Bad Religion

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Grains of Wrath

Grains of Wrath

Back in '83 a man came to me and he told me
"son, our way of life is done"
But I was only young
With an eye to the fields speculators and yields
rotten to the core
Monoculture whores entered the bidding wars
from distant shores
I don't wanna be in the land known as destitute
and free
With the grains of wrath blazing a path from sea
to shining sea
Oh the sinuous trails of concrete and rails and
exhausted roars
Population wars setting our future course
Is profit and greed the only conceit on a scale
between
Mere prosperity and inhumanity? It may well be
but
I don't wanna be in the land known as destitute
and free
With the grains of wrath blazing a path from sea
to shining sea
I don't wanna be in the land known as destitute
and free
With the grains of wrath blazing a path from sea
to shining sea
Ohhh woh ohhh

 

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Murder

Murder

If you're discontent to know your world's a
pile of shit
Listen to a riddle that'll tickle every bit of it
HA HA HA
Ape shall not murder - ape wasn't so sure
Bad ape you made a mistake
Annihilation in a cannibal-war
Well cultivation might have served you
Might have raised you up unscathed
If you had called that fucker by its name
Did you listen to the arbiter's beck and call?
Did you find what you were looking for or not at
all?
NOT AT ALL
Ape shall not murder - ape take the cure
Bad ape you made a mistake
Annihilation in a cannibal war
Culture might have cured you
And raised you up unscathed
If you had called that fucker by its name
Say the name
Say the name
Say the name

 

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Scrutiny

Scrutiny

One- two- three- four- five- six- seven- eight-
days go marching by
There and back I never wait for a confident reply
Truth is stark and leaves its mark as limited
constraints
And the most difficult part is accepting what the
future may bring
It seems like a lifetime of scrutiny
Wither the pain, whether worth the fee
A lifetime of scrutiny
And it seems as though I can't be sure of
anything anymore
One- two- three- four- five- six- seven- eight-
years go flying by
No one seems to hesitate or cast an earnest eye
Judgment comes in many forms but never scarce
or shy
And the litany is long as the confidence is strong
in their delight
It seems like a lifetime of scrutiny
Prejudicial waters wash over me
A lifetime of scrutiny
And the words just don't equate with sense or
sanity anymore
One- two- three- four- five- six- seven- eight-
the faces and the names
Shattered hopes and stolen dreams and no one
left to blame
Is it possible to win this pointless mortal game?
'Cuz when death comes it's swift and my friend,
we end up all the same
It seems like a lifetime of scrutiny
Wither the path and whether worth the fee
A lifetime of scrutiny
And it seems as though I can't be sure of
anything anymore

 

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Prodigal Son

Prodigal Son

Oh can't you feel the nostalgia son I wonder
about ya
Modernistocrat Horatio Alger
Clever never hesitating in the baiting ever
waiting
For that canticle of manacles abating
Do you ever forget - you had a regret - and what
you only guessed at
Might still be waiting?
When the prodigal son with the caroming shadow
of hate comes to land at home
Well he's a mourning star with a champagne
heart at his curtain call
And the father never understood just how the work
gets done
Don't look at me, no I ain't one, no prodigal son
Don't look at me, no I ain't one, no prodigal son
When everybody about - is ready to bout you -
and controversial values
Don't you think you'd better readdress the level of
the cowardice rising to drown you
Did you ever connect - or come to reject - or
even inspect
That dream that hounds you
When the prodigal son with the caroming shadow
of hate comes to land at home
Well he's a mourning star with a champagne
heart at his curtain call
And the father never understood just how the work
gets done
Don't look at me, no I ain't one, no prodigal son
Don't look at me, no I ain't one, no prodigal son
When you least expect it he's going to run
Like the blood red path of the western sun oh
yeah
The prodigal son is waiting, waiting for his
moment to come
Well hell no, don't look at me
Can't you see, I ain't one, no prodigal son
Don't look at me, no I ain't one, no prodigal son

 

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The Grand Delusion

The Grand Delusion

If I could only get the tools, the stimuli and
molecules, frozen moments in time
I could be the archetype, a credit to the
genotype, re-program your mind
But the storybook sages fill their pages
Hiding from the warming sun
Limitless distractions give no pause to distort a
precious delusion
Did you see the moralist retort and raise his fist
"you can't make man a machine"
I can see the edifice crumbling in foggy mist,
razed by discovery
But the storybook sages fill their pages
Hiding from the warming sun
Limitless distractions give no pause to distort a
precious delusion

 

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Lost Pilgrim

Lost Pilgrim

Pilgrim, those are dry and bitter tears and lonely
eyes that look way beyond your years
Pilgrim, did you drink the mercury? Your lips
turned blue and your struggling just to see
You were too far gone to carry on, now your life
has stalled
As you march ahead yet go no place at all
Pilgrim, when you left hem all behind the
loneliness destroyed your able mind
Pilgrim, see the writing on the door? It's taking
you back to a place you were before
And the next in line paces your stride waiting for
your fall
With a hope that lies in a hidden master's call
Pious eyes ignoring passers by
Headlong to their grave
Don't despair this world of toil and care. This
pilgrim lost a way
Pilgrim will you ever find your call? Is truth so
pure that you're willing to risk it all?
Pious eyes ignoring passers by
Headlong to their grave
Don't despair this world of toil and care. This
pilgrim lost a way

 

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Submission Complete

Submission Complete

Dedication is the price you pay: the initiated are
coddled and caged
Before you walk, as soon as you crawl
Hope is pointless 'cuz you're stuck in the trawl
Fuck the freshman lectures and brandishments
They just betray impoverished accomplishments
The puppet masters fear originality
They tighten up the tethers and they shackle your
feet
Submission complete
Young recruits never have a chance, enticed to
the drill, admonished to dance
Early to rise and early to shine, life is long but the
end is nigh
Break the guilty trammels from yesteryear
Remember how rejuvenation conquers all fears
Lowly opportunists take commanding roles
And hawk ultimatums so their weakness won't
show
The sad reflection of dead ambition
You live for nothing. Submission complete
Yeah, break the guilty trammels from yesteryear
Remember how the taste of failure makes it all
clear
The lowly opportunists take commanding roles
And hawk ultimatums so their weakness won't
show
The sad reflection of dead ambition you live for
nothing
Expectation, indoctrination, life's damnation
Submission complete
Dying on your feet
Submission complete
A total defeat

 

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Fields of Mars

Fields of Mars

In the garden where he was cast out by the lord
Flames and Omni-directional sword
For he as ever failed to gather up the fruit
And thus was banished by his loot
He cantered aimlessly through endless
permutations of night
Seeking a purpose and the meaning of kin
And when it finally came to him
You could've mistook it for the meaning of sin
The women wish him well
Every time he cast off marching to hell
Now if you've never seen a terrible sight
Stroll the garden of earthly delight
Maybe we can make it right - someday I'll see you
High above the Fields of Mars
He knelt down before the unholy mob - who
cried war is god
Gleaming outwardly with great pride - and
prepared to die
The women wish him well
Every time he cast off marching to hell
Now if you've never seen a terrible sight
Stroll the garden of earthly delight
Maybe we can make it right - someday I'll see you
High above the Fields of Mars
Who cannot fight anymore
Will never love any less
That kid inside of murder
Must be committed
To live a life of hostility
Never asking what it means
When mother nation
Blood and religion
Sanction killing - upon the fields of mars
High above the Fields of Mars

 

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The Day The Earth Stalled

The Day The Earth Stalled
Do you remember when we were young, adventure had no end?
Those were the days my friend. But I’m not talking about that at all.
Do you remember when you marred my future with a sickly parasitic pall?
That was the day that the earth stalled.
That was the day the earth stalled.
That was the day the earth stalled.

Friction, bonds, and gravity, all harmonic motion ceased.
Life itself could not maintain from that singularity.
Try to withstand a magnetic storm with no one to keep you warm.
Waiting for the rest to fall, since the day that the earth stalled.

That was the day the earth stalled.
Since the day that the earth stalled.
On that day that the earth stalled.
That was the day the earth stalled.
On that day that the earth stalled.

 

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Only Rain

Only Rain
Hey scientist please save us from our rainy days
because your counterpart in the magic art is manufacturing judgment day
there's a fell wind blowing out of the east
bringing famine drought and plague
well now at least that's what they say

Rain fell like judgment
across my windowpane
said it fell like judgment
But it was only rain

well I know what's wrong and I know what's right
and I know that evil exists sure as day turns into night
when a man gets down on his knees to pray you know he'll find what he is able
but chances are he'll find it either way

Rain fell like judgment
across my windowpane
said it fell like judgment
But it was only rain

oh lord have mercy on a humble man
lost in the wilderness without a guiding hand

Rain fell like judgment
across my windowpane
said it fell like judgment

But it was only rain
Rain fell like judgment
across my windowpane
said it fell like judgment
But it was only rain