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Requiem For Dissent
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Written by: Greg Graffin
Released in: 2007
BPM: 146
Lyrics
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Oratory of hope and glory a whisper and a rhyme
An effigy, a soldier out of time
Citizen and patriot you can't be far behind
The funeral is weighting heavy on your mind

Requiem
Bring the dissident from slumber
Requiem
Raise the rebel from its grave
Requiem
Sound the revolution's thunder
A monumental blunder averted and betrayed

Dig around the cemetery a record of the day
Friends and neighbors in stages of decay
But the saddest thing of all eludes discovery
The stimulus for this somber ceremony

Requiem
Bring the dissident from slumber
Requiem
Raise the rebel from its grave
Requiem
Sound the revolution's thunder
A monumental blunder averted and betrayed

The sanctimonious minions how they grovel at the feet
Authority is populist deceit
Pity yet another casualty's demoralized decline
Just a victim of irrational design

Requiem! Requiem!
Requiem
Bring the dissident from slumber
Requiem
Raise the rebel from its grave
Requiem
Sound the revolution's thunder
A monumental blunder averted and betrayed
Versions
Version Length Release Catalog ID Country Format Year
Album version
2:08 New Maps of Hell United States 12" 2023
2:08 New Maps of Hell 6863-1 Europe 12" 2019
2:08 New Maps of Hell Europe 12" 2019
2:08 New Maps of Hell 86863-1SMO (SMOKE) United States 12" 2015
2:08 New Maps of Hell 80803-1 United States 12" 2010
2:08 New Maps of Hell RAD 6005 Brazil CD 2009
2:08 New Maps of Hell 86914-2 United States CD 2008
2:08 New Maps of Hell 86914-2 Europe CD 2008
2:08 New Maps of Hell 86863-1 United States 12" 2007
2:08 New Maps of Hell 80803-1 Europe 12" 2007
2:08 New Maps of Hell Europe CD 2007
2:08 New Maps of Hell EICP-800 Japan CD 2007
2:08 New Maps of Hell 86863 2 United States CD 2007
2:08 New Maps of Hell EICP-800 Japan CD 2007
2:08 New Maps of Hell Australia CD 2007
2:08 New Maps of Hell 86863-2P United States CD 2007
2:08 New Maps of Hell n/a Russia CD 2007
2:08 New Maps of Hell MR 2667-2 Ukraine CD 2007
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02/19/2017 at 02:03
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