| Bad Religion – Sorrow Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| The song's not even about religion, except in maybe the most metaphorical sense, and we're talking stretching the metaphor to nearly its breaking point. If you go beyond it's, about what would actually be required for sorrow to end and just how hard it would be to have that. Every living soul being upright and strong would end the sorrow from hunger, and various other forms of sorrow. All soldiers laying their weapons down, and kings and queens relinquishing their crown would be the leaders of the world not only willingly giving up their power, but also soldiers refusing to fight, the most secular causes of war. And the final part about the only true messiah rescuing us from ourselves, would be some figure who could wipe out human nature, which prevents Every person from being upright and strong, leaders giving away their power, and soldiers fighting. Basically the song is saying that sorrow would never be gone until we stop being laptop using, medical science abusing, fast travelling cavemen. Hence the then I do imagine. The first few lines are setting up that it's a sort of debate. | |
| Bad Religion – Pity the Dead Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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If you get to it, it's not just asking religious people, but everyone why should we feel pity for the Boy in crimson rags, and the girl in the first verse being dead when we obviously cared so little for them when they were alive. The second verse just points out how insane the belief that we should only feel pity when someone dies in this world of disease, suffering and decay,and go about having a weird sense that we're still better than the dead, mainly because they're missing out on some random major event, even though they no longer have to be in this world. It's inconsequential whether it's some golden afterlife, or just being ash or wormfood, they don't have to worry at all about the crap we, the living, still have to put up with. And people ignore the may in the last vers, Greg, even an atheist who actually thinks on the question of is there life after death would admit we don't know anything beyond the body ceases to function at death, yes all signs may point to no guiding subtle light, etc, but we still don't know, however that body ceasing to function is the eternal silence and dormancy and everlasting peace (from the disease, suffering, and metaphorical decay) that's the very end of that verse. Really it's asking the question of why do we even feel pity for someone who's gone, when they have it so much better than every single living person. |
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