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Emancipation Of The Mind lyrics - Bad Religion

Walls of suspicion, spandrels of doubt

Spasms of uncertainty, a world all inside-out

Ubiquitous confusion, heads in the sand

Self-appointed experts making claims they can't defend

Or even understand

The commons turned out to be a tragedy

Oh, the victims are easy to find

But the wellspring of true liberty

Is emancipation of the mind

Hey! Chains of superstition all come undone

Vivid illumination that's brighter than the sun

A handicap of bigotry and prejudice

All becomes a hinterland, a smoky wilderness...

The dominion of ignorance

The commons turned out to be a tragedy

Oh, the victims are easy to find

But the wellspring of true liberty

Is emancipation of the mind

It's a stalemate of morality

A debt for all mankind

These haughty mental shackles make us blind

To what is really right

The commons turned out to be a tragedy

Yeah, the victims are easy to find

But the wellspring of true liberty

Is emancipation of the mind

See what you can find

If you take a different line

Emancipation of the mind

Fanatics lyrics - Bad Religion

There's a lot of misdirection, and planned disparity

And prescriptions for protecting our benevolent creed

And there's also a lack of judgement, and various shades of gray

But a lot people think that theirs is the only way

I will never be one, I see the other side

A false sense of community, a bogus sense of pride

Stagnation of purpose, corrosion of the mind

A lingering obession, a sighted type of blind

I don't want to be so static

Life and death are far too erratic

I don't want to be a fanatic

They focus on hereafter, whatever that may be

Life is not considered in terms of quality

They say "if you don't believe this, then you'll be sorry when

You are dead and buried, and who will save you then?"

I do not believe this, it's perposterous and vain

A false sense of community, a life of endless shame

Stagnation of purpose, corrosion of the mind

A lingering obsession, a sighted type of blind

There is a place in my mind where I know I am right,

But I'm sure everyone else has their own insight

Who are the fanatics, you can see it in their eyes

They run around and preach about the things that they despise

And they are desperate for endorsement, for you to join their side

Your freedom, hopes, and dignity can all be left behind

I don't want to be so static

Life and death are far too erratic

I don't want to be a fanatic

Blind conviction, insistence, unmitigated [x3]

Father Christmas lyrics - Bad Religion

Though I knew it was my dad

And I would hang up my stocking at Christmas

Open my presents and I'd be glad

But the last time I played Father Christmas

I stood outside a department store

A gang of kids came over and mugged me

And knocked my reindeer to the floor

They said:

Father Christmas, give us some money

Don't mess around with those silly toys.

We'll beat you up if you don't hand it over

We want your bread so don't make us annoyed

Give all the toys to the little rich boys

Don't give my brother a Steve Austin outfit

Don't give my sister a cuddly toy

We don't want a jigsaw or monopoly money

We only want the real McCoy

Father Christmas, give us some money

We'll beat you up if you make us annoyed

Father Christmas, give us some money

Don't mess around with those silly toys

But give my daddy a job 'cause he needs one

He's got lots of mouths to feed

But if you've got one, I'll have a machine gun

So I can scare all the kids down the street

Father Christmas, give us some money

We got no time for your silly toys

We'll beat you up if you don't hand it over

We want your bread so don't make us annoyed

Give all the toys to the little rich boys

Have yourself a merry merry Christmas

Have yourself a good time

But remember the kids who got nothin'

While you're drinkin' down your wine

Father Christmas, give us some money

We got no time for your silly toys

Father Christmas, please hand it over

We'll beat you up, so don't make us annoyed

Father Christmas, give us some money

Don't mess around with those silly toys

We'll beat you up if you don't hand it over

We want your bread, so don't make us annoyed

Give all the toys to the little rich boy

Fucked Up Children lyrics - Bad Religion

A city sidewalk in urban decay

One boy is watching, the others all play

Inside he's hard 'cuz he's not wanted at home

He cracks a sneer and they leave him alone

And so he flounders socially

His teachers fear for what he might be

But they could never have imagined that day

When he stole Daddy's gun and blew his friends away

Fucked up children, our typical scene

Ingrained for eternity

Fucked up children, it's you and me

Just one of life's strange intricacies

A house of profit, all suits and ties

A darkened war room, purveyors of lies

Their clothes are different but inside they're the same

Social autism doesn't hinder their game

They foster hatred for what they been through

They impart suffering on me and you

And there's no conscience or discretion or pain

Just bitter memories 'bout the household from whence they came

Fucked up children in business suits

With nothing better to do

Fucked up children, it's you and me

Just one of life's strange Intricacies

And the parents are to blame

(The parents are to blame)

It's a monster they created

And the monster doesn't go away

Fucked up children in Daddy's shoes

Spawning offspring to abuse

Fucked up children, everywhere

Fucked up parents who don't care

Fucked up children, yeah yeah [3x]

Just one of life's strange intricacies

Hole In The Ship lyrics - Bad Religion

Well they said there was nothing to worry about

And they said there was no reason to shout

But I saw the bulkheads cracking

And for us there's no way out

When we started on our journey

No one ever could have foreseen

Our desolate and lonely ending

All I've got is helpless feeling

But it doesn't take a genius to see

There's a hole in the ship

And there's nothing we can do

Our worst fears have now come true

A few of us are struggling desperately

To shoot the albatross of H.M.S. Humanity

It's time to bail, but I think it's too late

All my cohorts think I'm crackers

They've embroiled the local matters

And despite obvious warning

They won't heed my futile chatter

But there's something they outta know

There's a hole in the ship

The end is oh so near

The others show no interest or fear

Our nature overwhelms our buoyancy

Yeah nothing could patch the growing vacuity

It's time to bail, but I think it's too late

Is it possible we have a social disease that makes us close our eyes in dangerous times

But I'm joining in nicely?

Or are we too aware and simply too scared to accept destiny, our mortality

Our mortality, yeah

There's a hole in the ship

And there's nothing we can do

Our worst fears have now come true

A few of us are struggling desperately

To shoot the albatross of H.M.S. Humanity

Our nature overwhelms our buoyancy

And nothing could patch the growing vacuity

It's time to bail, but I think it's too late

It's time to bail, (It's time to bail) but I think it's too late

It's Reciprocal lyics - Bad Religion

Hoarding turns allure to discontent

Altruism's a grind all its own

Morning makes you know your inner self

But love is just as pure as you both

Because it's reciprocal

It's reciprocal (it's reciprocal)

It's reciprocal (it's reciprocal)

It's reciprocal (it's reciprocal)

When true love is metaphysical

Venal desires we learn to beset

You and me we've got a special thing

But I want you to never forget

It's reciprocal

It's reciprocal (it's reciprocal)

It's reciprocal (it's reciprocal)

It's reciprocal (it's reciprocal)

Each bedtime I stir with regret

Guilty and vain,

Hoping for retribution

Charity's immune from my demands

I don't expect a thing from the weak

But you my love are measured and compared

Predisposed to my profane decree

It's reciprocal

It's reciprocal (it's reciprocal)

It's reciprocal (it's reciprocal)

It's reciprocal (it's reciprocal)

Lose Your Head (Demo Version) lyrics - Bad Religion

Religion who needs it and by the way how should we bury our dead

I doubt that it matters much son that's what the postman said

There's an accident waiting to happen at all times anyway

And maybe we'd all benefit from some epistemic humility

Don't lose your head

Don't lose your head

Don't lose your head

Don't lose your head

Before you lose your head, yeah

I ain't superstitious but hey do you know a good exorcist?

Despite darker tendencies I've always had a strong bias to exist

And though recent developments seem like bad news for humanity

Truly there is no substitute for the law of causality

Don't lose your head

Don't lose your head

Don't lose your head

Don't lose your head

Before you lose your head, yeah

And when your life endeavor evades your clever meddling

It's only headphone weather so get your head together

Don't lose your head

Don't lose your head

Don't lose your head

Don't lose your head

Soon we'll all be dead, yeah

Out Of Hand lyrics - Bad Religion

Don't wanna have to take your shit anymore

I finally concluded that life is way too short

The ticking of the hourglass,

The tiny grains of sand

It beckons me like gravity,

Like signposts on the land

And you got what you wanted

Without force or reprimand

The seconds are all running out,

This burden's out of hand

Tested lyrics - Bad Religion

Yeah, they say there's a place free of trouble and care

And you have to pass a test for to make it there

It has something to do with the road that's straight and narrow

And the only way to go it is by being right and thorough

There's always one more hill to climb

There's always one more hill to climb

Bombarded by multiple choices 24/7

Navigating a tangled web of logic and passion

Guided by subconscious voices, astute and sharpened

Tested, tested oh oh oh

Often times we may be wondering what we're supposed to do

Stand and deliver or see the conflict through

And as we long and proceed to build our castles in the sky

Our plans get confounded and determination dies

There's no preparation and no guide

Just what you've done before here with your life

Bombarded by multiple choices 24/7

Navigating a tangled web of logic and passion

Guided by subconscious voices, astute and sharpened

Tested, tested oh oh oh

Acting on will, (the test is the reaction)

Opening your heart, (the test is the emotion)

Rolling the dice, (the test is the agility)

Burning out your mind, (the test is the recovery)

Watch out!

You can play by the rules or bend them to your needs

But the test isn't over till you reach your dark eternal sleep

There are no absolutes, no big wheels in the sky

You don't have to be first just gotta somehow get by

Bombarded by multiple choices 24/7

Navigating a tangled web of logic and passion

Guided by subconscious voices astute and sharpened

Tested, tested oh oh oh

The Dodo lyrics - Bad Religion

I see a white haired man, he's got a pseudonym

He's telling people how they're supposed to live

Nobody's listening to the politician

No matter what sage advice he has to give

He's got a clumsy, outdated m.o.

And he's come to a fork in the road

And there is only one direction to go

Among the commuters, dwarfed by the skyscrapers

I watch the countless millions fighting for space

See hateful, petty acts, disjointed images,

And can't believe that I'm one of the same race

We're all just struggling to cope

And we come to a fork in the road

As we watch our foundations erode

There's only one direction to go

It's the way of the dodo

Such a noble destiny

It's the waltz of desperation

Passed along to you and me

The way of the dodo

(It's the gray stuff in your head)

(It's the pulse of the living and the voices of the dead)

The Kids Are Alt-Right lyrics - Bad Religion

Jakc boots crackin' on a polished floor

Red hats gathered in the liquor store

Pure hearts race on a crystal night

Everybody grab a torch to light

Everybody

Need somebody

Join the party

The kids are Alt-Right today

Now grab your partner and do-si-do

Populism is a sold out show

Humanity is a nowhere scene

When everybody has an AR-15

Everybody

Need somebody

Join the party

The kids are Alt-Right today

We love God

We love our women

We love tradition

We love kin

We've got shiny new tools

For ancient impulses

That we can't even understand

So if you feel alone

And downtrodden

There's an elixir for your ills

Join the Alt-Right post light endarkenment order

And the rest of those bastards

Can go to hell

Alternative facts

Alternative lies

Alternative names

Alternative tribes

Everybody

Let's get bloody

Join the party

The kids are Alt-Right today

The Profane Rights Of Man lyrics - Bad Religion

Hostility to every living creature

Like anti-intellectual demands

"Inalienable" is not some moving feature

It's foundational bedrock of the land

So it's criminal, antithetical, inimical

To enlightened plan

If you seek to make divisible

The principle of the profane rights of man

And so returns the bourgeoisie

The bastard child of democracy

Morphs into aristocracy

Demands advantage, it must not receive

But if the citizen will not stay it's hand

The myth becomes a menace on the land

And it's criminal, antithetical, inimical

Intelligence and knowledge are an ordnance

A constant check on privilege and wealth

Nurture and provisioning their furtherance

A fundament of democratic health

So it's criminal, antithetical, inimical

To enlightened plan

If you seek to make divisible

The principle of the profane rights of man

The Truth lyrics - Bad Religion

Madness takes its toll on me,

Still thoughts of what should be,

Stupid lies used to comfort me,

Wishing things they told would make sense.

I used to be a man of principle,

No true believer, never troubled,

But now I stagnate on mundane things,

I'm always concerned with what tomorrow brings.

And these thoughts are a dream,

A dream that's remained in my head,

And destroys what I've said,

And corrodes my will until I'm almost dead,

The light flickers on, although not for long,

The world turns away, and restores a new day,

The sun never dies, and the new baby cries,

I search my whole life, with inquisitive eyes.

But I realize now I'll never find it,

And I don't think the gods are gonna show it,

'cuz I realize now I'll never find... the truth, the truth.

What's in a bond between two living things,

What natural law can control such things,

Are these the questions that motivate you,

What is the force that tells you what to do.

Well it might as well be a dream,

A dream that remains in your head,

And corrodes what you've said,

And destroys your thought until you're almost dead,

The light flickers on, although not for long,

The world turns away, and restores a new day,

The sun never dies, and the new baby cries,

I search my whole life, with inquisitive eyes.

But I realize now I'll never find it,

And I don't think the gods are gonna show it,

'cuz I realize now I'll never find... the truth, the truth.

The Universal Cynic lyrics - Bad Religion

Catch a shooting star and put it in your pocket

Then your pants will start on fire

One bird in the hand, or two birds in the bush

Neither do you any good, when you're stuck in the quagmire

Show everyone you're not sure that they're telling the truth

Then you can be known as the universal cynic too

Benefit your fellow man with good deeds for the day

And you'll serve your life away

Pennies saved today are pennies still tomorrow

Strewn upon the desk, piled up in the paper weight

Show everyone you're not sure that they're telling the truth

Then you'll be known as the universal cynic too

Wipe your opaque eyes and restore your crystal vision

Turn another cheek and exalt in your decision

A bit of exercise for the universal cynic in you

Early to bed, and early to rise

Precludes you from seeing the most brilliant starry nights

Sticks and stones can break bones, words can't really hurt

Unless you carry guns, and are hungry for a fight

Challenging the standards, or questioning the established rules

Trying to understand how they can benefit you

Showing everyone you're not sure that they're telling the truth

Just a bit of exercise for the universal cynic in you;

The universal cynic in you

Wasting Oxygen lyrics - Bad Religion

The times they are a-changing

The land is growing pale

There are far too many people and no fresh air to inhale

But many do not know this, they live in a cocoon

Unhealthy and unmotivated, they wallow in their doom

And they think they don't harm you or me

But they're wasting oxygen, a scarce commodity

Just sit around wasting oxygen, they're miserable but free

Some say you deserve pity, you're a victim not a cause

Of the difficult socio-economic milieu and oppressive laws

But who can make a judgment, at the risk of sounding brash

You'd make the world a little better if you'd get up off your ass

And I'm sorry if this may sound terse

But you're wasting oxygen, you have no net worth

Just sit around wasting oxygen, just take up room on Earth

You're wasting oxygen

Everybody's got to deal with scarcity

There's just ain't enough to go around

But your value doesn't out weigh your cost to the world

But I know no one would cry if you were lost but never found

You're wasting oxygen [x4]

A scarce commodity, you're wasting oxygen!

What Are We Standing For lyrics - Bad Religion

An adventure in secular morality

Shouldn't be an insurrection to us all

And a counterfeit political currency

Shouldn't stand there as a patriotic call

All the vitriol and hyperbole

Testifies to vacant humanity

And the rabble that is pounding at the door

Don't know what they're standing for anymore

Find some understanding for

Those who kneel to implore

Know just what they're standing for

What's the lasting legacy

Of the humanistic progress that we made?

Or the blood that spilled for someone else's

Profit but would never be repaid?

There's the useless hope of the afterlife

But it can't assuage all the toil and strife

And the pious who were promised so much more

Don't know what they're standing for anymore

Show some understanding for

Those who can't hope for more

Know just what they're standing for, oh oh oh

Find some understanding for

Those who kneel to implore

Know just what they're standing for

There's a sound in the attic

Of memories erratic

A firm resolution

For an eternal constitution

The bravery of self-defense

Against the pull of ignorance

Shudder to adore

Those who don't know what they're standing for

Find some understanding for

Those who can't hope for more

Know just what they're standing for, oh oh oh

Be someone who's standing for

Take a knee on the floor

Know just what you're standing for