Álbum Stranger Than Fiction de Bad Religion - Canciones

Stranger Than Fiction

1994 |

Estilo(s) | Punk

Sello | Atlantic

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Listado de canciones del álbum Stranger Than Fiction

IncompleteVer letra 2:28

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letra de Incomplete
Mother, father, look at your little monster,
I'm a hero, I'm a zero,
I'm the butt of the worst joke in history,
I'm a lock without a key,
A city with no door, a prayer without faith,
A show without a score,
I'm a bad word, a wink, a nod, a shiver,
An untold story, s** without purity,
A creeping gray memory,
I am incomplete.... Incomplete.... Incomplete.... Incomplete

Doctor, cure me; what is the cause of my condition,
This madness shoots me,
Like bullets smashing glass in a silent movie,
I'm a trap without a spring,
A temple with no god,
A jack without an ace,
The tip of your tongue,
I'm a promise, an unmailed letter,
An unbuilt motor, deck without a joker,
A creeping gray memory
I am incomplete.... Incomplete.... Incomplete.... Incomplete

Tell Saint Peter not to bet on me,
I got a naked obsession,
A good intention gone bad,
I am incomplete.... Incomplete.... Incomplete.... Incomplete
Leave Mine To MeVer letra 2:07

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letra de Leave Mine To Me
There are desperate times upon us,
There are codes of white and black,
Political resentment and people start to crack,
There's hate and opposition,
There's fumbling dialog,
Yet you sit there and judge me
And you think it makes a difference

If you think I'm all alone you are foolishly wrong,
There's an entire army who blindly follow along,
And you happen to be one of them believe it or not,
Even though you try not to be we are of the same plague

The other ways we're taught to fear,
Don't even scratch the surface of the problem here,
I'm not blind, and I'm not scared,
So many crucial factors exist out there,
And we're but one, and they're bout two,
And how we come to terms will help us pull through

Things cannot change too fast,
It took us this much time,
To reach our current platform and walk this fragile line,
If I thought I'd make a difference I'd kill myself today,
But so many are like me lost in the fray

You create your own reality,
And leave mine to me
Stranger Than FictionVer letra 2:20

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letra de Stranger Than Fiction
A febrile shocking violent smack
The children are hoping for a heart attack,
Tonight the windows are watching,
The streets all conspire,
And the lamppost can't stop crying,
If I could fly high above the world,
Would I see a bunch of living dots spell the world stupidity?,
Or would I see hungry lover homicides,
Loving brother suicides,
And olly olly oxenfrees,
Who pickaside and hide

The world is scratching at my door,
My morning papers got the scores,
The human interest stories, and the obituary

Cockroach naps and rattling traps,
How many devils can you fit upon a match head?,
Caringosity killed the Kerouac cat,
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction

In my alley around the corner,
There's a wino with feathered shoulders,
And a spirit giving head for crack and he'll never want it back,
There's a little kid and his family eating crackers like thanksgiving
And a pack of wild desperados scornful of living

The worlds is scratching at my door....

Cradle for a cat, Wolfe looks back,
How many angels can you fit upon a match?
I want to know why Hemingway cracked,
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction

Life is the crummiest book I ever read,
There isn't a hook, just a lot of cheap shots,
Pictures to shock and characters an amateur would never dream up
Tiny VoicesVer letra 2:36

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letra de Tiny Voices
The brown and orange sky holds it's breath
As the sun retreats to the distant horizon,
And our hearts palpitate anxiously as we soon will lay supine,
And wait for sleep to overcome us

And from somewhere in our black,
Subconscious minds when we're asleep,
Comes a haunting swelling mass of voices,
Resonating, it's screams of forgotten victims and the cries of innocence,
And the desperate plea for recognition and recompense

Tiny voices, echoes of our heritage,
Our long and sallow faces turn the other way,
Tiny voices, harbored deep within
As we outwardly deny that they have something to say,
And if we don't confront them they will never go away

The billions of tiny pinhole embers fade into a morning sky
Filled with poignant morose wonder,
Waking a bear a cosmetic peace that verifies the turmoil
Which we carry deep inside
The HandshakeVer letra 2:50

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letra de The Handshake
Every time you shake someone's hand and it feels like your best friend,
Could it be that it's only superficiality?,
Without regard to well-being, without an inkling of compromise,
Handshakes are nothing but a subtle "fuck you",
Contracts determine the best friendships

This is the way of the modern world, everyone's vying for patronage,
This is the way of the modern world, and something has gotta give

Every time you shake someone's hand,
And you share neither color or creed,
You gotta overcome the obstacles of history,
There is restrained passion, mistrust, and bigotry

And these have created the new foundations of society,
There's no harmony just class and race

This is the way of the modern world,
Everyone's fighting for dominance,
This is the way of the modern world,
And something has gotta give

Now I believe in unity, and I am willing to compromise,
But I'm not gonna lie or sell my soul

Every time you shake someone's hand,
It determines where you stand,
And if you won't uphold your side then it's better to
Fend for yourself, and shun the handshake,
Someone's gotta give
Better Off Dead 2:39
Infected 4:08
TelevisionVer letra 2:03

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letra de Television
Television, television, television, television

Oh yeah! I want to bask in your golden light,
Submerge in electric waves,
I need my connection to the world outside

The world outside is buzzing like an angry wasp in summer,
The candidates are running, and soon the son of God is coming,
Crackle mental convolutions tune in to the revolution,
Whereby everyone's included so we'll never have to be alone

Every atom of my body, blood and sinew, bone and fibre,
I can't distil you from my blood,
You're a hungry germ inside of me,
You're my lover, you're my heroine,
My conscience and my voice,
And I know that I have learned to let you in I
Will lever have to be alone

I'd take after my mother but she's from a different generation,
I prefer my big brother he's so gentle and understanding,
And I learn what I can from him by the television light,
So that when I'm all alone I know everything's gonna be alright
IndividualVer letra 1:58

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Individuals run for cover,
For the multitudes of thoughtless clones have reached a critical mass,
Individuals hide in fear, under cover,
Sheltered by the wafer thin veil of intelligence

Individuals, nowhere to be seen

Urbana is oozing like a bloated carcass,
With maggots cooking in the desert heat,
Oozing, with progeny writhing and desperate
For input from someone more determined

Congregating in invisible circles,
Half apart and half apart,
All too aware of the insignificance,
Pushing on with soul and heart

Individuals don't pray for forgiveness,
When pinned up against the wall under siege of persecution,
Individuals command exception,
And accept dichotomy,
Maybe you can't choose anymore

Procreation without gain or purpose,
Languid wills and torped minds,
Catapulted ever faster by the arrow of time
Hooray For Me...Ver letra 2:50

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letra de Hooray For Me...
I can see my teenage father standing straight on a desolate corner,
In the shadow of tentacled towers by the red light of America,
I imagine how his mother felt when she heard that her husband was dying,
And that underground heroes of the tarmac shooting smack were blowing up worlds

And Damned out loud,
He, can you tell me how does it feel?

Yeah, tell me, can you imagine, for a second,
Doing anything that you don't have to?
Well that's what I'm accustomed to so hooray for me

When I slept with stony faces on the riverbank,
My angeldevil reveller shook me desperately in dying,
I don't exactly want to apologize for anything, and now
We're all mad and tangled in secret rooms with roman candles,
On an endless graveyard train

Yeah, tell me, can you imagine, for a second, doing
Anything just 'cuz you want to?
Well, that's just what I do so hooray for me

Yeah, I was dreaming through the "howzlife", yawning,
Car black, when she told me "mad and meaningless as ever..",
And a song came on my radio like a cemetery rhyme,
For a million crying corpses in their tragedy of respectable existence

Oh, yeah, I'm not respectable, and never sensible,
I've been incredible so damned irascible
And I like the things I do so hooray for me
SlumberVer letra 2:39

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letra de Slumber
So, you're feeling unimportant,
'Cuz you've got nothing to say.
And your live is just a ramble
No one understand you anyway

Well, I got a piece of news son,
That might make you change your mind
Your life is historically meaningfull
And spans a significant time

Slumber will come soon
And you are helping to put it to sleep
Side by side we do our share
Faithfully assuring that
Slumber will come soon.

Well, now do you feel a little better
Lift up your head and walk away
Knowing we're all in this togeter
For such a short time anyway

There is just no time to parade around
Sulking, I would rather laugh than cry
The rich, the poor, the strong, the weak
We share this place together
And we pitch into help it die

I'm not too good at giving morals
And I don't fear the consequence
If life makes you scred and bitter
At least it's not for very long

Slumber will come soon.
MarkedVer letra 1:48

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letra de Marked
If I'm a monster,
I am a willing one,
This roller coaster ride is an enticing one,
On the tip of a continuum flowing wavelike
Through disorder carry me like a vessel to water

Everything you see leaves a mark on your soul,
Everything you feel leaves a mark on your soul,
Everything you touch leaves a mark on your soul,
Everything you make leaves a mark on your soul

If I can touch it,
I can destroy it,
If it's imaginable to some degree,
I can become it,
Like a hungry turning vortex that just flickers to existence,
Consuming bits and pieces until I'm finally extinguished

Everyone you see leaves a mark on your soul,
Everyone you bare leaves a mark on your soul,
Everyone you touch leaves a mark on your soul,
Everyone you love leaves a mark on your soul

Everything you take leaves a mark on your soul,
Everything you give leaves a mark on your soul,
And all the fear and loneliness that's impossible to control,
And every tear you cry leaves a mark on your soul
Inner LogicVer letra 2:58

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letra de Inner Logic
Automatons with business suits clinging black boxes,
Sequestering the blueprints of daily life
Contented, free of care, they rejoice in morning ritual
As they file like drone ant colonies to their office in the sky

I don't ask questions, don't promote demonstrations,
Don't look for new consensus, don't stray from constitution
If I pierce the complexity I won't find salvation
Just the bald and over truth
Of the evil and deception

There is an inner logic,
And we're taught to stay far from it
It is simple and elegant,
But it's cruel and antithetic
And there's no effort to reveal it

Graduated mentors stroll in marbled brick porticos
In sagacious dialog they despise their average ways
Displaying pomp and discipline, they mold their institution
Where they practice exclusion on the masses every day

Decorated warriors drill harmless kids on pavement
Simulating tyranny under red alert
Protecting the opulent and staging moral standard
They expect redemption of character and self-growth

(no equality, no opportunity,
No tolerance for the progressive alternative...)
What It IsVer letra 2:08

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letra de What It Is
There's a purpose, there's a goal,
There's a virtuos, and immoral,
There's a reason for all of this,
And I don't know what it is

I am one, and plural too,
I accept them but they exclude,
I could make sense of all of this,
But I don't know what it is

The seeds of inspiration never germinated in my mind,
The beacon of awakening is somewhere that I can't find, so
I don't know what it is

There's a beginning, and there's an end,
There's a climax, some would contend,
There's a way to signify this,
But I don't know what it is
21st Century (Digital Boy) 2:47
News From The FrontVer letra

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letra de News From The Front
Blood is a river,
Flowing darkly amidst the tangled roots of the tall shining city
Crazy flowing mantide migrations
Engorge the big ventricle of heartbroken america
So many heaven hoping, hopeful groping breathers
All tap together quietly and desperately in unison
Hey, hey, hey, is anybody listening?

News from the front
News from the front
Were living in troubled times
So many fighting for their lives
Why do the troops despise the news from the front?

Ignorance is the root of fear
Fear is the kindling of anger
War is the bringer of shame
But never has the burden lain so heavily upon the victim
Rage and desolation
Pain and loneliness
isn't it all alarmingly familiar?
Hey, hey, hey, silence is a killer.

News from the front
News from the front
Yeah these are troubled times
How many more will have to die
Before the governors can't deny the news from the front?

Break down the barriers, ally the carriers,
What is your motivation? Take a good look in the mirror

News from the front
News from the front
So many are fighting for their lives
How many more will have to die?
Why does the government decry the news from the front?
Markovian ProcessVer letra

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You will all say that I am surely crazy
Only an unrepentant pessimist whose thoughts should be detained
But facts are sterile, not vulgar nor sublime
And theyre not religion, theyre for everyone
And signify the times
Today is a window, tomorrow the landscape
All you need to do is take a look outside
To know what were bound to face

The level of disparity
The common man
The manner of destruction of the native land
The poverty of reprisal from all involved
And the scathing trajectory from the past

Markovian process lead us not in vain
Prove to our descendants what we did to them
Then make us go away
Leaders and Followers