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It Must Look Pretty Appealing Lyrics

The wheat waving next to you is healthy and so fine,
As is dinner with your loved ones every day.
But your routine is changeless through the decades of your life,
Green pastures, open spaces, holy ways.
And it must looks pretty appealing,
The crowded festive nights
And the millions of others just like you.
Yeah it must look pretty appealing,
This other world of sin.
We keep dreaming of what other people do.
The person sitting next to you is dismal and deranged
On the bus ride home from work to end your day.
And the food on your table is more plastic than protein,
And your intellect depends on your TV.
And it must look pretty appealing
The pastoral retreat,
And the few pleasant people just like you.
Yeah it must look pretty appealing,
The simple way of life.
We keep dreaming of what other people do.
But we never do what other people do.
You're too scared of other people not like you.
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Submitted by
oofus On Jun 02, 2001
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I like DJgif's comment,

On the plainest level it is meant to point out the horror of simplicity of life and society.

Graffin sounds like he is a mediator trying to sell each person the other's lifestyle.

But honestly each chorus makes everything sound horrible. And intent and cautious energy created by the music and style of Greg's singing makes the song sound very much like a warning. Amazing song.

Cover art for It Must Look Pretty Appealing lyrics by Bad Religion

An excellent song about the apparant fondness of a simple life. "Ignorance is bliss..." in song form.

Cover art for It Must Look Pretty Appealing lyrics by Bad Religion

Definately about the bliss of ignorance, how appealing it looks to just live such a simple manufactured life without knowing that there is so much more to life beyond it.

Cover art for It Must Look Pretty Appealing lyrics by Bad Religion

well thats a good idea but ive always listened to it and immediatly thought it was about how we look at other people's lives and admire them

Cover art for It Must Look Pretty Appealing lyrics by Bad Religion

One person lives a simple life, dreaming of the city. And another person lives a city life, dreaming of a simple life. People always dream of other lives, but they are too scared to be able to figure out that they aren't any better, no matter how appealing they look.

 
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