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Positive Aspect Of Negative Thinking
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Written by: Jay Bentley
Released in: 1990
BPM: 80
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Let's gather 'round the carcass of the old deflated beast,
We have seen it through the accolades and rested in its lea,
Syntactic is our elegance, incisive our disease,
The swath endogenous of ourselves will be our quandary.

We've nestled in it's hollow and we've suckled at it's breast,
Grandiloquent in attitude, impassioned yet inept,
Frivolous gavel our design, ludicrous or threat,
Excursive expeditions leave us holding less and less.

So what does it mean?
When we tell ourselves it's only for a while we have been deceived
And it's only for a moment that the treasures of our day
Make life easier to complicate,
The treasure thrown away.

I'm so tired of all the fucked up minds,
Of all the terrorist religions and their bullshit lines,
Of all the hand-me-downs from all industrial crimes
And the weeping mothers and those who are led so blind,
Of the plastic protests and the hands of time
And the pursuit of mirth and all hating kind.

Versions
Version Length Release Catalog ID Country Format Year
Album version
0:57 Against The Grain Europe 12" 2023
0:57 Against The Grain Europe 12" 2023
0:57 Against The Grain United States 12" 2022
0:57 Against The Grain United States 12" 2017
0:57 Against The Grain E-86409-1 | 86409-1TPU United States 12" 2014
0:57 Against The Grain E-86409-1TYL United States 12" 2014
0:57 Against The Grain E-86409-1 United States 12" 2010
0:57 Against The Grain E-86409-1 United States 12" 2009
0:57 Against The Grain E-86409-1 United States 12" 2009
0:57 Against The Grain United States 12" 2009
0:57 Against The Grain Russia CD 2007
0:57 Against The Grain 1309157-1 Brazil CD 1999
0:57 Against The Grain Brazil CD 1999
0:57 Against The Grain E-86409-4 Poland MC 1996
0:57 Against The Grain ESCA-6141 Japan CD 1995
0:57 Against The Grain United States 12" 1994
0:57 Against The Grain United States CD 1991
0:57 Against The Grain E-86409-4 United States MC 1990
0:57 Against The Grain United States 12" 1990
0:57 Against The Grain E-86409-1 United States 12" 1990
0:57 Against The Grain E-86409-2 United States CD 1990
0:57 Against The Grain South Korea CD 1990
0:57 Against The Grain 6409-2 Europe CD 1990
0:57 Against The Grain United States CD 1990
0:57 Against The Grain E-86409 United States 12" 1990
0:57 Against The Grain MG 2200 Poland MC 1990
0:57 Against The Grain Russia MC 1990
0:57 Against The Grain Brazil CD 1990
Remastered
0:57 Against The Grain Europe 12" 2023
0:57 Against The Grain United States CD 2016
0:57 Against The Grain United States CD 2010
0:57 Against The Grain United States MC 2004
0:57 Against The Grain United States CD 2004
0:57 Against The Grain Europe CD 2004
0:57 Against The Grain Australia CD 2004
0:57 Against The Grain Thailand MC 2004
0:57 Against The Grain 86703-2 Europe CD 2004
0:57 Against The Grain 86703-2 Israel CD 2004
0:57 Against The Grain Russia CD 2004
0:57 Against The Grain Russia CD 1990
Not specified
Against the Grain / Recipe for Hate BYCD-019 South Korea CD 1997
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