I heard them say that the meek shall reign on earth, Phantasmal myriads of sane bucolic birth I've seen the rapture in a starving baby's eyes, Inchoate beatitud...

Parched, cracked mouths, empty swollen guts Sun baked pavement encroaches on us Haves and have nots together at last Brutally engaged in mortal combat 10 in 20...

you were the one, you were my everything never apart, no one in-between then one day, when you went your own way you felt justified, and I was mortified but tod...

I'm getting closer to the meaning of life sick of these forces the're bittering my mind you never kick back you never realized what's in my swollen eyes you go...

I know I'm part of something greater than myself Don't know the meaning of it but I hope that matters less I don't know anything when I'm factored out of scale ...

I'm going for a walk Not the after dinner kind I'm gonna use my hands And I'm gonna use my mind And who the hell are you to tell me what to do? You can't even t...

Three thousand miles of wilderness overcome by the flow, A lonely restitution of pavement, pomp and show, I seek a thousand answers, I find but one or two, I ma...

England seemed like such a beautiful place from afar Until one day I went and saw how miserabely how things really are All Fantastic Images they only are appare...

all good soldiers crack like boulders The sun climbs up to a razon, violins, new boots, and numbers on a chain All good soldiers all good soldiers fall in line ...

i refuse to abuse what is kind to the muse, but it's there and it's happening to me along the way as we go through the snow, we cannot forget our foes, but the ...

i hate my family, hate my school, speed limits and the golden rule hate people who aren't what they seem, more than anything else, american dream american dream...

i don't need to be a global citizen because i'm blessed by nationality i'm member of a growing populace we enforce our popularity there are things that seem to ...

everybody is talking about the girl who went and killed the delivery man, but she looks so kind and gentle, it just doesn't stand to reason, i saw her right the...

everybody is talking about the girl who went and killed the delivery man, but she looks so kind and gentle, it just doesn't stand to reason, i saw her right the...

Everybody's talking about the girl who went and killed the delivery man, But she looks so kind and gentle, it just doesn't stand to reason, I saw her right ther...

It's a love song to the self, a story recapped every day, It's a world of bogus feelings and a world of slow decay, It's a world of laughter hidden by this worl...

what you do is what you are and wishing upon distant stars won't improve the hole you're in and won't absolve your deepest sin but action is no gift from some ...

Everybody wants to dance in a playpen But nobody wants to play in my garden I see the hippies on an angry line Guess they don't get my meaning I'm enchanted by ...

As the sun comes creeping up the mountain And the wind blows over from the sea Hey, we're brought up into the land like tiny particles of Sand Unsure of who we'...

Porcelain and alabaster, decaying ever faster, Unaware of imminent disaster open up your eyes As you ruminate the hopeless sands of time, Did you wander out yo...

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...

(Brett Gurewitz) I'm sorry about the sun How could I know? That you'd get burned? And I'm Sorry about the moon How could I know you'd disapprove? I'll never mak...

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 lunat...

This isn't another new fashion, or a new wave plastic trend Everybody's searching for something but in the meantime let's all just pretend I've got this feeling...

I can recall the warm youth of a summer day, yeah: The sweetest lemonade, the darkest game arcade, And Billy had a yearning in the corner of his mind It moved h...

a crack developed and a name blew in billy gnosis, weak and thin he moved to california to start a new life because back in his hometown he just killed his wife...

flying through a dark prismatic tunnel on a carousel, the earth is turning and you know it very well, your mind is reeling lika ten helicopters wheeling and you...

With nothing better to do No one to come home to I woefully conclude To take it out on you I?m bored to the extreme This world of foolish dreams Disillusion I a...

I'm incurable but durable it's easy to see Lack of restraint is a complaint of those around me I know that others postpone Gratification well I lack that affect...

Blacktop pavement cover me Like a chemical reaction or a steam roller Spreading randomly There's a distan buzz and a low frequency It tickles my ear, it rumbles...

Well the sheaves have all been brought, but the fields have washed away, And the palaces now stand where the coffins all were laid, And the times we see ahead, ...

you took a time bomb, and a case of crackers, and you made a maelstrom of organic debris, then you took a work bench, and a rusty anvil, and you polished them f...

So you say you gotta know why the world goes 'round And you can't find the truth in the things you've found And you're scared shitless 'cuz evil abounds Come an...

Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh Ooh, up every evenin' 'bout eight or nine I give my attention to a very good friend ...

death and the shadow that it casts on life scares me little or none people tell me of a divine right and the happy chosen one i'm a freak 'cause my morals clash...

Here's a story of an honest man losing religion, Climbing the pulpit steps before an eager congregation, The while praying came a wicked inspiration, Brothers, ...

Delirium of Disorder (x2) Life is the sieve through which my anarchy strains, Resolving itself into works Chaos is the score upon which reality is written, The ...

Hey do what you want, but don't do it around me Idleness and dissipation breed apathy I sit on my ass all goddamn day, A misanthropic anthropoid with nothing to...

Hey Do What You Want But Don't Do It Around Me Idleness and dissipation breed apathy I sit on my ass all god damned day oh misanthropic anthropoid with nothing ...

A grizzly scene on my electron beam Told a story about human rights So all of King's horses and all of King's men Had a riot for two days and nights Well, the c...

We don't need any more mountains Because the trail builders Failed to give us passage there So we can't reach the sky We don't need any more failure There is hu...

a grizzly scene on my electron beam told a story about human rights so all of Kings horses and all of Kings men had a riot for two days and nights Well, the cit...

we don't need any more mountains Because the trail builders failed to give us passage there so we can't reach the sky We don't need any more failure There is hu...

See my body, it's nothing to get hung about I'm nobody except genetic runaround Spiritual era's gone, it ain't comin' back Bad religion, a cabal, that is all th...

I had a dreamof unity Where we could walk side by side But today I see that it's only me Just trying to get by Sometimes we strideundetoured To walk as one Tow...

the smell of virgin pages wafted through the swinging doors and the croaking speech he'd heard from countries counselors before they said "we all care for you, ...

weak and sick, dying in the sand, no such thing as a promised land don't lose faith in a better life reincarnation, poor excuse you're dying you assholes, your...

Everywhere you looked there was confusion, violence, drama and drugs So many righteous revolutionaries spouting utopian love Everyone shrouded in purple haze Th...

Random blobs of power expressed as that which we all disregard, Ordered states of nature on a scale which no one things about, Don't speak to me of anarchy or ...

A new age of reason Bring treason to trick the mind What good is searchin' If nothin's there to find We are at this place Of no return my brothers Only to disc...

Heard a sermon from a creaky pulpit with no one in the nave, I paid a visit to the synagogue and I left there feeling blame, No one could tell me what to do, T...

Come and see the brilliant light don't let your emotions mask your sight it's the manifestation of a deeper fight that affects me and you my optimism was runnin...

In the garden where he was cast out by the lord Flames an Omni-directional sword For he as ever failed to gather up the fruit And thus was banished with his loo...

Lie lie lie Lie lie lie Lie lie lie Lie lie lie Lie lie lie Lie lie lie The full moon is rising over dark water And the fools below are picking up sticks And t...

A loose cannon on your shoulder You've got a strawberry on your hips And you've got some phantasmical images And you've got, you've got your rich hips Cos, you'...

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 answers to Jones It's deadly an...

i'm tired of this city, all this toil and strife trying to cross the boulevard, playing frogger with my life frogger with my life i'm tired of this city, all th...

Recorded live May 8, 1996 at The Warfield Theater in San Francisco, California there's people out there that say I'm no good, 'cause I don't believe the things...

Like a rock, like a planet Like a fucking atom bom I'll remain unperturbed by the joy and the madness that I encounter everywhere I turn, I've seen it all befor...

Lacerate eviscerate and perforate and mutilate We all fall down, all fall down Deprecate repudiate ameliorate adjudicate The wisdom found, wisdom found Clip th...

lascivious, it's all that i can think of as i drag my feet, searching lika a diogenes, dangerous, the adjectives of the decasde and of your alluring intricacies...

God rest ye jerry mentlemen, Let nothing you dismay Remember Christ our savior was born on Christmas day, Who saved us all from Satan's hand when we had gone as...

and did those feet in ancient times trod on america's pastuers of green? and did that anthropocentric god wane with their thoughts and beliefs all unseen? i don...

Striking at mental apparitions Like a drunk on a vacant street Silently beset by the hands of time Indelicate in it's fury An aberrant crack as skeletons yield ...

And did those feet in ancient times Trod on America's pastures of green? And did that anthropocentric god Wane with their thoughts and beliefs all unseen? I do...

Back in '83 a man came to men and he told me "Son, our way of life is done" But I was only young With an eye to the fields speculators and yields rotten to the...

Like a morning crow and his unwelcome song Or a worn out broken record that keeps skipping along Mountains of instructions you keep piling on me Resound like a ...

As I walk beneath the valley I shall fear no evil for thanks to King George and his rainbow cabinet today murder is legal God I know that it's wrong to kill my ...

Stranded In a life in which your struggle for acceptance Is a never-ending chore, Upbraided For your actions past and present and rewarded for the ideas Of the ...

Amid the heat and the wrack Hot boots invested and cracked Poor candidates jacked into gray light An ultra-violent call Summoning both poet and thrall Sweet ca...

Now get up and give in I'll crack your knuckles again Supplicate and survive this transubstantiation And get so mean - I want to know what it means! (Did you l...

I can see my teenage father standing straight on a desolate corner, in the shadow of tentacled towers by the red light of America, I imagine how his mother felt...

Tell me can the hateful chain be broken? Production and consumption define our hollow lives Avarice has led us 'cross the ocean, Toward a land that's better, mu...

Hey, everybody's looking but they never can see, All the angst, corruption and the dishonesty Think about the times and places you've never known, You're a man-...

I love my computer, you make me feel alright Every waking hour and every lonely night I love my computer for all you give to me Predictable errors and no identi...

Going through a world of sad debris, Regard quixoitic reveries of ownership: The blossoming disease of man called tenure and accretion, The ancient western trea...

Hey, brother Christian with your high and mighty errand Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear a word you're saying Hey, sister bleeding heart with all of you...

I can see the shadows on the wall drifting as the leaves start to fall unfazed by rugosity, the objects yield to gravity and depict the destiny of us all no on...

In the city, the day is too hot And you're hoping for relief, 'cuz your head is filled with pain, But you get no relief, 'cuz the night is the same In the night...

(Brett Gurewitz) Mother, Father, Look at your little monster I'm a hero I'm a zero I'm the butt of the worst joke in history I'm a lock without a key a city wit...

(Greg Graffin) Individuals run for cover, for the multitudes of thoughtless clones have reached a critical mass Individuals hide in fear, under cover, sheltered...

now here i go, hope i don't break down, i won't take anything, i don't need anything, don't want to exist, i can't persist, please stop before i do it again, ju...

(Greg Graffin) Automatrons with business suite clinging black boxes, sequestering the blueprints of daily life Contented, free of care, they rejoice in morning ...

in the city, the day is too hot and you're hoping for relief, cuz your head is filled with pain, but you get no relief, cuz the night is the same in the night, ...

The wheat waving next to you is healthy and so fine, As is dinner with your loved ones every day But your routine is changeless through the decades of your life...

It's a long way to the promise land So you'd better well know your way Where's a ship on the ocean And an albatross who is trying to lead you astray Leaders, po...

You never know that feeling till you try That healing feeling can turn you all about And you can see the second wave of life That losers triangle sets you do...

Recorded October 14, 1996 at Polypterus Studio in Ithaca, New York hoarding turns allure to discontent altruism's a grind all its own morning makes you know yo...

it's a long way to the promise land so you'd better well know your way where's a ship on the ocean and an albatross who is trying to lead you astray leaders, po...

Ladies and gentlements (hand clapings)of the comunity of angles I'd like to share a little something we've done Joy to the world The Lord is come Let Earth rec...

everywhere I look I see exclusive huddled uninviting shelter is privilege of the same and competent kerosene keeps me warm I'm alone to watch it burn kerosene e...

It's a matter of prescience But not the science fiction kind It's all about ignorance And greed and miracles For the blind The media parading, Disjointed politi...

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 camera's on them, they're ...

In this world today there ain't nobody to thank, Just blame it on the kids and toss 'em into the tank And if they yell for justice we'll hide them from the ligh...

There?s the image of a man Who commands a high opinion But he hides his hatred with a sheepish grin And beside him flanking closely Are the boisterous hollow m...

there are desperate times upon us, there are codes of white and black, political resentment and people start to crack, there's hate and opposition, there's fumb...

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...

suddenly, it came to me a potent dosage of reality i saw myself in the broad daylight and it made me think about life im not the kinda guy who nods his head wit...

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 with...

little girl's arms open wide, two ways to go but you can't decide follows all rules, has no say ends up in somebody elses play close your eyes cuz you just dont...