Quote of the day: "God I want to be a man but I don't want to die with a rifle in my hand" - Heaven Is Falling
Quality Or Quantity
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04/27/2021 at 11:05
i think this song is genius. the lyrics are basically about being satisfied with the crumbs passed on to you. the real genius shows in the guitar riff in the verse. if you listen closely, it sounds very similar to the main riff in best for you off of suffer (1988). in my opinion this was very deliberate and draws the line to this songs title. you might not notice it at first, but everything you're served is the same thing but with some added (or subtracted) spice.
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06/24/2012 at 18:33
To me, it seems like a very harsh commentary on charities and its recipients; the wretched might as well be dead than have to live on 70 cents a day, eating cereal and water and uneaten greens. It's a bad quality of life for them, so why bother? Couple this with the American need to accumulate weath and material possessions, giving our measly 70 cents a day and patting ourselves on the back for it. We could afford to do so much more, but we just do the minimum (if that), thus prolonging the deaths of the starving, not improving their lives.
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07/11/2004 at 12:21
To me, this is illustrating Bad Religion's disgust at America's double standard on charity. We give 70 cents a day and applaud ourselves as good people while working our hardest to raise that $80,000 a year to $100,000 because the $80,000 just isn't enough for us. The following line also functions as a bash on our new digital world where everything can and will be reduced to a number (I'm a programmer, I'd know), 'why reduce life to a dollar amount per day, why let the world think that this is the American way', and America seems to revel in this ability.
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