NOFX
The Decline
*Bolded are the lines most important to me
Where are all the stupid people from?
And how'd they get to be so dumb?
Bred on purple mountain range
Feed amber waves of grains
To lesser human beings, zero feelings
Blame it on Human nature, mans destiny (mans destiny)
Blame it on the greediocracy (greediocracy)
Fear of God, The fear of change, The fear of truth
Add the Bill of Rights, subtract the wrongs
There's no answers
Memorize and sing star spangled songs
When the questions, Aren't ever asked
Is anybody learning from the past?
We're living in united stagnation
Father what have I done? I took that 22 a gift to me from you to bed with me each night kept it clean polished it well cherished every cartridge, every shell.
Down, by the creek, under brush, under dirt there's a carcass of my second kill
Down, by the park, under stone, under pine there's a carcass of my brother William
Brother where, have you gone to? I swear, I never thought I could I see so many times
They told me to shoot straight, don't pull the trigger, squeeze, that will insure a kill, a kill is what you want, to kill is why we breed
The Christians love their guns
The church and NRA
Pray for their salvations
Prey on the lower faiths
The story book's been read
And every line believed
Curriculum's been set
Logic is a threat
Reason searched and seized
Jerry spent some time in Michigan
A twenty year vacation, after all he had a dime
A dime is worth a lot more in Detroit
A dime in California, a twenty dollar fine
Jerry only stayed a couple months
It's hard to enjoy yourself while bleeding out the ass
Asphyxiation is simple and fast
It beats seventeen fun years of being someones bitch
Don't think (Stay)
Drink your wine (Home)
Watch the fire burn (Be)
His problems not mine (Safe)
Just be that model citizen
I wish I had a schilling
(For each senseless killing)
For every senseless killing
I'd buy a government
America's for sale
And you can get a good deal on it
(A good deal on it)
And make a healthy profit
Or maybe, tear it apart
Start with assumption
That a million people are smart
Smarter than one
Serotonin's gone
She gave up, drifted away
Sara fled, thought process gone
She left her answering machine on
The greeting left spoken sincere
Messages no one will ever hear
Ten thousand messages a day
A million more transmissions lay
Victims of the laissez faire
Ten thousand voices, a hundred guns
A hundred decibels turns to one
One bullet, one empty head
Now with Serotonin gone
The man who used to speak
Performs a cute routine
Feel a little patronized
Don't feel bad
They found a way inside your head
And you feel a bit misled
It's not that they don't care, yeah
The television's put a thought inside your head
Like a Barry Manilow, jingle
I'd like, to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
A symphonic blank stare, yeah
It doesn't make you care (make you care)
Not designed to make you care (make you care)
They're betting you won't care (you won't...)
Place a wager on your greed
A wager on your pride
Why try to beat them when, a million others tried?
We are the whore
Intellectually spayed
We are the queer
Dysfunctionally raised
One more pill to kill the pain
One more pill to kill the pain
One more pill to kill the pain
Living through conformity
One more prayer to keep me safe
One more prayer to keep us warm
One more prayer to keep us safe
There's gonna be a better place
Lost the battle, lost the war
Lost the things worth living for
Lost the will to win the fight
One more pill to kill the pain
The going get tough, the tough get debt
Don't pay attention, pay the rent
Next of kins pay for your sins
A little faith should keep us safe
Save us
The human existence is failing. Resistance Essential. The future written off. The odds are astronomically against us
Only moron and genius, would fight a losing battle, against the super ego, when giving in is so damn comforting.
And so we go, on with our lives
We know the truth, but prefer lies
Lies are simple, simple is bliss
Why go against tradition when we can
Admit defeat, live in decline
Be the victim of our own design
The status quo, built on suspect
Why would anyone stick out their neck?
Fellow members of club "We've Got Ours".
I'd like to introduce you to our host
He's got his, and I've got mine
MEET THE DECLINE
This is an amazing song about the state of things in the world today. I agree with most of the song and the bolded stuff is what hits me the hardest or is exactly how I see things.
Why don't people care anymore, they do what's good at the moment, I find myself doing this sometimes and I hate that I do. "Where are all these stupid people from, and how'd they get to be so dumb?". Anything to make yourself feel better lessening human beings.
Your being taught to be patriotic. "Memorize and sing star spangled songs". We have all these borders and flags but they just lead to war, hate, and competition. We shouldn't be competing. No one's really trying to improve things anymore they think how they're living is the best things can get.
All we see and are taught is to kill. Movies about being the hero by killing as many "enemies" as you can. Why don't any rich people or politicians fight in wars? They're brainwashing the poor uneducated people to think you're being patriotic signing up to fight their war. The US makes weapons for you to fight with. Guess what? They also make weapons for the "enemies" to fight with. These people aren't your enemies, they're the enemies of the rich who want to remain in power and become richer.
"The story book's been read, And every line believed, Curriculum's been set" So your taught something your entire life so what? You’re going to believe it? Why not figure things out for yourself, instead of being brainwashed. "Don't feel bad, They found a way inside your head, And you feel a bit misled, It's not that they don't care, The television's put a thought inside your head like a Barry Manilow jingle."
Another thought, how do the rich get rich? Certainly not by being kind and fair, they get cheap labor from people you can't afford not to work for them. So now you have 2 main groups of rich people, both who got that way that same way, and now you have to choose whom of the two that you want in charge of your country. All this because they're the only ones who have the billions of $ to waste on campaigns. Why not every group have the same budget, why waste so much more money on trying to win, can't it be fair. All this wasted money can go towards a much better cause. If one group is really better do they really need all that money to win? "I wish I had a schilling, For every senseless killing, I'd buy a government, America's for sale, And you can get a good deal on it, And make a healthy profit, Or maybe, tear it apart, Start with assumption, That a million people are smart, Smarter than one"
Our lifestyles are becoming more and more putrid, everyone's living for their feelings in the moment. Nobody cares who they get married to anymore because they can just get divorced, meanwhile they screw up their children's way of thinking so that they need to escape and do the same things their parents did to screw up their lives. Reality is being so messed up that so many people just can't handle it so they need to retreat and find comfort in an early mate or drugs/alcohol or even pills of many different kinds because they think somethings wrong inside their heads. Well their is something wrong inside their heads and it's the parents' fault. It's not the way it has to be but nobody cares. "Serotonin's gone. She gave up, drifted away" *Serotonin is something that effects your sleeping patterns and your depression. "We are the whore, Intellectually spayed, We are the queer, Dysfunctionally raised. One more pill to kill the pain, One more pill to kill the pain, One more pill to kill the pain"
Our entire race is failing, there's pretty well no way out(at least that's how it seems). Only "Moron and Genius" would fight against "the decline" of everything when "the odds are astronomically against us". "WHEN GIVING IN IS SO DAMN COMFORTING". I believe the last lines speak for themselves and my opinion is not needed on them so I will state them again.
"And so we go, on with our lives
We know the truth, but prefer lies
Lies are simple, simple is bliss
Why go against tradition when we can
Admit defeat, live in decline
Be the victim of our own design
The status quo, built on suspect
Why would anyone stick out their neck?
Fellow members of club "We've Got Ours".
I'd like to introduce you to our host
He's got his, and I've got mine..."
MEET THE DECLINE (IN MORALS/VALUES, LOVE, RESPECT, UNDERSTANDING, AND HUMAN EXISTENCE)
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