Bad Religion

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How Much Is Enough?

How Much Is Enough?

Tell me can the hateful chain be broken
Production and consumption define our hollow lives
Avarice lead us 'cross the ocean toward a land that's better,
Much more bountiful and wide.
When will mankind finally come to realize
His surfeit has become his demise?
How much is enough to kill oneself?
That quantity is known today, as we blow ourselves away.
Tell me is there anything so sure?
Rapacity, tenacity, capacity, for more!
Like a dog that feeds until he suffers,
The infirmity of a man is brought on by his selfish cure

 

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When?

When?

I've seen a lot of things in 5 years
I struggle just top hold back the tears
But every fuckin' where I go I see the pathos that, I know,
Will spell the termination of us all...
Someone's got to tell me,
do you see that everything around you has a hidden tragedy?
Seeds of happiness have never found a place to grow
And our generation doesn't know - When,
When will you try to change our logarithmic pace of kissing things goodbye?
When will you know that human life is so short and death is oh so slow?
I've tried to make things make sense but I can't
I'm happy just to watch them all and laugh
And if you think you've got it made just revel in your selfish ways
'Cuz when the world stops turning so will you!

 

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Give You Nothing

Give You Nothing

Hey Everybody's looking but they never can see,
All the angst, corruption and the dishonesty,
I 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
So you've got a place that you can call all your own,
But you make a habit of carrying the stone,
Look around and ask someone if you are alive
You're a sidewalk cipher speaking prionic jive -
Respectable, despicable, it seems all the same,
Now we realize that we have nothing to say
If your reserve is weak, audacity complete,
Ask yourself again, "Do I deserve much from them?"
No!

 

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Land Of Competition

Land Of Competition

See there's a girl who's afraid of the world
So she stays at home
Next there's a boy who seems so lost in his joy
He's all alone
The cameras on them
They're in the land of competition
Southern California air feeds them
And they know they're the best
'Cuz of the way they are dressed
But you can bet you are not welcome in their home
See there's a girl who sits and watches the world from her blue screen
Also a boy who truly wants to destroy his hometown scene
They both want to travel to the land of competition
Southern California will destroy them
And they won't be the best they'll be
The poseurs who dress like the plastic idiots who they copy
Tell me what do you need to make you happy?
Indeed, is it out of your reach?
Beware of number one
See all the damage it has done
There are so few of them
You won't find too many in the land of competition
Southern California doesn't breed them
If you just want the best turn to yourself for the rest
And forget about the ones who "Have It All"

 

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Forbidden Beat

Forbidden Beat

There was a boy who had too many toys
And an ache inside of his bones
He sought extrication through chemical vocation
And now he just answers to Jones
It's deadly and alluring
The sound of pounding
Heat enslaving all who dare to succumb
To temptations of the forbidden beat
Thinking, today, of what I want to say,
Thinking of inhibition and vice
What they call straight I do relegate
As I cautiously saltate along
It thunders away at first light of each
And the simpleton lifestyle evolves
But soon enters dusk as the last surrey rusts
And a new day, upon us, results

 

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Best For You

Best For You

Above us lay the burdens
Below us lay the truth
We're somewhere in the middle, and we're all discontent too.
Is someone watching over you? Inside, they know what's best for you.
Judgment’s not tomorrow, it's today (yes, now it's here)
But no it isn't Jesus, take a look at all your peers -
They're all looking down on you, inside they know what's best for you.....
Everybody knows what's best for you
Everybody knows what's best for you
Everybody knows what's best for you
Everybody knows what's best for you
Everybody knows what's best for you
Everybody knows what's best for you
Everybody knows.....

 

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Suffer

Suffer

Did you ever see the concrete stares of everyday?
The lunatic, the hypocrite are all lost in the fray
Can't you see their lives are just like yours?
An unturned stone
An undiscovered door leading to the gift of hope renewed
Eternity for you
The masses of humanity have always had to suffer
The businessman whose master plan controls the world each day
Is blind to indications of his species slow decay
People blow their minds (they choose to resign)
This deformed society is part of the design
It'll never go away, (it's in the cards that way)
The masses of humanity will always have to suffer!

 

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Delirium Of Disorder

Delirium Of Disorder

Life is the sieve through which my Anarchy strains
Resolving itself into works
Chaos is the score upon which reality is written
The timeless, swirling gyroscopic horde
Delirium of disorder
I am just an atom in an ectoplasmic sea
Without direction or a reason to exist
The anechoic nebula rotating in my brain
Is persuading me, contritely, to persist

 

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Part II (The Numbers Game)

Part II (The Numbers Game)

It's superficial progress, they call it liberation
With opiates of silicon, big brother schemes to rule the nation
We're one nation under God, we stand about the rest
With mighty high technology, we're never second best
Our specialty is infiltration!
So pack your bags you third world nation, victory through domination
The trepidations throngs all fear
The big eye in the sky, the government observes them with their own electric eye
Automatons, illiterates, and indigents of every shape and size
Don't stop but aid this cruel crusade
Participate in their own demise.....
Prepare yourself for subjugation
Victory through domination!

 

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What Can You Do?

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 the world rotates itself the only thing you twist is your mind
You see, the world's falling apart at the rift
And surprisingly, the leaders can't make any sense of it
You mean nothing to the world, we're all someone else's fool
But oh what can you do?
"Yeah, you waste your time with losers if you get stuck in a Rock-and-Roll band"
Do you find it more rewarding to compete with morons throughout this land?
They seem to be in power so I kick back and get farther behind
And I watch them as they fuck up every good thing on this earth with their "minds"