Bad Religion
Inner Logic
Stranger Than Fiction (1994)

Tune down 1/2 step

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  D5            B♭5             C5             D5                   (P.M.)
Automatons with business suits, swinging black boxes
  D5             B♭5           C5         G
Sequestering the blueprints of daily life
Content and free of care, they rejoice in morning rituals
As they file like drone ant colonies to their office in the sky

    D5        B♭5              C♯5          G♯5                      w/ (aah)
  I don't ask questions, don't promote demonstration
        F♯5             C♯5           G♯
  Don't look for new consensus, don't stray from constitution
       E♭5           C♭5        D5            A5
  If I pierce the complexity, I won't find salvation
           G5             D5           A
  Just the bald and overt truth of the evil and deception

          Dm          B♭     F  G C
    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

    A5 (P.M.)
              And there's no effort to reveal it

Dm  B♭  C  Dm  Dm  B♭  C  G  w/ semi-solo

Graduated mentors stroll in marbled brick porticos                   (moins)
In segacious dialog they despise their average ways
Betraying pomp and discipline, they mold their institutions          (semi-P.M.)
Where they practice exclusion on the masses every day

  Pré-refrain

    Refrain

Dm  B♭  C  Dm  B♭  F  A  w/ solo

Decorated warriors drill harmless kids on pavement                   (semi-P.M.)
Simulating tyranny under red alert
Protecting the opulent and staging moral standard                    (non)
They expect redemption of character and self-growth

    Refrain  w/ (Pré-refrain)  w/o effort

    Refrain  w/ (No equality, no opportunity)
                (No tolerance for the progressive alternative)

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