Against the Grain
Bad Religion
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Modern Man
01 : 58
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Turn on the Light
01 : 25
3
Get Off
01 : 44
4
Blenderhead
01 : 13
5
The Positive Aspect of Negative Thinking
00 : 59
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Anesthesia
03 : 04
7
Flat Earth Society
02 : 23
8
Faith Alone
03 : 36
9
Entropy
02 : 25
10
Against the Grain
02 : 09
11
Operation Rescue
02 : 08
12
God Song
01 : 39
13
21st Century (Digital Boy)
02 : 50
14
Misery and Famine
02 : 35
15
Unacceptable
01 : 44
16
Quality or Quantity
01 : 35
17
Walk Away
01 : 49
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Track Lyrics
Turn on the Light Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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 made him feel like he could buck the system
And when it flickered out, we laid him down to die
[Chorus]
Turn on the light
Turn on a million blinding brilliant white incendiary lights
Yeah, a beacon in the night
I'll burn relentlessly until my juice runs dry
[Verse 2]
And I'll construct a rack of tempered beams and trusses
And equip it with just a million tiny suns
I'll install it upon the roof on my compartment
And place tinfoil on my floor and on my walls
[Chorus]
Then I'll turn on the light
Turn on a million blinding brilliant white incendiary lights
A beacon in the night
I'll burn relentlessly until my juice runs dry
[Verse 3]
And I'll burn like a roman fucking candle
Burn like a chasm in the night
Burn for a minuscule duration
Ecstatic immolation, incorrigible delight
Get Off Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Lascivious
It's all that I can think of
As I drag my feet searching like Diogenes
Dangerous
The adjective of the decade
And of your alluring intricacies
[Chorus 1]
Yes, I see your green-screen mentality
And I feel the sting of its consequence
And I know I shouldn't but it's too much too ignore
An emotion I deplore
[Post-Chorus 1]
Every time I look at you, I just want to do it
I can clench my fist right through it
But I just want to get off
[Verse 2]
Rectilinear
The direction we've been heading
Never realizing we are on a runaway machine
Angular
The momentum that does turn us one step further on our ladder
One more turn toward the east
[Chorus 2]
I realize your green-screen mentality
And I know it is shared by many more
I know it is quite impossible but I am damned to find a way
To revolve the other way
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Every time I scrutinize I just say, "Screw it!"
On a ride down a blind conduit
And I just want to get off
Blenderhead Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Flying through a dark prismatic tunnel on a carousel
The earth is turning and you know it very well
Your mind is reeling like ten helicopters wheeling
And you're gonna hit the ceiling like a mallet on a bell
[Chorus 1]
Hey, Blenderhead, they're starting to ask questions
Your transgressions are a danger flashing sign
Challenge conventions and radiate your splendor
And feel those flywheels churn your blender head, yeah
[Verse 2]
Tally up the gleaming tender ventured on a wishing well
Each shining trinket has a story it can tell
Your moments pining like those tales all intertwining
Can become the rusted lining of a deep neglected shell
[Chorus 2]
Hey, Blenderhead, you ask so many questions
Your confusion's a life-affirming sign
Break from tradition and carry on with valor
And feel those flywheels churn your blender head, yeah
Entropy Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Random blobs of power expressed as that which we all disregard
Ordered states of nature on a scale which no one thinks about,
Don't speak to me of anarchy or peace of calm revolt, man
You're in a play of slow decay orchestrated by Boltzmann
[Chorus]
It's entropy, it's not a human issue
Entropy, it's matter of course
Entropy, energy at all levels
Entropy, from it you can not divorce
[Refrain]
And your pathetic moans of suffrage tend to lose all significance
[Verse 2]
Extinction, degradation, the natural outcome of our ordered lives
Power, motivation, temporary fixtures for which we strive
Something in our synapses assures us we're okay
But in our disequilibrium we simply cannot stay
[Chorus]
It's entropy, it's not a human issue
Entropy, it's matter of course
Entropy, energy at all levels
Entropy, from it you can not divorce
[Bridge 2]
A stolid proposition from a man unkempt as I
My affectatious nature I can't rectify
But we are out of equilibrium unnaturally
A pang of consciousness at death and then you will agree
[solo]
[Chorus]
It's entropy, it's not a human issue
Entropy, it's matter of course
Entropy, energy at all levels
Entropy, from it you can not divorce
[Outro]
Entropy
Entropy
Entropy
Entropy
Against the Grain Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus]
Against the grain
That's where I'll stay
Swimming upstream
I maintain against the grain
[Verse 2]
Here labeled as lunatic, sequestered and content
There ignored and defeated by the government
There's an oriented public whose magnetic force does pull
But away from the potential of the individual
[Chorus]
Against the grain
That's where I'll stay
Swimming upstream
I maintain against the grain
[Verse 3]
The flow is getting stronger with smaller increments of time
And eddies of new ideas are increasingly hard to find
You need all that the other has, it's your right to seize the day
But in all your acquisitions you will soon be swept away
[Chorus]
Against the grain
That's where I'll stay
Swimming upstream
I maintain against the grain
[Verse 4]
There's a common consensus and an uncomfortable cheer
A reverberating chorus that anyone can hear
It sings, "leave your cares behind you, just grab tenaciously"
This lulling sense or purpose will destroy us rapidly
[Chorus]
Against the grain
That's where I'll stay
Swimming upstream
I maintain against the grain
[Outro]
Against the grain
Against the grain
Against the grain
God Song Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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?
[Chorus 1]
I don't think so
He's up there with the others laying low
Vying with those
Who you've traded your life to bless your soul
[Verse 2]
And have they told you how to think
Cleansed your mind of sepsis and autonomy?
Or have you escaped from scrutiny
And regaled yourself with depravity?
[Chorus 2]
Now we all see
Religion is just synthetic frippery
Unnecessary
In our expanding global culture efficiency
[Solo]
[Outro]
And now we all fear this impasse
We have built to our future
Ever so near
And oh so austere
Misery and Famine Lyrics
[Verse 1]
So proud a 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
[Chorus]
It's misery and famine, it's a force we cannot see
Misery and famine, it compels us naturally
Misery and famine, great ellipse, we bend to thee
Misery and famine, just accept your vagrancy
[Verse 2]
Others who bear no name, who feel that life's a game
My verse they will defame, we suffer all the same
They pay no regard to their position or their speed
The firmament still covers them with its malevolent seed
[Chorus]
It's misery and famine, it's a force we cannot see
Misery and famine, it compels us naturally
Misery and famine, great ellipse, we bend to thee
Misery and famine, just accept your vagrancy
[Bridge]
You look for meaning in things no one comprehends
You feel no affinity to the rabble we're in
Sources of inquiry have nothing to portend
They will perplex us all until the coming end
Until the coming end
[Verse 3]
A feeling of despair, hungry and full of care
We resent everywhere the fortune that we share
This earth could be a better place is a concept I condone
Given our pathetic course, our destiny is known
[Chorus]
It's misery and famine, it's a force we cannot see
Misery and famine, it compels us naturally
Misery and famine, great ellipse, we bend to thee
Misery and famine, just accept your vagrancy
[Outro]
Misery and famine
Misery and famine
Misery and famine
Misery and famine
Quality or Quantity Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Offer me eternity, and I'll trade a cup of coffee and a dime, looking
For a handout on behalf of those who have so little time, but who
Wants to live on just 70 cents a day? padding your pockets doesn't
Make this a better place, "cereal and water" is a feast for some you
Say, your price-tag on existence can't cover your double face
[Chorus]
Quality or quantity a choice you have to make
[Verse 2]
Dipping in the icing, bringing home the largest turkey from the field
Breaking all the piggy banks scooping up the booty, licking all the right holes
Bolstering the payroll, why reduce life to a dollar amount per day? and why let the
World think this is the American way? your uneaten greens are a feast
For some you say, survival and living are concepts you can't equate
[Chorus]
Quality or quantity don't tell me they're the same