Bad Religion
Anxiety
No Control (1989)

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It's a love song to the self
A story recapped every day
It's a world of bogus feelings
And a world of slow decay

It's a world of laughter hidden
By this world of fear and torment
A game of strange compulsion
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Our visceral convulsion

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  Anxiety for love of life, anxiety for pain
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  Anxiety, a feeling that you know you can't contain
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  Anxiety destroys us but it drives the common man
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  Foundation of society, anxiety

  Suppress it if you can

(intro)

The caste of coffee-achievers
Didn't perform like they planned
The morning rush hour traffic
Is our play of false elan

So run around your frantic track
And lay you down to sleep
Tomorrow's the redemption
We strive for that exception

  Refrain

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What are we angry for?
We all need a common cure
That common goal for which you strive
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To have more than the other guy (have more than the other guy)

  (solo)

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The quest for the truth
The quest for the gold
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We end up all the same

The common lie
The righteous cry
We end up all the same

The angry crowd
Those lost and found
Everybody's all the same

The poet's pen
These words I lend
We all bend to

  Refrain

(reste, w/o "suppress it if you can")