Chaos From Within lyrics - Bad Religion
Cowering like settlers on someone else's land
Mistaking advances of the natives
Who have come to lend a hand
It's a sad and pathetic badge of shame, my friends
Terror always seems to win
In the drama of human motivation
Where is restraint and reason?
Threat is urgent, existential
With patience wearing thin
But the danger's elemental
It's chaos from within
The fox-stained leaves of civilization
Depict a stark repeat
It's always a flaw in reasoning
That fates the citizenry
When the ancestor fell from the arbor
The march of fear began
But the predator wallowed in failure
In the face of consciousness
Threat is urgent, existential
Time to scan the horizon
But the danger's elemental
It's chaos from within
Threat is urgent, existential
Omnipresent like a skin
But the danger's purely mental
It's chaos from within
Chaos from within!
My Sanity lyrics - Bad Religion
When the world has gone mad and there's nowhere to roam
The lights are all on but nobody's home
There comes a time when you look up to the sky
And ask why do my favorite songs always make me cry
And am I losing
My sanity, my sanity
I've nothing to lose, so please let me be
I've got a firm grip and strong roots like a tree
Burrowed deep in reality
I won't let you go, what else can there be
You're all I have
When you swore to be true, our bed was belief
But alternative facts snuck in like a thief
There comes a time to release the cord of self
And with confidence declare your state of perfect mental health
Never doubting
My sanity, my sanity
I've nothing to lose, so please let me be
My life is a song, a short melody
Harmonizing with reality
I've got it real bad, there's no remedy
You're all I have, my dear sanity
Sometimes there's no sane reason for optimism
Oh my sanity, my sanity
I've nothing to lose, so please let me be
My life is a song, a short melody
Harmonizing with reality
I've got it real bad, there's no remedy
My world picture is exemplary
I won't let you go, what else can there be
You're all I have, my dear sanity
Do The Paranoid Style lyrics - Bad Religion
Hey, let's jump around
To the renegade sound
Of the paranoid style
Hey, get upside down
To the American sound
Of the paranoid style
Everybody have you heard the news
The old dance with wicked moves
It's been around for many years
So polish up your granddad's gear
And shake it, shake it, shake with fear
Waive your rights like you just don't care
Anyone can do it - it's easy if you dare
It's the paranoid style in American politics
Casey Jones you better watch your apocalypse
Illumination and fluoridation
Are communist plots against the population
Hey, let's jump around
To the renegade sound
Of the paranoid style
Hey, get upside down
To the American sound
Of the paranoid style
Hey kids on the right and left
Do you feel dispossessed
If you're on the left or right
I feel your pain tonight
So shake off reality
It's easy as you please
Soon everyone is dancing
Con-spir-a-tor-i-a-lly
It's the paranoid style in American politics
Casey Jones you better watch your apocalypse
All kinds of wild interpretation
Are open to the paranoid imagination
Hey, let's jump around
To the renegade sound
Of the paranoid style
Hey, get upside down
To the American sound
Of the paranoid style
The Approach lyrics - Bad Religion
An apocryphal popular mythology or a civilization in wane
Whatever your assessment is, a paradox remains
There's a moral and intellectual vacuum and you're right to be lookin' askance
Philosophically moribund, revolution hasn't a chance
As the light fades, the shadows dance in silhouette to stars
Despite all illusion we approach the darkest hour
Is the enemy hiding in your conscience or can forgiveness pave the way?
There's got to be a place for them if tomorrow's a better day
With the high-priest banging on the war drum you cannot make out what he's saying
With all the litter on the battlefield, no higher ground remains
As the light fades, the shadows dance in silhouette to stars
Despite all illusion we approach the darkest hour
Welcome to the show
History took a toll
Discontent was sown
But now the child is grown
And come into his own
A superstar
But despite all illusion we approach the darkest hour
Lose Your Head lyrics - Bad Religion
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
Self-pity is always a case of mistaken identity
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
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
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
Lose your head, yeah
Don't lose your head
Don't lose your head
Don't lose your head
Soon we'll all be dead, yeah
End Of History lyrics - Bad Religion
Halcyon days are not a thing
Nostalgia is no excuse for stupidity
I don't believe in golden ages
Or presidents that put kids in cages
America awaits on bended knee
Can't you see
Sweet children, Locke's burden
Why did mother draw the curtains
Free will is your dilemma, (what will the dust remember)
Tell me where do you really want to be?
At the end of history?
Utopia is an opiated dream
What we want is an open society
One torn and frayed at the edges
With pages of imperfect changes
And every hallmark of rationality
Can't you see
Sweet children, Locke's burden
Why did mother draw the curtains
Free will is your dilemma, (what will the dust remember)
Tell me where do you really want to be?
At the end of history?
At the end of history nobody will be innocent
Of naked crimes against eternity
We're in the last second of our December
Tell me how do you want to be remembered
For generosity or a fucking monstrosity
Tell me where do you really want to be?
At the end of history?
Age Of Unreason lyrics - Bad Religion
Just to think that not so long ago
Was a man who risked his life
He challenged all the lies offered as sacred truth
Just to cast a brighter light
The notion that we
Can live as one in perfect harmony
Requires a common sensibility
To teach an intellectual capacity
That I believe
Is in the air but everywhere
Is the ultimate act of treason
That so few could be aware
That their nation's heart is bleeding
And oh! when the violence has begun
We decree the pen more mighty than the gun
But the fools believe, as one
In this unrepentant age of unreason
Just to think that not so long ago
Was a man who received the seal
He peddled blatant lies and brought back tyranny
To divide his people with zeal
But we
Can live as one in perfect harmony
It requires a common sensibility
To teach an intellectual capacity
That I believe
Is in the air but everywhere
Is the ultimate act of treason
How so few can be aware
That their nation's heart is bleeding
But I, as a child who plays for fun
With his eye up to the barrel of a gun
Watch the fools believe, as one
In this unrepentant age of unreason
Now that darkness has begun
We decree the pen more mighty than the gun
While the fools believe, as one
In this unrepentant age of unreason
Candidate lyrics - Bad Religion
As I walk along this road paved with human kindness
I can never forget the price you've paid
I'm an actor on a role an artificial virus
I'm your daddy I'm your disgrace
I say kid just move along we don't want it - don't need it
Your politics just breed despair
I salute an empty flag of ancient tribalism
And trust me nobody cares
For I am your candidate
I am bloody lips and makeup
I'm your caliphate
Opioids and mutilation
A celebrity
And my name is competition
I've come to bear your pain
And I can make it go away, I'll make it go away, I'll make it go away
Believers dupes and clowns
I want you all to gather 'round
To glorify ignorance and fear
I dispense misinformation
To a post-truth generation
My darlings don't shed a tear
For I am your candidate
I am bloody lips and makeup
I'm your caliphate
Opioids and revelation
An hermaphrodite
In restrooms and service stations
I truly feel your pain
And I can make it go away, I'll make it go away, I'll make it go away
Faces Of Grief lyrics - Bad Religion
Broken engines of belief
Iniquity in stark relief
Red rabble of mendacity
(A cabal of psychopathy)
Grim bailiffs wait like minarets
While sister fends a mounting threat
In crucible of hypocrisy
(A Greco-Roman tragedy)
Faces of grief
Rage is a key
Pain is a thief
Faces of grief
Rage is a key
Pain is a thief
Amidst darkness let us vow to insure her light will be remembered
Radicalized Evangelicals
Awash in primate chemicals
Bare shiny fangs for all to see
(A rictus of misogyny)
Obeisance to a maniac
The slavering lackeys stay on track
In this democracy's darkest hour
(A doctor dares speak truth to power)
Faces of grief
Rage is a key
Pain is a thief
Faces of grief
Rage is a key
Pain is a thief
Amidst darkness let us vow to insure her light will be remembered
Old Regime lyrics - Bad Religion
Privilege from birth, abhorrence of work, obsessed with sovereignty
Aristocrats claim an exemption from the standards of democracy
A secret antipathy to justice and equality
And a tightly constrained definition of who is free
Old regime, smoke of history
Liberty still wafting in the breeze
The new aristocracy just smells like the old regime
They think that they can alter and sway which version of freedom reigns
If everything is subjective then what good is truth anyway?
A plutocratic strategy or technocrat conspiracy
Or a vision of utopia that only the besotten can see?
Old regime, smoke of history
Liberty still wafting in the breeze
The new aristocracy just smells like the old regime
An unabated tendency to tyranny is still in place
And the ancient nobility's complexion differs just in name
Old regime, smoke of history
Liberty still wafting in the breeze
A new season dawns with ominous prophecy
Yeah the new aristocracy just smells like the old regime
Big Black Dog lyrics - Bad Religion
We are alone and all is one
The father daughter devil and son
They deal in art, the art of the deal
They sing Seig Heils in aisles of high heels
Big cyber-weapon little traitor in chief
He's got a big black dog on a leash
One man's grace is another man's bullet
Bullshit beams from the bully pulpit
No regrets for the bounty they've taken
The pigs must feed on their rasher of bacon
Big cyber-weapon little traitor in chief
He's got a big black dog on a leash
Big cyber-weapon little traitor in chief
He's got a big black dog on a leash
I'll be right here when I disappear
I'll be right here when I disappear
I'll be right here when I disappear
I'll be right here when I disappear
I'll be right here when I disappear
I'll be right here when I disappear
I'll be right here when I disappear
I'll be right here when I disappear
Downfall lyrics - Bad Religion
It's never really clear when the end is near
Till you take a hard look in the rearview mirror
I'm pretty sure we're just running on fumes
No one really cares about the route
Beaches break down and the waves retreat
Are we stuck in some perpetual repeat?
Maybe we're like massive cliffs of sand
Waiting for the plates to smash again
Downfall, gravity calls
Entropy makes fools of us all
Downfall, you can't forestall
It's the proof there ain't no invisible hand
No one 'round here can contain their fears
Just contented with false hope to soothe the tears
Faith is king while truth is on the lam
Disenfranchised scientists be damned!
Downfall, gravity calls
Entropy makes fools of us all
Downfall, it's a natural law
And the judge don't have no use for the witness stand
Downfall, it's a natural law
Entropy makes fools of us all
Downfall, kill the guy with the ball
And make sure he can't get up to take a stand!
Since Now lyrics - Bad Religion
(Since when) was it just a fallacy of tainted memory
(Since when) to believe that things were really all right?
(Since when) were the qualities of wisdom and knowledge
(Since when) equivalent to mere facts online?
(Since when) were the virtues of character and content
(Since when) more than just a popularity game?
(Since when) was the protocol of rational judgment
Not the same as blame?
Since now
It's fucked up beyond all recognition, just a symptom of the time
Since now
You might call it modern cognition without a reason or rhyme
(Since when) was the platitude of honorable mention
(Since when) only a dishonor to behold?
(Since when) was being second only first among the losers
Just the same as getting old?
Since now
It's natural to feel unlucky, too many winners spoil the prize
Since now
So if you are on the bottom don't you cry
(Since when) was history just a futile mission
(Since when) without a context to reveal?
(Since when) was lacking sense of place or social purpose
The new deal?
Since now
Yeah, it's fucked up beyond all recognition, just a symptom of the time
Since now
You might call it cognition but don't ask why
Ask since when
What Tomorrow Brings lyrics - Bad Religion
Metamorphosis of living nature, unweathering the hands of time
Resonant vibrations set to a grand design
These are more than technological things, they're promises of what tomorrow brings
It's what tomorrow brings
What tomorrow brings
It's what tomorrow brings
Tranquility without conflict, potential free to find
Incalculable bounty randomly decentralized
These are more than sociological things, they're promises of what tomorrow brings
Absolution from the golden rule
Escape from earthly chattel and the grimy hands of fools
It's what tomorrow brings
These are more than words that the false prophet sings
They're promises of what tomorrow brings
It's what tomorrow brings
What tomorrow brings
It's what tomorrow brings
What tomorrow brings
It's what tomorrow brings
What tomorrow brings
It's what tomorrow brings
What tomorrow brings
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