Bad Religion
Materialist
The Process Of Belief (2002)

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You're obsessed and distressed cause you can't make any sense
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Of the ludicrous nonsense and incipient senescence
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That will deem your common sense useless
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This ain't no recess

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  I wanna believe in you, but my plan keeps falling through
  I know I have to face the harshness, grin and bear the truth
  And I have to walk this mile in my own shoes (and I'm)

     (no fool)
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  I'm materialist     a full-blown realist
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  I guess I'm full of doubt so I'm prone to have it out with yoooou
  I'm materialist, there ain't no fear in this
  It's there for all to see, so don't talk of hidden mystery with me

Mind over matter, it really don't matter
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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 is shattered into shards
Was it in the cards?

  The process of belief is an elixir when you're weak
  I must confess, at times I indulge it on the sneak
  But generally my outlook's not so bleak (and I'm)

     (not meek)
  I'm materialist, call me a humanist
  And I guess I'm full of doubt so I'll gladly have it out with you
  I'm materialist, I ain't no deist
  It's there for all to see, so don't talk of hidden mystery with me

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Like Rome under Nero, our future's one big zero
Recycling the past to meet the immediate needs
And through it all we ramble forth with perservere and climb
Our mountains of regret to sow our seeds                        !

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