The New America
Bad Religion
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1
You’ve Got a Chance
03 : 41
2
It’s a Long Way to the Promise Land
02 : 28
3
A World Without Melody
02 : 32
4
New America
03 : 24
5
1000 Memories
03 : 00
6
A Streetkid Named Desire
03 : 17
7
Whisper in Time
02 : 32
8
Believe It
03 : 41
9
I Love My Computer
03 : 05
10
The Hopeless Housewife
02 : 59
11
There Will Be a Way
02 : 52
12
Let It Burn
02 : 44
13
Don’t Sell Me Short
03 : 57
14
The Fast Life
02 : 01
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Track Lyrics
You’ve Got a Chance Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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 passtime
[Chorus]
You've got a chance to confront the world today
Desperate romance is the curse of castaways
What good is skill if you don't make it to the dance?
Despite circumstance, you've got a chance
You've got a chance
[Verse 2]
Common life depicted on afternoon TV
It's spiked to give the miserable a vogue identity
Hate your neighbors, cheat your friends, they don't discriminate
Popularity and fame don't care if you're a reprobate
[Chorus]
You've got a chance to confront the world today
Desperate romance is the curse of castaways
What good is skill if you don't make it to the dance?
Despite circumstance, you've got a chance
[Bridge]
I'm tired of all this Shakespearean misinformation
I want to win the game
Oh yeah
[Verse 3]
You've got the right intentions, but who's got time to think?
You've got a noon appointment, you've got to hit the links
You're talking in the stratosphere, you're curled up on the floor
With such a wealth of information, why are you so poor?
[Chorus]
You've got a chance to be relevant today
Desperate romance is the curse of castaways
What good is skill if you don't make it to the dance?
Despite circumstance, you've got a chance
You've got a chance to confront the world today
You've got a chance, though it seems so far away
Don't you believe what the wise men have to say
Despite circumstance, you've got a chance
[Outro]
You've got a chance
You've got a chance
(You've got a chance)
You've got a chance
(You've got a chance)
Oh-oh, sing it
Oh whoa-oh-oh oh
Oh whoa-oh-oh oh
Oh whoa-oh-oh oh-oh-oh oh
Oh whoa-oh-oh oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh oh
Oh-whoa oh-oh oh-oh-oh
Oh whoa-oh-oh, oh whoa-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh oh
You've got a chance
You've got a chance
(You've got a chance)
You've got a chance
(You've got a chance)
Oh-oh, one more time
Oh oh-oh ho oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh-oh
It’s a Long Way to the Promise Land Lyrics
3 ContributorsIt’s A Long Way To The Promise Land LyricsThe second track off of 2000’s ‘The New America’, this song continues to develop the overall themes of the album.
In this track the band is telling you that you don’t have to accept what politicians, parents… Read More It's a long way to the promised 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
You can bet your ass if you give it to them
They will gladly take your voice
And it's a long way to the promised land
It's a long way to the promised land
It's a long way to the promised land
If we work we might find it here
There's no substitute for enlightenment
There's no reason for bridled fear
When you join the people who've joined the club
You gotta clench and play your hand
'Cause if you fall in line you're gonna fall in time
And you'll never make a stand
And it's a long way to the promised land
It's a long way to the promised land
What are you going to do
When they call for you?
Bend and capitulate
Or keep your head on straight?
Easy answers bought without experience
Gonna lead you to certain doom
Because the truth is just what you make of it
It begins and ends with you
It's a long way to the promised land
It's a long way to the promised land
When you join the people who've joined the club
You gotta clench and play your hand
Because the truth is just what you make of it
It's a long way, get in line
New America Lyrics
[Intro]
Jimmy!
[Verse 1]
Do you know the cost of future misery?
Have you lost your sense of sustainability?
[Pre-Chorus]
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
[Chorus]
Wake up the new America
Whoa-oh (Whoa-oh)
Transcend the mass hysteria
Whoa-oh (Whoa-oh)
Change is the thing you're wary of
Whoa-oh (Whoa-oh)
We need a new America
Whoa-oh (Whoa-oh)
[Verse 2]
Laurels, human triumph, bestowments from the past
Victories don't mean a thing if they don't last
[Pre-Chorus]
We are just marching toward extinction
With blinders on our eyes
Jeopardizing everything we've learned
And come to realize
You call that wise?
[Chorus]
Open your eyes, America
Whoa-oh (Whoa-oh)
See through the lies they tell to us
Whoa-oh (Whoa-oh)
Confront the fears that worry us
Whoa-oh (Whoa-oh)
We need a new America
Whoa-oh (Whoa-oh)
[Bridge]
Now we don't have to be afraid to reinvent
We've got to start to build, progress, and implement
For when we take our fill and never pay the price
We only build ourselves a fleeting false paradise
[Guitar Solo]
[Pre-Chorus]
Yeah, you can live in staunch denial
And mark me as your enemy
But I'm just a voice among the throng
Who want a brighter destiny
They say with me
[Chorus]
We are the new America
Whoa-oh (Whoa-oh)
This is the new America
Whoa-oh (Whoa-oh)
We are the new America
Whoa-oh (Whoa-oh)
This is the new America
Whoa-oh (Whoa-oh) Let's go!
1000 Memories Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus]
You are just a picture, whoa-oh
You are just a picture, oh-oh-oh
And a thousand memories, it's all I take with me
'Cause your smile is just too much to see
You're just a thousand memories
[Verse 2]
Fantasies, broken dreams
Reveries, sordid histories
Following my heart, laden with reaction
Without calibration or design
Committed to a trial, a life of understanding
Can't somebody show a sign
To you for me to see if you only knew?
[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus]
You are just a picture, whoa-oh
You are just a picture, oh-oh-oh
And a thousand memories is all I take with me
'Cause a picture is worth one thousand memories
The Hopeless Housewife Lyrics
[Refrain]
Oh me, oh my
Oh me, oh my
Oh me, oh my
Oh me, oh my
[Verse 1]
Get out of your 1950s fantasy
Your face shines with misery transparently
Spew out that sobering, half-assed victim rhetoric
Make 'em all squirm while they chew on it
[Pre-Chorus]
It's a secret handshake and a passing wink of the eye
As the witches bridge club weekly meets to pen the tail on the sly
[Chorus]
But they never ask "Why, oh why
Don't we raise our voices to the sky?"
Instead we're mute and fawn, just waiting to die
Like some kind of hopeless housewife
But you can change while you're alive
And let 'em all know at least you tried
To kill the demons inside
[Refrain]
Oh me, oh my
Oh me, oh my
Oh me, oh my
Oh me, oh my
[Verse 2]
Damn your transcendental paralysis
We can work together and make sense of this
Don't be so sure you can chuck it all away
You've got to proceed no matter how bad you want to stay
[Pre-Chorus]
It's a natural cause and a comfort zone there in your head
And the world turns away as you tap the snooze button in bed
[Chorus]
But nobody can hear a word you said
Your history was never read
Instead you're mute and fawn just waiting to die
Like some kind of hopeless housewife
But you can change while you're alive
And let 'em all know at least you tried
To kill the demons inside
[Refrain]
Oh me, oh my
Oh me, oh my
Oh me, oh my
Oh me, oh my
Let It Burn Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus]
And it's whoa, oh-oh-oh
It seemed like such a long way to go
As obstacles get bigger
Prevailing winds blow stronger
And the fire continues to grow
[Verse 2]
Don't let shallow water limit your perception
Heed the new horizon, muster to it fast
The moments of your yesterdays are in the wake behind you
You can't assess the future if you're living in the past
[Chorus]
And it's whoa, oh-oh-oh
It seemed like such a long way to go
As obstacles get bigger
Prevailing winds blow stronger
And the fire continues to grow
The fire continues to grow, keep it stoked!
[Verse 3]
If you are committed to a life of understanding
Then there's no agenda for vengeance in your life
Sharpen all your senses, face the opposition
You can overcome with fortitude and mental might
[Chorus]
And it's whoa, oh-oh-oh
It seemed like such a long way to go
As obstacles get bigger
Prevailing winds blow stronger
And the fire continues to grow
The fire continues to grow
[Outro]
The fire continues to grow in your soul
So be bold, let it grow
Don't let it die, let it burn
Don’t Sell Me Short Lyrics
[Verse 1]
We don't need any more mountains
'Cause 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
We are all too young to die
[Pre-Chorus]
Like a mystery that's here to stay
Some people never go away
'Cause they've got something to say
[Chorus]
Don't sell me short (Don't sell me short)
Oh-oh, you've been wrong too long
Don't brush me off (Don't brush me off)
Oh-oh, just because I don't belong
Like it or not I'm all you've got
Dispose me when I'm shot
Just don't sell me short, oh-oh-oh-oh
I might not be who you thought
[Verse 2]
We don't need any more fables
'Cause the writers have passed and left us lessonless
We must find our own way
We don't need any more privilege
There is vivid desperation that is powerless
That no surplus can repay
[Pre-Chorus]
Like a fix of rapture in a trance
Oh-oh, fates are sealed by circumstance
So you've got to take a chance
[Chorus]
Don't sell me short (Don't sell me short)
Oh-oh, you've been wrong too long
Don't brush me off (Don't brush me off)
Oh-oh, just because I don't belong
Pass me on by, ignore my cry
Forget me when I die
Just don't sell me short, oh-oh-oh-oh
Not while I'm still alive
[Bridge]
Everybody's talking about heaven on earth
I'm still trying to figure out just what I'm worth
I'm full of emotion and stuff you can't contain
You just wanna flush me down the drain
But you can't make me go away
[Chorus]
Don't sell me short (Don't sell me short)
Oh-oh, you've been wrong too long
Don't brush me off (Don't brush me off)
Oh-oh, just because I don't belong
Like it or not I'm all you've got
Dispose me when I'm shot
Just don't sell me short, oh-oh-oh-oh
I might not be who you thought
Don't sell me short (Don't sell me short)
Oh-oh, you've been wrong too long
Don't brush me off (Don't brush me off)
Oh-oh, just because I don't belong
Pass me on by, you can forget me when I die
Don't sell me short, oh-oh-oh-oh...