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Written by: Greg Graffin
Released in: 1989
BPM: 151
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It's a love song to the self, a story recapped every day,
It's a world of bogus feelings and a world of slow decay,
It's a world of laughter hidden by this world of fear and torment,
It's a game of strange compulsion, our visceral convulsion:

Anxiety for love of life, anxiety for pain,
Anxiety, a feeling that you know you can't contain.
Anxiety destroys us but it drives the common man.
Foundation of society, anxiety. Suppress it if you can.

The caste of coffee achievers didn't perform like they planned.
The morning rush hour traffic is our play of false elan.
So run around your frantic track and lay you down to sleep;
Tomorrow's the redemption, we strive for that exception.

Anxiety for love of life, anxiety for pain,
Anxiety, a fear that you have nothing more to gain.
Anxiety destroys us but it drives the common man.
Foundation of society, anxiety. Suppress it if you can.

What are we angry for?
We all need a common cure.
That common goal for which you strive:
To have more than the other (have more than the other) guy.

The quest for truth, the quest for gold, yeah, we end up all the same.
The common lie, the righteous cry, we end up all the same.
The angry crowd, those lost and found, everybody's all the same.
The poet's pen, these words I lend, we all bend to

Anxiety for love of life, anxiety for pain,
Anxiety, a feeling that you know you can't contain.
Anxiety destroys us but it drives the common man.
Foundation of society, anxiety.
Versions
Version Length Release Catalog ID Country Format Year
Album version
2:08 No Control Europe 12" 2023
2:08 No Control Europe 12" 2023
2:08 No Control Europe 12" 2023
2:08 No Control United States 12" 2020
2:08 No Control United States 12" 2017
2:08 No Control United States 12" 2015
2:08 No Control United States 12" 2015
2:08 No Control E86406-1 United States 12" 2014
2:08 No Control E-86406-1TPK United States 12" 2014
2:08 No Control E-86406-1 United States 12" 2010
2:08 No Control E-86406-1 United States 12" 2009
2:08 No Control 86702-2 Russia CD 2007
2:08 No Control United States CD 2004
2:08 No Control Australia CD 1995
2:08 No Control Japan CD 1994
2:08 No Control United States 12" 1994
2:08 No Control E-86406-4 United States MC 1989
2:08 No Control United States 12" 1989
2:08 No Control Germany 12" 1989
2:08 No Control United States CD 1989
2:08 No Control 6406-2 Europe CD 1989
2:08 No Control United States 12" 1989
2:08 No Control Russia MC 1989
2:08 No Control United States 12" 1989
2:08 No Control Brazil CD 1989
Remastered
2:08 No Control Russia CD 2020
2:08 No Control United States CD 2004
2:08 No Control Europe CD 2004
2:08 No Control Australia CD 2004
2:08 No Control n/a United States MC 2004
2:08 No Control n/a Europe CD 2004
2:08 No Control Brazil CD 1999
2:08 No Control E-86406-4 Poland MC 1996
2:08 No Control Japan CD 1994
2:08 No Control United States CD 1989
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