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Bad Religion – Pride and the Pallor Lyrics 14 years ago
I believe this song is about Greg Graffin's childhood experience. I could, of course, be totally wrong. But, trying to piece together what I remember reading from interviews and other lyrics, the song seems to be describing a family life with a strict and traditional if not overbearing father; where all other members of the family feel obligated to follow the tradition or risk some kind of family estrangement. Some other Bad Religion lyrics seem to point to a similar family situation. I would say "Sorrow" touches on the same subject. There are multiple possible readings (one being that 'father' in the song is God) but I think the lyrics could be about his literal father:

Father can you hear me?
How have I let you down?
I curse the day that I was born
and all the sorrow in this world

Let me take you to the herding ground
where all good men are trampled down
Just to settle a bet that could not be won
between a prideful father and his son

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