Out in the cold like a bundle of coal
Little packets of darkness wanting to glow
Well there's nobody home and there's a wreck in the yard
Well maybe they're coming back
If we wish really hard
If we wish real hard now
Won't somebody please come up with something
'cuz Jesus just don't seem to be impartially working
And all of the rest are really down in the ratings
So everyone is gonna keep on waiting
Waiting for peace at the end of the street
Back behind our apartment and in passenger seats
Just a moment of bliss amid all of the waste
The despair and oblivion of our precarious race
It's ours to face now
Won't somebody please come up with something
'cuz Jesus just don't seem to be impartially working
And all of the rest are really down in the ratings
So everyone is gonna keep on waiting
Now I know nothing lasts forever
So we might as well wish for a goddam fix of this toxic changing weather
Now tell me won't somebody come up with something
'cuz Jesus just don't seem to be impartially working
And all of the others can barely stay in the running
But everyone is still right here waiting
Won't somebody please come up with something
Won't somebody please come up with something
Won't somebody please
Little packets of darkness wanting to glow
Well there's nobody home and there's a wreck in the yard
Well maybe they're coming back
If we wish really hard
If we wish real hard now
Won't somebody please come up with something
'cuz Jesus just don't seem to be impartially working
And all of the rest are really down in the ratings
So everyone is gonna keep on waiting
Waiting for peace at the end of the street
Back behind our apartment and in passenger seats
Just a moment of bliss amid all of the waste
The despair and oblivion of our precarious race
It's ours to face now
Won't somebody please come up with something
'cuz Jesus just don't seem to be impartially working
And all of the rest are really down in the ratings
So everyone is gonna keep on waiting
Now I know nothing lasts forever
So we might as well wish for a goddam fix of this toxic changing weather
Now tell me won't somebody come up with something
'cuz Jesus just don't seem to be impartially working
And all of the others can barely stay in the running
But everyone is still right here waiting
Won't somebody please come up with something
Won't somebody please come up with something
Won't somebody please
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Won't Somebody Lyrics as written by Greg Graffin Brett W. Gurewitz
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All BR albums reflect the modern times we're living in, and right now we seem to be sinking pretty low.
It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with Jesus, his name was just a throw' in;
But the lyrics basically say he's judging unfairly..
It really captures the sinking flow of our modern times.
I think you're very very right
Everyone is feeling low and just crying out for someone to do something to change things.
But I think that a lot of this album is also about how this point of view fails, that we have given up on our own agency, that we have lost hope and just want somebody else to fix it.
In a way, politically it is a criticism of Obama. Not in the serious way that they actually thought of Obama when they wrote this, but in the way that people put their hope in the establishment because he seemed to have the fix. But when you put hope in the establishment rather than yourself, nothing changes and the patterns repeat and deepen