Bad Religion Album

[No lyrics]

Innocents burned alive at the stake, tortured and dumped in nameless graves
Centuries waned, authority died, scattering seeds of ancient lies
Sinister rouge coming back for more - to even the score
Sinister rouge coming back for more - to even the score
Child Molesters and Jesuits holding secret conference
underneath the Pontiff's nose
and only God will ever know
Sinister rouge coming back for more
to even the score
Sinister rouge coming back for more
to even the score
Give us this day our daily bread
Your legacy - we'll not forget
Lick the wounds, cleanse the land
The modern world rejects your hand
Sinister rouge coming back for more
to even the score
Sinister rouge coming back for more
to even the score
The nightmare comes in sinister rouge

Right Now! Well it's finally time to face my fears
Gonna get the hell out of here and create
a fresher atmosphere
But the consequence is clear
There's a furnace set on high and a
yearning undefined
But it's time to turn the tide
It's social suicide
Like You! Perseverence is a useless tool
Just a patron on a ship of fools feigning
interest in the cast and crew
While you've broken every single rule
There's a furnace set on high
and a yearning undefined
Now it's time to turn the tide
It's social suicide
Shadows entertain the unwashed masses
Scholars explain their numb reactions
I don't even know if I can ever find the Truth
But I'm sure it won't come from following you
There's a furnace set on high and
a yearning undefined
But it's time to turn the tide - It's social suicide

Maybe it’s too late for intellectual debate
But a residue of confusion remains

Oh, changing with the times and developmentally tortured minds
Are the average citizen’s sources of pain

Yeah, ("Tell me what we’re fighting for")
I don’t remember anymore
Only temporary reprieve

And the world might cease
If we fail to tame the beast
From the faith that you release
Comes an atheist peace

Atheist peace

Political forces rent
bitter cold winds of discontent
And the modern age emerged triumphantly
But now it seems we've stalled
And it’s time to de-evolve
And relive the dark chapters of history

Yeah, ("Tell me what we’re fighting for")
No progress ever came from war
Only a false sense of increase

And the world won’t wait
For the truth upon a plate
But we’re ready now to feast on an atheist peace
Oh, yeah

Oh, an atheist peace

This song goes out to all the hopeless sinners
With grave allegiances so meaningless and vain

The walking wounded in a pageant of contenders
Who balance on a rail of pain for just a pail of rain

And everything is dearly missed - blood relations and bricks
My expression, my confession, add it up, extract a lesson
More than this, once again, like a bullet as a friend tell me
Can that be all there is?

In my rectory of doubt
I kneel to pray like one devout
As time the great, gray dreamless sleep of a useless modern God
Erodes away each storied day as wretched Adams with hell to pay
Contend upon a rail of pain for just a little rain

And everything is barely missed - blood relations and bricks
My expression, my confession, add it up, extract a lesson
More than this, once again, like a bullet as a friend tell me
Can that be all there is?

There’s an endless disposition
And it doesn’t mean a god damn thing
There’s space for a paper airplane race in the eye of a hurricane

And if pigs could fly, then surely so could I
But this pedestrian knows better than to even try
My divinity is caught between the colors of a butterfly

And everything is barely missed - blood relations and bricks
My expression, my confession, add it up, extract a lesson
More than this, once again, like a bullet as a friend tell me
Can that be all there is?

Somewhere high in the desert near a curtain of a blue,
St. Anne's skirts are billowing
But down here in the city of the lime-lights,
The fans of Santa Ana are witherin'.
And you can't deny that living is easy,
If you never look behind the scenery.
It's showtime for dry climes,
And Bedlam is dreamin' of rain.

When the hills of Los Angeles are burnin',
Palm trees are candles in the murder wind.
So many lives on the breeze,
Even the stars are ill at ease.
And Los Angeles is burnin'.

This is not a test,
Of the emergency broadcast system,
When Malibu fires and radio towers,
Conspire to dance again.
And I cannot believe the media Mecca,
They're only trying to peddle reality, catch it on prime time, story at nine.
The whole world is goin' insane.

When the hills of Los Angeles are burnin',
Palm trees are candles in the murder wind.
So many lives are on the breeze,
Even the stars are ill at ease.
And Los Angeles is burnin'.

A placard reads,
The end of days,
Jacaranda bows are bending in the haze

More a question than a curse,
How could hell be any worse?

The flames are stunnin',
The cameras runnin',
So take warnin'.

When the hills of Los Angeles are burnin',
Palm trees are candles in the murder wind.
So many lives are on the breeze,
Even the stars are ill at ease.
And Los Angeles is burnin'.

There's a prophet on a mountain and he's making up dinner
With long division and writing crop
Anybody can feel like a winner
When it's served up piping hot

But the people aren't looking for a handout
They're America's working corps
Can this be what they voted for?

Let them eat war [x2]
That's how to ration the poor
Let them eat war [x2]

There's an urgent need to feed
Declining pride

From the force to the union shops
The war economy is making new jobs
But the people who benefit most
Are breaking bread with their benevolent hosts

Who never stole from the rich to give to the poor
All they ever gave to them was a war
And a foreign enemy to deplore

Let them eat war [x2]
That's how to ration the poor
Let them eat war [x2]

There's an urgent need to feed
Declining pride

We've got to kill 'em and eat 'em
Before they reach for their checks
Squeeze some blue collars
Let them bleed from their necks
Seize a few dollars from the people who sweat
Cause it's freedom or death and they won't question it
At a job site the boss is god like
Conditioned workhorses park at a stoplight
Seasoned vets with their feet in nets
A stones throw away from a rock fight
But not tonight, feed ‘em death

Here comes another ration (feed them death)
Cause they're the finest in the nation (feed them death)
When there's nothing left to feed them
When it's freedom or it's death

Let them eat war [x2]
That's how to ration the poor
Let them eat war [x2]

There's an urgent need to feed

Striking at mental apparitions
Like a drunk on a vacant street
Silently beset by the hands of time
And elegant in its fury
An aberrant crack as skeletons yield
To unrelenting gravity
While viruses prowl for helpless victims
Who succumb rapidly

(Tell me!) Tell me; where is the love?
In a careless creation
When there’s no “above”
There’s no justice
Just a cause and no cure
And a bounty of suffering
It seems we all endure
And what I’m frightened of
Is that they call it “God’s love”

Well we twist in torment and make believe
There’s a truth and we all submit
“Believe my eyes,” my brain replies
To all that they interpret

[Chorus]

I know there’s no reason for alarm
But who needs perspective when it comes to pain and harm
We can change our minds; there’s a better prize

But first you’ve got to…
[Chorus]

They call it God’s love
My pain is God’s love

Not long ago, and yet the image is so vague
I hesitate to label it a memory
There was a show of local color and I felt astray
'Cuz I had nothing to offer but insufficiency

And you know that it’s a bitch
When you learn to scratch that itch
A blatant fallibility
Sooner to some, but eventually

All gets pointed in the same direction
While the human masses and their vague conceptions
Obliterate each other with impunity
And you wonder "what’s in this for me?"

To another abyss - to no avail
The search is bound to fail
To another abyss - to no avail
So long ago I set sail
And it chills me to the bone
That I’m so far away from home
To another abyss

So what should I do now?
What should I celebrate
Given finite means and a penchant to depreciate?
How can I still avow and depend upon a state
That cares nothing for my happiness, welfare or fate?

And I know I can’t explain
The commotion in my brain
Like a terrifying reality
Deconstructed but inadequately

All gets pointed in the same direction
While the human masses and their vain conceptions
Obliterate each other with impunity
And release the weight of history

To another abyss - to no avail
The search is bound to fail
To another abyss - to no avail
So long ago I set sail
And it chills me to the bone
That I’m so far away from home
To another abyss

(So long ago, I set sail
And I’m struggling on the way
And I’m waiting for the day (to another abyss)
And I’m looking for the way back home (to another abyss)
So far away (to another abyss)
So far away (to another abyss)
(to another abyss) So far away
(to another abyss)

The quickening is an ephemeral thing
That only happens in the dark
Like catching lightning in a jar
And the pain that it brings
Is just the promise of spring
It’s madness on the wing
Oh, what does it mean…

To come alive
To come alive
To come alive
(To come alive) To come alive
To come alive
To come alive

The entering is soulful conjecturing
Oh, lost and by the wind-grieved coast
Please come back to me again
Because the way that she bleeds
is in the law that he reads
Confusing words and deeds
So what does it mean…

to come alive
to come alive
to come alive
to come alive
to come alive
to come alive

To pierce the wein of the sacred and profain
Poor science, in the service of a faith
But who will bear the mark of Cain?


to come alive
to come alive
to come alive
to come alive
to come alive
to come alive

We strike first
and we're unrehearsed
here we go again
to stage the greatest show on heaven and earth
come on, get your money's worth

don't wanna live
(can't live)
don't wanna give
(can't give)
don't wanna be
(won't be)
E-M-P-I-R-E
(can't live)
don't wanna live
(can't give)
don't wanna be
(wont be)
E-M-P-I-R-E

We're comin on fast
and we're built to last
we struggled once in 'Nam
now we're glad to finally say
those days have passed
tell me how long can it last!

don't wanna live
(can't live)
don't wanna give
(can't give)
don't wanna be
(won't be)
E-M-P-I-R-E
(cant live)
don't wanna live
(cant give)
don't wanna be
(wont be)
E-M-P-I-R-E

We just started out
you don't need to be afraid
yeah you deserve to be attained

Well, we spit and we cursed
and our bleeding hearts burst
but even ten million souls
marching in February couldn't stop the worst,
couldn't reverse

don't wanna live
don't wanna give
don't wanna be
E-M-P-I-R-E
don't wanna live
don't wanna be
E-M-P-I-R-E

i can't live
if it isn't with you

We just started out
You don't need to be afraid.
Yeah you deserve two minutes hate.
Well, we spit and we cursed and our bleeding hearts burst
Ben even ten million souls marching in February couldn't stop the worst
Couldn't reverse.

-----------------
Here we go now

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 dead, the future dim, dimension hard to find

Upon 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 practicable way to derive
An attitude of altitude authority by which to abide
Or maybe a thoephany of flaming creosote in disguise

The air is dead, the future dim, dimension undefined

Up on a mountain encased in solar rays
Beyond electric dreams of inarticulate passion plays
Coming down a mountain
Eons of a human reign
The conversation of impassive planets
Intercepted by a human being

geographic co-worker in the crumbling geometry of night
a torturing form that traces faceless theories
Of a superhuman imagination in a patch of sand
There were raptures guided with every intensity
I’m only a visitor in an atom of atoms
On a jutting red spattered synagogue of granite
Imigrants crowded literally in space

Disposure, demoral, giant
Things in heaven work forever

(live, live, live, live)

let’s go where the raptor goes
Cause I’m melting in a cosmic glow
We'll have a genuine terrestrial show
On a mountain, on a mountain
Let's scan the horizon clean
Of any trace of a human schemes
It's a terrestrial immoral gene
On a mountain, on a mountain

up on a mountain
(let’s go where the record goes)
eons of a human reign
(Cause I’m melting in a cosmic glow)
The conversation of impassive planets
(We'll have a genuine terrestrial show)
Intercepted by the human being
(On a mountain, on a mountain)

up on a mountain
(Let's scan the horizon clean)
encased in solar rays
(of any trace of a human schemes)
beyond electric dreams
(It's a terrestrial immoral gene)
on a mountain, on a mountain
(On a mountain, on a mountain)

up on a mountain
(let’s go where the record goes)
eons of a human reign
(Cause I’m melting in a cosmic glow)
The conversation of impassive planets
(We'll have a genuine terrestrial show)
on a mountain, on a mountain
(On a mountain, on a mountain)

up on a mountain
(Let's scan the horizon clean)
encased in solar rays
(of any trace of a human schemes)
beyond electric dreams
(It's a terrestrial immoral gene)
on a mountain, on a mountain
(On a mountain, on a mountain)

up on a mountain
(let’s go where the record goes)
eons of a human reign
(Cause I’m melting in a cosmic glow)
The conversation of impassive planets
(We'll have a genuine terrestrial show)
on a mountain

Drop dead, it doesn’t matter, she said
It only hurts when I laugh, she said
Sometimes it’s 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 at a thread
They unravel like the thoughts in his head
He looked out; it filled him with dread
And this is what he said

[Chorus]

With good books and looks on their side
And hearts bursting with national pride
They sang songs that 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

[Chorus]

The road is narrow, the horizon wide
And to 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 (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

Oh yeah!
A study of history reveals an unflagging appeal to mystery
You talk about abstraction at the top of the list
But you might as well get pissed, cause in me the essence does not exist, no-oh-oh
Yeah yeah!
You’re so shallow
How can your romance hope to be the veil of an ersatz human nature
That can pacify but never slept well when there’s the pretension of living a lie
Take me as I am, judge me for my crimes
I can say I’ll behave freely all the time
You can predict what I’ll say, it’s in my DNA
But soon I’ll be a catalogue number anyway
So say a little prayer
Convince yourself that someone cares
All I am is what you see
There is nothing more than the surface of me [x2], you know
Oh yeah!
Apologies to Skinner, but I do believe that I feel like I’m a winner
Having just discovered a long solved modal secret, of how I always feel
So goddamn downtrodden and desperate
[chorus x2]
What you see is the surface of me