Strikes First
We strike first and we're unrehearsed here we go again to stage the greatest show on heaven and earth come on, get your money's worth don't wanna live (can't live) don't wanna give (can't give) don't wanna be (won't...
- Whisper In Time
all those stories that my dad told me,they are just a whisper in timeall those things that never came to be,they are just a whisper in timea whisper in time, a whisper in timethings that I can't shake from my minda...
- A Streetkid Named Desire
well, it was punk-fifteen in the morningand it was timeto stand my groundand as the gawks and stares bombarded meyou know, I didn't evenhear a soundno one gave a damnif I was there or awayif I died and went to...
- I Love My Computer
I love my computeryou make me feel alrightevery waking hourand every lonely nightI love my computerfor all you give to mepredictable errors and no identityand it's never been quite so easyI've never been quite so...
- Don't Sell Me Short
we don't need any more mountainsbecause the trail buildersfailed to give us passage thereso we can't reach the skywe don't need any more failurethere is human tragedythat's written everywhereand we are all too young...
- Let It Burn
let your mind wander,look beyond the shadowsfocus on the skyline,read the silhouettesyour deepest desiresare a picture of tomorrowall your darkest fearsare just a vestige of regretand it's wo-oh oh ohit seems like...
- A World Without Melody
I don't want to livein a world without melodysometimes the rhythmic dinof society is too much for mebut purpose is prioritized these days,the goal is win the prizethere's a sleeping resonance we hold,through which...
- The Hopeless Housewife
oh me oh myget out of your 1950's fantasy,your face shines with miserytransparentlyspew out that soberinghalf-assed victim rhetoricmake 'em all squirmwhile they chew on itit's a secret handshakeand a passing wink of...
- New America
do you know the cost of future misery?have you lost your sense of sustainability?we are just a step awayfrom realizing what we strive to bebut we've got to break outfrom this insulated blind and lame senilitywake up...
- 1000 Memories
you were the one,you were my everythingnever apart,no one in-betweenthen one day,when you went your own wayyou felt justified,and I was mortifiedbut today...you are just a pictureand a thousand memoriesis all I take...
- Believe It
it could happen to you,a defect from thewasted outskirts of los angeleswith a crumpled-up pass for the RTDand no authority or trajectoryon the brink of insanityyou'd better believe itbecause it's written all over your...
- You've Got A Chance
a rhapsody!contestants in disguisea nation of desirebut who will win the prize?the people stand united,reluctantly alignedcopying and lyingare the favorite past-timeyou've got a chanceto confront the world...
- There Will Be A Way
shut your eyes,see the future's distant shoremarch aheadmore enlightened than beforeand there's sure to be bumpsand distractionsbut I know we'll get throughthere will be me, there will be youthere will be a...
- It's A Long Way To The Promise Land
it's a long way to the promise landso you'd better well know your waywhere's a ship on the oceanand an albatross who is trying to lead you astrayleaders, politicians, and power whoresare in line to receive your...
- Fertile Crescent
Come and see the brilliant lightdon't let your emotions mask your sightit's the manifestation of a deeper fightthat affects me and youmy optimism was running higha new world order was on my mindbut I couldn't belive...
- Two Babies In The Dark
There'a light on in the hallwayso I can't understandwhy you hide underneath the coversthere's a baby in your wombso don't be scared tonightbecause Raggedy ann is in the closet picking posiestwo babies in the darklike...
- Heaven Is Falling
As I walk beneath the valleyI shall fear no evilfor thanks to King George and his rainbow cabinettoday murder is legalGod I know that it's wrongto kill my brother for what he hasn't doneand as the planes blacken the...
- Only Entertainment
Transfixated on the big blue screenits your window to the outsidea melancholy dreama medium upon which you build realitythis episodic currencythat everybody needssomebodies delivery lulls you to sleepthe man behind...
- No Direction
a sullen figure walks along a dusty roadhis life was holy and he couldn't bear the loadhe left his people and a simple life behindhe raised his torso and he looked into the skyshouting his questionslooking for...
- Chimaera
You took a time bomband a case of ***sand you made a maelstrom of organic debristhen you took a work benchand a rusty anviland you polished them for everyone to seeyou have created an unhealthy monsterbut you're...
- Atomic Garden
everybody wants to dance in a playpenbut nobody wants to play in my gardenI see the hippies on an angry lineguess they don't get my meaningI'm enchanted by the birds in my blossomsI'm enamored by young lovers on the...
- Too Much To Ask
A refreshing plungea drink of platable watera deep inspiration on a warm summer daya safe stroll in the middle of the road communitya neighbor who in times of need will not turn awayI ain't no politiciamI am a...
- Generator
Like a rock,like a planet,Like a *** atom bomb,I'll remain unperturbed by the joy and the madnessthat i encounter everywhere I turnI've seen it all beforeIn book and magazineslike a twitch before dyinglike a...
- The Answer
Long ago in a dusty villagefull of hunger, pain and strifea man came forth with a vision of truthand the way to a better lifehe was convinced he had the answerand he complelled people to follow alongbut the hunger...
- Tomorrow
Every day we profit soleaning toward the great unknownasking how it pertains to tomorrowaim for places we've not beentrample paths that go betweenyesterdays foundations and tomorrowit's the way they say it's got to...
- The Fast Life
The silent stray inertiaNo burden on my backNo determinance, no ballastNo chance of looking backIt doesn't matter what's aheadIt's time I'll hit it hardNo fixing my positionNo sign of retardIt's the fast lifeThere's...
- Pretenders
I give to you, you take from meWe live in perfect harmonyBut I know you can't give me what I needWith subtle care and rosey huesWe duke it out, we change our viewsWe hold so dear our unanimityOh...We are just...
- Strange Denial
A mutinous enemy carved a nascent countrySweat, blood, and valorForms the grit of our historyBeqeathed to everyone:Chance and free expressionSubstance was restrainedAnd the spirit was brokenI feel a strange...
- Raise Your Voice
fa fa fafa fa fa fafa Raise Your Voice!Don't be played like someone else's board gameDon't be classed out like some desolate redoubtDon't be misled you've got alot on your headAnd nobody's gonna pay attention when you...
- The Voracious March Of Godliness
Since the start of the 17th centuryThere's been the scent of unseasoned wood burning in the airAnd the conquest of nature meant nothing at allWhile we betray exception we take all that is thereMotives are transcluent...
- No Substance
History doesn't make something rightConsensus is not a fact-based exerciseYou're tied and bound to this selfindulgent enterprise...We call AmericaA brush with a star, a token of loveA name in the sand, enough is...
- The State Of The End Of The Millenium Adress
Neighbours, nobody loves you like we do.Neighbors, your government has triumphed in finally making you a public fitfor the 21st century.Never before has a governing body shown so much concern for the...
- Hear It
Like a morning crow and his unwelcome songOr a worn-out broken record that keeps skipping alongMountains of instructions you keep piling on meResound like a cacophonous symphonyBut I don't wanna hear it anymorePriests...
- The Same Person
You want prosperityFor yourself, but not for meSomehow you just can't seeWe're in this collectivelyYou think that freedom isA drastic severanceFrom your past relationsJust a quest for new bargainsWe're not the same...
- At The Mercy Of Imbeciles
What you do is what you areAnd wishing upon distant starsWon't improve the hole you're inWon't absolve your deepest sinBut action is no gift from some covert and lofty godIt's dependant and weighty all the sameAnd it...
- In So Many Ways
i can see the shadows on the wallDrifting as the leaves start to fallUnfazed by rugosity, the objects yield to gravityAnd depict the destiny of us allNo one really knows why we dieNo one gets a break so we tryIgnoring...
- The Hippy Killers
Our Apocalypse 1981Teenage vagrants lookin´ for some funA renewed promise of prosperityA vulgar platform for the world to seeWe wereThe hippy killersBusted refuse from broken homesPocked flesh and malacious...
- Sowing The Seeds Of Utopia
We all know politicians only goJust half-way thereJust half-way thereThe innocence of youth needs protection not abuseBut no one seems to careYet no one seems to careAnd you sit there adn watch the world go aroundFrom...
- Mediocre Minds
Look around the country, an abundance you'll find ofMediocre mindsSift trough the fodder as the sane justice declines because ofMediocre mindsShrouded under cover, the most flamboyant guise hides aMediocre mindYou got...
- Victims Of The Revolution
What will prove to be our big mistake?Short-sighted arrogance all for what sake?Our families to ashes, our ambitions to dustOur progeny in silence thinking "what about us?"But don't forgetThe dance of neglectThe march...
- All Fantastic Images
England seemed like such a beautiful place from afarUntil one day I went and saw how miserabely how things really areAll Fantastic Images they only are apparentPropagated just by hope and desire to share itBeauty was...
- The Biggest Killer In American History
You have got your stranglers and prowlers in soft shoes. Furniture makers,carpenters tooBombers and commandos, all with some lost causeDisgruntled workers, immersed in "veritás"But stealthily, in the land of the...
- Shades Of Truth
Here inside this quiet room there's directionOutside in the sultry noon-time reflectionA million scurry they are looking for adviceNone willing to lend charity just exercise theirShades of Truth, and partisan...
- No Control
culture was the seed of proliferationbut it has gotten melded into an inharmonic wholeconsciousness has plagued us and we can not shake itthough we think we're in controlquestions that besiege us in lifeare testament...
- The World Won't Stop
you've got to quit your little charadeand join the freak paradenow that your road has been pavedfrom conception to your gravethere are enormous things to doothers' practices to eschewto be better than you is...
- Sanity
there's a watch in my pocket and its hands are brokenthe face is blank but the gears are turningconfusion is a fundamental state of mindit doesn't really matter what I'm figuring outI'm guaranteed to wind up in a...
- Automatic Man
he's the latest super hero with powers so profoundhe can leap a dotted line in just a single boundI know you must have seen him in books and magazineshe's the quintessential, mindless, modern epicenehis life is...
- I Want To Conquer The World
hey brother christian with your high and mighty errandyour actions speak so loud I can't hear a word you're sayinghey sister bleeding heart with all of your compassionyour labors soothe the hurt but can't assuage...
- Henchman
strandedin a life in which your struggle for acceptanceis a never-ending choreupbraidedfor your actions past and present and rewarded for ideasof the future's bright open doorthe henchmanis the human analogue of the...
- Progress
and progress is not intelligently plannedit's the facade of our heritagethe odor of our landthey speak of progressin red, white and blueit's the structure of the futureas demise comes seething throughit's progress...
- Anxiety
it's a love song to the selfa story recapped every dayit's a world of bogus feelingsand a world of slow decayit's a world of laughter hidden by this world of fear and tormenta game of strange compulsion, our visceral...
- Change Of Ideas
well the sheaves have all been brought,but the fields have washed awayand the palaces now stand where the coffins all were laidand the times we see aheadwe must glaze with rosy huesfor we don't wish to admitwhat it is...
- Big Bang
this isn't another new fashionor a new wave plastic trendeverybody's searching for somethingbut in the mean time let's all just pretendI've got this feelingand I don't know what it isthis room is overcrowded, man, and...
- I Want Something More
going through a world of sad debrisregard quixotic reveries of ownershipthe blossoming disease of man called tenure and accretionthe ancient western treadmill of deception and derisionbut I want something moreracing...
- It Must Look Pretty Appealing
the wheat waving next to you is healthy and so fineas is dinner with your loved-ones every daybut your routine is changelessthrough the decades of your lifegreen pastures, open spaces, holy waysand it must look pretty...
- Billy
I can recall the warm youth of a summer daythe sweetest lemonadethe darkest game arcadeand billy had a yearning in the corner of his mindit moved him secretlyit moved him powerfullybut prescience was lacking and the...
- Sometimes I Feel Like
there's a spectre in the corner of an illustrated pageand a lonesome muted stripling with a rapt remedial gazethe poverty of his language and the wealth of his emotionbring him endless murky musings and unexpected...
- You
there's a place where everyone can be happyit's the most beautiful place in the whole ***in' worldit's made of candy canes and planesand bright, red choo choo trainsand the meanest little boysthe most innocent little...
- Nobody Listens
hey mister, don't point at meyou shout rhetoric nonsense like a Pavlovian modelresponding to his questionshey teacher, arrogance is blissyou spend your time turning water into lifeas if you were God's foremanis it any...
- A Walk
I'm going for a walknot the after dinner kindI'm gonna use my handsand I'm gonna use my mindand who the hell are you to tell me what to do?you can't even tie your own haggard shoesyour closet is a mess, and your...
- Spirit Shrine
shed a tear for the criminal, give him something to believelight a fire for the miserable, give the darkness some meaningclosed wounds harbor pestilence, when you lick them from withincharity has a redolence chastity...
- Them And Us
despite that he saw blatant similarityhe struggled to find a distinctive moietyall he found was vulgar superficialitybut he focused it to sharpnessand shared it with the othersit signified his anger and miserythem and...
- Parallel
sleeping on a time bomb, staring into spacethere's an ocean of unpleasantries we are not prepared to facesitting on the fence post to watch the storm roll inand terrified of the damage it will bring when it beginsit...
- Empty Causes
everwhere you looked there was confusion, violence, drama and drugsso many righteous revolutionaries spouting utopian loveeveryone shrouded in purple hazethen one day they woke up from their dream statethey found...
- Pity The Dead
there's a boy in crimson rags with a grimace and a spoon, and a little sullengirl face-up staring at the moonand there's no one around to hear their lonesome criesthen they pass away alone into the nightwhy do we pity...
- Victory
the velveteen and oaken soothed the lonely childthe parents watched the escort take him while they stood outsidethe priest was kind and gentle as he positioned his headthe pain was like brimstone, but the kid hardly...
- The Gray Race
the framework of the worldis black and whitethe infrastructure buildersflex their mightturning true emotioninto digital expressionone by one we all fall downthe gray race shrivelstrapped inside the world it...
- Come And Join Us
so you say you gotta know why the world goes 'roundand you can't find the truth in the things you've foundand you're scared shitless 'cuz evil aboundscome and join uswell I heard you were looking for a place to fit...
- Punk Rock Song
have you been to the desert?have you walked with the dead?there's a hundred thousand children being killed for their breadand the figures don't lie they speak of human diseasebut we do what we want and we think what...
- The Streets Of America
desolate and without purposeradiating from so many septic sourcesforming the fabric of a wayward peopledisappearing as the vestiges of our pastscratched like tartan into virgin soila substrate for progress and...
- Drunk Sincerity
the smell of virgin pages wafted through the swinging doorsand the croaking speech he'd heard from countries counselors beforethey said "we all care for you, we know how you sufferbut I know you can succed, I used to...
- Cease
blacktop pavement cover melike a chemical reaction or a steam rollerspreading randomlythere's a distant and a low frequencyit tickles my ear, it rumbles under my feetand it shakes the leaves off of every tree...
- Entropy
Heard a sermon from a creaky pulpit with no one in the nave,I paid a visit to the synagogue and I left there feeling blame,No one could tell me what to do,They had not the capacity to answer me,What the world needs...
- When?
I've seen a lot of things in five yearsI struggle just to hold back the tearsBut every***where I goI see the pathos that I knowWill spell the termination of us allSomeone's got to tell me, do you seeThat...
- How Much Is Enough?
Tell me, can the hateful chain be broken?Production and consumption define our hollow livesAvarice has led us 'cross the oceanToward a land that's better, much more bountiful and wideSo when will mankind finally come...
- Land Of Competition
Hey, see there's a girl who's afraid of the world so she stays at homeAlso a boy who seems so lost in his joy she's all aloneThe camera's on them, they're in the land of competitionSouthern California air feeds...
- Give You Nothing
Hey, everybody's looking but they never can seeAll the angst, corruption and the dishonestyThink about the times and places you've never knownYou're a man-swarm atom, yet you're aloneSo I give you me, I give you...
- Pessimistic Lines
So here we are again to experience the bitter, scalding endAnd we're the only ones who can perceive it.But others sing of beauty and the story that's unfoldedAs one that deserves praise and ritual.My pessimistic...
- Part IV (The Index Fossil)
We're widespread and well fed,The earth's rotating fate is in our head, oh yeah.We're dominant and prominent,And our diety's omnipotent, oh yeah.And immortality's in our mastermind,And we destroy everything we can...
- 1000 More Fools
I heard them say that the meek shall reign on EarthPhantasmal myriads of sane bucolic birthI've seen the rapture in a starving baby's eyesInchoate beatitude, the lord of the fliesSo what does it mean when your mind...
- Best For You
Above us lay the burdensBelow us lay the truthsWe're somewhere in the middleAnd we're all discontent tooIs someone watching over you?Inside, they know what's best for youJudgement's not tomorrowBut today (yes, now...
- Suffer
Did you ever see the concrete stares of everyday?The lunatic, the hypocrite are all lost in the frayCan't you see their lives are just like yours?An unturned stone, and undiscoveredDoor leading toThe gift of hope...
- Delirium Of Disorder
Life is a sieve through which my anarchy streamsResolving itself into wordsChaos is the score upon which reality is writtenThe timeless, swirling, gyroscopic hordeDelirium of disorderI am just an atom in an...
- What Can You Do?
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...
- I Give You Nothing (Tom Clement...)
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...
- Part II (The Numbers Game)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10It's superficial progress, they call it liberationWith opiates of silicon, Big Brother schemes to rule the nationWe're one nation under God, we stand above the restWith mighty-high technology,...
- You Are (The Government)
Hey sit down and listen and they'll tell you when you're wrongEradicate but vindicate as progress creeps alongPuritan work ethic maintains its subconscious edgeAs Old Glory maintains you consciousnessThere's a loser...
- Do What You Want
Hey do what you want, but don't do it around me.Idleness and dissipation breed apathy.I sit on my***all goddamn day,A misanthropic anthropoid with nothing toSay what you must, do all you can,Break all the ***...
- Forbidden Beat
There was a boy who had too many toysAnd an ache inside of his bonesHe sought extrication through chemical vocationAnd now he answers to JonesIt's deadly and alluringThe sound of pounding heatEnslaving all who dare...
- You Give Up
so...you've given it all you canand your life is in the garbage canand you say you're tired and drycuz your mind won't let you cryso you hang up what is left insideand you want to kiss it all goodbyeyou're lost in...
- Time And Disregard
Part Onefrom the bird and the deer who live on the sameto the condominiums that litter the plainit took time... time and disregardfrom the green and the trees that shot high in the airto the high-business market-men...
- The Dichotomy
hey did you find the pieces your mentor left behind?and did you care, did you trade his genius for your dispair?did you walk the line?did you see the mongrels on either side?did greasy finers grasp for pieces of your...
- Losing Generation
the systems of life hum accordinglyevery day, every year, every centurybut, everywhere humans go things get worsecan't you tell through the smoke in the dirty citythe jungle was once a tranquil hideawayfor the kind of...
- Stay Alone
Talking to a Wall turned out to bethe best confersation that I neededSew my mouth up so i can't speakDo I look sad and bleakBut when I stay too longI come undoneso I rather stay aloneStop my phone from ringingI won't...
- One Day
I'm a mess and my love is useless3 days pass so fastall my wounds will never healreal loves surreal to memy balls bleedand my heart hurts but not from a heartsicknessit hurtsone day it allcomes back to raze me to the...
- It's Only Over When
you never know that feeling till you trythat healing feeling can turn you all aboutand you can see the second wave of lifethat losers triangle sets you down and outdon't misreaddon't misleadyou could be your only...
- Billy Gnosis
a crack developed and a name blew inbilly gnosis, weak and thinhe moved to california to start a new lifecause back in his hometown he just killed his wifehe started drinking heavy back thenhe starting eating things...
- Million Days
when you're sitting alone, frown and groanover your bad daywhen you're laughing with peersforget your years, then be on your waybut don't forget, all the whilethat you've crossed the social mileand a million days is...
- You
(Featuring Agnes Milewski)
I'm feeling so pure, so afraidwould like to say somethingbut it might me too late.insecurity becomes agonyThis not knowing what haunts meAnd all I can do now is wait here and fearI wish you were hereRef.:You, are such...
- Close But Gone
The pressure risesit's frustratingto not come forthConcepts crashonce this was funnow it's an obligationHow can something be so close but gone?The future might be dark and frighteningbut I'm not afraidI'm not...
- Chasing The Wild Goose
there was a man who banged his head against a wallhe banged for 20 years, the damn thing wouldn't fallhe left an honest lifehe left a broken wifehe left it all behind, just to see what he could findmillions and...
- Along The Way
I refuse to abuse what is kind to the Muse,But it's there and it's happening to me along the way.As we go through the snow, we cannot forget our foes,But the dinner's always waiting at the table 'long the way,...
- New Leaf
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...
- Frogger
(Nice going, spazz)I'm tired of this city, all this toil and strife.Trying to cross the boulevard, playing Frogger with my life.Frogger with my life [x2]I'm tired of this city, all this toil and strife.Trying to cross...
- Yesterday
Run, but don't be scared to look behind.Stop, don't wait too long, make up your mind.The end is almost here,The sky, the air, so nice and clear,The sound of your decay,And the ringing in the air is the sweet debris of...
- Slaves
Don't try to say that I threaten your freedomWe've done without for 20 years, so think if we really need 'emWe're all just slaves for the troop commanders [x3]We're all slavesWe can blow up things better than in any...
- Sensory Overload
They're all just suicides, in a social way.I'll never need that dormant time, I'll tell you why.'Cause I think about it all the time,I think about ?I am ?Sensory ? you [x2]I don't know why, trust me,It's bleeding me,I...
- World War III
US government drew up plansToo much money, got the cashBreak out ? staff? is a ***in' messThey think they know it all.They're gonna die in the fireball.? overrule? play the foolAll dayWorld War III [x4]Forget ?I'll...
- Bad Religion (Theme Song)
See my body, it's nothing to get hung about.I'm nobody except genetic runaround.Spiritual era's gone, it ain't comin' back.Bad religion, a cabal, that is all that's left.Hey Mr. Mind, stop wasting my time,With your...
- Politics
Economy, technology, doesn't really work.Can't try running for government, I'm not a jerk!I've tried to see these faces all around the wayYou're lucky if they listen to a single word you say.What is right and what is...
- Day Of The Eagle
Why do I believethere's a man in your closet, my dear?I just don't know I wonderwhy your line's always busy when I try to call?Playing dirty tricks behind my backseems like I'm the one to be the last to knowOh, am I...
- Drastic Actions
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...
- Sorrow
Sorrow 3:17Father can you hear me ? How have I let you down ?I curse the day that I was born And all the sorrow in this world Let me take you to the hurting ground Where all good men are trampled down Just to settle...
- The Defense
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...
- Epiphany
A new age of reason Brain treason to trick the mind What good is searching if nothing's there to find We arrive at this place of no return my brothers Only to discover that our minds have led us away so far from the...
- Shattered Faith
The scientist purported that there ainÂ’t no purposeAnd the theologian told me that itÂ’s all been designedAnd IÂ’m trying to maintain objectivityThe world wonÂ’t illuminate what really mattersAnd IÂ’m an imperfect...
- We're Only Gonna Die From Our Own Arrogance
Early man walked away as modern man took control.Their minds weren't all the same, to conquer was his big goal,So he built his great empire and slaughtered his own kind,Then he died a confused man, killed himself with...
- Latch Key Kids
In this world today there ain't nobody to thank,Just blame it on the kids and toss 'em into the tank.And if they yell for justice we'll hide them from the lightSo that when they learn the truth they won't be scared of...
- Part III
The final page is written in the books of history,As man unleashed his deadly bombs and sent troops overseasTo fight a war which can't be won and kills the human race,A show of greed and ignorance, man's quest for...
- The Surface Of Me
Oh yeah! A study of history reveals an unflagging appeal to mystery You talk about abstraction at the top of the list But you might as well get pissed, cause in me the essence does not exist, no-oh-oh Yeah yeah!...
- Dream Of Unity
I had a dream...of unityWhere we could walk side by sideBut today I see that it's only me Just trying to get bySometimes we stride...undetouredTo walk as one... Toward our goalBut as people stray towards more selfish...
- Punk Rock Song (German Version)
Warst du schon mal in der Wueste? Schon mal den Tod gesehen?Hunderttausend Kinder sterben fuer BrotUnd die Zahlen luegen nicht, es ist die Krankheit der MenschenDoch wir tun was wir wollen, wir denken wie es uns...
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