(biblical-Genesis 11:4-9) a scene of noise and confusion named after a tower meant to reach heaven that collapsed when God caused its builders to speak in different tongues
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When Babel's walls came crashing down," -
Skyscraper
- Brett Gurewitz
A law officer who makes sure that the decisions of a court are obeyed.
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Grim bailiffs wait like minarets" -
Faces of Grief
- Brett Gurewitz
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Just the bald and overt truth of the evil and deception." -
Inner Logic
- Greg Graffin
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And in their stares is bald dismay" -
The Streets Of America
- Greg Graffin, Brian Baker
1. not producing offspring
2. unproductive or unfruitful
3. dull or boring
4. lacking or devoid
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He's the farmer's barren fields, (In God)" -
American Jesus
- Greg Graffin, Brett Gurewitz
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Rotting bones in your barren fields. " -
Eat Your Dog
- Greg Graffin
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Like a barren winter day" -
Struck A Nerve
- Greg Graffin
Supreme blessedness; exalted happiness
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Inchoate beatitude, the Lord of the Flies." -
1000 More Fools
- Brett Gurewitz
A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command
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Did you listen to the arbiter's beck and call?" -
Murder
- Brett Gurewitz
To discuss repeatedly or at length; harp on
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She came from Heaven, well, there's no point belaboring that," -
Evangeline
- Brett Gurewitz
The act or quality of being belligerent or warlike; aggressiveness.
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Because passion unabated can be readily conflated as belligerence." -
The Resist Stance
- Greg Graffin
1. Of a kind and gentle disposition.
2. Having little or no detrimental effect; harmless
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All that's benign corrupts in time," -
Epiphany
- Greg Graffin
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Bequeathed to everyone:" -
Strange Denial
- Greg Graffin
Obsessed with, passionate about
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Or a vision of utopia that only the besotten can see?" -
Old Regime
- Greg Graffin
Gift; something acquired without compensation
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Bestowments from the past," -
New America
- Greg Graffin
The Song of the Bhagavan, often referred to as simply the Gita, is a 700-verse scripture that is part of the Hindu epic Mahabharata. This scripture contains a conversation between Pandava prince Arjuna and his guide Lord Krishna on a variety of theological and philosophical issues.
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That girl's got the atom and the Bhagavad Gita" -
Dharma and the Bomb
- Brett Gurewitz
To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain
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And bide until the word is good and ripe and get plucked clean out of sight" -
New Dark Ages
- Brett Gurewitz
The head of a totalitarian regime
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With opiates of silicon, Big Brother schemes to rule the nation." -
Part II (The Numbers Game)
- Brett Gurewitz
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I prefer my big brother, he's so gentle and understanding," -
Television
- Brett Gurewitz, Johnette Napolitano
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There is restrained passion, mistrust, and bigotry" -
The Handshake
- Greg Graffin
To surge or roll in large swells, surges or undulating masses
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The billowing cyclone of time has blown away our reasons" -
I Want Something More
- Brett Gurewitz
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St. Anne's skirts are billowing," -
Los Angeles Is Burning
- Brett Gurewitz
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Flack, rounds and roiling blight" -
Heroes & Martyrs
- Brett Gurewitz
A Buddhist monk who lived during the 5th/6th century CE. These sources, given in various translations, vary on their account of Bodhidharma being either:
- A monk of the Western Region named Bodhidharma, a Persian Central Asian
- A South Indian of the Western Region. He was the third son of a great Indian king
- Who came from South India in the Western Regions, the third son of a great Brahman king
- Of South Indian Brahman stock c.q. a Brahman monk from South India
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Bodhidharma has gone fission" -
Dharma and the Bomb
- Brett Gurewitz
1. noisily jolly or rowdy
2. rough and stormy
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Are the boisterous hollow masses" -
Leaders And Followers
- Greg Graffin
1. To support with or as if with a bolster (a long pillow or cushion
2. To buoy up or hearten
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Bolstering national faith," -
American Jesus
- Greg Graffin, Brett Gurewitz
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Licking all the right holes, bolstering the payroll," -
Quality Or Quantity
- Greg Graffin
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Any wretched ploy that bolsters our economy." -
Too Much To Ask
- Greg Graffin
Boltzmann, Ludwig (1844-1906) an Austrian physicist
DID YOU KNOW: Boltzmann derived a formula (the Boltzmann Distribution) which gives the number of atoms or molecules with a given energy at a specific temperature. This can theoretically be used to measure the entropy of the universe.
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Man, we're in a play of slow decay orchestrated by Boltzmann." -
Entropy
- Greg Graffin
Marked by abundance; plentiful.
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Toward a land that's better, much more bountiful and wide." -
How Much Is Enough?
- Brett Gurewitz
French word which means Middle Class. Mostly used during the French Revolution. Was a legal category in society
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...And so returns the bourgeoise, the bastard child of democracy" -
The Profane Rights of Man
- Greg Graffin
The quality or state of being brief in duration
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Meaningfully. (brevity, dependency)" -
Supersonic
- Brett Gurewitz
To hold back or keep in check; control
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There's no reason for bridled fear." -
It's A Long Way To The Promise Land
- Greg Graffin
Moody; meditative; introspective
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But the broody skies above" -
Cyanide
- Brett Gurewitz
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Phantasmal myriads of sane bucolic birth." -
1000 More Fools
- Brett Gurewitz