Bad Religion

carry out; ensure observance of laws and rules

I'm a member of a growing populace

We enforce our popularity

There are things that seem to pull us under, and

model; worthy of imitation

I've got it real bad, there's no remedy

My world picture is exemplary

I won't let you go, what else can there be?

sediment; sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid

With no one to look up to because they're looking up to us

Just misfit melancholy dregs, gone lost in the mall

Wanderers to nowhere at all

unpredictable; liable to sudden unpredictable change

Just a part of the scene

With mercurial smile and incurable style

She was only a dream

ever present; being present everywhere at once

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Ubiquitous compelling too

We cling to you like crazy glue

picture; show in, or as in, a picture

The fox-stained leaves of civilization

Depict a stark repeat

It's always a flaw in reasoning

fear; a feeling of alarm or dread

to justify the enemy

and it fills us all with trepidation

them and us

absurd; lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness

them and us

dire perpetuation and incongruous insistence

that there really is a difference

limitation; an attribute that must be met or that fits a person for something

Even though you remain determined to be opposed

Admittance requires no qualifications

It's where everyone has been, and where everybody goes

give up; part with a possession or right

When all soldiers lay their weapons down

Or when all kings and all queens relinquish their crowns

Or when the only true Messiah rescues us from ourselves

give up; do without or cease to hold or adhere to

It's been around for many a year, so polish up your granddad's gear

And shake, shake, shake with fear, waive your rights like you just don't care

Anyone can do it, it's easy if you dare

satisfy; fill to satisfaction

Tell me, does life exist beyond it?

When I need to sate, I just accelerate into oblivion

Into oblivion

damnation; (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil

Passing through your town today

I'll condemn you to fiery perdition

I'm a man with a mission

slight idea; a slight suggestion or vague understanding

Without regard to well being

Without an inkling of compromise

Handshakes are nothing but a subtle "fuck you"

gloomy; showing a brooding ill humor

The billions of tiny pinhole embers fade into

A morning sky filled with poignant morose wonder

Waking, we bear a cosmetic peace that verifies the turmoil

shaking; a violent disturbance

A morning sky filled with poignant morose wonder

Waking, we bear a cosmetic peace that verifies the turmoil

That we carry deep inside

swamp; a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot

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Have you visited the quagmire? Have you swam in the shit?

The party convention and the real politik

sophistication in speaking; using language effectively to please or persuade

The party convention and the real politik

The face is always different, the rhetoric the same

But we swallow it all, and we'll see nothing change

fool; fool or hoax

I'll make it go away

Believers, dupes and clowns

I want you all to gather around

sympathetic; showing empathy or ready comprehension of others’ states

And are proud of intellectual poverty

I'd like to be empathetic but I can't

The jeopardy is too great to make a stand

winding; curved or curving in and out

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Oh, the sinuous trails of concrete and rails and exhausted roars

Population wars, setting our future course

angry; quickly aroused to anger

Maybe incredible

So damned irascible

I like the things I do, so hooray for me

overly narrow representation; a conventional or formulaic conception or image

It determines wrong and right

But to me, it's just a stereotype

And it makes us lose our sight

wise; acutely insightful and wise

Graduated mentors stroll in marbled brick porticoes

In sagacious dialogue, they despise their average ways

Betraying pomp and discipline, they mold their institution

sturdy, tough; a person who is loyal to their allegiance (especially in times of revolt)

Desperate, desolate, on your own

But we're lookin' for a few more stalwart clones

Come join us

threatening; threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

Scattering seeds of ancient lies

Sinister rouge coming back for more

To even the score

unfair opinion; a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation

I ain't superstitious, but hey, do you know a good exorcist?

Despite darker tendencies, I've always had a strong bias to exist

And though recent developments seem like bad news for humanity

combination; the process of producing a chemical compound

The roads you take, the friends you make, and those you throw away

The method is a simple synthesis of the past and present state

You never lose if the path you choose is one you can easily navigate

diminish; grow smaller

An apocryphal popular mythology or a civilization in wane

Whatever your assessment is, a paradox remains

lethargy; a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility

Hand in hand

The arid torpor of inaction will be our demise

Oh-oh, Kyoto now

mild; not dangerous to health; not recurrent or progressive (especially of a tumor)

All promises become a lie

All thats benign corrupts in time

(The fallacy)

division; being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses

It's my poor friend me

A portrayal of the great dichotomy (great dichotomy)

It's my poor friend me

deviant; markedly different from an accepted norm

And elegant in its fury

An aberrant crack as skeletons yield

To unrelenting gravity

possible; capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are

And the verdict won't be kind

'Cause they're desperate for a viable alternative

Take a stance (take a stance), the resist stance

flatter; a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color

Don't we raise our voices to the sky?

Instead, we're mute and fawn, just waiting to die

Like some kind of hopeless housewife

thorough; characterized by extreme care and great effort

How can you care anymore?

It's a dangerous slip, a conscientious shift

The spirit of resistance, you gotta hold your grip

correct; math: determine the length of

In the wake of desperation

Rewrite the morals, rectify the nation

Now may be your time!

indifference; an absence of emotion or enthusiasm

Hey, do what you want but don't do it around me

Idleness and dissipation breed apathy

I sit on my ass all goddamn day

arrogant; creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction

A debt for all mankind

These haughty mental shackles make us blind

To what is really right (go!)

throw away; give, sell, or transfer to another

Like it or not, I'm all you've got

Dispose when I'm shot

Just don't sell me short, oh

corruption; moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles

I'm running out of time where conditions are positional

Shadows of a doubt cast reluctance and depravity

There's got to be a way to overcome this grim reality

unwillingness; (physics) opposition to magnetic flux (analogous to electric resistance)

I'm running out of time where conditions are positional

Shadows of a doubt cast reluctance and depravity

There's got to be a way to overcome this grim reality

unaware; (followed by `to’ or `of’) lacking conscious awareness of

Oh, obligations never cease

Oblivious of the ways to give his soul some peace

Yeah, papa and his family always on parade

disaster; an event resulting in great loss and misfortune

Tearing through the turnstiles, a weekender's charade

It's just a sick calamity that fatherhood made,

but time will tell, as their world crumbles to hell

hatred; a feeling of intense dislike

From the standards of democracy

A secret antipathy to justice and equality

And a tightly constrained definition of who is free

nobility; a privileged class holding hereditary titles

Liberty still wafting in the breeze

The new aristocracy just smells like the old regime

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threatening; threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

Liberty still wafting in the breeze

A new season dawns with ominous prophecy

Yeah, the new aristocracy just smells like the old regime

Paradise; ideally perfect state, especially in its social and political and moral aspects

A plutocratic strategy or technocrat conspiracy

Or a vision of utopia that only the besotten can see?

Old regime, smoke of history

party member; a fervent and even militant proponent of something

None willing to lend charity, just exercise their

Shades of truth and partisan conventions

Shades of truth between disparate lines

personal; taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias

Which version of freedom reigns

If everything is subjective

Then what good is truth anyway?

government; the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit

And a tightly constrained definition of who is free

Old regime, smoke of history

Liberty still wafting in the breeze

hypocritically pious in manner; excessively or hypocritically pious

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The sanctimonious, minions how they grovel at the feet

Authority (authority) is populist deceit

impressive; relating or belonging to or serving as a monument

Sound the revolution's thunder

A monumental blunder averted and betrayed

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illogical; not consistent with or using reason

Pity yet another casualty's demoralized decline

Just a victim of irrational design

Requiem

jumble; a confused multitude of things

And the merest sliver of a tune

You managed somehow to muddle through

So hold your head up high forgotten man

rebellion; organized opposition to authority

An adventure in secular morality

Shouldn't be an insurrection to us all

And a counterfeit political currency

worldly; someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person

An adventure in secular morality

Shouldn't be an insurrection to us all

not yet organized; only partly in existence; imperfectly formed

I've seen the rapture in a starving baby's eyes

Inchoate beatitude to the lord of the flies

So what does it mean

expressive; a pronoun that points out an intended referent

And I don't remember hearin' how Moses reacted when the innocent first born sons lay dead

Well, I guess God was a lot more demonstrative back when he flamboyantly parted the sea

Now everybody's prayin'

destroy; mark for deletion, rub off, or erase

While the human masses and their vague conceptions

Obliterate each other with impunity

And you wonder, "What's in this for me?"

purify; remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate

Every atom in my body, bone, sinew, blood, and fiber

I can't distill you from my blood, you're a hungry germ inside of me

You're my lover, my heroine, my conscience, and my voice

build; make by combining materials and parts

I won't resign before the struggle ends

So I'll construct this sound defense

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keen; having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect

Sparkled promises paved with pathos and hysteria

Trenchant, weary native sons

(Step back) step back and see the damage done

debt; the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required

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Deficit and depravation

In the wake of desperation

unstable; affording no ease or reassurance

But despair and oblivion

Of our precarious ways

It's ours to face now

hard working; quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness

Waiting to see what the maker has in mind

The unsuspecting commoners hum diligent each day

They wallow in their father's sins, as time passes away

say no; refrain from voting

Maintain subtle advantage

Fighting hard to abstain and redress

Do you know your place

support; support and strengthen

A plunder of the third world

Any wretched ploy that bolsters our economy

I ain't no blind supporter

complaint; express grief verbally

(It's easy) to confuse grand design with life's repercussions

Lament not your vanquished fantasy

It's only destiny

renounce; cast off

We all fall down, all fall down

Deprecate, repudiate, ameliorate, adjudicate

The wisdom found, wisdom found

prevent; do away with

Enrich the fallow soil with germs of perfection

Delegate, facilitate, investigate, and obviate

The black turns green, black turns green

expressionless; having or revealing little emotion or sensibility

Eons of a human reign

The conversation of impassive planets

Intercepted by the human being

voiceless; without or deprived of the use of speech or words

Beyond electric dreams

Of inarticulate passion plays

Coming down a mountain

truthfulness; complete and confirmed integrity; having strong moral principles

Ratiocination is a practicable way to derive

An attitude of altitude and probity by which to abide

Or maybe a theophany of flaming creosote in disguise

give up; leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily

People blow their minds

They choose to resign

This deformed society is part of a design

earthly; of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air

To the mountain in a cosmic glow

We'll have a genuine terrestrial show

On a mountain, on a mountain

improve; to make better

We all fall down, all fall down

Deprecate, repudiate, ameliorate, adjudicate

The wisdom found, wisdom found

breed; transmit from one generation to the next

The black turns green, black turns green

Separate, evaluate, and cultivate, and propagate

The master's dream, master's dream

criticize or belittle; cause to seem less serious; play down

The dissonance runs deep in me, resort to weak applause

Associate and denigrate the root without a cause

And just because the overwhelming odds are stacked away

unconsciousness; the state of being disregarded or forgotten

Anesthesia, Mona Lisa

I've got a little gun, here comes oblivion

I never loved you, how did you find me?

lack of harmony; a conflict of people’s opinions or actions or characters

Nothing to dismay

The dissonance runs deep in me, resort to weak applause

Associate and denigrate the root without a cause

condemn; express strong disapproval of

And when the joke of our centrality is upon us

Grovel and decry

Our vanity

trickery; the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

And if it ever gets here, you'll be offended, too

'Cause you cannot distinguish chicanery from truth

See, it's only entertainment

rolling or tumbling; a confused multitude of things

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Into a welter of night

Flack, rounds and roiling blight

limited; bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent

What should I celebrate

Given finite means and a penchant to depreciate?

How can I still avow

countless; too numerous to be counted

I heard them say that the meek shall reign on earth

Phantasmal myriads of sane bucolic birth

I've seen the rapture in a starving baby's eyes

pride; overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors

Yeah!

We're only gonna die from our own arrogance (only gonna die)

We're only gonna die from our own arrogance (only gonna die)

provocation; any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action

But the saddest thing of all eludes discovery

The stimulus for this somber ceremony

Requiem

divide; a vertical structure that divides (as a wall divides one room from another)

No apparition

A partition from the host

A temple of cognition

soothe; cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of

Hey, sister Bleeding Heart with all of your compassion

Your labors soothe the hurt, but can't assuage temptation

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greed; reprehensible acquisitiveness

Production and consumption define our hollow lives

Avarice has led us cross the ocean

Toward a land that's better, much more bountiful and wide

powerless; lacking power or ability

There's a panther wild and proud behind the doors of a redolent cage

And an undeveloped intellect filled with impotent and static rage

And don't think you're exempt if you earn a good weekly wages

overused phrase; a trite or obvious remark

Without a reason or rhyme

(Since when) Was the platitude of honorable mention

(Since when) Only a dishonor to behold

agreement; agreement in the judgment or opinion reached by a group as a whole

Maybe you've seen the light

But you know that popular consensus doesn't make it right

Nothing can go on while forever increasing

silly; devoid of intelligence

Is it any wonder

Things are so inane?

So many quests for compassion

hermit; one who lives in solitude

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Hey, recluse, don't shout at me

You proclaim yourself expert by extensions of the methods

approve; give sanction to

When mother nation, blood and religion

Sanction killing upon the Fields of Mars

High above the Fields of Mars

gap; a gap between cloud masses

And although the world rotates itself the only thing you twist is your mind

You see, the world's falling apart at the rifts

And surprisingly, the leaders can't make any sense of it

improve; improve or perfect by pruning or polishing

Looking back I'm off the tracks more times than I recognize

Mistakes are another opportunity to refine

My heart is not a cold cauldron of proof

impossible to correct; impervious to correction by punishment

Burn for a miniscule duration

Ecstatic immolation, incorrigible delight

dependable; incapable of failure or error

Let it dominate your life

Create a God who's infallible

Give your leader some respite

shyness; lack of self-confidence

And don't just be one of the crowd

Hesitance and diffidence will do you in

And your soul doesn't care for social medicine

revoke; cancel officially

Charity has a redolence

Chastity cannot rescind

Spirit shine, it's a sign of a tortured mind

moral story; a short moral story (often with animal characters)

You can fake another cry and compromise your dream, yeah

Cling tight to the parable

Let it dominate your life

difference; inequality or difference in some respect

To know what we're bound to face

The level of disparity, the common man

The manner of destruction of the native land

fleeing; lasting a very short time

The quickening

Is an ephemeral thing

That only happens in the dark

solidify; become gelatinous

If the street's idle chatter turns your heart strings to tatters

Flatter hopes don't flatter and soul batter won't congeal to mend a life

That's shattered into shards

beginning; only partly in existence; imperfectly formed

You're obsesssed and distressed 'cause you can't make any sense

Of the ludicrous nonsense and incipient senescence

That will deem your common sense useless

fragment; a broken piece of a brittle artifact

Flatter hopes don't flatter and soul batter won't congeal to mend a life

That's shattered into shards

Was it in the cards?

future generations; all of the offspring of a given progenitor

Waiting for endless charity

Devoid of any sense of posterity

Well, there's no Great Depression, and there's no Great Society

discourage; try to prevent; show opposition to

Don't just get lost in the crowd

No one can deter you from your own path

There's no trip too remote from which you can't come back

foresight; the power to foresee the future

It moved him secretly, it moved him powerfully

But prescience was lacking and the present was all

And his aptitudes were carelessly wasted

nearness; the property of being close together

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Recognition by proximity

And a brand new face

revenge; action taken in return for an injury or offense

Aggression rears its ugly head

Retaliation brings further dread

The two are linked by unseen threads

outside; on or near an edge or constituting an outer boundary; the outer area

Reflects the lowest mark of our progress

And the few who ride peripheral

Maintain subtle advantage

gradual reduction; erosion by friction

I know I'm part of something greater than myself

We're all engaging in a game of attrition

Maybe god is just a chemical fiction

whirlpool; a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides)

You took a time bomb and a case of crackers

And you made a maelstrom of organic debris

Then you took a workbench and a rusty anvil

regret; express strong disapproval of

And I know I shouldn't, but it's too much to ignore

An emotion I deplore

Every time I look at you

rural; of or relating to a pastor

And your intellect depends on your TV

And it must look pretty appealing, the pastoral retreat

The folks on old main street and the few pleasant people just like you

huge fire; a very intense and uncontrolled fire

Hey, Moral Soldier, you've got righteous proclamation

And precious tomes to fuel your pulpy conflagrations

And I wanna conquer the world

careful; marked by keen caution and watchful prudence

Whoa-oh (whoa-oh)

Change is the thing you're wary of

Whoa-oh (whoa-oh)

persistent; good at remembering

But what good is something if you can't have it until you die?

Desperate, tenacious, clinging like a grain of sand

Watching its foundation wash away, wash away

profit-seeker; a person who places expediency above principle

Remember how rejuvenation conquers all fears

Lowly opportunists take commanding roles

And hawk ultimatums, so their weakness won't show

violation; the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle

Hey, blenderhead, they're starting to ask questions

Your transgressions are a danger flashing sign

Challenge conventions and radiate your splendor

unharmed; not injured

Well, cultivation might've served you

Might've raised you up unscathed

If you had called that fucker by its name

lawlessness; state of lawless disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government)

Ordered states of nature on a scale which no one thinks about

Don't speak to me of anarchy or peace or calm revolt, man

We're in a play of slow decay orchestrated by Boltzmann

excessively heightened speech; lofty in style

We've nestled in its hollow, and we've suckled at its breast

Grandiloquent in our attitude, impassioned yet inept

Frivolous gavel our design and ludicrous our threat

dilemma; a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant one

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

silly; not serious in content or attitude or behavior

Grandiloquent in our attitude, impassioned yet inept

Frivolous gavel our design and ludicrous our threat

Excursive expeditions leave us holding less and less

penetrating; having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

We've 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

ageless; continuing forever or indefinitely

Propelled by a ghost force that never shows his face

Increase the ante of this perpetual pace

It's the fast life, there's nothing I can do

award; a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction

Let's gather round the carcass of the old deflated beast

We've seen it through the accolades and rested in its lea

Syntactic is our elegance, incisive our disease

restriction; the state of being physically constrained

There and back I never wait for a confident reply

Truth is stark and leaves its mark as limited constraints

And the most difficult part is accepting what the future may bring

wander; to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course

(Step back) step back and see the damage done

Meander to the horizon

The streets of America

inactive; in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation

Black, tarred concrete pine for me

Lying dormant for you and your country

Hardened surface, cracked within

limitation; the act of controlling by restraining someone or something

It's the primary rule, you gotta wanna be fooled

It's our daunted restraint that keeps us silent in shame

It's our nature to be adversarial and free

blame; express strong disapproval of; deplore

We all fall down, all fall down

Deprecate, repudiate, ameliorate, adjudicate

The wisdom found, wisdom found

bargain; discuss the terms of an arrangement

Conserve life, make it right

Kill the hate, negotiate

There'll be a way

assist; make easier

Delegate, facilitate, investigate, and obviate

The black turns green, black turns green

heroic poem; a long narrative poem telling of a hero’s deeds

Just a sample of carbon-based wastage

Just a fucking tragic epic of you and I

flourish; move or swing back and forth

Is what they're in business for

See them brandish

The key to our kingdom's door

contentedness; the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself

Signs of our distress

Don't allow complacency

We need restoration now

far reaching; spreading or spread throughout

The key to our kingdom's door

It's pervasive, a part of,

Part of you and me

servile; attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery

They bombard us every day

The masses are obsequious

Contented in their sleep

illusion; (psychology) an incorrect belief that is held in spite of evidence to the contrary

Limitless distractions give no pause

To distort a precious delusion

Delusion

warp; make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story

Limitless distractions give no pause

To distort a precious delusion

Delusion

ardent; characterized by intense emotion

We've nestled in its hollow, and we've suckled at its breast

Grandiloquent in our attitude, impassioned yet inept

Frivolous gavel our design and ludicrous our threat

avoid; avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of

Now that your road has been paved from conception to your grave

Enormous things to do, others' practices to eschew

To be better than you is impossible to do

disappear slowly; to cause to separate and go in different directions

Your achievements are unsurpassed, you are highly-ordered mass

But you can bet your ass, your free energy will dissipate

Two billion years thus far, now mister here you are

shame; changing to a lower state (a less respected state)

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Extinction, degradation, the natural outcomes of our ordered lives

Power, motivation, temporary fixtures for which we strive

fellow worker; an associate that one works with

That he had thought he found the answer, and he was quick to write his revelation

But as they were scrutinized, in his colleagues' eyes he soon became a mockery

Don't tell me about the answer 'cause then another one will come along soon

foreshadow; indicate by signs

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

slander; charge falsely or with malicious intent

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

deter; turn away from by persuasion

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

release from blame; grant remission of a sin to

Your superstitious lives,

And the modern age's lies won't absolve you

And the professorial truth,

psychic; someone who has the power of clairvoyance

And the professorial truth,

And the dear clairvoyant youth,

And of course the nightly news will deceive you

speech; a speech that is open to the public

Hope is pointless when you're stuck in the trawl

Fuck the freshman lectures and brandishments

They just betray impoverished accomplishments

attraction; (immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody

You took the most abundant, smallest bits of matter

And you instilled them with affinity

And then you stratified accumulations

expansion; growth by the rapid multiplication of parts

Culture was the seed of proliferation, but it's gotten melded

Into an inharmonic whole to an inharmonic whole

lack; an acute insufficiency

It's progress, 'til there's nothing left to gain

As the dearth of new ideas makes us wallow in our shame

So before you go, contribute more

kind; intending or showing kindness

And you sit there and watch the world go around

From your pseudo-benevolent vantage point

While we who've been left to pick up after you

seeming; clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment

Until one day I saw how miserably things really are

All fantastic images, they only are apparent

Propagated just by hope, and then, desire to share it

mark of disgrace; the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil

What the hell's the matter with the people on this planet, have we all gone insane?

The stigma of industrial progress killing us over and over again

It's one part per trillion, unacceptable

extensive; widely circulated or diffused

We're widespread and well fed the earth's rotating fate is in our head, oh yeah

We're dominant and prominent and our deity's omnipotent, oh yeah

consider equal; consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous

Your uneaten greens are a feast for some, you say

Survival and living are concepts you can't equate

Quality or quantity

abrupt; brief and to the point; effectively cut short

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 famine, it's a force we cannot see

wise; a mentor in spiritual and philosophical topics who is renowned for profound wisdom

I could be the archetype, a credit to the genotype, re-program your mind

But the storybook sages fill their pages

Hiding from the warming sun

random; based on individual preference or impulse

And the halcyon fields of opportunity turn out to be

Consensual and arbitrary

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notice; to become aware of through the senses

So here we are again to experience the bitter, scalding end

And we're the only ones who can perceive it.

But others sing of beauty and the story that's unfolded

presage; indicate by signs

So you figure it's God

Your whole life foreshadows death

And you finally realize you don't want to die alone

wear away; become ground down or deteriorate

And we come to a fork in the road

As we watch our foundations erode

There's only one direction to go

true or real; well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force

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

moral principle; the principles of right and wrong

Eradicate but vindicate as progress creeps along

Puritan work ethic maintains its subconscious edge

As old glory maintains your consciousness

justify; show to be right by providing justification or proof

Hey, sit down and listen and they'll tell you when you're wrong

Eradicate but vindicate as progress creeps along

Puritan work ethic maintains its subconscious edge

withdrawn; withdrawn from society; seeking solitude

Your home office is the window to your world, and the heart of your social life

Such reclusive behavior helps clear the roads and public works from overburden

Like the lower, middle class and others who depend shamelessly on their government

weak point; a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual

White trash, second generation

Stupid foibles, indignation

Offspring of suburban fright

placid; having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited

Entropy, from it, you can not divorce

A stolid proposition from a man unkempt as I

My affectatious nature I can't rectify

madness; state of violent mental agitation

Delirium of disorder

Delirium of disorder (hey)

positive thinker; a person disposed to take a favorable view of things

Watch them try

The cynic laughs at the optimist's closed eyes

Darkness falls, curtain calls, the cynic's beer soon overflows

deep; showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth

He's the latest superhero with powers so profound

He can leap a dotted line in just a single bound

praise; praise, glorify, or honor

Wipe your opaque eyes and restore your crystal vision

Turn another cheek and exalt in your decision

A bit of exercise for the universal cynic in you

not transparent or translucent; not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy

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Wipe your opaque eyes and restore your crystal vision

Turn another cheek and exalt in your decision

disgraceful person; reject (documents) as invalid

So what good advice have I got for you

To insure against your likely metamorphosis into this reprobate?

major change; the marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult

So what good advice have I got for you

To insure against your likely metamorphosis into this reprobate?

model; systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word

Keep yourself in line, there's no design

The new paradigm is crisis time

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lethargic; lacking spirit or liveliness

(Ah ah, ah) procreation without gain or purpose

(Ah ah, ah) languid wills and torpid minds

(Ah ah, ah, ah) catapulted ever faster

odorous; serving to bring to mind

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There's a panther wild and proud behind the doors of a redolent cage

And an undeveloped intellect filled with impotent and static rage

relieve; provide physical relief, as from pain

Dig real deep, until it hurts

Alleviate your guilt

Free yourself once again, because he gave to you, brothers and sisters

prevent; keep from happening or arising; make impossible

Early to bed and early to rise

Precludes you from seeing the most brilliant starry nights

Sticks and stones can break bones, words can't really hurt

clumsy; not elegant or graceful in expression

We've nestled in its hollow, and we've suckled at its breast

Grandiloquent in our attitude, impassioned yet inept

Frivolous gavel our design and ludicrous our threat

banish; refer to another person for decision or judgment

Thinking of inhibition and vice

What they call straight I do relegate

As I cautiously salted along

fanciful; not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic

Going through a world of sad debris

Regarding quixotic reveries of ownership

The blossoming disease of man called tenure and accretion

selflessness; the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others

Hoarding turns allure to discontent

Altruism's a grind all it's own

Morning makes you know you're in a cell

incompatibility; the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate

Stone cold dead not to see

Overwhelming incongruity

As we search for suggestions to remedy

irreligious; characterized by profanity or cursing

The principle

Of the profane rights of man

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foster; help develop, help grow

A constant check on privilege and wealth

Nurture it, provisioning a furtherance

Of fundamental democratic health

standstill; subject to a stalemate

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It's a stalemate of morality

A debt for all mankind

echoing; characterized by resonance

Unweathering the hands of time

Resonant vibrations set to a grand design

Ho, these are more than technological things