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Kyoto Now! Lyrics
It's a matter of prescience
No, not the science fiction kind
It's all about ignorance
And greed, and miracles for the blind
The media parading, disjointed politics
Founded on petrochemical plunder
And we're its hostages
If you stand to reason
You're in the game
The rules might be elusive
But our pieces are the same
And you know if one goes down we all go down as well
The balance is precarious as anyone can tell
This world's going to hell
Don't allow
This mythologic hopeful monster to exact its price
Kyoto now!
We can't do nothing and think someone else will make it right
You might not think it matters now
But what if you are wrong
You might not think there's any wisdom in a fucked-up punk rock song
But the way it is
Cannot persist for long
A brutal sun is rising on a sick horizon
It's in the way
We live our lives
Exactly like the double-edge of a cold familiar knife
And supremacy weighs heavy on the day
It's never really what you own but what you threw away
And how much did you pay?
Don't allow
This mythologic hopeful monster to exact its price
Kyoto now!
We can't do nothing and think someone else will make it right
In your dreams
You saw a steady state a bounty for eternity
Silent screams
But now the wisdom that sustains us is in full retreat
Don't allow
This mythologic hopeful monster isn't worth the risk
Kyoto now!
We can't have vision for the future if it can't be fixed
Alien
We need a fresh and new religion to run our lives
Hand in hand
The arid torpor of inaction will be our demise
Oh, Kyoto now!
No, not the science fiction kind
It's all about ignorance
And greed, and miracles for the blind
The media parading, disjointed politics
Founded on petrochemical plunder
And we're its hostages
You're in the game
The rules might be elusive
But our pieces are the same
And you know if one goes down we all go down as well
The balance is precarious as anyone can tell
This world's going to hell
This mythologic hopeful monster to exact its price
Kyoto now!
We can't do nothing and think someone else will make it right
But what if you are wrong
You might not think there's any wisdom in a fucked-up punk rock song
But the way it is
Cannot persist for long
A brutal sun is rising on a sick horizon
We live our lives
Exactly like the double-edge of a cold familiar knife
And supremacy weighs heavy on the day
It's never really what you own but what you threw away
And how much did you pay?
This mythologic hopeful monster to exact its price
Kyoto now!
We can't do nothing and think someone else will make it right
You saw a steady state a bounty for eternity
Silent screams
But now the wisdom that sustains us is in full retreat
This mythologic hopeful monster isn't worth the risk
Kyoto now!
We can't have vision for the future if it can't be fixed
Alien
We need a fresh and new religion to run our lives
Hand in hand
The arid torpor of inaction will be our demise
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The kyoto treaty is an agreement to help prevent global warming, that the united states refused to go along with , the line "you may not think it matters now, but what if you were wrong" refers to how we don't think of the future of our planet
I love this line so much: "You might not think there's any wisdom in a fucked up punk rock song" I see a lot of wisdom in punk rock, that the general public seems to overlook. Bad Religiong rocks.
this song is for those who are apathetic towards politics. i thank bad religion for paying attention to our most threatened species - the environment. vote green! nader should have won the presidency!
wow, I did that website thing way wrong... its http://www.kyotonow.org sorry bout that
Kyoto Now! Was written during the the race to sign a functionaly underprogressive agreement by the worlds biggest consumer nations, the Kyoto Protocol. When Bad Religion wrote this song there was a chance that this multinational agreement could participate as the back bone in the fight against global warming. The purpose of this song is to motivate multiple nationalities including Americans to represent the community that aproves the kyoto protocol as the agreement was originally drafted before Russia and America other countries ruled by corporate feudalism get a chance to change it. It sound weird, but if enough serf fight against their own nobleman, they will win.
I never knew about the Kyoto agreement, so I always thought this song was about the city Kyoto. It was the original Japanese capital and was best known for it's almost nonexistant crime rate. I always thought the song was saying we need to go back to doing things the way the people of Kyoto did so long ago. I now see the environmental references too though.
Bad Religion is an incredible band. The music is complex and melodic and the lyrics are deep and meaningful. If I ruled the world, every person would be required to own this Process of Belief and listen to it every day.
this song couldn't be more correct, at the present time.
im in australia and most of you allready know. our political regime is pretty much the butt licker for america. so we wont sign the "kyoto agreement" until america does.
bad religion are great.
of the billions of years of sustainable atmosphere and the last hundred years or so its deteriorating like burning plastic...
could there be a connection... like the 24 hour scale...
put the earths evolution in a scale of 24 hours... humans have been alive merely a split second or two... and we're doing unrepairable demage... holes are getting bigger... how long do you think it will last if we'r already seeing affects in our lifetime!... theres no other way to emphasize that and if you dont understand or acknowledge it..
your an idiot..
for the people who advocate economic principles over foresight... this is why we'r all fucked.. people like you... people with your views.. yes you...
This song is an enjoyable one, and it's a good political anthem (although Bad Religion should have released it as a single in July 2001, when the issue was still up for discussion in America.) But even though I enjoy it, it's not THE highlight of "The Process of Belief."
I agree with LessThanTim, it's about global warming. "Kyoto Now" was or is, not sure, a name for "a movement dedicated to the ratifacation of the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty by the US Senate." Check out www.kyotonow.org...Anywho it's a fuckin sweet song