Bad Religion - Mixing music with philosophy

[PoliticalMalcontent]

3. Inner Logic, ends on a bit of political truth.

Song: Inner Logic
Album: Stranger Than Fiction
Year: 1994

Lyrics:
Automatons with business suits clinging black boxes,
Sequestering the blueprints of daily life
Contented, free of care, they rejoice in morning ritual
As they file like drone ant colonies to their office in the sky

I don't ask questions, don't promote demonstration,
Don't look for new consensus, don't stray from constitution
If I pierce the complexity I won't find salvation
Just the bald and overt truth of the evil and deception

There is an inner logic, and we're taught to stay far from it
It is simple and elegant, but it's cruel and antithetic
And there's no effort to reveal it

Graduated mentors stroll in marbled brick porticos
In sagacious dialog they despise their average ways
Displaying pomp and discipline, they mold their institution
Where they practice exclusion on the masses every day

Decorated warriors drill harmless kids on pavement
Simulated tyranny under red alert
Protecting the opulent and staging moral standard
They expect redemption of character and self-growth

(No equality, no opportunity, no tolerance for the progressive alternative) X2

----

Another song that brings social commentary to the front and center from the perspective of the author. That last line rings extremely, painfully true. We have been taught give up our wants and desires for 'good enough', or to keep power away from the other guys. All anyone seems to use nowadays in politics is fear.

It's a real shame.