Tell me can the hateful chain be broken?
Production and consumption define our hollow lives.
Avarice has led us 'cross the ocean,
Toward a land that's better, much more bountiful and wide.
So when will mankind finally come to realize
His surfeit has become his demise?
How much is enough to kill yourself?
That quantity is known today, as we blow ourselves away.
Tell me is there anything so sure?
Rapacity, tenacity, capacity for more!
Like a dog that feeds until he suffers,
Infirmity of man is brought on by his selfish cure.
When will mankind finally come to realize
His surfeit has become his demise?
How much is enough to kill yourself?
That quantity is known today, as we blow ourselves away.
Version | Length | Release | Catalog ID | Country | Format | Year |
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Album version | ||||||
1:23 | Suffer | United States | 12" | 2022 | ||
1:23 | Stranger Than Fiction | United States | 12" | 2021 | ||
1:23 | Stranger Than Fiction | United States | 12" | 2021 | ||
1:23 | Suffer | United States | 12" | 2019 | ||
1:23 | Suffer | Europe | 12" | 2018 | ||
1:23 | Suffer | Europe | 12" | 2018 | ||
1:23 | Suffer | 86404-1TGN | United States | 12" | 2015 | |
1:23 | Suffer | E-86404 | United States | 12" | 2010 | |
1:23 | Suffer | E-86404 | United States | 12" | 2009 | |
1:23 | Suffer | Russia | CD | 2007 | ||
1:23 | Suffer | JBR 26167-071 | Malaysia | MC | 2002 | |
1:23 | Suffer | ESCA-6153 | Japan | CD | 1995 | |
1:23 | Suffer | 86404 | S-29118/19 | United States | 12" | 1994 | |
1:23 | Suffer | United States | 12" | 1994 | ||
1:23 | Suffer | United States | 12" | 1994 | ||
1:23 | Suffer | United States | 12" | 1989 | ||
1:23 | Suffer | E-86404-4 | United States | MC | 1988 | |
1:23 | Suffer | E-86404 | United States | MC | 1988 | |
1:23 | Suffer | United States | 12" | 1988 | ||
1:23 | Suffer | E-86404-2 | United States | CD | 1988 | |
1:23 | Suffer | United States | CD | 1988 | ||
1:23 | Suffer | 337 | Poland | MC | 1988 | |
1:23 | Suffer | 1136 | Russia | MC | 1988 | |
1:23 | Suffer | Indonesia | MC | 1988 | ||
1:23 | Suffer | N/A | Russia | MC | 1988 | |
1:23 | Suffer | Australia | CD | 1988 | ||
Live @ House of Blues 2010 | ||||||
The Dissent of Man | n/a | United States | DL | 2010 | ||
Live video | ||||||
The Riot | Brazil | DVD | 2019 | |||
The Riot | Unknown | Argentina | DVD | 2014 | ||
The Riot | K0012 | AA0015000 | Brazil | DVD | 2014 | ||
Sex Pistols and Bad Religion Split | Argentina | DVD | 2010 | |||
The Riot | DR-4530 | United States | DVD | 2009 | ||
The Riot | DR-4530 | United States | DVD | 2006 | ||
The Riot | DAVID0267 | Australia | DVD | 2000 | ||
The Riot | DR-4315 | United States | DVD | 2000 | ||
The Riot | DR-4135 | United States | DVD | 1996 | ||
The Riot | n/a | United States | VHS | 1996 | ||
Live video, August 1989 | ||||||
Along The Way | 6414-9 | Europe | DVD | 2004 | ||
Along The Way | 86414-9 | United States | DVD | 2004 | ||
Along The Way | E86414-3 | United States | VHS | 1991 | ||
Along The Way | n/a | Germany | VHS | 1990 | ||
Remastered | ||||||
1:23 | Suffer | 601 | Yugoslavia | MC | 2019 | |
1:23 | Suffer | Europe | CD | 2004 | ||
1:23 | Suffer | United States | CD | 2004 | ||
1:23 | Suffer | Australia | CD | 2004 | ||
1:23 | Suffer | Brazil | 12" | 2004 | ||
1:23 | Suffer | 6390-2 | Brazil | CD | 2000 | |
Not specified | ||||||
1:23 | Suffer | E-6404-2 | Europe | CD | 1988 |
Derpington Steele
Guest
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I cannot and will not determine what this song means to you. I will, however, say what I think to what it alludes.
Mankind is aware of its fragility relative to the animal kingdom. We outwit our competition and are able to create many clones who want the same. Our expansion led us across the ocean to rinse and repeat creating a spread of imbalanced existence. We as humans imbalance the natural state and thusly remove ourselves from competition. We die from our own arrogance (pun intended) 01/24/2018 at 19:21
I cannot and will not determine what this song means to you. I will, however, say what I think to what it alludes.
Mankind is aware of its fragility relative to the animal kingdom. We outwit our competition and are able to create many clones who want the same. Our expansion led us across the ocean to rinse and repeat creating a spread of imbalanced existence. We as humans imbalance the natural state and thusly remove ourselves from competition. We die from our own arrogance (pun intended) |
SayYourPrayers
Billy Gnosis
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I think this song speaks to the belief that more is better. Our ancestors have travelled far and wide in order to discover what was available to plunder. That mentality is still totally pervasive to this day, in that people consistently strive to take more, have more, get more, be more, see more, do more, etc. Regardless of what negative effect this has on us.
07/26/2011 at 12:18
I think this song speaks to the belief that more is better. Our ancestors have travelled far and wide in order to discover what was available to plunder. That mentality is still totally pervasive to this day, in that people consistently strive to take more, have more, get more, be more, see more, do more, etc. Regardless of what negative effect this has on us.
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Anna
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It is about people telling us what we want and us falling for it, being consumers of things we do not need. It seems that people are always striving for more, not always knowing why; just because they want to be comparable to others. We are greedy, and some day soon, that greed will swallow us whole.
07/11/2004 at 11:38
It is about people telling us what we want and us falling for it, being consumers of things we do not need. It seems that people are always striving for more, not always knowing why; just because they want to be comparable to others. We are greedy, and some day soon, that greed will swallow us whole.
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Jakass
Guest
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This is stating how we are bred simply to consume, and our modern lives are now defined by our property. The lyrics are saying that this destroys our ability to think and function as anything other than a consumer in a business market that our lives have become.
07/11/2004 at 11:38
This is stating how we are bred simply to consume, and our modern lives are now defined by our property. The lyrics are saying that this destroys our ability to think and function as anything other than a consumer in a business market that our lives have become.
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