The Empire Strikes First de Bad Religion

Listado de Canciones

1. Overture1:09
2. Sinister Rouge1:53

   Letra

   Innocents burned, Alive at the stake Tortured and dumped In nameless graves Centuries wane Authority died Scattering seeds of ancient lies Sinister rouge Coming back for more To even the score Sinister rouge Coming back for more To even the score Child molesters And Jesuits Holding secret conference Underneath the pontiff's nose And only God will ever know Sinister rouge Coming back for more To even the score Sinister rouge Coming back for more To even the score Give us this day Our daily bread Your legacy We'll not forget Lick the wounds Cleanse the land The modern world Rejects your hand Sinister rouge Coming back for more To even the score Sinister rouge Coming back for more To even the score Sinister rouge The nightmare comes in sinister rouge
3. Social Suicide1:35

   Letra

   Right now Well it's finally time to face my fears Gonna get the hell out of here And create a fresher atmosphere But the consequence is clear There's a furnace set on high And a yearning undefined But it's time to turn the tide It's social suicide Like you Perserverence is a useless tool Just a patron on a ship of fools Feigning interest in the cast and crew Why you've broken every single rule There's a furnace set on high And a yearning undefined But it's time to turn the tide It's social suicide Shadows entertain the unwashed masses Scholars explain their numb reactions I don't even know if I can ever find truth But I'm sure it won't come from following you There's a furnace set on high And a yearning undefined But it's time to turn the tide It's social suicide
4. Atheist Peace1:57

   Letra

   Maybe it's too late for an intellectual debate, But a residue of confusion remains. Changing with the times, And developmentally tortured minds Are the average citizen's sources of pain. Tell me what we're fighting for- I don't remember anymore, Only temporary reprieve And the world might cease If we fail to tame the beast From the faith that you release Comes an atheist peace. Atheist peace. Political forces rent Bitter cold winds of discontent And the modern age emerged triumphantly. But now it seems we've stalled And it's time to de-evolve And relive the dark chapters of history Tell me what we're fighting for- No progress ever came from war, Only a false sense of increase And the world won't wait For the truth upon a plate But we're ready now to feast on an atheist peace. Atheist peace
5. All There Is2:57

   Letra

   This song goes out To all the hopeless sinners, With grave allegiances, So meaningless and vain, The walking wounded in a pagent of contenders Who balance on a rail of pain for just a pail of rain And everything is barely mist, blood relations and bricks My expression, my confession, add it up, extract a lesson, more than this, Once again, like a bullet as a friend, tell me: can that be all there is? In my rectory of doubt, I kneel to pray like one devout, As time the great gray dreamless sleep of a useless modern god Erodes away each storied day as wretched Adams with hell to pay Content upon a rail of pain for just a little rain. And everything is dearly missed, blood relations and bricks My expression, my confession, add it up, extract a lesson, more than this, Once again, like a bullet as a friend, tell me: can that be all there is? There's an endless disposition, And it doesn't mean a goddamn thing- There's space for a paper-airplane race in the eye of a hurricane. And if pigs could fly, then surely so could I, But this pedestrian knows better than to even try, And my divinity is caught between the colors of a butterfly. And everything is dearly missed, blood relations and bricks My expression, my confession, add it up, extract duress and more than this, Once again, like a bullet as a friend, tell me: can that be all there is? All there is?
6. Los Angeles Is Burning3:23

   Letra

   Somewhere high in the desert near a curtain of a blue St. Anne's skirts are billowing But down here in the city of the lime lights The fans of santa ana are withering And you can't deny that living is easy If you never look behind the scenery It's showtime for dry climes And bedlam is dreaming of rain When the hills of los angeles are burning Palm trees are candles in the murder wind So many lives are on the breeze Even the stars are I'll at ease And los angeles is burning This is not a test Of the emergency broadcast system Where malibu fires and radio towers Conspire to dance again And I cannot believe the media Mecca They're only trying to peddle reality, Catch it on prime time, story at nine The whole world is going insane When the hills of los angeles are burning Palm trees are candles in the murder wind So many lives are on the breeze Even the stars are I'll at ease And los angeles is burning A placard reads "the end of days" Jacaranda boughs are bending in the haze More a question than a curse How could hell be any worse? The flames are stunning The cameras running So take warning When the hills of los angeles are burnin Palm trees are candles in the murder wind So many lives are on the breeze Even the stars are I'll at ease And los angeles is burning
7. Let Them Eat War2:57

   Letra

   There's a prophet on a mountain and he's making up dinner With long division and writing crop Anybody can feel like a winner When it's served up piping hot But the people aren't looking for a handout They're America's working corps Can this be what they voted for? Let them eat war [x2] That's how to ration the poor Let them eat war [x2] There's an urgent need to feed Declining pride From the force to the union shops The war economy is making new jobs But the people who benefit most Are breaking bread with their benevolent hosts Who never stole from the rich to give to the poor All they ever gave to them was a war And a foreign enemy to deplore Let them eat war [x2] That's how to ration the poor Let them eat war [x2] There's an urgent need to feed Declining pride We've got to kill 'em and eat 'em Before they reach for their checks Squeeze some blue collars Let them bleed from their necks Seize a few dollars from the people who sweat Cause it's freedom or death and they won't question it At a job site the boss is god like Conditioned workhorses park at a stoplight Seasoned vets with their feet in nets A stones throw away from a rock fight But not tonight, feed 'em death Here comes another ration (feed them death) Cause they're the finest in the nation (feed them death) When there's nothing left to feed them When it's freedom or it's death Let them eat war [x2] That's how to ration the poor Let them eat war [x2] There's an urgent need to feed
8. God's Love2:32
9. To Another Abyss4:07

   Letra

   Not long ago, and yet the image is so vague I hesitate to label it a memory There was a show of local color and I felt astray Cause I had nothing to offer but insufficiency And you know that it's such a bitch When you learn to scratch that itch Of blatant fallibility Sooner to some, but eventually All gets pointed in the same direction While the human masses and their vague conceptions Obliterate each other with impunity And you wonder, "what's in this for me?" To another abyss To no avail The search is bound to fail To another abyss To no avail So long ago I set sail And it chills me to the bone That I'm so far away from home To another abyss So what should I do now? What should I celebrate? Given finite means and a penchant to depreciate How can I still avow and depend upon a state That cares nothing for my happiness, welfare, or fate? And I know I can't explain The commotion in my brain Like a terrifying reality Deconstructed but inadequately All gets pointed in the same direction While the human masses and their vain conceptions Obliterate each other with impunity And release the weight of history [Chorus] So long ago, so long ago...oh, I set sail And I'm struggling on the way And I'm waiting for the day (to another abyss) And I'm looking for the way back home (to another abyss) So far away (to another abyss) So far away (to another abyss) (to another abyss) So far away (to another abyss)
10. The Quickening2:19

    Letra

    The quickening is an ephemeral thing That only happens in the dark Like catching lightning in a jar And the pain that it brings Is just the promise of spring It's madness on the way Oh, what does it mean... To come alive To come alive To come alive (To come alive) To come alive To come alive To come alive The entering is soulful conjecturing Oh, lost and by the wind grieved ghost Come back to me again Because the way that she bleeds Is in the law that he reads Confusing words and deeds So what does it mean... [Chorus] To pierce the vein of the sacred and profane Poor science, in service of a faith But who will bear the mark of Cain? [Chorus]
11. The Empire Strikes First3:23

    Letra

    We strike first And we're unrehearsed Here we go again To stage the greatest show on heaven and earth Come on, get your money's worth Don't wanna live (can't live) Don't wanna give (can't give) Don't wanna be (won't be) E-M-P-I-are-E Don't wanna live Don't wanna be E-M-P-I-are-E We're comin on fast And we're built to last We stumbled once in 'Nam Now we're glad to finally say Those days have passed Tell me how long can it last! Don't wanna live (can't live) Don't wanna give (can't give) Don't wanna be (won't be) E-M-P-I-are-E Don't wanna live Don't wanna be E-M-P-I-are-E We just started out You don't need to be afraid Yeah you deserve two minutes hate Well, we spit and we cursed and our bleeding hearts burst But even ten million souls Marching in February couldn't stop the worst, Couldn't reverse Don't wanna live Don't wanna give Don't wanna be E-M-P-I-are-E Don't wanna live Don't wanna be E-M-P-I-are-E I can't live If it isn't with you
12. Beyond Electric Dreams4:02

    Letra

    Here we go now No one here can show you where it is but I can point to a sign On the roof of the world without apparent design The frozen definition of a lunatic ambition to rise The air is thin, the future dim, dimension hard to find Up on a mountain encased in solar rays Beyond electric dreams of inarticulate passion plays Coming down a mountain, eons have a human ring The conversation of impassive planets Intercepted by a human being Ratioclination is a practicable way to derive An attitude of altitude and probity by which to abide Or maybe of the a theophany of flaming creosote in disguise The air is thin, the future dim, dimension undefined Up on a mountain encased in solar rays Beyond electric dreams of inarticulate passion plays Coming down a mountain, eons have a human ring The conversation of impassive planets Intercepted by a human being Here glaring cold in the crystalline geometry of night, Obscuring form and tracing faceless fears Of a suprahuman immensity in a patch of sand Or a raptors guileless shivering intensity, I'm only a visitor, And atom of atoms on a jutting red splattered synagogue of granite As it crouches literally in space, A frozen amoral giant gazing heavenward forever Let's go where the raptor goes to the mountain in a cosmic glow We'll have a genuine terrestrial show on a mountain - on a mountain Let's scan the horizon clean for any trace of human schemes And try to touch upon immortal themes on a mountain - on a mountain
13. Boot Stamping On A Human Face Forever3:49

    Letra

    "Drop dead, it doesn't matter," she said "It only hurts when I laugh," she said "Sometimes it's never a crime "To spend the day in bed" She made certain that the curtains were red To dream better by the light they would she'd She leaned back, tilted her head And this is what she said... "You can't win; think it over again "I can't win; look at the trouble I'm in "We can't win and we're stuck here together "Yeah, I hope it will last forever." "Don't ever dare to hope," he said "So I'm never let down too bad "I know there's nowhere to go "So I'll just stay here, instead" He knew better than to pull at a thread They unravel like the thoughts in his head He looked out; it filled him with dread And this is what he said... [Chorus:] With good books and looks on their side And hearts bursting with national pride They sang songs and went along for the ride And the other side complied They said, "Hey, man, where do you reside?" "And could it be mother's superior lied?" "And is it possible too many have died?" It's only natural to reply [Chorus:]
14. Live Again (The Fall Of Man)3:35
15. The Surface Of Me [Japan bonus track]