No Substance
Bad Religion
1998 Released
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1
Hear It
01 : 49
2
Shades of Truth
04 : 01
3
All Fantastic Images
02 : 08
4
The Biggest Killer in American History
02 : 14
5
No Substance
03 : 04
6
Raise Your Voice!
02 : 55
7
Sowing the Seeds of Utopia
02 : 01
8
The Hippy Killers
03 : 01
9
The State of the End of the Millennium Address
02 : 22
10
The Voracious March of Godliness
02 : 27
11
Mediocre Minds
01 : 56
12
Victims of the Revolution
03 : 17
13
Strange Denial
03 : 02
14
At the Mercy of Imbeciles
01 : 33
15
The Same Person
02 : 49
16
In So Many Ways
03 : 04
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Track Lyrics
The Biggest Killer in American History Lyrics
[Verse 1]
You have got your stranglers and prowlers in soft shoes
Furniture makers and carpenters, too
Bombers and commandos, all with some lost cause
Disgruntled workers, immersed in veritás
[Pre-Chorus]
But stealthily, in the land of the free
It's lurking right there, most are unaware of
[Chorus]
The biggest killer in American history
The biggest killer in American history
The biggest killer in American history
The biggest killer in American history
And God shed his grace on thee
[Verse 2]
Business institutions, universities
Both are quite the circus when the killer wants his way
I think of Edward Teller and his moribund reprise
Then I look to Nevada and I can't believe my eyes
It's time for him to die!
[Verse 3]
Most cannot remember minutia learned in school
It's not there on the blackboard, it's what they don't tell you
We have got a problem, it starts and ends right here
It can be defeated but you've got to face your fear
[Pre-Chorus]
We'll join and unite and steady our sight
Then we'll put it right cause it's time to fight
[Chorus]
Raise Your Voice! Lyrics
[Intro]
I think this is a song we could redo in the language of every country we go to
[Chorus]
Fa fa fafa, fa fa fafa
Raise your voice!
[Verse 1]
Don't be played like someone else's board game
Don't be passed out like some desolate readout
Don't be misled you've got alot on your head
And nobody's gonna pay attention when you are dead
[Chorus]
Fa fa fafa, fa fa fafa
Raise your voice!
[Verse 2]
It's the primary rule, you gotta wanna be fooled
It's our daunted restraint that keeps us silent in shame
It's our nature to be adversarial and free
Our evolution didn't hinge on passivity
[Chorus]
Fa fa fafa, fa fa fafa
Raise your voice!
The Hippy Killers Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Our apocalypse, 1981
Teenage vagrants looking for some fun
A renewed promise of prosperity
A vulgar platform for the world to see
[Chorus]
We were the hippy killers
The hippy killers
The hippy killers
The hippy killers
[Verse 2]
Busted refuse from broken homes
Pocked flesh and malicious bones
Creatures sustained by desire, heart, and soul
Nothing to leave and nowhere to go
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
Good days during horrible times
Overused bodies, neglected minds
Shoulder-to-shoulder, we formed as one
The next miserable generation
[Chorus]
The State of the End of the Millennium Address Lyrics
4 ContributorsThe State Of The End Of The Millennium Address LyricsThe State Of The End Of The Millennium Address was a song released by Bad Religion as the ninth track on their 1998 album, No Substance.
The song takes a very mocking tone. Greg speaks the lyrics, and it is… Read More Neighbors: 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 it's subjects!
Today we have insulated you from countless factions who threaten your financial viability;
Such as the poor
The idealistic foreigners still clinging to their
Childish notions of social welfare
Why, you're even kept uninformed of useless propagandist journalism that reports alleged violations of human rights
(We all know they wouldn't have been punished if they hadn't been doing something wrong!)
And who better to dispense such blatantly evident factoids but a self-appointed authority like myself?
Acid rain is a thing of the past
Too many possible causes, too little significance for our modern thinking public!
Besides, industrial manufacturing is at an all-time low anyway
Who needs those Narrow minded laborers?
Too many mouths to feed, ha ha
And too much burden on the payroll!
Who needs them here in the land of the free time?!
Some other ass-backward country will give us what we need by exploiting it's uneducated children anyway!
The Internet has expanded our ability to pacify average Americans better than ever;
By offering fantastical adventures to every corner of the imagination
Your home office is the window to your world
And the heart of your social life!
Such reclusive behavior helps clear the roads and public works
From overburden like the lower middle class and others who depend shamelessly on their government
Today you are freer than ever to do what you want, provided you can pay for it!
Remember, the first word in U.S.A is "us"!
We have arrived, neighbors; We are the privileged elite!
The Voracious March of Godliness Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus]
But motives are translucent in the reflection of shame
The actions ghostly remnants of our ancestral ways
And unwittingly, you just take your place in this parade
The voracious march of godliness makes us all the same anyway
[Verse 2]
Since the dawn of our human family
There's been concentrated sepsis blowing in the breeze
And we turned on each other with ferocity
Desperation, forced, without reprieve
[Chorus]
But the missions were misguided and the trammeled led astray
The air resounds with thunder as the victors seized the day
And the haunting voice of history lives ignored but not betrayed
The voracious march of godliness will get us close to heaven one day
Mediocre Minds Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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 with your
Mediocre minds
[Chorus]
When they cry foul you had better watch out
Because you never know which aptitude they're griping about
Don't act too smart for their stenoscopic ways
You'll be discarded away
[Verse 2]
Reason's not to be what the privileged define with their
Mediocre minds
So many sighted people act so helplessly blind from their
Mediocre minds
[Chorus]
If you want attention then you will be asked to bend
But the surest insurrection is enlightenment
Then you can live outside inharmoniously without friends
An enemy
[Bridge]
They wanna keep me locked away
'Cause I've an overactive brain
[Verse 3]
Leaders, presidents and the nightly news guys cater to
Mediocre minds
Reasons not to be what the privileged define with their
Mediocre minds
You got yours but you can never bend mine with your
Mediocre minds
The only natural thing that I despise are the
Mediocre minds
Strange Denial Lyrics
[Verse 1]
A mutinous enemy carved a nascent country
Sweat, blood, and valor forms the grit of our history
Bequeathed to everyone: chance and free expression
Substance was restrained and the spirit was broken
[Chorus]
I feel a strange denial
Rhythmic as a change, constant as time
Lonely Insistent whispers
Somber as a wave bye-bye
[Verse 2]
Searching for solution, without constitution
Blackcoats by our sides promising salvation
Advocating dogma as tickets to hereafter
Mortals in their prime with their desperate hands in the air
[Chorus]
Daunting, complex and burning
Rhythmic as change, constant as time
Conflicts, craving approval
Weighted as a murder trial
Oh, I feel a strange denial
[Verse 3]
Correct is consensus; everything else, nonsense
Forward is the hope , forget recompense
Peace and tranquility is only for the wealthy
Dearth for the masses and inequality
[Chorus]
I feel a strange denial
Rhythmic as a change, constant as time
Lonely, insistent whispers
Dissipating in the night
Like a lone, forgotten light
[Outro]
And no one is helping me
It's a strange denial
The Same Person Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus]
We're not the same person
We're not the same person
Don't even wanna know
Wooohhh
[Verse 2]
Don't need no good advice, nor shoddy merchandise
I'm the suspect device, beaten down, unable to strike
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
And the sun comes over us again
We lament, we pine, and we rescind
And we ask for understanding
But aren't we the stingy ones, indeed
When it's asked of us in the end?
[Verse 3]
We watch the days go by, compete and then we die
So few ever ask why, but so many just abuse the design
[Chorus]
In So Many Ways Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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
[Verse 2]
No one really knows why we die
No one gets a break, so we try
Ignoring mortality, we worship mediocrity
And wait to see what happens up on high
[Chorus]
In so many ways, we live to follow the sun
In so many ways, we exalt and fail as one
In so many ways, we want so bad to be done
In so many ways, we show our pain in unison
[Verse 3]
Something in you's busy counting days
Catapulting you trough the haze
Blind to virtuosity, ignorant of your sanctity
Revealing you in so many ways
[Chorus]
In so many ways, we live to follow the sun
In so many ways, we tend to rise and fall as one
In so many ways, we want so bad to be done
In so many ways, we show our pain in unison