discouraging through fear
"
Daunting, complex and burning," -
Strange Denial
- Greg Graffin
"
Hard-cracked, daunting, lifeless veins," -
The Streets Of America
- Greg Graffin, Brian Baker
"
As the dearth of new ideas makes us wallow in our shame." -
Progress
- Greg Graffin
"
Dearth for the masses" -
Strange Denial
- Greg Graffin
Of pleasant manners; courteous, gracious, and charming
"
We're savoir faire and debonaire" -
Part IV (The Index Fossil)
- Greg Graffin
The act or practice of deceiving; concealment or distortion of the truth for the purpose of misleading; duplicity; fraud; cheating
"
Authority is populist deceit" -
Requiem For Dissent
- Greg Graffin
"
Wild in the street like a formal procession of love and deceit" -
The Devil in Stitches
- Brett Gurewitz
1. Downward movement, fall
2. A weakening
"
Sift trough the fodder as the sane justice declines because of" -
Mediocre Minds
- Greg Graffin, Greg Hetson
"
Pity yet another casualty's demoralized decline" -
Requiem For Dissent
- Greg Graffin
1. the act of decorating
2. adornment or ornament
3. a badge, medal, etc., conferred
"
An icon on the wall, decoration and duress," -
Portrait Of Authority
- Greg Graffin
An authoritative order having the force of law
"
We decree the pen more mighty than the gun" -
Age of Unreason
- Greg Graffin
"
And prescriptions for protecting our familial decree" -
Fanatics
- Greg Graffin
"
Predisposed to my profane decree" -
It's Reciprocal
- Greg Graffin, Brian Baker, Bobby Schayer
"
Overburdened, underwhelmed, their ethical decree
" -
True North
- Greg Graffin
"
That will deem your common sense useless." -
Materialist
- Greg Graffin
Inadequacy or insufficiency
"
Deficit and depravation - in the wake of desperation" -
Before You Die
- Greg Graffin
1. A god or goddess
2. The state of being divine [Latin deus god]
"
And all our deities omnipotent, oh yeah." -
Part IV (The Index Fossil)
- Greg Graffin
1. A god or goddess
2. The state of being divine [Latin deus god]
"
Tell me which deity you're praying to" -
Heroes & Martyrs
- Brett Gurewitz
1. To authorize someone to be a delegate
2. To commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate
"
Delegate facilitate investigate and obviate" -
Germs Of Perfection
- Greg Graffin
A false belief or opinion
"
These rational delusions have got to cease, " -
Chronophobia
- Greg Graffin
"
All delusions went away, as with all the shades of gray." -
Finite
- Greg Graffin
"
Precious delusion" -
The Grand Delusion
- Greg Graffin
"
His surfeit has become his demise?" -
How Much Is Enough?
- Brett Gurewitz
"
The arid torpor of inaction will be our demise." -
Kyoto Now!
- Greg Graffin
"
Our evolution is our demise." -
Lookin' In
- Greg Graffin
"
Don't stop but aid this cruel crusade, participate in their own demise." -
Part II (The Numbers Game)
- Brett Gurewitz
"
It's the structure of the future as demise comes seething through." -
Progress
- Greg Graffin
1. expressing one's feelings openly
2. serving to prove, show or illustrate
"
Well, I guess God was a lot more demonstrative" -
Don't Pray On Me
- Brett Gurewitz
To destroy morale; to dishearten
"
Pity yet another casualty's demoralized decline" -
Requiem For Dissent
- Greg Graffin
In literature, a denouement consists of a series of events that follow the climax of a drama or narrative, and thus serves as the conclusion of the story
"
We're living in the denouement of the battle's gripping awe," -
Fuck Armageddon... This Is Hell
- Greg Graffin
To represent in words; describe.
"
The fox-stained leaves of civilization depict a stark repeat" -
Chaos From Within
- Greg Graffin
"
And depict the destiny of us all." -
In So Many Ways
- Greg Graffin
"
But most events depict a common theme:" -
Mediocrity
- Greg Graffin
"
Common life, depicted on afternoon TV," -
You've Got A Chance
- Greg Graffin
1. To feel or express strong disapproval of; condemn.
2. To express sorrow or grief over.
"
An emotion I deplore." -
Get Off
- Greg Graffin
"
And a foreign enemy to deplore." -
Let Them Eat War
- Brett Gurewitz
1. The act of depraving, or making anything bad; the act of corrupting
2. Change for the worse; deterioration
"
Deficit and depravation - in the wake of desperation" -
Before You Die
- Greg Graffin
A corrupt act or practice
"
And regaled yourself with depravity?" -
God Song
- Greg Graffin
"
Shadows of a doubt cast reluctance and depravity," -
The Defense
- Brett Gurewitz
1. To express disapproval of
2. To recommend against use of
"
Deprecate repudiate ameliorate adjudicate" -
Germs Of Perfection
- Greg Graffin
Contemptuous or jeering laughter; ridicule
"
The ancient western treadmill of deception and derision." -
I Want Something More
- Brett Gurewitz
1. devastation or ruin
2. loneliness or wretchedness
3. sorrow or grief
"
Rage and desolation," -
News From The Front
- Brett Gurewitz, Jay Bentley, Bobby Schayer
"
Glorifying despair," -
Broken
- Brett Gurewitz
"
Your politics just breed despair" -
Candidate
- Brett Gurewitz
"
And hope into despair" -
Cyanide
- Brett Gurewitz
"
And yet I turn to you for comfort in my despair" -
Hello Cruel World
- Brett Gurewitz
"
Don't despair this world of toil and care." -
Lost Pilgrim
- Greg Graffin
"
A feeling of despair, hungry and full of care," -
Misery And Famine
- Greg Graffin
"
Savoir faire in full despair" -
Prove It
- Greg Graffin
"
And did you care, did you trade his genius for your despair?" -
The Dichotomy
- Brett Gurewitz
"
The despair and oblivion of our precarious race" -
Won't Somebody
- Brett Gurewitz
"
The despair and oblivion of our precarious race" -
Won't Somebody
- Brett Gurewitz
Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless
"
Respectable, despicable, it seems all the same." -
Give You Nothing
- Greg Graffin, Brett Gurewitz
Depression of spirits from loss of hope, confidence, or courage; dejection.
"
I'm not immune to despondency..." -
The Defense
- Brett Gurewitz
Lacking something; devoid; especially lacking money; poor
- Greg Graffin
"
I don't wanna be in the land known as destitute and free," -
Grains Of Wrath
- Greg Graffin
"
The destitute and famished, " -
Pity The Dead
- Greg Graffin
Lit. that which upholds, supports or maintains the regulatory order of the universe. It means Law or Natural Law and is a concept of central importance in Indian philosophy and religion.
"
Oh yeah tomorrow's coming down like dharma and the bomb" -
Dharma and the Bomb
- Brett Gurewitz
1. Division into two, usually contradictive parts
2. Branching characterized by successive folklore into two approximately equal divisions
"
And accept dichotomy," -
Individual
- Greg Graffin
"
A portrayal of the great dichotomy. (Great dichotomy)" -
My Poor Friend Me
- Greg Graffin
"
Hesitance and diffidence will do you in" -
A World Without Melody
- Greg Graffin
A loud unpleasant confused noise
"
Sometimes the rhythmic din" -
A World Without Melody
- Greg Graffin
(412-323 B.C.) a Greek cynic philosopher
"
As I drag my feet searching like a Diogenes." -
Get Off
- Greg Graffin
1. frustration of hopes or plans
2. confusion; embarrassment
3. defeat in battle
"
I maintain no discomfiture," -
Against The Grain
- Greg Graffin
"
Its convenience we all cherish, its pollution we disdain." -
Progress
- Greg Graffin
"
Disenfranchised scientists be damned!" -
Downfall
- Greg Graffin
Characterized by ineptness or lack of skill, competence, effectiveness, imagination, or interest; pitiful
"
The person sitting next to you is dismal and deranged" -
It Must Look Pretty Appealing
- Greg Graffin
"
The poor don't have to struggle in dismal poverty" -
Land of Endless Greed
- Greg Graffin
fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind
"
Shades of truth between disparate lines." -
Shades Of Truth
- Greg Graffin
"
There's a lot of misdirection, and planned disparity" -
Fanatics
- Greg Graffin
"
The level of disparity, the common man," -
Markovian Process
- Greg Graffin
1. mental outlook or mood
2. an inclination or tendency
"
There’s an endless disposition and it doesn’t mean a god damn thing," -
All There Is
- Brett Gurewitz
"
Every day I wander in negative disposition" -
Struck A Nerve
- Greg Graffin
Having suffered the loss of expectations, prospects, relationships, etc.; disinherited; disaffiliated; alienated
"
Hey kids on the right and left do you feel dispossessed" -
Do The Paranoid Style
- Brett Gurewitz
To have distaste for; dislike
"
Don't disrelish harmony," -
A World Without Melody
- Greg Graffin
One who disagrees or dissents
"
Bring the dissident from slumber" -
Requiem For Dissent
- Greg Graffin
"
But you can bet your ass your free energy will dissipate." -
The World Won't Stop Without You
- Greg Graffin
Unrestrained indulgence in physical pleasures
"
Idleness and dissipation breed apathy." -
Do What You Want
- Brett Gurewitz
"
And I'll be determined that no one shall dissuade" -
Walk Away
- Brett Gurewitz
A clumsy, flightless, extinct bird
"
It's the way of the dodo" -
The Dodo
- Greg Graffin, Brian Baker
a specific tenet or doctrine authoritatively laid down, as by a church
"
Advocating dogma" -
Strange Denial
- Greg Graffin
"
Lying dormant for you and country," -
The Streets Of America
- Greg Graffin, Brian Baker
1. trampled on or down
2. oppressed; subjugated; tyrannized over
"
So if you feel alone and downtrodden" -
The Kids Are Alt-Right
- Brett Gurewitz
"
So goddamn downtrodden and desperate." -
The Surface Of Me
- Greg Graffin
Rubbish; lowest form of human life; anything thrown away
"
Just misfit melancholy dregs out lost in the mall" -
Wrong Way Kids
- Brett Gurewitz
To make a dull, continued, monotonous sound
"
You're stuck in the drone, of being alone." -
...You Give Up
- Greg Graffin
"
As they file like drone ant colonies to their office in the sky." -
Inner Logic
- Greg Graffin
1. compulsion by threat
2. wrongful imprisonment
"
An icon on the wall, decoration and duress," -
Portrait Of Authority
- Greg Graffin