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Kyoto Now!
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Written by: Greg Graffin
Released in: 2002
BPM: 148
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It's a matter of prescience,
No, not the science fiction kind.
It's all about ignorance,
And greed and miracles for the blind.
The media parading, disjointed politics
Founded on petrochemical plunder,
And we're its hostages.

If you stand to reason, you're in the game,
The rules might be elusive, but our pieces are the same.
And you know if one goes down we all go down as well,
The balance is precarious as anyone can tell,
This world's going to hell.

Don't allow
This mythologic hopeful monster to exact its price.
Kyoto now!
We can't do nothing and think someone else will make it right.

You might not think it matters now, but what if you are wrong?
You might not think there's any wisdom in a fucked up punk rock song.
But the way it is cannot persist for long,
A brutal sun is rising on a sick horizon.

It's in the way we live our lives,
Exactly like the double-edge of a cold familiar knife.
And supremacy weighs heavy on the day,
It's never really what you own, but what you threw away.
And how much did you pay?

Don't allow
This mythologic hopeful monster to exact its price.
Kyoto now!
We can't do nothing and think someone else will make it right.

In your dreams
You saw a steady state a bounty for eternity.
Silent screams
But now the wisdom that sustained us is in full retreat.

Don't allow
This mythologic hopeful monster isn't worth the risk.
Kyoto now!
We can't have vision for the future if it can't be fixed.

Alien
We need a fresh and new religion to run our lives.
Hand in hand
The arid torpor of inaction will be our demise.

Kyoto now!

Versions
Version Length Release Catalog ID Country Format Year
Album version
3:19 The Process of Belief Australia 12" 2022
3:19 The Process of Belief United States 12" 2022
3:19 The Process of Belief United States 12" 2022
3:19 The Process of Belief United States 12" 2022
3:19 The Process of Belief Europe 12" 2022
3:19 The Process of Belief Europe 12" 2022
3:19 The Process of Belief Europe 12" 2022
3:19 The Process of Belief Europe 12" 2019
3:19 The Process of Belief Europe 12" 2019
3:19 The Process of Belief Europe 12" 2019
3:19 The Process of Belief United States 12" 2017
3:19 The Process of Belief 86635-1 United States 12" 2010
3:19 The Process of Belief 86635-2 Russia CD 2007
3:19 The Process of Belief EICP-6 Japan CD 2002
3:19 The Process of Belief EICP-6 Japan CD 2002
3:19 The Process of Belief n/a United States MC 2002
3:19 The Process of Belief UICL 1018-4 Malaysia MC 2002
3:19 The Process of Belief United States 12" 2002
3:19 The Process of Belief Europe 12" 2002
3:19 The Process of Belief 6635-2 Europe CD 2002
3:19 The Process of Belief 86635-2 United States CD 2002
3:19 The Process of Belief E86635-2 Australia CD 2002
3:19 The Process of Belief 6635-2 Europe CD 2002
3:19 The Process of Belief 86635-2A United States CD 2002
3:19 The Process of Belief 054 Malaysia MC 2002
3:19 The Process of Belief Russia CD 2002
3:19 The Process of Belief 6635-2A Europe CD 2002
3:19 The Process of Belief 6635-2 Europe CD 2002
3:19 The Process of Belief 86635-2 United States CD 2002
3:19 The Process of Belief 86635-2 United States CD 2002
3:19 The Process of Belief 2067-2 Brazil CD 2002
3:19 The Process of Belief ECIP 6 Japan CD 2002
3:19 The Process of Belief 86635-2 United States CD 2002
3:19 The Process of Belief n/a United States CD 2001
Video live @ Palladium, 11/20/2004
Live At The Palladium Brazil DVD 2009
Live At The Palladium Japan DVD 2006
Live At The Palladium Europe DVD 2006
Live At The Palladium United States DVD 2006
Live At The Palladium Australia DVD 2006
Live At The Palladium H-716 China DVD 2005
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