Bad Religion

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 beatitude, the Lord of the Flies. So what does it mean when your mind starts to stray? Kaleidoscoping...

Parched, cracked mouths emty swollen guts Sun baked pavement encroaches on us Haves and have-nots together at last Brutally engaged in mortal combat 10 in 2010 What kind of God orchestrates such a thing? 10 in 2010 Ten million people all suffering 10...

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 today... You are just a picture And a thousand memories Is all I take with me 'cuz your smile Is just t...

I can't believe it, the way you look sometimes Like a trampled flag on a city street, oh yeah And I don't want it, the things you're offering me Symbolized bar code, quick ID, oh yeah Cause I'm a 21st century digital boy I don't know how to read but I've...

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 know I'm part of something greater than myself We're all engaging in a game of attrition Maybe go...

Well, it was punk-fifteen in the morning and it was time to stand my ground And as the gawks and stares bombarded me I didn't even hear a sound No one gave a damn if I was there or away If I died and went to hell, they'd throw a party on my grave and they'd...

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 tie your own haggard shoes Your closet is a mess, and your backyard's falling down And...

I don't want to live In a world without melody Sometimes the rhythmic din Of society is too much for me But purpose is prioritized These days the goal is win the prize There's a sleeping resonance we hold, Through which we're unified So let it out! don't just...

see all people in Afghanistan praying to the gods and living in the sand somebody's gonna have to set them free, nobody hears the call or command but it's a long way to Harlem, and a long stretch to the king of Siam and if you don't have a penny, why should...

Some live, some die Everybody wonders why we're here Should we even try? Philosophers lost in the night A beacon in the distance You gotta turn around It's vestige dimly flickers In elocution sound The modernest chronometer uptight and underwound Pre...

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 maintain no discomfiture, my path again renewed, against the grain, that's where i'll stay, swimming u...

Just to think that not so long ago was a man who risked his life Who 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...

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 apparent Propagated just by hope and desire to share it Beauty was the allure that brought me close t...

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 when they march and shout- are a spectacle marching and singing- will go abnywhere the president say...

This song goes out to all the hopeless sinners, with grave allegiances, so meaningless and vain, The walking wounded in a pagent of contenders Who balance on a rail of pain for just a pail of rain And everything is barely mist, blood relations and bricks my...

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 dinner's always waiting at the table 'long the way, yeah. What you see, not for me, isn't what you...

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's gonna swallow you whole, it's bursting at the seam, It'll sweep you away, so enjoy it today,...

I don't need to be a global citizen 'Cause I'm blessed by nationality I'm a member of a growing populace We enforce our popularity There are things that seem to pull us under and There are things that drag us down But there's a power and a vital presenc...

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 structure of the future as demise comes seething through. It's Progress, 'til there's nothing left 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 there just like the other night as stately as a slot machine but when she looked my way something mad as...

Angels we have on heard high Sweetly singing ore the plains And the mountains in reply Echoing their joyous strains Gloria in excelsis Deo Gloria in excelsis Deo Shepherds, why this jubilee? Why your joyous strains prolong? What the gladsome tidings be Which...

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 world of fear and torment, It's a game of strange compulsion, our visceral convulsion: Anxi...

What you do is what you are And wishing upon distant stars Won't improve the hole you're in Won't absolve your deepest sin But action is no gift from some covert and lofty god It's dependant and weighty all the same And it is oh so easy just to keep to yoursel...

Maybe it’s too late for an intellectual debate, but a residue of confusion remains. Changing with the times, and developmentally tortured minds are the average citizen's sources of pain. Tell me what we’re fighting for- I don’t remember anymore, only t...

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 the birds in my blossoms I'm enamored by young lovers on the weekend I like the Fourth of July when...

He's the latest superhero with powers so profound. He can leap a dotted line in just a single bound. I know you must have seen him in books and magazines. He's the quintessential mindless modern epicine. His life is meaningful because he gets things done. Bang...

as the sun comes creeping up the mountain and the wind blows over from the sea hey, we're brought into this land like tiny particles of sand unsure of who we're smarter than, or what we're meant to be oh the grains sift coarsely through the hour glass and...

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 that's left. Hey Mr. Mind, stop wasting my time, With your factory precision. Factory precision is...

It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood A beautiful day in this neighbor Would you be mine? Won't you be mine? I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you So let's make the most of this beautif...

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 your days lost and resigned? Or recreate the universals in your mind? Everybody is bastard: my wor...

it could happen to you, a defect from the wasted outskirts of los angeles with a crumpled-up pass for the RTD and no authority or trajectory on the brink of insanity you'd better believe it because it's written all over your face just a neighborhood re...

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's best for you. Judgment's not tomorrow, its today (yes now it's here). But no it isn't Jesus, ta...

I'm sorry about the sun how could I know that you'd burn? and I'm sorry about the moon how could I know that you'd disapproved and I'll never make the same mistake the next time I create the Universe I'll make sure we communicate at length but until the...

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 envisioned to rise reality's dead, the future is still, the match is hard to find Upon a mounta...

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 and I don't know what it is. This room is overcrowded, man, and I need air to breathe, yeah....

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 m...

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 him secretly. It moved him powerfully. But prescience was lacking and the present was not all A...

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 he started drinking heavy back then he starting eating things that made his head trim then h...

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're gonna hit the ceiling lika a mallet on a bell, hey, blenderhead, they're starting to ask questio...

"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 An...

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 am not who I seem to be Yeah sure I might do harm And bear my right to arm Retribution If only someon...

She said Thanks but I'm broken I guess You must have misspoken What a laugh I've never been chosen by anyone She was barely a teen Hanging out in between Just a part of the scene With mercurial smile And incurable style She was only a dream How's...

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 affectation Let's get it right There's no end in sight And i Can't stop Can't stop Can't stop it Can't st...

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...

blacktop pavement cover me like a chemical reaction or a steam roller spreading randomly there's a distant and a low frequency it tickles my ear, it rumbles under my feet and it shakes the leaves off of every tree (violently) what pretension! Everlasting peac...

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, we must glaze with rozy hues, For what don't wish to admit what it is we have to lose. Millenia...

Every day's the same routine of endless chores and boring details And you know you're waiting for the perfect condition for your ship to set sail But of course the climate's always changing Clining to the past has got you straining Comes the recognition now y...

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 motivation where is restrain and reason Threat...

There was a man who banged his head against a wall he banged for 20 years, the damn thing wouldn't fall he left an honest life he left a broken wife he left it all behind, just to see what he could find Millions and millions chase the wild goose tonight...

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 for everyone to see you have created an unhealthy monster but you're nowhere but nowhere to be found so I...

These rational delusions have got to cease The second hand has finally got the best of me I'm too aware about the singularity That brought me to the edge of time And it's always on my mind now They say that what has passed is coming back some day The wo...

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 and join us well I heard you were looking for a place to fit in full of adherent people with the same...

There's a feeling about myself that I can't understand It's a foreboding sense that I see all around the land When the wheel of fortune turns progressively depraved It's the manifestation of a biospheric decay Keep yourself in line, there's no design The new...

well let me bend your ear because I'm never really there when shadows turns to light and hope into despair there was an only one but the broody skies above brought down a shameful stain and not a single drop of cleaning rain let me say oh oh well th...

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 with others in the world. I go home while they work hard, then they same I'm wrong. There's only...

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, sisters this is what he said: Dearly beloved, dearly beloved, dearly beloved, (Make no mistake, de...

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 timeless, swirling gyroscopic horde. Delirium Delirium of disorder Yeah! I am just an atom in an ec...

Welcome, my son, To where the work is never done And the hungry are seldom ever fed. The department of false hope Is a proving ground for dopes. And they'll grind your tiny bones to make their bread. (Hosanna.) So hold your head up high, forgotten man....

Who do you believe can put some meaning in your life Meaning in your life Meaning in your life Who do you conceive to provide you guidance and light Guidance and light Guidance and light Are they waiting for you in the by and by Do you even have to try Headed...

Wasted days and cigarettes Cracked cement and palms Bodhidharma has gone fission With your vedic mom Yeah the Sergeant Major is dreamin' of genie And she's armed with a borrowed polka dot bikini Oh yeah tomorrow's coming down like dharma and the bo...

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 a year so polish up your granddad'...

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... Say what you must, do all you can, Break all the fucking rules and Go to Hell with Supe...

See the fight, old men crying, deny their ruin. Watch them try. The cynic laughs at the optimist's closed eyes. Darkness falls, curtain calls, the cynic's beer soon overflows. Other watches, has a drink, and from the same cup, They drink I'm doin' time, how lo...

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 city exploded but the gates wouldn't open so the company asked him to quit Now everybody's equal...

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 human tragedy That's written everywhere And we are all too young to die Like a mystery that's here to...

It's never really clear when the end is near ’Til you take a hard look in the rear view mirror And 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 repe...

Heard a word, suicide, Not from one, but from thousands that tried. The lawyer's wife and the teenage brat, One thing in common, they all wanted out. And it's plain to see. It goes for you and it goes for me, And all the screwed up little girls and boys All th...

I had a dream of unity where we would walk side by side but today I see that it's only me just tryin' to get by sometimes we strive undeterred to walk as one toward our goals but as people stray toward more selfish ways we see we have no control I had...

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, we know how you suffer but I know you can succed, I used to have it so much rougher" there's hope i...

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 religion can't help you now. Dying and starving in the fields you used to plow. Rotting bones in...

everwhere you looked there was confusion, violence, drama and drugs so many righteous revolutionaries spouting utopian love everyone shrouded in purple haze then one day they woke up from their dream state they found themselves no more at peace than before old...

Halcyon days are not a thing Nostalgia is an 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 wi...

random blobs of power expressed as that which we all disregard, ordered states of nature on a scale that no one thinks about, don't speak to me of anarchy or peace of calm revolt, man, we're in a play of slow decay orchestrated by boltzmann, it's entropy, it's...

A new age of reason Brain treason to trick the mind What good is searching If nothing's there to find We arrive at this place Of no return my brothers Only to discover that our minds have led us away So far from the painful truth Of who we are What's right is...

She came from heaven well there's no point belaboring that I've seen some trouble and I must admit that I'm in demand I confront rejection with magnetic good intentions yet Hey jack get back in fact don't do that I act sharp But feel uncertain Cuz next time It...

Well I'm coming home to gypsy, I never thought it'd be so cool Her big sweet eyes and body are enough to make me drool And when she wraps her arms around me, I just want to melt inside And then she whispers in my ear, boy, I tell ya what she really likes...

One, two, three, four! 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...

Heard a sermon from a creaky pulpit with no one in the nave I paid a visit to the synagogue and I left there feelin' blamed No one can tell me what to do They have not the capacity to answer me What the world needs now is some answers to our problems We...

It's all right to have faith in god But when you bend to their rules and their fucking lies That's when I start to have pity on you. You're living on a mound of dirt, But you can't explain your reason for existence So you blame it on god. So much hatred in t...

There's a lot of misdirection, and planned disparity And prescriptions for protecting our familial decree And there's also a lack of judgement, and various shades of grey But a lot people think that theirs is the only way I will never be one, I see the oth...

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 running high a new world order was on my mind but I couldn't belive it when I heard them say they're blowi...

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 loot He cantered aimlessly through endless permutations of night Seeking a purpose and the meaning of...

in a quantity of light you can search for all of your life but it's finite from a sudden burst of sound the recoil may never be found it is finite on and on, on and on but impervious to calculation on and on it's impervious to calculation woah, just...

lie lie lie... the full moon is rising over dark water and the fools below are picking up sticks and the man in the gallows lies permanently waiting for the doctors to come back and tend to him, the flat earth society is meeting here today, singing happy littl...

[Verse 1] 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're all looking for adventure And you've got earphones on your bicycles There's peop...

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 and alluring, the sound of pounding heat, Enslaving all who dare succumb to the temptations of the f...

(Nice going, spazz) 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 (x2) I'm tired of this city, all this toil and strife. Trying to cross the boulevard, playing Frogger with m...

There's people out there that say I'm no good, 'Cause I don't believe the things that I should, And when the final conflict comes, I'll be so sorry I did wrong, And hope and pray that our lord god will think I'm good. Countries manufacture bombs and guns To k...

Fuck Christmas Don't despair just because it's Christmas People there are so gay at Christmas See the children on the street hope they get something good to eat But for me it's not so great Fuck Christmas, fuck Christmas, fuck Christmas, fuck Christmas...

Everybody needs a slogan in their pocket or two It never hurts to have a strategy you can go to Sometimes I have no sense at all As most flawed men are won't to do Just say fuck you Pavlovian rude A menace too Pay homage to Your bad attitude You...

Like a rock, like a planet, Like a fucking atom bomb, I'll remain unperturbed by the joy and the madness that i encounter everywhere I turn I've seen it all along In book and magazines like a twitch before dying like a pornographic sea there's a flowe...

Lacerate eviscerate and perforate and mutilate We all fall down, all fall down Deprecate repudiate ameliorate adjudicate The wisdom found, wisdom found Clip the wings of progress, turn the direction Enrich the fallow soil with germs of perfection Delegate fa...

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, i cah see your green-screen mentality and i can feel the sting of its consequence, and i know i...

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-swarm atom and yet you're alone, So I give you me, I give you nothing! I give you me, I give y...

God rest ye jerry mentlemen, there's nothing you dismay Remember Christ our savior was born on Christmas day Who'll save us all from Satan's hand when we have gone astray Oh, tidings of comfort and joy comfort and joy Good tidings of comfort and joy Now when...

God rest ye merry gentlemen Let nothing you dismay Remember Christ our savior Was born on Christmas day To save us all from Satan's power When we were gone astray Oh tidings of comfort and joy Comfort and joy Oh tidings of comfort and joy In Bethlehem , in Is...

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 don't think so, he's up there with the others layin' low Vying with those, who you've traded your life...

Striking that mental apparitions Like a drunk on the vacant streets Silently beset by the hands of time Indelicate in its fury An aberrant crack as skeletons yield To unrelenting gravity While viruses prowl for helpless victims Who succumb rapidly (Tell me!)...

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 core, Monoculture whores entered the bidding wars from distant shores, I don't wanna be in the lan...

Hark the herald angels sing "Glory to the newborn King! Peace on earth and mercy mild God and sinners reconciled" Joyful, all ye nations rise Join the triumph of the skies With the angelic host proclaim: "Christ is born in Bethlehem" Hark! The herald a...

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 cacophonous symphony But I don't wanna hear it anymore Priests and politicians pretend they're...

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 brother for what he hasn't done and as the planes blacken the sky it sounds like heaven is falling i...

I can't stop the way I feel But I can penetrate your religion with a nail You are mine and we are twine When we radiate in waves together everything is fine Hello cruel world do you know that you're killing me? I don't mind but I could use a little sympathy I...

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 future's bright open door. The henchman Is the human analogue of the suffering multitudes Who like g...

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 catalyst for the acolytes Our heroes and martyrs Present two points of view Tell me which deity you're...

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 laugh?) You know I did (Did you cry?) I couldn't get it right (Did you live?) Always on the edge (Di...

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 when she heard that her husband was dying, and that underground heroes of the tarmac shooting smack...

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, much more bountiful and wide. When will mankind finally come to realize His surfeit has become his de...

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 identity And it's never been quite so easy I've never been quite so happy All I need to do is click on you...

Going through a world of sad debris, Regard quixoitic reveries of ownership: The blossoming disease of man called tenure and accretion, The ancient western treadmill of deception and derision. But I want something more. Racing through a life of tragic wastage,...

Hey Brother Christian with your high and might errand, Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear a word you're saying. Hey Sister Bleeding Heart with all of your compassion, Your labors soothe the hurt but can't assuage temptation. Hey man of science with your...

he looked just like a zookeeper in a human zoo so I said hey man how the hell did they get to you don't you know us animals need something to do then I flew that's when he said hey, I can't deny it, but I won't say anything hey, I can't deny it, but I w...

If you need somebody, call my name If you want someone, you can do the same If you want to keep something precious You got to lock it up and throw away the key If you want to hold onto your possession Don't even think about me If you love somebody, set...

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 one really knows why we die No one gets a break so we try Ignoring mortality, we worship mediocrity And...

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, in the night you see through jaded eyes. In the night, in the night you feel barely alive....

There's something pathetic in the world today And I don't know how it all began As if all the shame and punishment will finally make me understand A word means nothing wanting action Intentions are valuable as deeds And a wound can dog you for a lifetime Unle...

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 with no door, a prayer without faith, a show without a score, I'm a bad word, a wink, a nod, a shiver, an untold st...

individuals run for cover, for the multitudes of thoughtless clones have reached a critical mass, individuals hide in fear, under cover, sheltered by the wafer thin veil of intelligence individuals, nowhere to be seen urbana is oozing like a bloated carcass,...

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, Just talk about nothing, let's talk about nothing, Let's talk about no one, please talk about no...

automatons with business suits clinging black boxes, sequestering the blueprints of daily life contented, free of care, they rejoice in morning ritual as they file like drone ant colonies to their office in the sky I don't ask questions, don't promote demonst...

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, Green pastures, open spaces, holy ways. And it must looks pretty appealing, The crowded festive n...

It's a long way to the promise land So you'd better well know your way There's a ship on the ocean And an albatross who is trying to lead you astray Leaders, politicians, and power whores Are in line to receive your choice And you bet your ass, if you give it...

You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last. But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast. Yonder stands your orphan with his gun, Crying like a fire in the sun. Look out the saints are comin' through And it's all over now, Baby Blue....

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 down and out don't misread don't mislead you could be your only friend but when the hammer comes d...

Hoarding turns allure to discontent altruism's a grind all its own morning makes you know your inner self but love is just as pure as you both because it's reciprocal, it's reciprocal it's reciprocal, it's reciprocal when true love is metaphysical vena...

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 exposure is a pitiful and pointless way of dying before it gets me I'll set a funeral pyre kerosene k...

Kyoto now! It's a matter of prescience -no, not the science fiction kind It's all about ignorance, and greed, and miracles for the blind The media parading, disjointed politics Founded on petrochemical plunder, and we're it's hostages If you stand to reason y...

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 the land of competition. Southern California air feeds them. And they know they are best 'cuz o...

I don't really care what other people may say I've gotta go on living my life anyway Everything is golden, everything's for sale I'm done with unsubstantiated fairy tales But out here in the lap of luxury Unlimited guarantee for your insatiable need In the la...

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 light So that when they learn the truth they won't be scared of the night. (1, 2, 3, 4) Put the key in...

There's the image of a man Who commands a high opinion And he hides his hatred with a sheepish grin And beside him flanking closely Are the boisterous hollow masses Who lap up whatever trickles in This intercourse of nature, This vulgar social pastime...

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 fumbling dialog, yet you sit there and judge me and you think it makes a difference if you think I'm al...

The first Noel the angels did say Was a lonely, poor shepherd, asleep as he lay He was born in a box, in a barn on some sand And he walked out of there with some hay in his hand Noel, noel, noel, noel Born is the king of Israel Noel, noel, noel, noel Born...

Let your mind wander Look beyond the shadows Focus on the skyline, Read the silhouettes Your deepest desires Are a picture of tomorrow All your darkest fears Are just a vestige of regret And it's wo-oh oh oh It seems like such a long way to go As obstacles get...

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...

How do you know what you can be if you can't see where you are going? What breaks the silence? Misery can make you see where you belong. It's a dangerous stage, but the show must go on. Why do you lie, why do you lie? Would you betray your soul? Why do yo...

Come they told me, pa rum pum pum pum A new born King to see, pa rum pum pum pum Our latest gifts we bring, pa rum pum pum pum To lay before the King, pa rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum, So to honor Him, pa rum pum pum pum, When we come. Li...

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 foundat...

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 with closed eyes i scoff at labels i defy censuses and despise group mentality all along i through that...

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 withering And you can’t deny that living is easy If you never look behind the scenery It's showtime for...

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 h...

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 dirty city the jungle was once a tranquil hideaway for the kind of trees and the mountains themselv...

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 struggling just to see, You were too far gone to carry on, now your life has stalled, As you march ahea...

In the empire of the senses You're the queen of all you survey All the cities all the nation Everything that falls your way There is a deeper world than this That you don't understand There is a deeper world that this Tugging at your hand Every ripple...

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 reading my mail Cuz' everybody knows I'm a man with a mission, coming to your town today, I can damm you...

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 vessel to water everything you see leaves a mark on your soul, everything you feel leaves a mark on...

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 not religion, they're for everyone and signify the times Today is a window Tomorrow the la...

You're obsesssed and distressed Cause you can't make any sense of the ludicrous nonsense And incipient senescence That will deem your common sense useless This ain't no recess! I want to believe in you, but my plan keeps falling through I knoe I have to face...

Look around the country, an abundance you'll find of Mediocre minds Sift trough the fodder as the sane justice declines because of Mediocre minds Shrouded under cover, the most flamboyant guise hides a Mediocre mind You got yours but you can never bend mine wi...

I've spent my life observing and then pondering this place and never has confusion ever ceased I've also heard a lot of exaltation for our kind and sanctimonious reverence for peace The stories from our childhood condition us to think that beauty is a b...

in 325, the Council devised a set of sacred testaments, transparent and wise the truth is only ever relied on that which we agree and abide at the meeting of the minds reading of the times open the blinds to our complicated lives we all need some kind o...

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 while that you've crossed the social mile and a million days is worth one good laugh but don't f...

So proud of history replete with sanctity Orbs in their harmony they sing their code to me Have you ever heard yourself the orbit that you're in? The terse, oppressive blanket that's instilled here by our spin It's misery and famine, it's a force we canno...

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 finally explodes you gotta listen up gotta listen to what they're telling you gotta listen up and think...

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, my planet supports only me, i've got this one big problem: will i live forever? i've got just a sh...

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 sure Bad ape you made a mistake, Annihilation in a cannibal war! Well cultivation might have served you...

My head is full of ghosts But I'm no revenant Despite my resident's rivalry And I'll be the faithful pilot On our blind trajectory Do you want to know a secret Will you hold it close and dear This will not be made apparent But you and I are not alone in here...

I know a man Who doesn't 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 getting so much shorter He simply turns away And dons a bitter frown His world is crumbling...

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...

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 break out From this insulated, blind and lame senility Wake up the new america wo-oh! Transcend th...

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 reason, It feels like hunting season So avoid those lines of sight and we'll set this right Welc...

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 race. We all had better stop hoping and set our heads on straight. You've gotta turn over a new leaf,...

Blood is a river flowing darkly amidst the tangled roots of the tall shining city Crazyflowing mantide migrations enorge the big ventricle of heartbroken America So many heaven hoping, hopeful groping breathers all tap together quietly and desperately in...

Culture was the seed of proliferation but it's gotten melded Into an inharmonic whole, to an inharmonic whole. Consciousness has plagued us and we cannot shake it Though we think we're in control, though we think we're in control. Questions that besiege us in...

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 looked into the sky shouting his questions looking for directions "what do I do now?" now a confused...

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 a star, a token of love A name in the sand, enough is enough A diet of air, a face on the net A f...

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 time turning water into life as if you were God's foreman is it any wonder things seem so awry? the ma...

Now, there's a list of catalysts that hold the heart at bay They grip the mind and sap the soul and feed on your dismay And I never understood why you can't see the world this way The lines are drawn at the break of dawn there's nothing to dismay It's no, no,...

O Come All Ye Faithful Joyful and triumphant, O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem. Come and behold Him, Born the King of Angels; O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, Christ the Lord. O Sing, choirs of angels, Sing in exu...

O come, O come, Emmanuel And ransom captive Israel That mourns in lonely exile here Until the Son of God appear Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Shall come to thee, O Israel. O come, Thou Rod of Jesse, free Thine own from Satan's tyranny From depths of Hell Thy peo...

One, two, three! 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...

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 much for me? try that with our oligarchy, try that with our oligarchy, oligarchy, oligarchy st...

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 everybody needs somebodies delivery lulls you to sleep the man behind the weather map the editor in chief th...

hey scientist please save us from our rainy days because your counterpart in the magic art is manufacturing judgment day there's a fell wind blowing out of the east bringing famine drought and plague well now at least that's what they say rain fell like...

It's 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 morality The rectifyin' troop is here The ones we needed all these years To stop the heinou...

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 like gravity, like signposts on the land and you got what you wanted without force of reprimand...

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 and terrified of the damage it will bring when it begins it will begin splintered dreams of unity...

(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 nation under God, we stand above the rest; With mighty high technology, we're never second best. Our...

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 human race, A show of greed and ignorance, man's quest for dominance. They say when a mistake is made...

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 immortality's in our mastermind, And we destroy everything we can find. And tomorrow when the human clock s...

Solemn regret, transgressions fill my head A measure of success is how well to forget And the past is dead Strewn about the battlefield of life are the remainders of history When convenient we exalt them and pay them such respect As if we're all in an equival...

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 As one that deserves praise and ritual. My pessimistic lines, Your superstitious lives, And the mod...

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 started the first civilization And human aggression was born. I show pity on the future to come, W...

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 cries then they pass away alone into the night why do we pity the dead? are you churned by emotion...

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 listen to a single word you say what is right and what is wrong? the government decides you d...

Some people are almost impossible to live with Some people have faith in the craziest things They follow outdated conventions that were recorded But most of it to me all sounds insane Maybe that's what you need to get you through the night Maybe you've s...

nothing more nothing less an icon on the wall decoration and duress that which many strive to be its the merble statue standing over me and nobody has the will to tear it down it determines wrong and right but to me its just a stereotype and it makes us...

I give to you, you take from me We live in perfect harmony But I know you can't give me what I need wWith subtle care and rosey hues We duke it out, we change our views We hold so dear our unanimity Oh... We are just pretenders We are just pretenders,...

papa had a wife and kids he kept them on a leash and he bid them all to do his every deed when he was a kid he was treated just the same so he hid his feelings from the family lost as an island out at sea resistant to the gentle waves of empathy papa an...

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 manacles abating Do you ever forget - you had a regret - and what you only guessed at Might still be wait...

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 structure of the future as demise comes seething through. It's Progress, 'til there's nothing left to gai...

Hit the road in wander mode, inquire along the way Savoir faire in full despair while living day-to-day My heart is not a cold cauldron of proof I don't ever need to prove myself to you Looking back I'm off the tracks more times than I recognize Mistakes are a...

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 speak of human disease But we do what we want and we think what we please Have you lived the expe...

warst du schon mal in der wüste? schon mal den Tod gesehen? hunderttausend Kinder sterben für Brot und die zahlen lügen nicht, es ist die krankheit der Menschen doch wir tun was wir wollen, wir denken wie es uns gefällt hast du die Erfahrung gemacht? hast...

Offer me eternity And I'll trade a cup of coffee and a dime Lookin' for a handout On behalf of those who have so little time But who wants to live on just seventy cents a day? Paddin' your pockets doesn't make this a better place Cereal and water is a f...

From the time she could crawl she was all draped in macrame She was preened and redeemed in a church that tried to show the way She was taught to never ask for more They had no idea of what she had in store She's the queen of the 21st century Just a ghos...

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 desolate redoubt Don't be misled you've got alot on your head And nobody's gonna pay attention when you are dead So: fa fa fafa fa fa fafa Rai...

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 you like crazy glue and inject such a potent seed it's best for all humanity the spread of culture the...

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 your mind Requiem Bring the dissident from slumber Requiem Raise the rebel from its grave Requiem So...

Here is the church There is the steeple Open up the door Corporations are people Wait what did he say? What the fuck did he say? It couldn't last They had to crash Some parties are just made that way But when the bell rings The boys will sing Swing...

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 matter what I'm figuring out. I'm guaranteed to wind up in a state of doubt And sanity is a full-tim...

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 as limited constraints And the most difficult part is accepting what the future may bring It seems...

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 ? Sensory ? you (x2) I don't know why, trust me, It's bleeding me, I don't know why, God, it's social s...

Here inside this quiet room there's direction Outside in the sultry noon-time reflection A million scurry they are looking for advice None willing to lend charity just exercise their Shades of Truth, and partisan convention Shades of Truth between dispirate li...

The scientist purported that there ain't no purpose and the theologian told me that it's all been designed and I'm trying to maintain objectivity The world won't illuminate what really matters and I'm an imperfect moral meaning extractor processing the co...

(Since when?) Was it just a fallacy of tainted memory To believe that things were really all right? (Since when?) Were the qualities of wisdom and knowledge Equivalent to mere facts online? Yeah (Since when?) Were the virtues of character and content Mor...

Innocents burned, alive at the stake Tortured and dumped In nameless graves Centuries wane 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 moles...

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 we may propose anything at all Build me up, tear me down like a skyscraper Build me up, then tear down These joining Walls S...

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) We're all slaves We can blow up things better than in any country except this one. Waiting for it...

So, you're feeling unimportant, 'Cuz you've got nothing to say. And your live is just a ramble No one understand you anyway Well, I got a piece of news son, That might make you change your mind Your life is historically meaningfull And spans a significant tim...

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 P...

dark, frozen, hibernation held at bay as your mind, left behind, lost another day but finally there's someone to believe anti-social boredom is all the rage but the time comes when you gotta turn the page and then finally there's someone to believe and n...

There's a specter in the corner of an illustrated page And a lonesome muted stripling with a rapt remedial gaze. The poverty of his language and the wealth of his emotion Bring him endless murky musings and unexpected frustration Angst and madness weave the fa...

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 all good men are trampled down, Just to settle a bet that could not be won, Between a prideful...

Vater, kannst du mich hören? Wie habe ich dich enttäuscht? Ich verfluche den Tag an dem ich geboren wurde Und all die Sorgen auf dieser Welt Ich bringe dich zum Platz der Leiden Wo alle guten Menschen niedergetrampelt werden Nur um eine Wette abzuschlie...

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 seems to care And you sit there adn watch the world go around From your pseudo-benevolent vantage poin...

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 you lick them from within charity has a redolence chastity cannot rescind spirit shine, it's a sig...

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 soon after that we can get rid of each and every one of them. And I'm doing what I think is right, an...

A mutinous enemy carved a nascent country Sweat, blood, and valor Forms the grit of our history Beqeathed to everyone: Chance and free expression Substance was restrained And the spirit was broken I feel a strange denial Rythmic as a change Constance as time L...

a febrile shocking violent smack the children are hoping for a heart attack, tonight the windows are watching, the streets all conspire, and the lamppost can't stop crying, if I could fly high above the world, would I see a bunch of living dots spell the world...

There's an old man on a city bus holding a candy cane, and it isn't even christmas, he sees a note in the obituary that his last friend has died, there's an infant clinging to his overweight mother as they go to shop for cigarettes, and she spends her...

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 Fuck the freshman lectures and brandishments They just betray impoverished accomplishments The puppet m...

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 unturned stone, an undiscovered Door leading to the gift of hope renewed, eternity for you. The masses of...

Well, I am not making haste or could it be haste is making me What's time but a thing to kill or keep or buy or lose or live in I gotta go faster Keep up the pace Just to stay in the human race I could go supersonic, the problem's chronic Tell me does life exi...

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 outside the world outside is buzzing like an angry wasp in summer, the candidates are running, and soon...

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 2010 what kind of God orchestrates such a thing? 10 in 2010 ten billion people all suffering 10 in 201...

Yeah, they say there's a place free of trouble and care, And you have to pass a test for to make it there It has something to do with the road that's straight and narrow And the only way to go it is by being right and thorough There's always one more hill...

Long ago in a dusty village full of hinger, 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 answer and he complelled people to follow along but the hunger never vansihed and the man was banished...

Vor langer Zeit kam ein Mann in ein staubiges Dorf voll Hunger, Schmerz und Streit mit einer Vision von Wahrheit und dem Weg zu einem besseren Leben Er war überzeugt, er hatte die Antwort und er zwang die Menschen ihm zu folgen Doch der Hunger verschwand ni...

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...

You have got your stranglers and prowlers in soft shoes. Furniture makers, carpenters too Bombers and commandos, all with some lost cause Disgruntled workers, immersed in "veritás" But stealthily, in the land of the free, he's lurking there Most are unaware of...

do you remember when we were young, adventure had no end? those were the days my friend but I'm not talking about that at all do you remember when you marred my future with a sickly parasitic pall? that was the day that the earth stalled that was the d...

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 on And my high speed connection's monitored daily by the pentagon These things are seldom what they...

hey! angels fall down without warning cherry lipstick on their teeth and all dangerous curves she had a bullet proof mind and big pawn shop eyes and nothing you could say would get to her so don't look homeward angel from that rumble seat I can strum t...

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 mongrels on either side? did greasy finers grasp for pieces of your mind? 

I see a white haired man, he's got a suit on hand He's telling people how they're supposed to live Nobody's listening to the politician No matter what sage advice he has to give He's got a clumsy, outdated m.o. And he's come to a fork in the road And th...

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 Don't wanna live Don't wann...

The silent stray inertia No burden on my back No determinance, no ballast No chance of looking back It doesn't matter what's ahead It's time I'll hit it hard No fixing my position No sign of retard It's the fast life There's nothing I can do The fas...

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 the storybook sages fill their pages Hiding from the warming sun Limitless distractions give no pause...

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 down the gray race shrivels trapped inside the world it creates it's black and white the perputual...

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, without an inkling of compromise, handshakes are nothing but a subtle "fuck you", contracts determine the best fri...

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 Busted refuse from broken homes Pocked flesh and malacious bones Creatures sustained by desire, heart, an...

Oh me oh my Get out of your 1950's fantasy, Your face shines with misery transparently Spew out that sobering Half-assed victim rhetoric Make 'em all squirm While they chew on it It's a secret handshake And a passing wink of the eye As the witches bridge club...

There's a world outside but I can't really make it There's a life to lead but I can't exactly fake it Yet the mood feels right But my island is sinking out of sight I made jetties so they'd catch all the sediment Removed the rocks and every impediment But the...

Jackboots cracking on a polished floor Red hats gathered in the liquor store Pure hearts race on a crystal night Everybody, grab a torch to light Everybody, need somebody, join the party The kids are Alt-Right today Now grab your partner and do-si-do...

How do you know what you can be If you can't see where you are going What breaks the silence misery Can make you see where you belong It's a dangerous stage but the show must go on Why do you lie Why do you lie Would you betray your soul Why do you lie Why do...

let's gather 'round the carcass of the old deflated beast, we have seen it through the accolades and rested in its lea, syntactic is our elegance, incisive our disease, the swath endogenous of ourselves will be our quandary, we've nestled in its hollow and we'...

Hostility to every living creature Like gifted intellectual commands Inalienable, it’s not some moving feature It’s foundation, a bedrock of the land So it’s criminal, antithetical, inimical To an enlightened plan If you seek to make divisible The prin...

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 way Oh, what does it mean… To come alive To come alive To come alive (To come ali...

Seeds of rebellion Lay outside your front door If you nourish them and water them They’ll grow into a healthy “what for?” And if revolution isn’t what’s in store How can you care anymore? It’s a dangerous slip A conscientious shift In the spirit of re...

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 severance From your past relations Just a quest for new bargains We're not the same person We're not the same person (Don...

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 governing body shown so much concern for the economic well-being of its subjects. Today we have insula...

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 like tartan into virgin soil a substrate for progress and disarray a spreading network of broken dream...

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 roman...

Catch a shooting star and put it in your pocket Then your skin will start on fire One bird in the hand, or two birds in the bush Neither do you any good, when you're stuck in the quagmire Show everyone you're not sure that they're telling he truth Then y...

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, no one loves you like He loves you. And what better way to show your love than to dig deep into yo...

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 exception we take all that is there Motives are transcluent in the reflection of shame The actions...

You've got to quit your little charade and join the freak parade Now that your road has been paved from conception to your grave. Enormous things to do, others' practices to eschew, To be better than you is impossible to do, But the world won't stop without yo...

despite that he saw blatant similarity he struggled to find a distinctive moiety all he found was vulgar superficiality but he focused it to sharpness and shared it with the others it signified his anger and misery them and us lobbying determined through a mi...

Shut your eyes See the future's distant shore March ahead More enlightened than before And there's sure to be bumps and distractions But I know we'll get through There will be me, there will be you There will be a way Unresolved repercussions from your life Fo...

Part One from the bird and the deer who live on the same to the condominiums that litter the plain it took time... time and disregard from the green and the trees that shot high in the air to the high-business market-men who take all that's there it took...

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 for sleep to overcome us and from somewhere in our black, subconscious minds when we're asleep, comes...

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 Cause I had nothing to offer but insufficiency And you know that it’s such a bitch When you learn to scratch that itch Of blatant fal...

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 yesterdays foundations and tomorrow it's the way they say it's got to be we spear ahead and forge our...

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 of need will not turn away I ain't no politiciam I am a citizen And I wonder if I'm living too far o...

Unrepentant vagabond Plot the new coordinates and cast the map aside Now I gotta ramble on Navigate the pitfalls and cross the great divide The mapmaker's legend gives direction and a key He set the declination but what good is it to me? I can't see the...

i had a friend who kept a candle in his pocket, he used to touch it when the wind was blowing high, i guess it mad him feel like he could buck the system and when it flickered out we laid him down to die, turn on the light, turn on a million blinding brilliant...

I've been searching for so long now the search party is gone won't somebody tell me what the hell went wrong we started out so strong I never wanted to hurt you I didn't plan to desert you I couldn't possibly express how much I care so turn your back o...

There'a light on in the hallway so I can't understand why you hide underneath the covers there's a baby in your womb so don't be scared tonight because Raggedy ann is in the closet picking posies two babies in the dark like diamonds in the sand while pap's far...

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 stigma of industrial progress killing us over and over agin, one part per trillion... unacceptable,...

I'll strike it if I don't like it Gimme a club and I will have myself a riot I'm a monkey with a brick on my shoulder And I'm getting bolder Let's deny and defame Let's destroy and recreate in our glorious name And when the joke of our centrality is upon us G...

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 "what about us?" But don't forget The dance of neglect The march for empowering prosperity The pain f...

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 positioned his head the pain was like brimstone, but the kid hardly bled victory instinct over intellect vic...

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, no one loves you like he loves you and what better way to show your love than to dig deep into...

Two young lads on distant shores Tending to the rigors of their daily chores Their parents tell them what's going on and they're waiting for the fire Two young men on distant shores Tending to the rigors of their social norms The news reel tells them wh...

Shut off the t.v. 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 toil he just stood up and walked away, Fantastic the panic that showed in his eyes, He shrugged...

I was born on planet earth the rotating ball where man comes first it4s been around for a long, long time but now it4s time to watch it die I saw a man on my big blue screen he ruled the world economy he said the rich would never concede but some day s...

Early man walked away as modern man took control. Their minds weren't all the same, to conquer was his big goal, So he built his great empire and slaughtered his own kind, Then he died a confused man, killed himself with his own mind. Go! (x3) We're only...

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 power so you kick back and get farther behind, And although the world rotates itself the only thing y...

What Child is this who, laid to rest On Mary’s lap is sleeping? Whom angels greet with anthems sweet, While shepherds watch are keeping? This, this is Christ the King, Whom shepherds guard and angels sing; Haste, haste, to bring Him laud, The Babe, the Son of...

there's a purpose, and there's a goal, there's a virtuos, and immoral, there's a reason for all of this, but I don't know what it is I am one, and plural too, I accept them but they exclude, I could make sense of all of this, but I don't know what it i...

Metamorphosis of living nature, unweathering the hands of time Resonant vibrations set to a grand design Oh, these are more than technological things Yeah, they're promises of what tomorrow brings It’s what tomorrow brings What tomorrow brings It's what...

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 termination of us all. Someone's got to tell me, do you see That everything around you has a hidden t...

smacked back tarmac stars are scars of fame in the place where no one knows me by my name where tar pit drips its drilled out vein and fashion trips on tangled skein if you need to slake that aching in your brain this is where the fun is this is where t...

All those stories that my dad told me, They are just a whisper in time All those things that never came to be, They are just a whisper in time A whisper in time, a whisper in time Things that I can't shake from my mind A whisper in time, a whisper in time Mome...

I'm dreaming about White Christmas Just like the ones I used to know Where the treetops glisten And children listen To hear sleigh bells in the snow I'm dreaming about White Christmas With every Christmas card I write "May your days be merry and bright And ma...

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, replaced by comfortable lies. Teenage classic, more cliche, one step further on the edge of decay...

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 Better than who we are with mania and yearning for and learning from Better than holiness and candy aisles of lon...

out in the cold like a bundle of coal little packets of darkness wanting to glow well there's nobody home and there's a wreck in the yard well maybe they're coming back if we wish really hard If we wish real hard now won't somebody please come up with s...

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. ? overrule ? play the fool All day World War III (x4) Forget ? I'll make us have another war. It does...

stop them from shimmering away on blank sidewalk glittering asphalt somewhere summer days the wrong way kids were something more than friends navigating a sprawl without end did you ever want to take bad advice did you ever want to go and take it twice do you...

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 your decay, And the ringing in the air is the sweet debris of yesterday. There, now that you...

There's a place where everyone can be happy. It's the most beautiful place in the whole fucking world. It's made of candy canes and planes and bright red choo-choo trains, And the meanest little boys and the most innocent little girls, And you know I wish...

Hey sit down and listen and they'll tell you when you're wrong. Eradicate but vindicate as "progress" creeps along. Puritan work ethic maintains its subconscious edge As Old Glory maintains your consciousness. There's a loser in the house, and a puppet on the...

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 different Just like all the other kids Missy was a teen blue video star Tom took his life in his mother'...

So... you've given it all you can and your life is in the garbage can and you say you're tired and dry cuz your mind won't let you cry so you hang up what is left inside and you want to kiss it all goodbye you're lost in space, you're swirling ever hig...

a rhapsody! contestants in disguise a nation of desire but who will win the prize? the people stand united, reluctantly aligned copying and lying are the favorite past-time you've got a chance to confront the world today desperate romance is the curse of casta...