The Decline lyrics

Artist  : Nofx 
Song : The Decline



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where are all the stupid people from?
and how
did they get to be so dumb,
bred on purple
mountain range,
feed amber waves of
grains
to lesser human beings,
zero
feelings

blame it on
human
nature,
man’s destiny
blame it on the
greediocracy
the fear of god,
the fear of
change,
fear of truth.

add the bill of
rights subtract the wrongs
memorize and sing
star spangled songs
there's no answers when
the questions aren't ever asked is anybody
learning from the past,
were living in united
stagnation
father...what have i done,
i
took that 22,
a gift for me from you,
to
bed with me each night,
kept it
clean,
polished it well,
cherished every
cartridge every shell,

down,
by the
creek,
under brush,
under dirt theres a
carcass of my second kill,
down,
at the
park,
under stone,
under pine there's the
carcass of my brother william.
brother where
have you gone to i swear
i never thought i
could see so many times
they told me to shoot
straight,
don’t pull the trigger
squeeze,
that will insure a kill,
a kill is
what you want,
a kill is why we
breed.

the christians love their
guns
the church and nra.
pray for their
salvation,
prey on the lower faiths.
the
story book’s been read and every line
believed.
the curriculum’s been set logic is
a threat reason searched & seized.

jerry
spent some time in michigan,
a 20 year
vacation after all he had a dime,
a dime is
worth a lot more in detroit,
a dime in
california...a 20 dollar fine

jerry only
stayed a couple months
it’s hard to enjoy
yourself while bleeding out the
ass
asphyxiation is simple and fast
it
beats 17 fun years of being someone's
bitch

don’t think,
drink your
wine,
watch the fire burn,
his problems not
mine,
just be that model citizen.

i wish
i had a schilling,
for every senseless
killing,
i’d buy a
government.
america’s for sale,
and you
can get a good deal on it,
and make a healthy
profit,
or maybe tear it apart,
you start
with assumption,
that a million people are
smart,
smarter than 1

serotonins
gone,
she gave up,
drifted away.
sara
fled thought process gone,
she left her
answering machine on,
the greeting left spoken
sincere,
messages no one will ever
hear,
10,000 messages a day
a million more
transmissions lay
victims of the laissez
faire
10.000 voices 100 guns, 100 decibels
turns to one, one bullet one empty head
now
with serotonin gone

the man that used to
speak performs a cute routine.
feel a little
patronized.
don’t feel bad about what they
found a way inside your head.
and you feel a
bit misled.
it’s not that they don’t
care.
the televisions put a thought inside
your head
like a barry manilow
jingle i’d
like to
teach the world to sing
in perfect
harmony
a symphonic blank stare.
it
doesn’t make you care.
not designed to make
you care.
they’re betting you won’t
care.

they’ll place a wager on your
greed.
a wager on your pride
why try to
beat them when a million others tried
we are
the whores
intellectually sprayed
we are
the queer
dysfunctionally raised

one
more pill to kill the pain,
one more pill to
kill the pain,
one more pill to kill the
pain,
living through conformity

one
more prayer should keep us safe,
one more
prayer to keep us warm,
one more prayer to
keep us safe,
there’s gonna be a better
place,

lost the battle
lost the
war
lost the things worth living for
lost
the will to win the fight
one more pill to
kill the pain

the going gets tough the
tough get debt
don’t pay attention pay the
rent
our next of kins pay for your sins
a
little faith should keep us safe

save
us
the human existence
is
failing.
resistance essential.
the
future
written off.
the odds
are
astronomically against us only
moron and
genius
would fight a losing battle
against
the super ego
when giving in is so damn
comforting
and so we go
on with our
lives
we know the truth
but prefer lies
lies
are simple.
simple is bliss.
why go
against tradition when we can
admit
defeat.
live in decline.
be the victim of
our own design
the status quo
built on
suspect.
why would anyone stick out their
neck
fellow members
club we’ve got
ours,
i’d like to introduce you to our
host
he’s got his and
i’ve got
mine,
we got decline