Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Band of the Week: Bad Religion - Song #2: Requiem for Dissent

Greetings.

I've taken a few days off, but I guess these are better posted late than never posted, so here's the #2 BR song, "Requiem for Dissent." I like this song because the lyrics validate that part of my mind that sees the machinery of modern society for what it is, and gives me hope, however fleeting, that we might somehow, someday overcome it all. Enjoy:

Requiem for Dissent

Oratory of hope and glory a whisper and a rhyme
An effigy, a soldier out of time
Citizen and patriot you can't be far behind
The funeral is weighting heavy on your mind

Requiem
Bring the dissident from slumber
Requiem
Raise the rebel from its grave
Requiem
Sound the revolution's thunder
A monumental blunder averted and betrayed

Dig around the cemetery a record of the day
Friends and neighbors in stages of decay
But the saddest thing of all eludes discovery
The stimulus for this somber ceremony

Requiem
Bring the dissident from slumber
Requiem
Raise the rebel from its grave
Requiem
Sound the revolution's thunder
A monumental blunder averted and betrayed

The sanctimonious minions how they grovel at the feet
Authority is populist deceit
Pity yet another casualty's demoralized decline
Just a victim of irrational design

Requiem! Requiem!
Requiem
Bring the dissident from slumber
Requiem
Raise the rebel from its grave
Requiem
Sound the revolution's thunder
A monumental blunder averted and betrayed

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