Bad Religion

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Sinister Rouge

Sinister Rouge

Innocents burned alive at the stake, tortured and dumped in nameless graves
Centuries waned, authority died, scattering seeds of ancient lies
Sinister rouge coming back for more - To even the score
Sinister rouge coming back for more - To even the score
Child molesters and Jesuits holding secret conference
underneath the Pontiff's nose
And only God will ever know
Sinister rouge coming back for more
To even the score
Sinister rouge coming back for more
To even the score
Give us this day our daily bread
Your legacy - we'll not forget
Lick the wounds, cleanse the land
The modern world rejects your hand
Sinister rouge coming back for more
To even the score
Sinister rouge coming back for more
To even the score
The nightmare comes in sinister rouge

 

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Social Suicide

Social Suicide

Right now! Well it's finally time to face my fears
Gonna get the hell out of here and create
a fresher atmosphere
But the consequence is clear
There's a furnace set on high and a
yearning undefined
But it's time to turn the tide
It's social suicide
Like you! Perseverance is a useless tool
Just a patron on a ship of fools feigning
interest in the cast and crew
While you've broken every single rule
There's a furnace set on high
and a yearning undefined
Now it's time to turn the tide
It's social suicide
Shadows entertain the unwashed masses
Scholars explain their numb reactions
I don't even know if I can ever find Truth
But I'm sure it won't come from following you
There's a furnace set on high and
a yearning undefined
But it's time to turn the tide - It's social suicide

 

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Atheist Peace

Atheist Peace

Maybe it's too late for intellectual debate but a residue of confusion remains
Changing with the times and developmentally tortured minds are the average citizen's source of pain
"Tell me what we're fighting for"
I don't remember anymore - only temporary reprieve
And the world might cease if we fail to tame the beast
From a faith that you release comes an atheist peace
Political forces rent bitter cold winds of discontent
And the modern age emerged triumphantly
But now it seems we've stalled and it's time to de-evolve and relive the dark chapters of history
"Tell me what we're fighting for"
No progress ever came from war - only a false sense of increase
And the world won't wait for the truth upon a plate
But we're ready now to feast on an atheist peace

 

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All There Is

All There Is

This song goes out to all the hopeless sinners with grave allegiances so meaningless and vain
The walking wounded, in a pageant of contenders, who balance on a rail of pain for just a pail of rain
And everything is barely mist - blood relations and bricks
My expression, my confession
Add it up, extract a lesson more than this
Once again, like a bullet, as a friend tell me
Can that be all there is?
In my rectory of doubt I kneel to pray like one devout
As time the great gray dreamless sleep of a useless modern God
Erodes away each storied day as wretched Adams with hell to pay
Content upon a rail of pain for just a little rain
And everything is dearly missed - blood relations and bricks
My expression, my confession
Add it up, extract a lesson more than this
Once again, like a bullet, as a friend tell me
Can that be all there is?
There's an endless disposition and it doesn't mean a god damn thing
There's a space for a paper airplane race in the eye of a hurricane
And if pigs could fly then surely so could I
But this pedestrian knows better than to even try
My divinity is caught between the colors of a butterfly
And everything is dearly missed - blood relations and bricks
My expression, my confession
Add it up, extract a lesson more than this
Once again, like a bullet, as a friend tell me
Can that be all there is?

 

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Los Angeles Is Burning

Los Angeles Is Burning

Somewhere high in the desert near a curtain of blue St. Anne’s skirts are billowing
But down here in the city of limelights the fans of Santa Anna are withering
And you can't deny the living is easy if you never look behind the scenery
It's show time for dry climes and bedlam is dreaming of rain
When the hills of Los Angeles are burning
Palm trees are candles in the murder wind
So many lives are on the breeze even the stars are ill at ease
And Los Angeles is burning
This is not a test of the emergency broadcast system
Where Malibu fires and radio towers conspire to dance again
And I cannot believe the media Mecca - they're only trying to peddle reality
Catch it on prime-time, story at nine
The whole world is going insane
When the hills of Los Angeles are burning
Palm trees are candles in the murder wind
So many lives are on the breeze even the stars are ill at ease
And Los Angeles is burning
Jacaranda boughs are bending in the haze
More a question than a curse
How could hell be any worse?
The flames are stunning, the cameras running, so take warning!
When the hills of Los Angeles are burning
Palm trees are candles in the murder wind
So many lives are on the breeze even the stars are ill at ease
And Los Angeles is burning

 

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Let Them Eat War

Let Them Eat War

There's a prophet on a mountain and he's making up dinner
With long division and a riding crop
Anybody can feel like a winner when it's served piping hot
But the people aren't looking for a handout
They're American's working corps
Can this be what they voted for?
Let them eat war! Let them eat war! That's how to ration the poor
Let them eat war! Let them eat war! There's an urgent need to feed the declining pride
From the force to the union shops the war economy is making new jobs
But the people who benefit most are breaking bread with their benevolent host
Who never stole from the rich to give to the poor
All he ever gave to them was a war and a foreign enemy to deplore
Let them eat war! Let them eat war! That's how to ration the poor
Let them eat war! Let them eat war! There's an urgent need to feed the declining pride

Feed 'em death - here comes
another ration - feed 'em death
- 'cuz they're the finest in the
nation - feed 'em death -
when there's nothing left to
feed 'em with - feed 'em
death - it's freedom or it's
death!
Let them eat war! Let them eat
war! That's how to ration the
poor
Let them eat war! Let them eat
war! There's an urgent need to
feed

Kill em and eat em before they reach for their checks.
Squeeze some blue collars, make em bleed from their necks.
Seize a few dollars from the people who sweat.
Because it's Freedom or Debt and they won't question it (they won't question it.)
At a jobsite the boss is God-like
Conditioned work horses park at a stop light
Seasoned vets with their feet in the nets
A stone's throw away from a rock fight, but not tonight, feed em death

 

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God's Love

God's Love

Striking at mental apparitions like a drunk on a vacant street
Silently beset by the hands of time indelicate in its fury
An aberrant "crack" as skeletons yield to unrelenting gravity
While viruses prowl for helpless victims who succumb rapidly
Tell me! Tell me where is the love in a careless creation?
When there's no above there's no justice just a cause and a cure and a bounty of suffering
It seems we all endure
And what I'm frightened of is that they call it God's love
Twisted torment, make-believe
There's a truth and we all submit
Believe my eyes my brain complies to all that they interpret
So Tell me! Tell me where is the love in a careless creation?
When there's no above there's no justice just a cause and a cure and a bounty of suffering
It seems we all endure
And what I'm frightened of is that they call it God's love
I know there's no reason for alarm
But who needs perspective when it comes to pain and harm?
We can change your mind - there's a better prize
But first you've got to Tell me! Tell me where is the love in a careless creation?
When there's no above there's no justice just a cause and a cure and a bounty of suffering
It seems we all endure
And what I'm frightened of is that they call it God's love
My pain is God's love

 

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To Another Abyss

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 felt astray 'cuz I had nothing to offer but insufficiency
And you know that it's a bitch when you learn to scratch that itch of blatant fallibility -
sooner to some but eventually
All gets pointed in the same direction while the human masses and their vague conceptions obliterate
each other with impunity
And you wonder "what's in this for me?"
To another abyss - to no avail
The search is bound to fail
To another abyss - to no avail
So long as I set sail and it chills me to the bone that I'm so far away from home
To another abyss
So what should I do now?
What should I celebrate, given finite means and a penchant to depreciate?
How can I still avow and depend upon a state that cares nothing for my happiness, welfare or fate?
And I know I can't explain the commotion in my brain
Like a terrifying reality deconstructed but inadequately
All gets pointed in the same direction while the human masses and their vague conceptions obliterate
each other with impunity
And release the weight of history
To another abyss - to no avail
The search is bound to fail
To another abyss - to no avail
So long as I set sail and it chills me to the bone that I'm so far away from home
To another abyss

 

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The Quickening

The Quickening

The quickening is an ephemeral thing that only happens
in the dark like catching light in a jar
And the paint that it brings is just the promise of Spring - it's madness on the wing
Oh what does it mean to come alive? To come alive! To come alive!
The entering is soulful conjecturing
*Oh lost and by the wind grieved ghost come back to me again
Because the way she bleeds is in the law that he reads -
confusing words and deeds
So what does it mean to come alive? To come alive! To come alive!
To pierce the vein of the sacred and profane
Poor science in the service of a faith
But who will bear the mark of Cain?
To come alive! To come alive! To come alive!

*Thomas Wolfe from Look Homeward Angel

 

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The Empire Strikes First

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 moneys worth
Don't wanna live! Don't wanna give! Don't wanna be! E - M - P - I - R - E
Don't wanna live! Don't wanna be! E - M - P - I - R - E
We're coming on fast and we're built to last
We stumbled once in 'Nam now we're glad to finally say those days have passed
Tell me how long can it last?
Don't wanna live! Don't wanna give! Don't wanna be! E - M - P - I - R - E
Don't wanna live! Don't wanna be! E - M - P - I - R - E
We just started out
You don't need to be afraid
Yeah you deserve two minutes hate
Well, we spit and we cursed and our bleeding hearts burst
But even ten million souls marching in February couldn't stop the worst
Couldn't reverse
Don't wanna live! Don't wanna give! Don't wanna be! E - M - P - I - R - E
Don't wanna live! Don't wanna be! E - M - P - I - R - E