EPITAPH ( 06/2004 )
TRACK LISTING
1. Overture
2. Sinister Rouge
3. Social Suicide
4. Atheist Peace
5. All There Is
6. Los Angeles Is Burning
7. Let Them Eat War
8. God's Love
9. To Another Abyss
10. The Quickening
11. The Empire Strikes First
12. Beyond Electric Dreams
13. Boot Stamping On A Human Face Forever
14. Live Again – The Fall Of Man
15 - Surface Of Me ( Bonus Track )
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Sinister Rouge:
Innocents burned alive on the stake
Tortured and dumped in nameless graves
Centuries waned , authority died
Scattering seeds of ancient lies
Sinister rouge coming back for more to even the score
Sinister rouge coming back for more to even the score
Child molesters and Jesuits holding secret conference
Underneath the Pontiff's nose and only God will ever know
Sinister rouge coming back for more to even the score
Sinister rouge coming back for more to even the score
Give us this day our daily bread
Your legacy we'll not forget
Lick the wounds, cleanse the land
The modern world rejects your hand
Sinister rouge coming back for more to even the score
Sinister rouge coming back for more to even the score
Sinister rouge
Sinister rouge
Sinister rouge
Sinister rouge
Sinister rouge
Sinister rouge
The nightmare comes in sinister rouge
Social Suicide:
Right now! Well it's finally time to face my fears
Gonna get the hell outta here
And create a fresher atmosphere
But the consequence is clear
There's a furnace set on high
And a yearning undefined
But it's time to turn the tide
It's social suicide
Like you! Perseverance is a useless tool
Just a patron on a ship of fools
Feigning interest in the cast and crew
While you've broken every single rule
There's a furnace set on high
And a yearning undefined
Now it's time to turn the tide
It's social suicide
Shadows entertain the unwashed masses
Scholars explain their numb reactions
I don't even know if I can ever find truth
But I'm sure it won't come from following you
There's a furnace set on high
And a yearning undefined
But it's time to turn the tide
It's social suicide
Maybe it's too late for intellectual debate
But a residue of confusion remains
Oh, changing with the times and developmentally tortured minds
Are the average citizen's sources of pain
Yeah, (Tell me what we're fighting for)
I don't remember anymore
Only temporary reprieve
And the world might cease
If we fail to tame the beast
From the faith that you release
Comes an atheist peace
Atheist peace
Political forces rent
Bitter cold winds of discontent
And the modern age emerged triumphantly
But now it seems we've stalled
And it's time to de-evolve
And relive the dark chapters of history
Yeah, (Tell me what we're fighting for)
No progress ever came from war
Only a false sense of increase
And the world won't wait
For the truth upon a plate
But we're ready now to feast on an atheist peace
Oh, yeah
Oh, an atheist peace
This song goes out to all the hopeless sinners
With grave allegiances so meaningless and vain
The walking wounded in a pageant of contenders
Who balance on a rail of pain for just a pail of rain
And everything is barely mist
Blood relations and bricks
My expression, my confession
Add it up, extract a lesson more than this
Once again, like a bullet as a friend
Tell me: can that be all there is?
In my rectory of doubt
I kneel to pray like one devout
As time, the great, gray dreamless sleep of a useless modern God
Erodes away each storied day as wretched Adams with hell to pay
Content upon a rail of pain for just a little rain
And everything is dearly missed
Blood relations and bricks
My expression, my confession
Add it up, extract a lesson more than this
Once again, like a bullet as a friend
Tell me: can that be all there is?
There's an endless disposition
And it doesn't mean a goddamn thing
There's space for a paper-airplane race in the eye of a hurricane
And if pigs could fly, then surely so could I
But this pedestrian knows better than to even try
And my divinity is caught between the colors of a butterfly
And everything is dearly missed
Blood relations and bricks
My expression, my confession
Add it up, extract a lesson more than this
Once again, like a bullet as a friend
Tell me: can that be all there is?
All there is?
Somewhere high in the desert near a curtain of blue
St. Anne's skirts are billowing
But down here in the city of limelights
The fans of Santa Anna are withering
And you can't deny the living is easy
If you never look behind the scenery
It's show-time for dry climes
And bedlam is dreaming of rain
When the hills of Los Angeles are burning
Palm trees are candles in the murder-wind
So many lives are on the breeze
Even the stars are ill at ease
And Los Angeles is burning
This is not a test of the Emergency Broadcast System
Where Malibu fires and radio towers conspire to dance again
And I cannot believe the media Mecca
They're only trying to peddle reality
Catch it on prime-time, story at nine:
The whole world is going insane
When the hills of Los Angeles are burning
Palm trees are candles in the murder-wind
So many lives are on the breeze
Even the stars are ill at ease
And Los Angeles is burning
A placard reads, "the end of days"
Jacaranda boughs are bending in the haze
More a question than a curse:
How could hell be any worse?
The flames are stunning
The camera's running
So take warning
When the hills of Los Angeles are burning
Palm trees are candles in the murder-wind
So many lives are on the breeze
Even the stars are ill at ease
And Los Angeles is burning
There's a prophet on a mountain and he's making up dinner
With long division and a riding crop
Anybody can feel like a winner
When it's served up piping hot
But the people aren't looking for a handout
They're America's working corps
Can this be what they voted for?
Let them eat war
Let them eat war
That's how to ration the poor
Let them eat war
Let them eat war
There's an urgent need to feed declining pride
From the force to the union shops
The war-economy is making new jobs
But the people who benefit most
Are breaking bread with their benevolent host
Who never stole from the rich to give to the poor
All he ever gave to them was a war
And a foreign enemy to deplore
Let them eat war
Let them eat war
That's how to ration the poor
Let them eat war
Let them eat war
There's an urgent need to feed declining pride
We've got to kill 'em and eat 'em before they reach for their checks
Squeeze some blue collars, let them bleed from their necks
Seize a few dollars from the people who sweat
‘Cause it's freedom or debt and they won't question it
(They won't question it)
At a jobsite the boss is God-like
Conditioned work horses park at a stoplight
Seasoned vets with their feet in nets
A stone's throw away from a rock fight
But not tonight, feed ‘em death
Here comes another ration (feed ‘em death)
‘Cause they're the finest in the nation (feed ‘em death)
When there's nothing left to feed ‘em with
‘Cause it's freedom or it's death
Let them eat war
Let them eat war
That's how to ration the poor
Let them eat war
Let them eat war
There's an urgent need to feed
Striking at mental apparitions like a drunk on a vacant street
Silently beset by the hands of time indelicate in its fury
An aberrant "crack" as skelatons yield to unrelenting gravity
While viruses prowl for helpless victims who succumb rapidly
(Tell me)
Tell me where is the love in a careless creation?
When there's no above there's no justice
Just a cause and a cure, and a bounty of suffering
It seems we all endure
And what I'm frightened of is that they call it God's love
Well twisted torment, make-believe
There's a truth and we all submit
Believe my eyes, my brain complies to all that they interpret
(So tell me)
Tell me where is the love in a careless creation?
When there's no above there's no justice
Just a cause and a cure, and a bounty of suffering
It seems we all endure
And what I'm frightened of is that they call it God's love
I know there's no reason for alarm
But who needs perspective when it comes to pain and harm?
We can change our minds, there's a better prize
But first you've got to tell me
Tell me where is the love in a careless creation?
When there's no above there's no justice
Just a cause and a cure, and a bounty of suffering
It seems we all endure
And what I'm frightened of is that they call it God's love
They call it God's love
My pain is God's love
Not long ago, and yet the image is so vague
I hesitate to label it a memory
There was a show of local color and I felt astray
'Cause I had nothin' to offer but insufficiency
And you know that it's a bitch
When you learn to scratch that itch
Of blatant fallibility
Sooner to some, but eventually
All gets pointed in the same direction
While the human masses and their vague conceptions
Obliterate each other with impunity
And you wonder, "What's in this for me?"
To another abyss
To no avail
The search is bound to fail
To another abyss
To no avail
So long ago I set sail
And it chills me to the bone that I'm so far away from home
To another abyss
So what should I do now?
What should I celebrate
Given finite means and a penchant to depreciate ?
How can I still avow and depend upon a state
That cares nothing for my happiness, welfare, or fate?
And I know I can't explain the commotion in my brain
Like a terrifying reality deconstructed but inadequately
All gets pointed in the same direction
While the human masses and their vague conceptions
Obliterate each other with impunity
And release the weight of history
To another abyss
To no avail
The search is bound to fail
To another abyss
To no avail
So long ago I set sail
And it chills me to the bone that I'm so far away from home
To another abyss
So long ago
So long ago
Oh, I set sail
And I'm struggling on the way
And I'm waiting for the day (To another abyss )
And I'm looking for a way back home
(To another abyss ) So far away
(To another abyss ) So far away
(To another abyss )
(To another abyss ) So far away
(To another abyss
The quickening is an ephemeral thing
That only happens in the dark
Like catching lightening in a jar
And the pain that it brings is just the promise of spring
It's madness on the wing
Oh, what does it mean?
To come alive
To come alive
To come alive
(To come alive)
To come alive
To come alive
To come alive
The entering is soulful conjecturing
Oh, lost and by the wind-grieved ghost
Please come back to me again
Because the way that she bleeds
Is in the law that he reads
Confusing words and deeds
So what does it mean?
To come alive
To come alive
To come alive
(To come alive)
To come alive
To come alive
To come alive
To pierce the vein of the sacred and profane
Poor science in the service of a faith
But who will bear the mark of Cain
To come alive
To come alive
To come alive
To come alive
To come alive
To come alive
To come alive
To come alive
To come alive
To come alive
To come alive
To come alive
We strike first and we're unrehearsed
Here we go again to stage the greatest show on heaven and earth
Come on, get your money's worth
Don't want to live (Can't live)
Don't want to give (Can't give)
Don't want to be (Won't be)
E - M - P - I - R - E
(Can't live) Don't want to live
(Can't give) Don't want to be (Won't be)
E - M - P - I - R - E
We're comin' on fast
And we're built to last
We stumbled once in 'Nam now we're glad to finally say those days have past
Tell me how long can it last?
Don't want to live (Can't live)
Don't want to give (Can't give)
Don't want to be (Won't be)
E - M - P - I - R - E
(Can't live) Don't want to live
(Can't give) Don't want to be (Won't be)
E - M - P - I - R - E
We just started out
You don't need to be afraid
Yeah, you deserve two minutes hate
Well, we spit and we cursed
And our bleeding-hearts burst
But even ten million souls marching in February
C ouldn't stop the worst
C-c-c-couldn't reverse
Don't want to live (Can't live)
Don't want to give (Can't give)
Don't want to be (Won't be)
E - M - P - I - R - E
(Can't live) Don't want to live
(Can't give) Don't want to be (Won't be)
E - M - P - I - R - E
(Can't live, can't give, won't be)
Don't want to live (Can't live)
Don't want to live (Can't give)
Don't want to be (Won't be)
I can't live if it isn't with you
(Can't live, can't give, won't be, E - M - P - I - R - E)
Don't want to live (Can't live)
Don't want to live (Can't give)
Don't want to be (Won't be)
E - M - P - I - R - E
(Here we go now)
No one here can show you where it is but I can point to a sign
On the roof of the world without apparent design
The frozen definition of a lunatic ambition to rise
(The air is thin, the future dim, dimension hard to find)
Up on a mountain encased in solar rays
Beyond electric dreams of inarticulate passion plays
Coming down a mountain
Eons have a human ring
The conversation of impassive planets
Intercepted by a human being
Ratiocination is a practicable way to derive
An attitude of altitude and probity by which to abide
Or maybe a theophany of flaming creosote in disguise
(The air is thin, the future dim, dimension undefined)
Up on a mountain encased in solar rays
Beyond electric dreams of inarticulate passion plays
Coming down a mountain
Eons have a human ring
The conversation of impassive planets
Intercepted by a human being
(Here glaring cold in the crystalline geometry of night)
(Obscuring form and tracing faceless fears)
(Of a suprahuman immensity in a patch of sand)
(Or a raptor's guileless shivering intensity)
(I'm only a visitor, an atom of atoms )
(On a jutting red-spattered synagogue of granite)
(As it crouches literally in space)
(A frozen, amoral giant gazing heavenward forever)
(Hello, hello, hello, hello)
(Let's go where the raptor goes)
(To the mountain in a cosmic glow)
(We'll have a genuine terrestrial show)
(On a mountain, on a mountain)
(Let's scan the horizon clean)
(For any trace of human schemes)
(And try to touch upon immortal themes)
(On a mountain, on a mountain)
(Let's go where the raptor goes)
Coming down a mountain
(To the mountin in a cosmic glow)
Eons have a human ring
(We'll have a genuine terrestrial show)
The conversation of impassive planets
(On a mountain, on a mountain)
Intercepted by a human being
(Let's scan the horizon clean)
Up on a mountain
(For any trace of human schemes)
Encased in solar rays
(And try to touch upon immortal themes)
Beyond electric dreams
On a mountain, on a mountain
(Let's go where the raptor goes)
Coming down a mountain
(To the mountain in a cosmic glow)
Eons have a human ring
(We'll have a genuine terrestrial show)
The conversation of impassive planets
On a mountain, on a mountain
(Let's scan the horizon clean)
Up on a mountain
(For any trace of human schemes)
Encased in solar rays
(And try to touch upon immortal themes)
Beyond electric dreams
On a mountain, on a mountain
(Let's go where the raptor goes)
Coming down a mountain
(To the mountain in a cosmic glow)
Eons have a human ring
(We'll have a genuine terrestrial show)
The conversation of impassive planets
On a mountain
Boot Stamping On A Human Face Forever:
"Drop dead, it doesn't matter," She said
"It only hurts when I laugh," She said
Sometimes it's never a crime to spend the day in bed
She made certain that the curtains were red
To dream better by the light they would shed
She leaned back, tilted her head, and this is what she said:
"You can't win, think it over again
I can't win, look at the trouble I'm in
We can't win, and we're stuck here together
Yeah, I hope it will last forever"
"Don't ever dare to hope," He said
"So I'm never let down too bad
I know there's nowhere to go, so I'll just stay here instead"
He knew better than to pull on a thread
They unravel like the thoughts in his head
He looked out, it filled him with dread
And this is what he said:
"You can't win, think it over again
I can't win, look at the trouble I'm in
We can't win, and we're stuck here together
Yeah, I hope it will last forever"
With good books, and looks on their side
And hearts bursting with national pride
They sang songs that went along for the ride
And the other side complied
They said, "Hey man, where do you reside?"
And, "Could it be Mother Superior lied?"
And, "Is it possible too many have died?"
It's only natural to reply:
"You can't win, think it over again
I can't win, look at the trouble I'm in
We can't win, and we're stuck here together
Yeah, I hope it will last forever"
The road is narrow, the horizon wide
And they say what's waiting on the other side
Is so rewarding and the ultimate prize
But what good is something if you can't have it until you die?
Desperate, tenacious , clinging like a grain of sand
Watching its foundation wash away
Wash away
Drunk with the assertions they know they can't defend
Confident that they might live again
Live again, live again
Would you give it all up to live again?
Live again, live again
Would you give it all up to live again?
Temptation, revelation , you decide
Torture shows its colors often in disguise
Progress and purpose help us realize
We pass along a brighter faith
Even though it must be blind
Desperate, tenacious , clinging like a grain of sand
Watching its foundation wash away
Wash away
Drunk with the assertions they know they can't defend
Confident that they might live again
Live again, live again
Would you give it all up to live again?
Live again, live again
Would you give it all up to live again?
Let's go
Oh, desperate, tenacious , clinging like a grain of sand
Watching its foundation wash away
Wash away, yeah
Drunk with the assertions they know they can't defend
Confident that they might live again
Live again, live again
Would you give it all up to live again?
Live again, live again
Would you give it all up to live again?
Live again, live again
Would you give it all up to live again?
Live again, live again
Would you give it all up to live again?
Surface Of Me ( Bonus Track )
Oh Yeah!
A study of history reveals an unflagging appeal to mystery
You talk about abstraction at the top of a list
Well, you might as well get pissed
'Cause in me the essence does not exist, no
Yeah, yeah
(Shallow) You're so shallow
How can the romance hope to be the veil of
An ersatz human nature that can pacify (Pacify)
But never slept well when there's a pretention of living a lie
Take me as I am
Judge me for my crimes
I can say I'll behave freely all the time
You can predict what I'll say (Say)
It's in my DNA
But soon I'll be a catalogue number anyway
So say a little prayer
Convince yourself that someone cares
All I am is what you see
There is nothing more than the surface of me
There is nothing more than the surface of me (Me)
You know!
Oh Yeah
Apologies to Skiner, but I do believe I feel like I'm a winner
Having just discovered a long solved model secret
Of how I always feel so goddamn downtrodden and desperate?
Take me as I am
Judge me for my crimes
I can say I'll behave freely all the time
You can predict what I'll say (Say)
It's in my DNA
But soon I'll be a catalogue number anyway
So say a little prayer
Convince yourself that someone cares
All I am is what you see
There is nothin more than the surface of me
There is nothin more than the surface of me (Me)
Take me as I am
Judge me for my crimes
I can say I'll behave freely all the time
You can predict what I'll say (Say)
It's in my DNA
But soon I'll be a catalogue number anyway
So say a little prayer
Convince yourself that someone cares
All I am is what you see
There is nothin more than the surface of me
There is nothin more than the surface of me (Me)
There is nothin more than the surface of me (Say a little prayer)
There is nothin more than the surface of me
What you see is the surface of me
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LINE UP
Greg Graffin: Vocals and Harmonies
Mr. Brett: Guitar
Greg Hetson: Guitar
Brian Baker : Guitar
Jay Bentley: Bass Guitar
Brooks Wackerman
: Drums
CREDITS
Musician, Vocals: Sage Francis
Design: Nick Pritchard
Musician, Guitar: Mike Campbell
Musician: Claudia Sarne
Musician: Leopold Ross
Photography: Matt Rubin
Producer|Group Member, Vocals: Greg Graffin
Assistant Engineer: June Murakawa
Member, Bass|Vocals (Background): Ian Bentley
Member, Guitar: Greg Hetson
Member, Guitar|Vocals: Brian Baker
Musician, Violin: David Bragger
Programming|Musician: Atticus Ross
Photography: Sean Murphy
Mastering: Tom Baker
Group Member, Percussion|Drums: Brooks Wackerman
Producer|Guitar|Vocals (Background): Brett Gurewitz
Engineer|Mixing: Joe Barresi
Assistant Engineer: Pete Martinez
Musician, Organ (Hammond): John Ginty
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