Bad Religion - Cease (album version with lyrics)

Bad Religion - Cease

Atlantic Records

Picture from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/carboncopy/15059670/

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This is probably my favourite Bad Religion song, but I couldn't find and good YouTube videos of the album version. The acoustic versions are pretty good, but this one's way better if you ask me. So I made this video and threw in the lyrics because I'm just so nice. In retrospect, the background picture I used doesn't make the text highly readable (especially with Youtube quality video), but it's a cool picture so hopefully it doesn't get in the way too much. I also think the text cuts away a bit too fast in a few spots, but there isn't a lot I can do about that without having it out of sync with the music. I'll put the lyrics here in the description, too. Enjoy.

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Blacktop pavement
cover me.

Like a chemical reaction
or a steamroller. Spreading randomly.

There's a distant buzz and low frequency.

It tickles my ear and rumbles under my feet
and it shakes the leaves off of every tree.
Violently.

What pretension! Everlasting peace.
Everything must cease.

Institution on the hill.
Like a beacon in the mind
of an ancestor to ignite a people's will.

There's a shadowed stain
on the west facade.

It has spread like decay
to enshroud the fraud.
And the descendants find it oh so odd.

Oh, so odd!

What pretension! Everlasting peace.
Everything must cease.

Grave memorial, hewn white stone.

Like a comforting caress of a mother
or a friend you've always known.

It evokes such pain and significance.
What was once is reduced to rememberance
and the generations pass without recompense.

Oh-oh-oh!

What pretension! Everlasting peace.
Everything must cease!

What pretension! Everlasting peace.
Everything must...

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• Cease
• Lyrics

[whickno]

Fantastic upload, thanks.

[SkippyMcSniffles]

@whickno You're welcome.

[godbullie]

have you heard the new buzz in our movement........THE CREATIVITY CRUSADES ARE COMING!!!!!!!!

[SkippyMcSniffles]

@godbullie What buzz and which movement?

[NOODLEDOC1]

@SkippyMcSniffles Why dont you move out of your parents house, pay some bills, and then see what happens.

[SkippyMcSniffles]

@NOODLEDOC1 Thanks for the tip. I'll let you know how it goes.

[nocontrol06]

Grave memorial, hewn white stone. Like a comforting caress of a mother or a friend you've always known. It evokes such pain and significance. What was once is reduced to rememberance and the generations pass without recompense. Oh-oh-oh! What pretension! Everlasting peace. Everything must cease! Best verse in any punk rock song ever created. can you get any more heart than that??

[YaWantTaters]

@SkippyMcSniffles Your question resonated with me before I read it - when I read godbullie's statement.

@godbullie I insist you explain your post. What buzz and what movement?

[Marlito214]

Recipe for Hate was on Epitath, Stranger than Fiction was on Atlanta

[OdeToTristan]

@HANK0000 Sorry Recipe for Hate was their "sell-out" album with Atlantic Records. I give atlantic credit for trying to cash in on the grunge movement of the time. You can read Greg Graffin's co written book, Anarchy Evolution, if you wish to know more about everything Bad Religion and life itself. :) Hope this helps.

[cstefos]

@HANK0000 Grey Race

[nazaxprime]

@HANK0000 Nope. It's off "The grey race."

[nazaxprime]

@SkippyMcSniffles Heh heh.

[nazaxprime]

@NOODLEDOC1 That shit is over-rated.

XD

[eyehateintegrals]

@NOODLEDOC1 wow what a completely odd thing to say.