Bad Religion
The Positive Aspect Of Negative Thinking
Against The Grain (1990)

      D5                               A5
Let's gather 'round the carcass of the old deflated beast
        C5                                G5
We have seen it through the accolades and rested in its lea, yeah
Syntactic is our elegance, incisive our disease
The swath endogenous of ourselves will be our quandary, yeah

F5

We've nestled in its hollow and we've suckled at its breast
Grandiloquent in attitude, impassioned yet inept
Frivolous gavel our design, ludicrous our threat
Excursive expeditions leave us holding less and less

D5

                A5
So what does it mean?
        F5                             C5
When we tell ourselves it's only for a while, we have been deceived
         B♭5                        F5
And it's only for a moment that the treasures of our day
          C5
Make life easier to complicate
    B♭5
The treasure thrown away

--8<--

G5     F5
I'm so tired
Of all the fucked up minds
Of all the terrorist religions
And their bullshit lines

And of all the hand-me-downs
From all industrial crimes
And the weeping mothers
And those who are led so blind

         C5      B♭5
From the plastic protests
And the hands of time
And the pursuit of mirth
And all hating kind                              !