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In So Many Ways
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Written by: Greg Graffin
Released in: 1998
BPM: 123
Lyrics
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I can see the shadows on the wall
Drifting as the leaves start to fall.
Unfazed by rugosity, the objects yield to gravity
And depict the destiny of us all.

No one really knows why we die.
No one gets a break so we try.
Ignoring mortality, we worship mediocrity
And wait to see what happens up on high.

In so many ways we live to follow the sun,
In so many ways we exalt and fail as one.
In so many ways we want so bad to be done,
In so many ways we show our pain in unison.

Something in you is busy counting the days,
Catapulting you through the haze.
Blind to virtuosity, ignorant of your sanctity,
Revealing you, in so many ways.

In so many ways we live to follow the sun,
In so many ways we tend to rise and fall as one.
In so many ways we want so bad to be done,
In so many ways we show our pain in unison.

Versions
Version Length Release Catalog ID Country Format Year
Album version
3:04 No Substance United States 12" 2022
3:04 No Substance Europe 12" 2018
3:04 No Substance United States 12" 2018
3:04 No Substance United States 12" 2018
3:04 No Substance Europe 12" 2013
3:04 No Substance Europe 12" 2013
3:04 No Substance Europe 12" 2013
3:04 No Substance 6997-1 United States 12" 2010
3:04 No Substance 6997-2 Europe CD 2008
3:04 No Substance CPT-2007 South Korea MC 2007
3:04 No Substance ESCA-6949 Japan CD 1998
3:04 No Substance 489570-2 Australia CD 1998
3:04 No Substance United States CD 1998
3:04 No Substance 489570-8 Germany MD 1998
3:04 No Substance 83094-4 United States MC 1998
3:04 No Substance DRA 489570 4 Germany MC 1998
3:04 No Substance United States 12" 1998
3:04 No Substance Germany 12" 1998
3:04 No Substance DRA 489570 2 Germany CD 1998
3:04 No Substance 83094-2 United States CD 1998
3:04 No Substance 83094-2/4 United States CD 1998
3:04 No Substance 83094 United States 12" 1998
3:04 No Substance Spain MC 1998
3:04 No Substance Russia MC 1998
3:04 No Substance Poland MC 1998
3:04 No Substance A 006497 Bulgaria MC 1998
3:04 No Substance Turkey MC 1998
3:04 No Substance 489570-4 Indonesia MC 1998
3:04 No Substance No catalog ID United States MC 1998
3:04 No Substance 489570 2 Argentina CD 1998
3:04 No Substance South Korea CD 1998
3:04 No Substance Canada CD 1998
3:04 No Substance Canada CD 1998
3:04 No Substance Austria CD 1998
3:04 No Substance Russia CD 1998
3:04 No Substance United States CD 1998
3:04 No Substance DRA 489570 9 Germany CD 1998
3:04 No Substance 83094-2 Israel CD 1998
3:04 No Substance 758.443/2-489570 Brazil CD 1998
Not specified
3:04 The New America ZK07115 Russia CD 2000
3:04 No Substance 83094-2P United States CD 1998
3:04 No Substance SAMPCD 4959 Germany CD 1998
3:04 No Substance tbd United States CD 1998
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