BAD RELIGION - The Surface Of Me
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!
Youre so shallow
How can your romance hope to be the veil of an ersatz human nature
That can pacify but never slept well when theres the pretension of living a lie
Take me as I am, judge me for my crimes
I can say Ill beha
You can predict what Ill say, its in my DNA
But soon Ill 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 Im a winner
Having just discovered a long solved modal secret, of how I always feel
So goddamn downtrodden and desperate
Take me as I am, judge me for my crimes
I can say Ill behave freely all the time
You can predict what Ill say, its in my DNA
But soon Ill 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 [x6]
What you see is the surface of me
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BAD RELIGION - Sometimes It Feels Like... *?!%+!*
<br />There's a specter in the corner of an illustrated page<br />And a lonesome muted stripling with a rapt remedial gaze.<br />The poverty of his language and the wealth of his emotion<br />Bring him endless murky musings and unexpecte... BAD RELIGION - Sorrow
<br />Father can you hear me?<br />How have I let you down?<br />I curse the day that I was born<br />and all the sorrow in this world<br /><br />Let me take you to the herding ground <br />where all good men are trampled down<br />Just ... BAD RELIGION - Sowing The Seeds Of Utopia
<br />We all know politicians only go<br />Just half-way there<br />Just half-way there<br />The innocence of youth needs protection not abuse<br />But no one seems to care<br />Yet no one seems to care<br />And you sit there adn watch t... BAD RELIGION - Spirit Shrine
<br />shed a tear for the criminal, give him something to believe<br />light a fire for the miserable, give the darkness some meaning<br />closed wounds harbor pestilence, when you lick them from within<br />charity has a redolence chast... BAD RELIGION - Strange Denial
<br />A mutinous enemy carved a nascent country<br />Sweat, blood, and valor<br />Forms the grit of our history<br />Beqeathed to everyone:<br />Chance and free expression<br />Substance was restrained<br />And the spirit was broken<br /... BAD RELIGION - Stranger Than Fiction
<br />a febrile shocking violent smack<br />the children are hoping for a heart attack,<br />tonight the windows are watching,<br />the streets all conspire,<br />and the lamppost can't stop crying,<br />if I could fly high above the wor... BAD RELIGION - Struck A Nerve
<br />there's an old man on a city bus<br />holding a candy cane<br />and it is'nt even christmas<br />he see's a note in the obituary<br />that his last friend has died<br />there's an inflant clinging<br />to his overweight mother in t... BAD RELIGION - Suffer
<br />Did you ever see the concrete stares of everyday?<br />The lunatic, the hypocrite, are all lost in the fray.<br />Can't you see their lives are just like yours?<br />An unturned stone, an undiscovered<br />Door leading to the gift ... BAD RELIGION - Supersonic
<br />Well am I making haste or could it be haste is making me <br />What's time but a thing to kill or keep or buy or lose or live in <br />I gotta go faster <br />Keep up the pace <br />Just to stay in the human race <br /><br />I coul... BAD RELIGION - Television
<br />television, television, television, television<br /><br />oh yeah! I want to bask in your golden light,<br />submerge in electric waves,<br />I need my connection to the world outside<br /><br />the world outside is buzzing like an... BAD RELIGION - Ten In 2010
<br />parched, cracked mouths, empty swollen guts<br />sun-baked pavement encroaches on us<br />haves and have-nots together at last<br />brutally engaged in mortal combat<br />10 in 2010<br /><br />what kind of God orchestrates such a t... BAD RELIGION - The Answer
<br />Long ago in a dusty village<br />full of hunger, pain and strife<br />a man came forth with a vision of truth<br />and the way to a better life<br />he was convinced he had the answer<br />and he complelled people to follow along<b... BAD RELIGION - The Biggest Killer In American History
<br />You have got your stranglers and prowlers in soft shoes. Furniture makers,<br />carpenters too<br />Bombers and commandos, all with some lost cause<br />Disgruntled workers, immersed in "verits"<br />But stealthily, in the land of ... BAD RELIGION - The Defense
<br />Nothing comes easier than madness in the world today <br />Mass paranoia is a mode not a melody <br />Yeah I'd like to watch all thousand cable channels but there's nothing on <br />And my high speed connection's monitored daily by... BAD RELIGION - The Empire Strikes First
<br />We strike first <br />And we're unrehearsed <br />Here we go again <br />To stage the greatest show on heaven and earth <br />Come on, get your money's worth <br /><br />Don't wanna live <br />(can't live) <br />Don't wanna give <b... BAD RELIGION - The Gray Race
<br />the framework of the world<br />is black and white<br />the infrastructure builders<br />flex their might<br /><br />turning true emotion<br />into digital expression<br />one by one we all fall down<br /><br />the gray race shrive... BAD RELIGION - The Handshake
<br />every time you shake someone's hand and it feels like your best friend,<br />could it be that it's only superficiality?,<br />without regard to well-being, without an inkling of compromise,<br />handshakes are nothing but a subtle ... BAD RELIGION - The Hippy Killers
<br />Our Apocalypse 1981<br />Teenage vagrants lookin for some fun<br />A renewed promise of prosperity<br />A vulgar platform for the world to see<br />We were<br />The hippy killers<br />Busted refuse from broken homes<br />Pocked fle... BAD RELIGION - The Hopeless Housewife
<br />oh me oh my<br />get out of your 1950's fantasy,<br />your face shines with misery<br />transparently<br />spew out that sobering<br />half-assed victim rhetoric<br />make 'em all squirm<br />while they chew on it<br />it's a secre... BAD RELIGION - The Lie
<br />How do you know what you can be <br />if you can't see where you are going <br />What breaks the silence Misery <br />Can make you see where you belong <br />It's a dangerous stage but the show must go on <br /><br />Why do you lie... BAD RELIGION - The Positive Aspects Of Negative Thinking
<br />let's gather 'round the carcass of the old deflated beast, we have<br />seen it through the accolades and rested in its lea, syntactic is our<br />elegance, incisive our disease, the swath endogenous of ourselves will<br />be our q... BAD RELIGION - The Quickening
<br />The quickening is an ephemeral thing <br />That only happens in the dark <br />Like catching lightning in a jar <br />And the pain that it brings <br />Is just the promise of spring <br />Its madness on the way <br />Oh, what does ... BAD RELIGION - The Same Person
<br />You want prosperity<br />For yourself, but not for me<br />Somehow you just can't see<br />We're in this collectively<br />You think that freedom is<br />A drastic severance<br />From your past relations<br />Just a quest for new b... BAD RELIGION - The State Of The End Of The Millenium Adress
<br />Neighbours, nobody loves you like we do.<br />Neighbors, your government has triumphed in finally making you a public fit<br />for the 21st century.<br />Never before has a governing body shown so much concern for the economic<br /... BAD RELIGION - The Streets Of America
<br />desolate and without purpose<br />radiating from so many septic sources<br />forming the fabric of a wayward people<br />disappearing as the vestiges of our past<br /><br />scratched like tartan into virgin soil<br />a substrate fo... BAD RELIGION - The Surface Of Me
<br />Oh yeah! <br />A study of history reveals an unflagging appeal to mystery <br />You talk about abstraction at the top of the list <br />But you might as well get pissed, cause in me the essence does not exist, no-oh-oh <br />Yeah y... BAD RELIGION - The Voracious March Of Godliness
<br />Since the start of the 17th century<br />There's been the scent of unseasoned wood burning in the air<br />And the conquest of nature meant nothing at all<br />While we betray exception we take all that is there<br />Motives are tr... BAD RELIGION - The World Won't Stop Without You
<br />You've got to quit your little charade and join the freak parade<br />Now that your road has been paved from conception to your grave.<br />Enormous things to do, others' practices to eschew,<br />To be better than you is impossibl... BAD RELIGION - Them And Us
<br />despite that he saw blatant similarity<br />he struggled to find a distinctive moiety<br />all he found was vulgar superficiality<br />but he focused it to sharpness<br />and shared it with the others<br />it signified his anger an... BAD RELIGION - There Will Be A Way
<br />shut your eyes,<br />see the future's distant shore<br />march ahead<br />more enlightened than before<br />and there's sure to be bumps<br />and distractions<br />but I know we'll get through<br />there will be me, there will be y... BAD RELIGION - Tiny Voices
<br />the brown and orange sky holds its breath<br />as the sun retreats to the distant horizon,<br />and our hearts palpitate anxiously as we soon will lay supine,<br />and wait for sleep to overcome us<br /><br />and from somewhere in ... BAD RELIGION - To Another Abyss
<br />Not long ago, and yet the image is so vague <br />I hesitate to label it a memory <br />There was a show of local color and I felt astray<br />Cause I had nothing to offer but insufficiency <br /><br />And you know that its such a ... BAD RELIGION - Tomorrow
<br />Every day we profit so<br />leaning toward the great unknown<br />asking how it pertains to tomorrow<br />aim for places we've not been<br />trample paths that go between<br />yesterdays foundations and tomorrow<br />it's the way t... BAD RELIGION - Too Much To Ask
<br />A refreshing plunge<br />a drink of platable water<br />a deep inspiration on a warm summer day<br />a safe stroll in the middle of the road community<br />a neighbor who in times of need will not turn away<br />I ain't no politici... BAD RELIGION - Turn On The Light
<br />i had a friend who kept a candle in his pocket,<br />he used to touch it when the wind was blowing high,<br />i guess it mad him feel like he could<br />buck the system and when it flickered out we laid him down to die,<br />turn o... BAD RELIGION - Two Babies In The Dark
<br />There'a light on in the hallway<br />so I can't understand<br />why you hide underneath the covers<br />there's a baby in your womb<br />so don't be scared tonight<br />because Raggedy ann is in the closet picking posies<br />two b... BAD RELIGION - Unacceptable
<br />irreducible is the word for today, plastic compounds and nuclear<br />waste, what the hell is the matter with the pople on this planet? have<br />we all gone insane? the stigma of industrial progress killing us over<br />and over a... BAD RELIGION - Victims Of The Revolution
<br />What will prove to be our big mistake?<br />Short-sighted arrogance all for what sake?<br />Our families to ashes, our ambitions to dust<br />Our progeny in silence thinking "what about us?"<br />But don't forget<br />The dance of ... BAD RELIGION - Victory
<br />the velveteen and oaken soothed the lonely child<br />the parents watched the escort take him while they stood outside<br />the priest was kind and gentle as he positioned his head<br />the pain was like brimstone, but the kid hard... BAD RELIGION - Voice Of God Is Government
<br />Neighbors, no one loves you like he loves you,<br />And no one cares like he cares.<br />Neighbors, let us join today in the holy love of God and money,<br />Because neighbors, no one loves you like He loves you.<br />And what bett... BAD RELIGION - Walk Away
<br />shut off the t.v. and peel off those sunday gloves, and i'll stain the<br />clean that you've been counting, old mr. fletcher passed by here<br />today, after 40 years of toil he just stood up and walked away,<br />fantastic the pa... BAD RELIGION - Watch It Die
<br />I was born on planet earth<br />the rotating ball where man comes first<br />it's been around for a long, long time<br />but now it's time to watch it die<br /><br />I saw a man on my big blue screen<br />he ruled the world economy... BAD RELIGION - We're Only Gonna Die From Our Own Arrogance
<br />Early man walked away as modern man took control.<br />Their minds weren't all the same, to conquer was his big goal,<br />So he built his great empire and slaughtered his own kind,<br />Then he died a confused man, killed himself ... BAD RELIGION - What Can You Do?
<br />So you waste another day getting older and gray in the head,<br />And you're hearing lots of stories 'bout the happy times you have ahead.<br />There are other folks in power so you kick back and get farther behind,<br />And althou... BAD RELIGION - What It Is
<br />there's a purpose, there's a goal,<br />there's a virtuos, and immoral,<br />there's a reason for all of this,<br />and I don't know what it is<br /><br />I am one, and plural too,<br />I accept them but they exclude,<br />I could ... BAD RELIGION - When?
<br />I've seen a lot of things in five years.<br />I struggle just to hold back the tears.<br />But everyfuckingwhere I go,<br />I see the pathos that I know<br />Will spell the termination of us all.<br />Someone's got to tell me, do y... BAD RELIGION - Whisper In Time
<br />all those stories that my dad told me,<br />they are just a whisper in time<br />all those things that never came to be,<br />they are just a whisper in time<br /><br />a whisper in time, a whisper in time<br />things that I can't ... BAD RELIGION - White Trash (2nd Generation)
<br />Wasted children, fixed blank eyes, blood and sweat, we socialize<br />Broken homes from which they come, beer-stained dad, compliant Mom.<br />Fear and love, much despised, replaced by comfortable lies.<br />Teenage classic, more c... BAD RELIGION - World War III
<br />US government drew up plans<br />Too much money, got the cash<br />Break out ? staff<br />? is a fuckin' mess<br />They think they know it all.<br />They're gonna die in the fireball.<br />? overrule<br />? play the fool<br />All d... BAD RELIGION - Yesterday
<br />Run, but don't be scared to look behind.<br />Stop, don't wait too long, make up your mind.<br />The end is almost here,<br />The sky, the air, so nice and clear,<br />The sound of your decay,<br />And the ringing in the air is the...