Bad Religion

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Beyond Electric Dreams

Beyond Electric Dreams

No one here can show you where it is but I can point to a sign
On the roof of the world without apparent design
The frozen definition of a lunatic ambition to rise
The air is thin, the future dim, dimension hard to find
Up on a mountain encased in solar rays
Beyond electric dreams of inarticulate passion plays
Coming down a mountain, eons have a human ring
The conversation of impassive planets intercepted by a human being
Ratiocination is a practical way to derive
An attitude of altitude and probity by which to abide
Or maybe a theophany of flaming creosote in disguise
The air is thin, the future dim, dimension hard to find
Up on a mountain encased in solar rays
Beyond electric dreams of inarticulate passion plays
Coming down a mountain, eons have a human ring
The conversation of impassive planets intercepted by a human being
Let's go where the raptor goes to the mountain in a cosmic glow
We'll have a genuine terrestrial show on a mountain - on a mountain
Let's scan the horizon clean for any trace of human schemes
And try to touch upon immortal themes - on a mountain - on a mountain
Up on a mountain encased in solar rays
Beyond electric dreams of inarticulate passion plays
Coming down a mountain, eons have a human ring
The conversation of impassive planets intercepted by a human being

 

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Boot Stamping On A Human Face Forever

Boot Stamping On A Human Face Forever

Drop dead it doesn't matter what she said
It only hurts when I laugh she said
Sometimes its never a crime to spend the day in bed
She made certain that the curtains were red to dream better by the light they would shed
She leaned back, tilted her head and this is what she said
You can't win! Think it over again
I can't win! Look at the trouble I'm in
We can't win! And we're stuck here together
Yeah I hope it will last forever
Don't ever dare to hope he said
So I'm never let down too bad

I know there's nowhere to go so I'll just stay here instead
He knew better than to pull on a thread
They unravel like the thoughts in his head

He looked out, it filled him with dread and this is what he said
You can't win! Think it over again
I can't win! Look at the trouble I'm in
We can't win! And we're stuck here together
Yeah I hope it will last forever
With good books and looks on their side and hearts bursting with national pride
They sang songs and went along for the ride and the other side complied
They said "Hey man where do you reside?" and "Could it be Mother Superior lied?"
And "Is it possible too many have died?" it's only natural to reply
You can't win! Think it over again
I can't win! Look at the trouble I'm in
We can't win! And we're stuck here together
Yeah I hope it will last forever

 

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Live Again (The Fall Of Man)

Live Again (The Fall Of Man)

The road is narrow, the horizon wide
And they say what's waiting on the other side is so rewarding and the ultimate prize
But what good is something if you can't have it until you die?
Desperate tenacious clinging like a grain of sand watching its foundation wash away
Drunk with the assertions they know they can't defend
Confident that they might live again
Live again! Live again! Would you give it all up to live again?
Live again! Live again! Would you give it all up to live again?
Temptation, revelation, you decide
Torture shows its colors often in disguise
Progress and purpose help us realize
We pass along a brighter faith even though it must be blind
Desperate tenacious clinging like a grain of sand watching its foundation wash away
Drunk with the assertions they know they can't defend
Confident that they might live again
Live again! Live again! Would you give it all up to live again?
Live again! Live again! Would you give it all up to live again?

 

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52 Seconds

52 Seconds

I know I'm part of something greater than myself
Don't know the meaning of it but I hope that
matters less
I don't know anything when I'm factored
out of scale
I know I'm part of something greater than myself
We're all engaging in a game of attrition
Maybe god is just a chemical fiction
I'm a monkey with a madding affliction
With fact checking for mental condition
I know I'm part of something greater than myself
Don't know the meaning of it but I hope that
matters less
I don't know anything when I'm factored
out of scale
I know I'm part of something greater than myself

 

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Heroes & Martyrs

Heroes & Martyrs

Amid the heat and the wrack
Hot boots invested and cracked
Poor candidates jacked into gray light
An ultra-violet call summoning both poet
and thrall
Sweet catalyst for the acolytes
Our heroes and martyrs
Present two points of view
Tell me which deity you're praying to
Into a welter of night
Flack, rounds and roiling blight
Cracked vertebrates stacked by the wayside
An ultra-violet call summoning both poet
and thrall
The inveterate blind seeking daylight
Our heroes and martyrs
Present two points of view
Tell me which deity you're praying to

 

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Germs of Perfection

Germs of Perfection

Lacerate eviscerate and perforate and mutilate
We all fall down, all fall down
Deprecate repudiate ameliorate adjudicate
The wisdom found, wisdom found
Clip the wings of progress reverse the direction
Enrich the fallow soil with germs of perfection
Delegate investigate facilitate and obviate
The black turns green, black turns green
Separate evaluate and cultivate and propagate
The master's dream, master's dream
Sing the fears of history with a renewed inflection
View the lost agenda with a skeptic's intention
Machine of life oh can we make it run
We have the tools, but have only just begun
The calculations of a greater sum
Clip the wings of progress, reverse the direction
Enrich the fallow soil with germs of perfection
Perfection!

 

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New Dark Ages

New Dark Ages

Yeah can you hear the call in our rambling
land susurrations,
That can expand beyond all hope of light and
plunge us into unrelenting night
A pall on truth and reason,
It feels like hunting season
So avoid those lines of sight and we'll set
this right
Welcome to the new dark ages
I hope you're living right
These are the new dark ages
And the world might end tonight
Now come ye children one and all - let's heed
Ezekiel's call
And bide until the word is good and ripe and get
plucked clean out of sight
The world will be erased our kin will be
immaculate ejaculate in space
Before the king of king's love, he'll snatch us
from above, brothers help me sing it
Welcome to the new dark ages
I hope you're living right
These are the new dark ages
And the world might end tonight
So how do you sleep - there's nothing to keep -
This is deep
Because we're animals - with golden rules
Who... Can't be moved by rational
views yeah
Welcome to the new dark ages
I hope you're living right
These are the new dark ages
And the world might end tonight

 

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Before You Die

Before You Die

Porcelain and alabaster, decaying ever faster
unaware of imminent disaster open up
your eyes.
As you ruminate the hopeless sands of time, did
you wander out your days lost and resigned?
Or recreate the universals in your mind?
Everybody is bastard; my world is like plaster
crumbling apart from pressure of the blaster
Waiting for a sign
And the momentary pleasures take their turn as
a wistful boy runs out of things to learn,
The episodes of yore are never to return.
Scare up some hope, you're gonna need it just
to cope
You are the decision, numbers don't lie
When you bite the dust, was it for purpose or
for trust?
You'll never relive it, think before you die. Yeah,
think! Think before you die
Deficit and depravation - in the wake of
desperation
Rewrite the morals, rectify the nation. Now may
be your time
As you ruminate the sands of time, do
you wonder how your life has been defined?
You know eternity can't ever change your mind.
You know eternity can't ever change your mind
So think! Think before you die - Yeah, think!
Think before you die

 

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Honest Goodbye

Honest Goodbye

Now get up and give in I'll crack your knuckles
again
Supplicate and survive this transubstantiation
And get so mean - I want to know what it means
(Did you laugh?) You know I did
(Did you cry?) I couldn't get it right
(Did you live?) Always on the edge
(Did you love?) Oh to be forgiven
(Did you try?) But it wouldn't be right
God it feels like an honest goodbye
Whoa ho ooh whoa ooh whoa ooh whoa - whoa
ho ooh whoa ooh whoa ooh whoa
Whoa ho ooh whoa ooh whoa ooh whoa - whoa
ho ooh whoa ooh whoa ooh whoa
That sick brass boy day dreamin' - cry baby
convict demon
Hands so clean - A sympathetic cold blooded
killing machine
How did you get so mean? - I want to know
what it means...
(Did you laugh?) You know I did
(Did you cry?) I couldn't get it right
(Did you live?) Always on the edge
(Did you love?) Oh to be forgiven
(Did you try?) But it wouldn't be right
God it feels like an honest goodbye
Whoa ho ooh whoa ooh whoa ooh whoa - whoa
ho ooh whoa ooh whoa ooh whoa
Whoa ho ooh whoa ooh whoa ooh whoa - whoa
ho ooh whoa ooh whoa ooh whoa

 

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Dearly Beloved

Dearly Beloved

Here's the story of an honest man losing religion
Climbing the pulpit steps before an eager
congregation
The while praying came a wicked inspiration
Brothers, sisters this is what he said
Dearly beloved, dearly beloved, dearly beloved,
(Make no mistake despite our traits I've seldom
seen evidence of genes)
I can't relate to you, I can't relate to you
He was the kind of guy who would always go right
out of his way
But more before that crazy notion leapt right into
his head
And stubbornly crept into every mad perception
I can't deny a funny feeling when he said
Dearly beloved, dearly beloved, dearly beloved,
I can't relate to you, I can't relate to you
Dearest in memoriam - set phasers to stun
And grab yourself a neighbors skeleton to
lean upon
Did you know him in life - one filled with regret
So soon we all forget - we ever met
Do you know my name - sing a light refrain
For a man estranged - I won't deny that I'm
inclined to isolate
Dearly beloved, dearly beloved, dearly beloved,
(Make no mistake despite our traits I've seldom
seen evidence of genes)
I can't relate to you, I can't relate to you
I can't relate to you, I can't relate to you, I can't
relate to you