Álbum Against the Grain de Bad Religion - Canciones
Against the Grain
1990 | 
Estilo(s) | Punk
Sello | Epitaph
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Reseña
El álbum Against the Grain cierra la trilogía de oro con la que Bad Religion definió el sonido del punk rock de finales de los ochenta y principios de los noventa. En este tercer disco en tres años, la banda mantiene intacta su increíble inspiración, entregando otra colección impecable de hardcore melódico. De este modo, el trabajo sigue la senda de sus predecesores, con canciones rápidas, melodías memorables y letras de una gran profundidad intelectual.
Además, quizás se percibe una mayor diversidad en los tempos y las estructuras, anticipando la evolución que vendría en discos posteriores. Por consiguiente, canciones como "21st Century (Digital Boy)", que regrabarían más tarde, o la propia "Against the Grain" se convirtieron en clásicos de su repertorio. Por esta razón, este álbum es el epílogo perfecto para su etapa más influyente, la confirmación de una banda en un estado de gracia creativo absolutamente irrepetible.
Listado de canciones del álbum Against the Grain
- Modern ManVer letra 1:58
[X]letra de Modern Man
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 short time you see,
Modern man, evelotionary betrayer,
Modern man, ecosystem destroyer,
Modern man, destroy yourself in shame,
Modern man, pathetic example of earth's organic heritage,
When I look back and think,
When I ponder and ask "why?",
I see my ancestors spend with careless abandon,
Assuming eternal supply, modern man...,
Just a sample of carbon-based wastage,
Just a fucking tragic epic of you and i - Turn On The LightVer letra 1:24
[X]letra de Turn On The Light
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 white
Incendiary lights, a beacon in the night, i'll burn relentlessly until
My juice runs dry, i'll construckt a rock of tempered beams and
Trusses and equip it with a million tiny suns, i'll install upon the
Roof on my compartment and place tinfoil on my floor and on my walls
Then i'll turn on the light... And i'll burn lika a roman fucking
Candle, like a chasm in the night, for a miniscule duration, ecstatic
Immolation, incorrigible delight - Get OffVer letra 1:43
[X]letra de Get Off
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 it's consequence, and I know I shouldn't but it's too
Much to ignore, an emotion I deplore, 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, rectilinear, this 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,
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, every time I scrutinize I just say "screw it",
We're on a ride down a blind conduit and I just want to get off - BlenderheadVer letra 1:12
[X]letra de Blenderhead
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 questions, your
Transgressions ar a danger flashing sign, challenge conventions and
Radiate your splendor and feel those flywheels curn your blenderhead,
Tally up the gleaming ventured on a wishing well, each shining trinket
H as a story it can tell, your moments pining like those tales all
Intertwining can become the rusted lining of a deep neglected shell,
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 you blenderhead - The Positive Aspect Of Negative ThinkingVer letra 0:57
[X]letra de The Positive Aspect Of Negative Thinking
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've suckled at its breast,
Grandiloquent in attitude, impassioned yet inept,
Frivolous gavel our design, ludicrous our threat,
Excursive expeditons leave us holding less and less,
So what does it mean?
When we tell ourselves it's only for a while we've been deceived
And it's only for a moment that the treasures of our day
Make life easier to complicate, the treasure thrown away,
I'm so tired of all the fucked up minds
Of all the terrorist religions and their bullshit lines,
Of all the hand-me-downs from all industrial crimes
All the weeping mothers and those who are led so blind,
From the plastic protests and the hands of time
And the pursuit of mirth and all hating kindMezclas: Karat Faye - AnesthesiaVer letra 3:04
[X]letra de Anesthesia
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 hell came over me,
Anesthesia, mona lisa, i've got a little gun, here comes oblivion,
I never loved you, how did you find me? the cops will never prove complicity now,
Anna..., all good children go to heaven!
I remember your face that august night when we lied about the beautiful time to come
And that crazy old man who came much too late and caused a chain reaction,
I've been hanging out here for eleven long years like a church mouse wondering where the cat has gone,
And looking at you now is driving me to distraction.
Anesthesia, mona lisa, i've got a little gun, here comes oblivion,
I never loved you, how did you find me? the cops will never prove complicity now,
Anna..., all good children go to heaven! - Flat Earth SocietyVer letra 2:23
[X]letra de Flat Earth Society
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 little lies
And the bright ship humana is sent far away with grave
Determination... and no destination, lie lie lie... yeah, nothing
Feels better than a spray of clean water and the whistling wind on a
Calm summer night but you'd better believe that down in their quarters
The men are holding on for their dear lives, the flat earth society is
Somewhere far away, with their candlesticks and compasses and the
Bright ship humana is well on it's way with grave determination... and
No destination, lie lie lie, ad inifinitum - Faith AloneVer letra 3:40
[X]letra de Faith Alone
Heard a sermon from a creaky pul pit with no one in the nave
I paid a visit to the synagogue and I left there feeling blame
No one could tell me what to do, they had not the capacity to answer me
What the world needs now is some answers to our problems
We can't buy more time 'cause our tender isn't valid
If your soul needs love you can get consoled by pity
But it looks as though faith alone won't sustain us no more
Watched the scientists throw up their hands conceding, "progress will resolve it all"
Saw the manufacturers of earth's debris ignore another green peace call
No one could tell me what to do, no one had the ability to answer me
What the world needs now is some accountability
We can't buy more time 'cause time won't accept our money
If your soul needs love you can always have my pity
But it looks as though faith alone won't sustain us no more...
What the world needs now is some answers to our problems
We can't buy more time 'cause our tender isn't valid
What the world needs now is some accountability
If your soul needs love you can get consoled by pity
But faith alone won't sustain us anymore
Faith alone won't sustain us anymore [to fade] - EntropyVer letra 2:24
[X]letra de Entropy
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 not a
Human issue, entropy, it's matter of course, entropy, enegery at all
Levels, entropy, from it you can not divorce and your pathetic moans
Of suffrage tend to lose all significance, extinction, degradation;
The natural outcomes of our ordered lives, power, motivation;
Temporary fixtures for which we strive, something in our synapses
Assures us we're ok but in our desequilibrium we simply can not stay,
It's entropy..., a stolid proposition from a man unkempt as I, my
Affectatious I can not rectify, but we are out of equilibrium
Unnaturally, a pang of conciousness at death and then you will agree - Against The GrainVer letra 2:09
[X]letra de Against The Grain
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 upstream,
I maintain against the grain, here labelled as a lunatic, sequestered
And content, there ignored and defeated by the government, ther's an
Oriented public who's magnetic force does pull, but away from the
Potential of the individual, against the grain..., 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 is your
Right to seize the day, but in all your acquisitions you will soone be
Swept away, against the grain..., there's a common consensus and a
Uncomfortable cheer, a reverberating chorus that anyone can hear, it
Sings "leve your cares behind you, just grab tenaciously", this
Lulling sense of purpose will destroy us rapidly, against the grain... - Operation RescueVer letra 2:08
[X]letra de Operation Rescue
It is an S. O. S. 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 rectifying troop is here,
The ones we have needed all these yers to stop the heious wrongdoings
And verify our moral benevolence as a people, operation rescue,
They're here to right our fall, they have heard a troubled call,
Operation rescue, you may wonder where they come from, but I just
Wonder why they're here at all, life ever-after is what they're in the
Business for, see them brandish the key to their kingdoms door, it's
Persuasive, it's a part of yoy and me but it's not overwhelming as
They wish it to be, if no one believed in fairy tales there would be
Nothing they could do but fail yet everywhere we look someone is
Trying to reassure our moral benevolence as a poeple, operation
Rescue..., you may wonder where they come from, but I just wonder what
Compels them allMúsicos invitados: Keith Morris (Backing Vocals) - God SongVer letra 1:38
[X]letra de God Song
And did those feet in ancient times trod on america's pastuers 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
Laying low, vying with those who you've traded your life to to bless
Your soul, and have they told you how to think, cleansed your mind of
Sepsis and automony? Or have you escaped scrutiny, and regaled
Yourself with depravity? Now we all see, "religion is just synthetic
Frippery, unnecessary in our expanding global cultural efficiency" and
Don't you fear this impasse we have built to our future? Ever so near,
And oh so austere - 21st Century (Digital Boy) 2:50
- Misery And FamineVer letra 2:35
[X]letra de Misery And Famine
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
Are in? The terse, oppressive blanket that's instilled here by our
Spin, it's misery and famin, 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, 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, but the firmament still covers them with it's malevolent seed,
It's misery and famine..., "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, 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, it's misery and famine... - UnacceptableVer letra 1:44
[X]letra de Unacceptable
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, on part per
Billion... Unacceptable, one part per million... Unacceptable, this
Mammoth program set upon us courtesy of the you. S. A., inexcusable are
The men before our time, I'd like to kick their ass for what they left
Behind, cancer-causing chemicals, ozone-depleting aerosols, we're all
Going to fry, so put your head between your legs and kiss your ass
GoodbyeMezclas: Karat Faye - Quality Or QuantityVer letra 1:34
[X]letra de Quality Or Quantity
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, quality
Or quantity: a choice you have to make, 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 ar a feast
For some you say, survival and living are concepts you can't equate,
Quality or quantity don't tell me they're the same - Walk AwayVer letra 1:52
[X]letra de Walk Away
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 when I asked
Him about it, he said "young man pay heed, you listen well to what I
Say, now there comes a time for a man to walk away", walk away, i'll
Be a parade, and i'll be determined that no one shall dissuade on my
Way, i'll sure take some time to burn all the bridges that I'm leaving
Behind, he passed by again and he was shivering from the cold, I'm not
Sure but I think that he was trying, he told me about the weather and
Something old to pay, "but tomorrow", he said, "i'm gonna surely walk away"
El álbum Against the Grain cierra la trilogía de oro con la que Bad Religion definió el sonido del punk rock de finales de los ochenta y principios de los noventa. En este tercer disco en tres años, la banda mantiene intacta su increíble inspiración, entregando otra colección impecable de hardcore melódico. De este modo, el trabajo sigue la senda de sus predecesores, con canciones rápidas, melodías memorables y letras de una gran profundidad intelectual.
Además, quizás se percibe una mayor diversidad en los tempos y las estructuras, anticipando la evolución que vendría en discos posteriores. Por consiguiente, canciones como "21st Century (Digital Boy)", que regrabarían más tarde, o la propia "Against the Grain" se convirtieron en clásicos de su repertorio. Por esta razón, este álbum es el epílogo perfecto para su etapa más influyente, la confirmación de una banda en un estado de gracia creativo absolutamente irrepetible.
[X]
I've got nothing to say,letra de Modern Man
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 short time you see,
Modern man, evelotionary betrayer,
Modern man, ecosystem destroyer,
Modern man, destroy yourself in shame,
Modern man, pathetic example of earth's organic heritage,
When I look back and think,
When I ponder and ask "why?",
I see my ancestors spend with careless abandon,
Assuming eternal supply, modern man...,
Just a sample of carbon-based wastage,
Just a fucking tragic epic of you and i
[X]
I had a friend who kept a candle in his pocket,letra de Turn On The Light
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 white
Incendiary lights, a beacon in the night, i'll burn relentlessly until
My juice runs dry, i'll construckt a rock of tempered beams and
Trusses and equip it with a million tiny suns, i'll install upon the
Roof on my compartment and place tinfoil on my floor and on my walls
Then i'll turn on the light... And i'll burn lika a roman fucking
Candle, like a chasm in the night, for a miniscule duration, ecstatic
Immolation, incorrigible delight
[X]
Lascivious, it's all that I can think of as I drag my feet, searchingletra de Get Off
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 it's consequence, and I know I shouldn't but it's too
Much to ignore, an emotion I deplore, 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, rectilinear, this 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,
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, every time I scrutinize I just say "screw it",
We're on a ride down a blind conduit and I just want to get off
[X]
Flying through a dark prismatic tunnel on a carousel, the earth isletra de Blenderhead
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 questions, your
Transgressions ar a danger flashing sign, challenge conventions and
Radiate your splendor and feel those flywheels curn your blenderhead,
Tally up the gleaming ventured on a wishing well, each shining trinket
H as a story it can tell, your moments pining like those tales all
Intertwining can become the rusted lining of a deep neglected shell,
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 you blenderhead
[X]
Let's gather 'round the carcass of the old deflated beast,letra de The Positive Aspect Of Negative Thinking
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've suckled at its breast,
Grandiloquent in attitude, impassioned yet inept,
Frivolous gavel our design, ludicrous our threat,
Excursive expeditons leave us holding less and less,
So what does it mean?
When we tell ourselves it's only for a while we've been deceived
And it's only for a moment that the treasures of our day
Make life easier to complicate, the treasure thrown away,
I'm so tired of all the fucked up minds
Of all the terrorist religions and their bullshit lines,
Of all the hand-me-downs from all industrial crimes
All the weeping mothers and those who are led so blind,
From the plastic protests and the hands of time
And the pursuit of mirth and all hating kind
[X]
Everybody is talking about the girl who went and killed the delivery man,letra de Anesthesia
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 hell came over me,
Anesthesia, mona lisa, i've got a little gun, here comes oblivion,
I never loved you, how did you find me? the cops will never prove complicity now,
Anna..., all good children go to heaven!
I remember your face that august night when we lied about the beautiful time to come
And that crazy old man who came much too late and caused a chain reaction,
I've been hanging out here for eleven long years like a church mouse wondering where the cat has gone,
And looking at you now is driving me to distraction.
Anesthesia, mona lisa, i've got a little gun, here comes oblivion,
I never loved you, how did you find me? the cops will never prove complicity now,
Anna..., all good children go to heaven!
[X]
Lie lie lie... the full moon is rising over dark water and the foolsletra de Flat Earth Society
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 little lies
And the bright ship humana is sent far away with grave
Determination... and no destination, lie lie lie... yeah, nothing
Feels better than a spray of clean water and the whistling wind on a
Calm summer night but you'd better believe that down in their quarters
The men are holding on for their dear lives, the flat earth society is
Somewhere far away, with their candlesticks and compasses and the
Bright ship humana is well on it's way with grave determination... and
No destination, lie lie lie, ad inifinitum
[X]
Heard a sermon from a creaky pul pit with no one in the naveletra de Faith Alone
I paid a visit to the synagogue and I left there feeling blame
No one could tell me what to do, they had not the capacity to answer me
What the world needs now is some answers to our problems
We can't buy more time 'cause our tender isn't valid
If your soul needs love you can get consoled by pity
But it looks as though faith alone won't sustain us no more
Watched the scientists throw up their hands conceding, "progress will resolve it all"
Saw the manufacturers of earth's debris ignore another green peace call
No one could tell me what to do, no one had the ability to answer me
What the world needs now is some accountability
We can't buy more time 'cause time won't accept our money
If your soul needs love you can always have my pity
But it looks as though faith alone won't sustain us no more...
What the world needs now is some answers to our problems
We can't buy more time 'cause our tender isn't valid
What the world needs now is some accountability
If your soul needs love you can get consoled by pity
But faith alone won't sustain us anymore
Faith alone won't sustain us anymore [to fade]
[X]
Random blobs of power expressed as that which we all disregard,letra de Entropy
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 not a
Human issue, entropy, it's matter of course, entropy, enegery at all
Levels, entropy, from it you can not divorce and your pathetic moans
Of suffrage tend to lose all significance, extinction, degradation;
The natural outcomes of our ordered lives, power, motivation;
Temporary fixtures for which we strive, something in our synapses
Assures us we're ok but in our desequilibrium we simply can not stay,
It's entropy..., a stolid proposition from a man unkempt as I, my
Affectatious I can not rectify, but we are out of equilibrium
Unnaturally, a pang of conciousness at death and then you will agree
[X]
Three thousand miles of wilderness overcome by the flow, a lonelyletra de Against The Grain
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 upstream,
I maintain against the grain, here labelled as a lunatic, sequestered
And content, there ignored and defeated by the government, ther's an
Oriented public who's magnetic force does pull, but away from the
Potential of the individual, against the grain..., 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 is your
Right to seize the day, but in all your acquisitions you will soone be
Swept away, against the grain..., there's a common consensus and a
Uncomfortable cheer, a reverberating chorus that anyone can hear, it
Sings "leve your cares behind you, just grab tenaciously", this
Lulling sense of purpose will destroy us rapidly, against the grain...
[X]
It is an S. O. S. Sent out telepathically, signs of our distress don'tletra de Operation Rescue
Allow complacency, we need restoration now of our integrity and a
Drastic bold reminder of our morality, the rectifying troop is here,
The ones we have needed all these yers to stop the heious wrongdoings
And verify our moral benevolence as a people, operation rescue,
They're here to right our fall, they have heard a troubled call,
Operation rescue, you may wonder where they come from, but I just
Wonder why they're here at all, life ever-after is what they're in the
Business for, see them brandish the key to their kingdoms door, it's
Persuasive, it's a part of yoy and me but it's not overwhelming as
They wish it to be, if no one believed in fairy tales there would be
Nothing they could do but fail yet everywhere we look someone is
Trying to reassure our moral benevolence as a poeple, operation
Rescue..., you may wonder where they come from, but I just wonder what
Compels them all
[X]
And did those feet in ancient times trod on america's pastuers ofletra de God Song
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
Laying low, vying with those who you've traded your life to to bless
Your soul, and have they told you how to think, cleansed your mind of
Sepsis and automony? Or have you escaped scrutiny, and regaled
Yourself with depravity? Now we all see, "religion is just synthetic
Frippery, unnecessary in our expanding global cultural efficiency" and
Don't you fear this impasse we have built to our future? Ever so near,
And oh so austere
[X]
So proud a history, replete with sanctity, orbs in their harmony, theyletra de Misery And Famine
Sing their code to me, have you ever heard yourself the orbit that you
Are in? The terse, oppressive blanket that's instilled here by our
Spin, it's misery and famin, 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, 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, but the firmament still covers them with it's malevolent seed,
It's misery and famine..., "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, 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, it's misery and famine...
[X]
Irreducible is the word for today, plastic compounds and nuclearletra de Unacceptable
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, on part per
Billion... Unacceptable, one part per million... Unacceptable, this
Mammoth program set upon us courtesy of the you. S. A., inexcusable are
The men before our time, I'd like to kick their ass for what they left
Behind, cancer-causing chemicals, ozone-depleting aerosols, we're all
Going to fry, so put your head between your legs and kiss your ass
Goodbye
[X]
Offer me eternity, and i'll trade a cup of coffee and a dime, lookingletra de Quality Or Quantity
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, quality
Or quantity: a choice you have to make, 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 ar a feast
For some you say, survival and living are concepts you can't equate,
Quality or quantity don't tell me they're the same
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Shut off the T. V. And peel off those sunday gloves, and i'll stain theletra de Walk Away
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 when I asked
Him about it, he said "young man pay heed, you listen well to what I
Say, now there comes a time for a man to walk away", walk away, i'll
Be a parade, and i'll be determined that no one shall dissuade on my
Way, i'll sure take some time to burn all the bridges that I'm leaving
Behind, he passed by again and he was shivering from the cold, I'm not
Sure but I think that he was trying, he told me about the weather and
Something old to pay, "but tomorrow", he said, "i'm gonna surely walk away"