The Gray Race
Bad Religion
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The Gray Race
02 : 06
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Them and Us
02 : 50
3
A Walk
02 : 09
4
Parallel
03 : 24
5
Punk Rock Song
02 : 27
6
Empty Causes
02 : 51
7
Nobody Listens
01 : 57
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Pity the Dead
02 : 56
9
Spirit Shine
02 : 11
10
The Streets of America
03 : 49
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Ten in 2010
02 : 22
12
Victory
02 : 36
13
Drunk Sincerity
02 : 13
14
Come Join Us
02 : 03
15
Cease
02 : 35
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Punk Rock Song (German version)
02 : 27
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Track Lyrics
Them and Us Lyrics
[Intro]
Let's go
[Verse 1]
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 his misery
[Chorus 1]
Them and us
Lobbying determined through a mire of disbelievers
Them and us
Dire perpetuation and incongruous insistence
That there really is a difference between them and us
[Verse 2]
Hate is a simple manifestation
Of the deep-seated self-directed frustration
All it does is promote fear and consternation
It's the inability to justify the enemy
And it fills us all with trepidation
[Chorus 2]
Them and us
Bending the significance to match a whimsied fable
Them and us
Tumult for the ignorant and purpose for the violence
A confused loose alliance, forming them and us
[Bridge]
And I heard him say
We can take them all
We can take them all
We can take them all (That's what he said)
We can take them all
But he didn't know who we were
And he didn't know who they were
And there wasn't any reason or motive or value to his story
Just allegory, imitation glory
And a desperate, feeble search for a friend
Go!
[Guitar Solo]
[Outro]
Them and us
Lobbying determined through a mire of disbelievers
Them and us
Dire perpetuation and incongruous insistence
Tumult for the ignorant and purpose for the violence
A confused loose alliance, forming them and us
We can take them all
We can take them all
A Walk Lyrics
[Chorus 1]
I'm going for a walk
Not the after dinner kind
I'm gonna use my hands
And I'm gonna use my mind
[Verse 1]
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, your backyard's falling down
And I have no grand ideas or intention of sticking around
[Chorus 1]
So I'm going for a walk
Not the after dinner kind
I'm gonna use my hands
And I'm gonna use my mind
[Chorus 2]
I'm gonna build a world
Independent and exempt
All alone, I'll be an empire
With no mortgage and no rent
[Verse 2]
And I don't need to live in your stinking zoo
You can't even feed the animals donated to you
Your storage sheds are ramshackled, flies decorate the walls
And you expect me to die here in this shit-filled tiny stall?
I'm going for a walk!
[Guitar solo]
[Verse 3]
And I know you're watching everything I do
Call me "threat to your children", call me "socially unglued"
Call me "master of insanity", "unable to relate"
Call me "lazy", "bane", and "filthy"
Call me "monstrous reprobate"
[Chorus]
I'm going for a walk and there's nothing you can do
Cause I don't have to live like you
I'm going for a walk
[Outro]
Going for a walk
Going for a walk
I'm going for a walk
I'm going for a walk
I'm going for a walk
I'm going for a walk
I'm going for a walk
I'm going for a walk
I'm going for a walk!
Parallel Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus 1]
Splintered dreams of unity (our lives are parallel)
So far from reality (our lives are parallel)
Independent trajectories (our lives are parallel)
Separate terms of equality (our lives are parallel)
Our lives are parallel
[Verse 2]
Is there no redemption? No common good?
Is there nothing we can do for ourselves or only what we should?
Comes the hard admission of what we don't provide
Goes the insistence on the ways and means that so divide
They so divide
[Chorus 2]
Side by side, suffering loneliness (our lives are parallel)
Phony collective progress (our lives are parallel)
Accepting that it's all such a mess (our lives are parallel)
Gesturing without hope of redress (our lives are parallel)
Our lives are parallel
[Bridge]
Forging little plays of deception and pain
As we watch our foundations crumble away
Staggering like birds against a hurricane
And trying all the while to stay out of each other's way
[Chorus 3]
Broken dreams of unity (our lives are parallel)
Independent trajectories (our lives are parallel)
Screaming out for understanding (our lives are parallel)
Turning inward and suffering (our lives are parallel)
Empty Causes Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Everywhere 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
Older, meek and conformed
[Chorus]
Empty causes
A bluster for the soul, a fix for the mind
Empty causes
Cling to everything you find
[Verse 2]
Well, the shots rang out like popcorn
And the Chief was hit and rushed out of sight
The mohawk-chain, leather brigade
Rejoiced maliciously on that night
Someone cried out, "fuck the government"
His mates couldn't define what he meant
So no one gave him the time of day and the scene died away
[Chorus]
Empty causes
A war for the body, an army in the mind
Empty causes
Losing steam as time goes by
[Verse 3]
Could it be that everybody selfishly desires
Their own personal retinue
And that causes are just manifestations of too much time
And far to little to do?
[Chorus]
Empty causes
Direction for the soul, conviction for the mind
Empty causes
Cling to it all, everything you find
Empty causes
A war for the body and an army in the mind
Empty causes
You've got yours and I've got mine
Nobody Listens Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Hey mister, don't point at me
You spout rhetoric nonsense
Like a Pavlovian model responding to questions
Hey teacher, arrogance is bliss
You spend your time turning water into life
As if you were God's foreman
[Chorus 1]
Is it any wonder things seem so awry?
We swim in sea of confusion and don't have to think to survive
So nobody listens
[Verse 2]
Hey recluse, don't shout at me
You proclaim yourself expert
By extension of the methods detailed in your magazines
Hey downer, don't prey on me
We've all got bum raps that torment us day to day
That we hoist on our own shoulders
[Chorus 2]
Is it any wonder people pass you by?
Your plea for understanding is heard as desperate lies
So nobody listens
[Bridge]
I can't help you
I can't help you
I can't help you
I can't help you now
[Chorus 3]
Is it any wonder things are so inane?
So many quests for compassion
Are just for someone's personal gain
So nobody listens
Nobody listens to you
Pity the Dead Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus]
Why do we pity the dead?
Are you churned by emotion from voices in your head?
Look at all the living and you'll ask yourself why
Oh why do we pity the dead?
[Verse 2]
Well, you've seen the disease, suffering and decay
And you whisper to yourself, blissfully, "it's okay"
And you still refuse the possibility
That the dead are better off than we
[Chorus]
Why do we pity the dead?
Are you scared of the logic that swirls within your head?
Look at all the living and you'll ask yourself why
Oh, why do we pity the dead?
[Bridge]
Tell me what you see
Tell me what you know
Is there anyone who lives a painless life?
If there is, show me so
The destitute and famished
Demonic and the banished
Dejected and the ostracized
The brainwashed and the paralyzed
The conquered and objectified
The few who see the other side
Tell me what you see
It's a mortal, wretched cacophony
[Verse 4]
In the end, you may find there's no guiding, subtle light
No ancestors, no friends, no judge of wrong or right
Just eternal silence and dormancy
And a final, everlasting peace
[Chorus]
Why do we pity the dead?
Are you churned by emotion from voices in your head?
Look at all the living and you'll ask yourself why
Oh why do we pity the dead?
The Streets of America Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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 dreams
Searching for a thoroughfare to take us away
[Chorus 1]
Just a little tale from the streets of America
Sparkled promises, paved with pathos and hysteria
Trenchant, weary native sons
Step back and see the damage done
Meander to the horizon
The streets of America
[Verse 2]
Black, tarred concrete, pine for me
Lying dormant for you and country
Hardened surface, cracked within
Catch the sweat from off of the chin
Of men and women, senior and child
Who look to you and your sterile miles
And in their stares is bald dismay
For what you fucking promised when you led them astray
[Chorus 1]
[Bridge]
Hard-cracked, daunting, lifeless veins
False hope corridors to greener pastures is all that remains
[Chorus 2]
Say a little prayer for the streets of America
Sparkled promises, paved with pathos and hysteria
Trenchant, weary native sons
Step back and see the damage done
Shoot straight into the horizon
The streets of America
Victory Lyrics
[Verse 1]
The velveteen and oaken fixtures 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
[Chorus]
Victory
Instinct over intellect
Victory
It erupts from deep inside
History
History is laughing at us plotting its discovery
Victory, victory
Blame it on the victory
[Verse 2]
Among the parade crowd there stands a decorated man
Remembering how he helped to save this sacred land
His helpless enemy was wounded, both hands raised with hope
He killed him without second thought with brute force and a rope
[Chorus]
Victory
Instinct over intellect
Victory
It erupts from deep inside
History
History is laughing at us plotting its discovery
Victory, victory
Blame it on the victory
[Bridge]
So many times, so many lives test the other side
Waiting to see what the maker has in mind
[Verse 3]
The unsuspecting commoners hum diligent each day
They wallow in their father's sins as time passes away
The crimes are without motive but they ignore all restraint
The evil sits inside them torpid, timing its escape
[Chorus]
Victory
Instinct over intellect
Victory
It erupts from deep inside
History
History is laughing at us plotting its discovery
Victory, victory
Blame it on the victory
Blame it on the victory
Blame it on the victory
Plotting its discovery
Victory, victory
Blame it on the victory
Come Join Us Lyrics
[Verse 1]
So you say you gotta know why the world goes around
And you can't find the truth in the things you've found
And you're scared shitless 'cause evil abounds
Come join us
Well I heard you were looking for a place to fit in
Full of adherent people with the same objective
A family to cling to and call brethren
Come join us
[Chorus]
All we want to do is change your mind
All you need to do is close your eyes
Come join us
Come join us
Come join us
[Verse 2]
Don't you see the trouble that most people are in?
And that they just want you for their own advantage?
But I swear to you, we're different from all of them
Come join us
I can tell you are looking for a way to live
Where truth is determined by consensus
Full of codified, arbitrary directives
Come join us
[Chorus]
All we want to have is your small mind
Turn it into one of our own kind
You can go through life adrift and alone
Desperate, desolate, on your own
But we're looking for a few more stalwart clones
Come join us
Come join us
Come join us
[Verse 3]
We've got spite and dedication as a vehement brew
The world hates us, well we hate them, too
But you're exempted, of course, if you
Come join us
Independent, self-contented, revolutionary
Intellectual, brave, strong and scholarly
If you're not one of them, you're us already so
Come join us
Come join us
Come join us
Come join us