the systems of life hum accordingly every day, every year, every century but, everywhere humans go things get worse can't you tell through the smoke in the dirt...

Pilgrim, those are dry and bitter tears and lonely Eyes that look way beyond your years Pilgrim, did you drink the mercury? Your lips turned blue and you're str...

rescue me when I get too deep, talk to me there's nothing to tell, Everyone, is a hydocrite, look to me, I'll save your soul Now somebody out there must be read...

if i'm a monster, i am a willing one, this roller coaster ride is an enticing one, on the tip of a continuum flowing wavelike through disorder carry me like a v...

You will all say that I am surely crazy Only an unrepentant pessimist whose thoughts should be detained But facts are sterile not vulgar nor sublime And they're...

Lock around the country, an abundance you'll find of mediocre minds Sift through the fodder as sane justice declines because of mediocre minds Shrouded under co...

when you're sitting alone, frown and groan over your bad day when you're laughing with peers forget your years, then be on your way but don't forget, all the wh...

take those potatoes out of your ear listen to the warnings verify all your fears there's a world outside that's ready to blow and we're all to blame when it fin...

i've got nothing to say, i've got nothing to do, all om my neruons are functioning smoothly yet still i'm a cyborg just like you, i am one big myoma that thinks...

If you're discontent to know you world's a pile of shit, Listen to a riddle that'll tickle every bit of it, HA HA HA! Ape shall not murder - Ape wasn't so sur...

i know a man who doesnt have many friends i know a place he lives where trouble never ends i know its hard for him to read 'tween the lines and his days are get...

do you know the cost of future misery? have you lost your sense of sustainability? we are just a step away from realizing what we strive to be but we've got to ...

Yeah can you hear the call in our rambling land susurrations, That can expand beyond all hope of light and plunge us into unrelenting night A pall on truth and...

when everybody dies around you, from someone else's gun, it really makes you stop and think about the years to come something good had to happen to the human ra...

Blood is a river, Flowing darkly amidst the tangled roots of the tall shining city Crazy flowing mantide migrations Engorge the big ventricle of heartbroken ame...

No Control by Bad Religion Culture was the seed of proliferation but it has gotten melded into an inharmonic whole Consciousness has plagued us and we cann...

A sullen figure walks along a dusty road his life was holy and he couldn't bear the load he left his people and a simple life behind he raised his torso and he ...

History doesn't make something right Consensus is not a fact-based exercise You're tied and bound to this selfindulgent enterprise We call America A brush with ...

hey mister, don't point at me you shout rhetoric nonsense like a Pavlovian model responding to his questions hey teacher, arrogance is bliss you spend your tim...

Presidential election every four years But neither man we can see or hear Urgent cries for society But he can't see the blood on me Do you see? Do you see too m...

Transfixated on the big blue screen its your window to the outside a melancholy dream a medium upon which you build reality this episodic currency that everybod...

It is an SOS sent out telepathically, Signs of our distress don't allow complacency, We need restoration now of our integrity And a drastic bold reminder of our...

Don't wanna have to take your shit anymore i finally concluded that life is way to short the ticking of the hourglass, the tiny grains of sand they beckon me li...

Sleeping on a time bomb, staring into space There's an ocean of unpleasantries we are not prepared to face Sitting on the fence post to watch the storm roll in ...

The final page is written in the books of history, As man unleashed his deadly bombs and sent troops overseas To fight a war which can't be won and kills the hu...

(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) It's superficial progress, they call it liberation With opiates of silicon, Big Brother schemes to rule the nation We're one nat...

We're widespread and well fed, The earth's rotating fate is in our head, oh yeah We're dominant and prominent, And our diety's omnipotent, oh yeah And immortali...

So here we are again to experience the bitter, scalding end And we're the only ones who can perceive it But others sing of beauty and the story that's unfolded ...

I show pity on the human race, On the ignorant plenty who devote their lives To an icon that they've never known I show pity on eons past, When early man starte...

there's a boy in crimson rags with a grimace and a spoon, and a little sullen girl face?up staring at the moon and there's no one around to hear their lonesome...

Economy, technology, doesn't really work Can't try running for government, I'm not a jerk! I've tried to see these faces all around the way You're lucky if they...

nothing more, nothing less, an icon on the wall, decoration and duress, that which many strive to be, it's the marble statue standing over me, and nobody has th...

Oh can't you feel the nostalgia son I wonder about ya Modernistocrat Horatio Alger Clever never hesitating in the baiting ever waiting For the canticle of manac...

And progress is not intelligently planned; It's the facade of our heritage, the odor of our land They speak of Progress, in red, white and blue It's the structu...

Have you been to the desert? Have you walked with the dead? There's a hundred thousand children being killed for their bread And the figures don't lie they spea...

Offer me eternity, and I'll trade a cup of coffee and a time, Looking for a handout on behalf of those who have so little time, But who wants to live on just 7...

From the time she could crawl She was all draped in macrame' She was preen and redeemed In a church that tried to show the way She was taught to never ask for m...

fa fa fafa fa fa fafa raise your voice! don't be played like someone else's board game don't be classed out like some desperate redoubt don't be misled you've ...

can't you feel it can't you see it the promise of prosperity it's overwhelming you and me it afflicts us like a disease ubiquitous compelling too we cling to yo...

Oratory of hope and glory a whisper and a rhyme An effigy, a soldier out of time Citizen and patriot you can't be far behind The funeral is weighting heavy on y...

There's a watch in my pocket and its hands are broken The face is blank but the gears are turning Confusion is a fundamental state of mind It doesn't really mat...

One - two - three - four - five - six - seven - eight! Days go marching by There and back I never wait for a confident reply Truth is stark and leaves its mark ...

they're all just suicides, in a social way i'll never need that dormant time, i'll tell you why cause i think about it all the time, i think about ????? i am th...

Here inside this quiet room there's direction Outside in the sultry noon time reflection A million people scurry They're looking for advice None willing to lend...

Innocents burned, alive at the stake Tortured and dumped In nameless graves Centuries wane Authority died Scattering seeds of ancient lies Sinister rouge Comin...

(words and music by Mr brett) Come let us make bricks and burn them hard We'll build a city with a tower for the world and climb so we can reach anything at all...

Don't try to say that I threaten your freedom We've done without for 20 years, so think if we really need 'em We're all just slaves for the troop commanders (x3...

so, you're feeling unimportant, cuz you've got nothing to say, and your life is just a ramble, no one understands you anyway well, i've got a piece of news, son...

Right now Well it's finally time to face my fears Gunna get the hell out of here And create a fresher atmosphere But the consequences clear There's a furnace s...

Father, can you hear me? How have I let you down? I curse the day that I was born, And all the sorrow in the world Let me take you to the herding ground, Where...

We all know politicians only go Just half way there just half way there The innocence of youth needs protection not abuse But no one seems to care Yet no one s...

Shed a tear for the criminal, give him something to believe Light a fire for the miserable, give the darkness some meaning Closed wounds harbor pestilence, when...

Stealth This weekend I will spend over 800 million dollars on drugs First I will continue pushing free narcotics for all low income people not now covered and s...

(Brett Gurewitz) A febrile shocking violent smack and the children are hoping for a heart attack tonight the windows are watching, the streets all conspire and ...

there's an old man on a city bus holding a candy cane and it is'nt even christmas he see's a note in the obituary that his last friend has died there's an infla...

Dedication is the price you pay: the initiated are Coddled and caged Before you walk, as soon as you crawl Hope is pointless 'cuz you're stuck in the trawl Fuc...

Did you ever see the concrete stares of everyday? The lunatic, the hypocrite, are all lost in the fray Can't you see their lives are just like yours? An unturne...

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

television, television, television, television oh yeah! i want to bask in your golden light, submerge in electric waves, i need my connection to the world outsi...

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 201...

long ago in a dusty village full of hunger, pain and strife a man came forth with a vision of truth and the way to a better life he was convinced he had the ans...

K-k-k-killer K-k-k-killer You have got your stranglers and prowlers in soft shoes Furniture makers, and carpenters too Bombers and commandos, all with some los...

Nothing comes easier than madness in the world today Mass paranoia is a mode not a melody Yeah I'd like to watch all thousand cable channels but there's nothing...

hey did you find the pieces your mentor left behind? and did you care, did you trade his genius for your dispair? did you walk the line? did you see the mongrel...

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 l...

If I could only get the tools, the stimuli and Molecules, frozen moments in time I could be the archetype, a credit to the Genotype, re-program your mind But t...

the framework of the world is black and white the infrastructure builders flex their might turning true emotion into digital expression one by one we all fall ...

(Greg Graffin) Every time you shake someone's hand and it feels like your best friend Could it be that it's only superficiality? Without regard to well-being, w...

Our Apocalypse 1981 Teenage vagrants lookin? for some fun A renewed promise of prosperity A vulgar platform for the world to see We were The hippy killers Buste...

Let's gather round the carcass of the old deflated beast, we have seen it through the accolades and rested in it's lea, syntactic is our elegance, incisive our ...

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...

you want prosperity for yourself but not for me somehow you just can't see we're in this collectively you think that freedom is a drastic severence from your pa...

Neighbours, nobody loves you like we do Neighbors, your government has triumphed in finally making you a public fit for the 21st century Never before has a gove...

desolate and without purpose radiating from so many septic sources forming the fabric of a wayward people disappearing as the vestiges of our past scratched li...

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...

Bad Religion - The Unknown Every day we profit so, Leaning towards the great unknown, asking how it pertains to tomorrow And for places we've not been, Compare...

Neighbors, no one loves you like he loves you, And no one cares like he cares Neighbors, let us join today in the holy love of God and money, Because neighbors,...

since the start of the 17th century there's been the scent of unseasoned wood burning in the air and the conquest of nature meant nothing at all while we betray...

Youve got to quit your little charade And join the freak parade Now that your road has been paved From conception to your grave There are enormous things to do ...

the brown and orange sky holds its breath as the sun retreats to the distant horizon, and our hearts palpitate anxiously as we soon will lay supine, and wait fo...

A refreshing plunge a drink of platable water a deep inspiration on a warm summer day a safe stroll in the middle of the road community a neighbor who in times ...

Every day we profit so leaning toward the great unknown asking how it pertains to tomorrow aim for places we've not been trample paths that go between yesterday...

a refreshing plunge a drink of platable water a deep inspiration on a warm summer day a safe stroll in a middle of the road community a neighbour who in times o...

there's a light on in the hallway so i can't understand why you hide underneath the covers there's a baby in your wom so don't be scared tonight raggedy ann is ...

irreducible is the word for today, plastic compounds and nuclear waste, what the hell is the matter with the pople on this planet? have we all gone insane? the ...

Catch a shooting star and put it in your pocket And your pants will start on fire One bird in the hand, or two birds in the bush Neither do you any good, when y...

What will prove to be our big mistake? Short-sighted arrogance all for what sake? Our families to ashes, our ambitions to dust Our progeny in silence thinking "...

the velveteen and oaken soothed the lonely child the parents watched the escort take him while they stood outside the priest was kind and gentle as he positione...

Shut off the TV and peel off those sunday gloves, And I'll stain the clean that you've been counting, Old Mr Fletcher passed by here today, After 40 years of to...

i was born on planet earth the rotating ball whre man comes first it's been around for a long time but now its time to watch it die i saw a man on my big blue s...

Early man walked away as modern man took control Their minds werent all the same, to conquer was his big goal, So he built his great empire and slaughtered his ...

So you waste another day getting older and gray in the head, And you're hearing lots of stories 'bout the happy times you have ahead There are other folks in po...

(Greg Graffin) There's a purpose, There's a goal There's a virtuous, and immoral There's a reason for all of this And I don't know what it is I am one, and plur...

I've seen a lot of things in five years I struggle just to hold back the tears But everyfuckingwhere I go, I see the pathos that I know Will spell the terminati...

Wasted children, fixed blank eyes, blood and sweat, we socialize Broken homes from which they come, beer-stained dad, compliant mom Fear and love, much despised...

It's cold again, it looks like rain A procession of humanity, strikingly simian Saunters by, I can't explain Why it's troubling to see them so Oh better than w...

Won't somebody please come up with something, Cause Jesus just don't seem to be impartially working And all of the rest are really down in the ratings, While ev...

US government drew up plans Too much money, got the cash Break out ? staff ? is a fuckin' mess They think they know it all They're gonna die in the fireball ? o...

Run, but don't be scared to look behind Stop, don't wait too long, make up your mind The end is almost here, The sky, the air, so nice and clear, The sound of y...

Hey you Is there something worth aspiring to And can it be found in a record store Well it's not there anymore Just think of all the things we did We were diffe...