Bad Religion - Parallel

There's a lack of this song, so I uploaded it. I own nothing.

Lyrics:

Sleeping on a time bomb,
Staring into space
There's an ocean of unpleasantries
We are not prepared to face

Sitting on the fence post
To watch the storm roll in
And terrified of the damage
It will bring when it begins

It will being

Splintered dreams of unity (Our lives are parallel)
So far from reality (Our lives are parallel)
Independent trajectories (Our lives are parallel)
Separate terms of equality (Our lives are parallel)

Our lives are parallel
Our lives are parallel
Our lives are parallel
Our lives are parallel

Is there no redemption?
No common good?
Is there nothing we can do for ourselves?
Or only what we should?

Comes the hard admission
Of what we don't provide
Goes the insistence on the ways
And means that so divide

They so divide

Side by side suffering loneliness (Our lives are parallel)
Phony collective progress (Our lives are parallel)
Accepting that it's all such a mess (Our lives are parallel)
Gesturing without hope of redress (Our lives are parallel)

Our lives are parallel
Our lives are parallel
Our lives are parallel
Our lives are parallel

Forging little plays of deception and pain
As we watch our foundations crumble away
Staggering like birds against a hurricane
And trying all the while to stay out of each others way

Broken dreams of unity (Our lives are parallel)
Independent trajectories (Our lives are parallel)
Screaming out for understanding (Our lives are parallel)
Turning inward and suffering (Our lives are parallel)

Parallel
Parallel
Parallel
Parallel

Our lives are parallel (Our lives are parallel)
Our lives are parallel (Our lives are parallel)
Our lives are parallel (Our lives are parallel)
Our lives are parallel (Our lives are parallel)

Parallel (Our lives are parallel)
Our lives are parallel (Our lives are parallel)

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• gray
• race

[jasonikusSA]

People don't like this album? This is the one that got me into Bad Religion!

[alpharay77]

@jasonikusSA This is the album where their sound started changing from the less grungy style sound into the heavier, more refined sounds that they do today. The change of sound really impacted the fans, since most were use to the sounds of "How Could Hell Be Any Worse?" or "Against the Grain." It's a good album, even with the sound change.

If you want a real sound change, check out "Into the Unknown." Only 3,000 copies made it to record.

[nazaxprime]

@alpharay77

"the less grungy style sound into the heavier, more refined sounds that they do today."

A fairly sound ananlysis, and your point was made, but subtraction of superfluous information would have served you better...

As to their new sound, its all the same to me... I hear no great evolution, just a bit more work goes into production now.

Like it?

I could do without it, as evidenced by the fact that I'm still here.

Love it?

I can do with it, as evidenced by the fact that I'm still here.

[alpharay77]

@nazaxprime It's not a great evolution of their sound, but if you compare the sound of "How Could Hell Be Any Worse?" to their most recent album, "The Dissent of Man," you can hear how they've tweeked and sophisticated their music. Granted, it's roughly a 30 year gap between the two albums, but if you were to listen to their discography in its entirety, you'll hear the gradual, subtle changes.

[Metaldrumboy13]

I love this album it's my fav from bad religion. The singer writes the best lyrics too

[alpharay77]

@Metaldrumboy13 Greg Graffin can write some good lyrics, no doubt. But Brett Gurewitz A.K.A. Mr. Brett is the better writer of the two in my opinion.

[Onyx0Mango]

All of their albums are fucking beast. Haven't heard a bad one yet and I doubt I ever will.

Bad Religion to the grave.

[MrN0YFB]

Best album they ever made

[TheRNTorres]

nice vocals one of the best vocals with don't sell me short and them and us

[Dmitjrew]

My favourite band when I was 16-17. I skated to their songs - almost everyday. This is very melodic punk rock.

[nazaxprime]

@alpharay77 The rules may be elusive but our pieces are the same.

[07brando]

stranger than fiction/the grey race; the best back-to-back releases from the best band in the worst world