Bad Religion

Nobody Listens

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Hey mister, don't point at me!
You shout rhetoric nonsense like a Pavlovian model responding to his questions!

Hey teacher, arrogance is bliss!
You spend your time turning water into life as if you were God's foreman!

Is it any wonder things seem so awry?
We swim in sea of confusion and don't have to think to survive
So nobody listens!

Hey Recluse, Dont shout at me!
You proclaim yourself expert by extensions of the methods detailed in your magazines!

Hey downer, Don't prey on me!
We've all got bum raps that torment us day to day that we hoist on our own shoulders!

Is it any wonder people pass you by?
Your plea for understanding is heard as desperate lies!
So nobody listens!

I can't help you
I can't help you
I can't help you
I can't help you now

Is it any wonder things are so inane?
So many quests for compassion are just for someone's personal gain

So nobody listens!
Nobody listens to you!!

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gofuckyourself On Jul 25, 2005

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2005-07-25 06:34:40

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by raffcama

13y ago

I guess this song is much more about how mankind got so self-centered and short minded that we won't listen to each other anymore.

Because of arrogance, proud and greed, we try to make our beliefs prevail upon each other and thus there's no exchange of knowledge.

In the other hand, it also could be about the kind of people the world is "tired" to listen. Arrogant teachers, pretentious experts, pessimists preachers...

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by supitsbran

17y ago

I guess this is a song about people not listening? And more just accepting whatever they hear? Not to sure about the over all meaning, but the beginning about Pavlov refers to his training of dogs, the psychological experiment involving him training dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell because it suggests that food would follow. I do not know who the mister could be, maybe a priest of some type, due to the "rhetoric nonsense" that preachers often spit.

I tried :/

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by pinkfade

17y ago

we don't have to think to survive So nobody listens

of all the protentious garbage of alotta thier lyrics

this actually might be the most true statement Iv ever heard

ever

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by stayfluffy 14y ago

"I don't believe in self important folks who preach. No Bad Religion song could make your life complete." -No Direction.

'Bad Religion' and 'pretentious garbage' don't even go in the same sentence.

by stayfluffy

14y ago

Sometimes I think this song is about Facebook .-.

But what it's REALLY about is people looking to others for understanding and for a shoulder to cry on and for someone to brag to, but nobody listens. We just do our own thing, we don't care, no one listens. Each stanza is just a case of the type of person that nobody listens to.

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