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New America Lyrics
Do you know the cost of future misery?
Have you lost your sense of sustainability?
We are just a step away
From realizing what we strive to be
But we've got to break out
From this insulated, blind and lame senility
Wake up the new america wo-oh!
Transcend the mass hysteria wo-oh!
Change is the thing you're wary of wo-oh!
We need a new america wo-oh!
Laurels, human triumph
Bestowments from the past
Victories don't mean a thing
If they don't last
We are just marching toward extinction
With blinders on our eyes
Jeopardizing everything
We've learned and come to realize
You call that wise?
Open your eyes america wo-oh!
See through the lies they tell to us wo-oh!
Confront the fears that worry us wo-oh!
We need a new america wo-oh!
We don't have to be afraid to re-invent
We've got to start to build
Progress and implement
For when we take our fill
And never pay the price
We only build ourselves
A fleeting, false paradise
You can live in staunch denial
And mark me as your enemy
But I'm just a voice among the throng
Who want a brighter destiny
They say with me
We are the new america wo-oh!
This is the new america? Wo-oh
Have you lost your sense of sustainability?
We are just a step away
From realizing what we strive to be
But we've got to break out
From this insulated, blind and lame senility
Wake up the new america wo-oh!
Transcend the mass hysteria wo-oh!
Change is the thing you're wary of wo-oh!
We need a new america wo-oh!
Laurels, human triumph
Bestowments from the past
Victories don't mean a thing
If they don't last
We are just marching toward extinction
With blinders on our eyes
Jeopardizing everything
We've learned and come to realize
You call that wise?
Open your eyes america wo-oh!
See through the lies they tell to us wo-oh!
Confront the fears that worry us wo-oh!
We need a new america wo-oh!
We don't have to be afraid to re-invent
We've got to start to build
Progress and implement
For when we take our fill
And never pay the price
We only build ourselves
A fleeting, false paradise
You can live in staunch denial
And mark me as your enemy
But I'm just a voice among the throng
Who want a brighter destiny
They say with me
We are the new america wo-oh!
This is the new america? Wo-oh
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This song, in the light of present events, has become the most depressing BR song to me. This song came out pre 9/11 and preaches a message of such hope for the country. Now it seems we have taken the opposite path as suggested by this song. Really sad, when you think about how great we could be but ignored the option to change and bring about a new, more hopeful america.
This is a great song, and the music video is entertaining as well....it is a lot more melodic and musically complex than a lot of their earlier stuff, but I don't like putting limits on what punk rock sounds like...just because a song has more than four chords and well worked out harmonies and shit doesn't mean it can't be classified as punk rock. Anyway, we do need a New America, and this song is a cool one.
U crazy Americans are pretty messed up.... but atleast most of you on a bad religion lyric page agree with that!!! realecting Bush isnt gonna help but some day power will always corrupt!!! Bad religion always know what they are talking about and after 20 plus years they are still getting strong messages out in their PUNK ROCK... songs!!
I knew this song would be one of my favorites after just the first line: "Do you know the cost of future misery?" To me, that is our society's failure-to much short term thinking, to much self gratification...
There is more to punk rock than beats-per-minute. Bad Religion will always be punk to me.
i already responded to this, but it seems it was deleted. hmm. anyways, what isn't punk rock about these lyrics? the fact that they don't say "fuck this, fuck that"?
i think HyoCHAN meant that Musically, its not Punk Rock. In my opinion, it is one of the best songs musically that Bad Religion have wrote.
This song is so awesome. I agree with the song because America does need to change or we will be in big trouble sooner or later. Way for Bad Religion to be mad nice.
This song sounds uncannily like the kids of America by kim marsh, but the lyrics are good and completely true.
Thank you zenwizard, thankfully someone remembered that the site was called songmeanings.
I'm not sure if the 'masses', as funk so delicately puts it, would have a really tough time figuring this song out. It's not really subtle...