Everybody needs a slogan in their pocket or two
It never hurts to have a strategy you can go to
Sometimes I have no sense at all
As most flawed men are one to do
Just say fuck you
Pavlovian rude
A menace too
Pay homage to
Your bad attitude
You can even get cerebral if you want to
Make a radical assessment that sticks like glue
Sometimes it takes no thought at all
The easiest thing to do
Is say fuck you
Pavlovian rude
A menace too
Pay homage to
Your bad attitude
The reaction it brings, just one of those things
Your friends might not want you around
If the impulse is right you might get in a fight
Even though you can't hold your ground
But all rest assured, sometimes just a word
Is the most satisfying sound
Sometimes it makes no sense at all
The easiest thing to do
Is say fuck you
Pavlovian rude
A menace too
Pay homage to your bad attitude
Just say fuck you
What you gonna do to your attitude
Just say fuck you
It never hurts to have a strategy you can go to
Sometimes I have no sense at all
As most flawed men are one to do
Just say fuck you
Pavlovian rude
A menace too
Pay homage to
Your bad attitude
You can even get cerebral if you want to
Make a radical assessment that sticks like glue
Sometimes it takes no thought at all
The easiest thing to do
Is say fuck you
Pavlovian rude
A menace too
Pay homage to
Your bad attitude
The reaction it brings, just one of those things
Your friends might not want you around
If the impulse is right you might get in a fight
Even though you can't hold your ground
But all rest assured, sometimes just a word
Is the most satisfying sound
Sometimes it makes no sense at all
The easiest thing to do
Is say fuck you
Pavlovian rude
A menace too
Pay homage to your bad attitude
Just say fuck you
What you gonna do to your attitude
Just say fuck you
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There's a place where everyone can be happy.
It's the most beautiful place in the whole fucking world.
It's made of candy canes and planes and bright red choo-choo trains,
And the meanest little boys and the most innocent little girls,
-idealises heaven as a perfection of this world, a playground for happy children
And you know I wish that I could got there.
It's a road that I have not found.
-greg wishes he could also believe this comforting fairytale
And I wish you the best of luck, dear.
Drop a card or letter to my side of town.
-you're free to pursue that fairytale but don't stop being my friend cause i don't follow you to those dreams, to the (religious) side of town
Because there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend,
But baby I'm amazed at the hate that you can send and
- humanity shouldn't be fighting each other, we got bigger problems coming up fast, he's amazed that religion can hate so many with such fervour when they are supposed to be good for you. with tales of the heaven awaiting you, how did they get you to hate all the non-believers?
But baby I'm amazed at the hate that you can send and
... painted my entire world.
But I... don't have the turpentine to clean what you have soiled.
- simple enough. religion/christianity has painted the entire world, redecorated it so it looks like what their religion tells them it should, and bad religion/the athiests/nonbelievers aren't strong enough to wipe that off and show people how it really is
There's a place where everyone can be right,
Even though you remain determined to be opposed.
- that place is, of course, death, and religions are determined to be opposed to anyone who says that death is the end
Admittance requires no qualifications:
It's where everyone has been and where everybody goes.
- it doesn't take prayers or blessings or a good life free of sin for someone to die. death is the same as pre-birth.
So please try not to be impatient,
For we all hate standing in line.
- don't rush to your death like life is some sort of waiting line for entrance to heaven
And when the farm is good and bought, you'll be there without a thought,
- when you die you'll go to this place, and you'll have no thoughts, no consciousness.
And eternity, my friend, is a long fucking time.
- and you'll be that way (ie non-existent) for ever, stressing the length of eternity a word often bandied around
And I won't forget it
- he's not gonna just give it up anytime soon
Firstly I see this as a song about heaven. The first verse at first talks about the kind of cliched visions of heaven we have, it being a perfect place with "candy canes and planes and bright red choo choo trains", this line suggests its a nice place. Then in the 2nd part of the verse it talks about how he doesn't share this vision. The 2nd verse talk about how everyone seems to be in such a rush to try and get there "please try not to be impatient" and ends with the line that always haunts me "eternity my friend is a long fucking time" which to me means that, well try and imagine how long eternity is...you wouldn't want to spend an eternity anywhere, obviously not in hell but would you even want to spend it in heaven? I'd rather be alive in a shitty world than alive in a boring heaven.
I also see the song as a kind of reverse love song, which im pretty sure Brett has also said in an interview somewhere. It can be interpreted this way if you think of the song talking about a relationship instead of heaven, and the chorus makes more sense this way aswell.
'drop a card or letter to my side of town'
'Admittance requires no qualifications:
It's where everyone has been and where everybody goes'
'And eternity, my friend, is a long fucking time'- heaven is suppsed to be eternal.
i dont know i might be wrong. but its open to self interpretation and im happy with mine :)
YES I'M A CONSPIRACY THEORIST
Anesthesia? 1000 Memories?
"You were the one, you were my everything", however, is not your typical relationship song lyrics. Writing songs about girls is not inherently evil, in and of itself...its boy bands and Avril Lavene that make it that way. Bad Religion sings about meaningful relationships...not skater boys or thong-thong-thong-thong-thongs.
Athiest does not mean loveless.
the chorus in particular seems to be sung as if greg was god himself..
'you painted my entire world' refers to how humans have destroyed his creation via wars and waste and consumerism
'.. and i wont forget it' suggests that these humans will pay for their sins in hell