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Agreeable to the taste
"A refreshing plunge, a drink of palatable water," - Too Much To Ask
- Greg Graffin
Anything that covers, shrouds, or overspreads, esp. with darkness or gloom
"A pall on truth and reason, " - New Dark Ages
- Brett Gurewitz
"Do you remember when you marred my future with a sickly parasitic pall?" - The Day That the Earth Stalled
- Greg Graffin
Pulsate, throb
"And our hearts palpitate anxiously as we soon will lay supine" - Tiny Voices
- Greg Graffin
A sudden feeling of mental or emotional distress or longing
"A pang of consciousness of death" - Entropy
- Greg Graffin
An example that serves as pattern or model
"He's a paradigm of carefree living." - Automatic Man
- Brett Gurewitz
"The new paradigm is crisis time" - Crisis Time
- Greg Graffin
When two or more facts or qualities seem to contradict each other
"Whatever your assessment is, a paradox remains" - The Approach
- Greg Graffin
A state of inactivity
"Paralysis from forces raging out of control until" - Shattered Faith
- Greg Graffin
"Damn your transcendental paralysis," - The Hopeless Housewife
- Greg Graffin
Devoted to or biased in support of a party, group, or cause
"Shades of truth, and partisan convention," - Shades Of Truth
- Greg Graffin
Any activity that makes time pass agreeably
"This vulgar social pastime" - Leaders And Followers
- Greg Graffin
"Are their favorite pastime." - You've Got A Chance
- Greg Graffin
The quality or power of evoking a feeling of pity or compassion
"Sparkled promises paved with pathos and hysteria," - The Streets Of America
- Greg Graffin, Brian Baker
"But every-fucking-where I go, I see the pathos that I know" - When?
- Greg Graffin
1. The support or custom given by a patron
2. (in politics) the ability or power to appoint people to jobs
3. A condescending manner
2. (in politics) the ability or power to appoint people to jobs
3. A condescending manner
"Everyone's vying for patronage," - The Handshake
- Greg Graffin
of or relating to Ivan Pavlov or his experiments
Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich 1849-1936.
Russian physiologist who is best known for discovering the conditioned response.
Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich 1849-1936.
Russian physiologist who is best known for discovering the conditioned response.
"Pavlovian rude " - Fuck You
- Greg Graffin
"You shout rhetoric nonsense like a Pavlovian model" - Nobody Listens
- Greg Graffin, Brian Baker
1. a state of final spiritual ruin
2. hell
2. hell
"I condemn you to fiery perdition" - Man With A Mission
- Brett Gurewitz
Dangerous
" To state the obvious: this world is perilous for us." - The Defense
- Brett Gurewitz
"
When the mind is willing it gets downright perilous
" - True North
- Greg Graffin
1. of or situated in the periphery (the external boundary of any surface or area or a surrounding region or area)
2. comparatively superficial or unessential
2. comparatively superficial or unessential
"And the few who ride peripheral" - Leaders And Followers
- Greg Graffin
Never ending or never changing
"Are we stuck in some perpetual repeat?" - Downfall
- Greg Graffin
"Of this perpetual pace." - The Fast Life
- Greg Graffin
"The perpetual destructive motion machine" - The Gray Race
- Greg Graffin, Brian Baker
The continuation or preservation of a situation, idea, etc.
"Dire perpetuation and incongruous insistence," - Them And Us
- Greg Graffin
Persistent determination
"Persistence could prevail" - Believe It
- Greg Graffin, Brett Gurewitz
A chemical derived from petroleum or natural gas.
"Founded on petrochemical plunder," - Kyoto Now!
- Greg Graffin
1. Eerie or frightening.
2. Expresses qualities of or produced from fantasy.
2. Expresses qualities of or produced from fantasy.
"Phantasmal myriads of sane bucolic birth." - 1000 More Fools
- Brett Gurewitz
The evolutionary development and history of a species or higher taxonomic grouping of organisms.
"A piece of chaos related phylogenetically" - The World Won't Stop Without You
- Greg Graffin
1. a person who journeys, esp. a long distance, to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion: pilgrims to the Holy Land
2. a traveler or wanderer, esp. in a foreign place
3. an original settler in a region
2. a traveler or wanderer, esp. in a foreign place
3. an original settler in a region
"Pilgrim, those are dry and bitter tears and lonely" - Lost Pilgrim
- Greg Graffin
to yearn deeply; suffer with longing; long painfully
"We lament, we pine, and we rescind" - The Same Person
- Greg Graffin, Jay Bentley, Brian Baker
"Black, tarred concrete pine for me" - The Streets Of America
- Greg Graffin, Brian Baker
1. losing vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
2. yearning intensly
2. yearning intensly
"Your moments pining like those tales all intertwining" - Blenderhead
- Brett Gurewitz
Having or exhibiting religious reverence, devout
"Pious eyes ignoring passers by" - Lost Pilgrim
- Greg Graffin
"And the pious who were promised so much more" - What Are We Standing For
- Greg Graffin
To supply with or offer something pressingly to
"I plied the grim proprietor with milk and tangerines" - I Won't Say Anything
- Brett Gurewitz
1. Government by the wealthy.
2. A wealthy class that controls a government.
3. A government or state in which the wealthy rule.
2. A wealthy class that controls a government.
3. A government or state in which the wealthy rule.
"A plutocratic strategy or technocrat conspiracy?" - Old Regime
- Greg Graffin
"Said the plutocrat to jesus christ" - Robin Hood in Reverse
- Brett Gurewitz
An organized massacre of helpless people
"This mammoth pogrom set upon courtesy of the USA." - Unacceptable
- Jay Bentley, Greg Hetson
1. physically painful
2. keenly distressing ti the mind or feelings
3a. neat, skillful and to the point
3b. astute and pertinent; relevant
4. agreeably intense or stimulating
5. (archaic) sharp or sour to the taste or smell
2. keenly distressing ti the mind or feelings
3a. neat, skillful and to the point
3b. astute and pertinent; relevant
4. agreeably intense or stimulating
5. (archaic) sharp or sour to the taste or smell
"Filled with poignant morose wonder," - Tiny Voices
- Greg Graffin
A controversy (especially over a belief or dogma)
"And she's a modern-day polemic," - Queen Of The 21st Century
- Greg Graffin
1. stately or splendid display; splendor; magnificence
2. ostentatious or vain display
2. ostentatious or vain display
"Pomp and show," - Against The Grain
- Greg Graffin
"Betraying pomp and discipline, they mold their institution" - Inner Logic
- Greg Graffin
"The pomp and elation," - Recipe For Hate
- Greg Graffin
Considering something deeply and thoroughly
"I've spent my life observing and then pondering this place" - Mediocrity
- Greg Graffin
The Pope
"Underneath the Pontiff's nose" - Sinister Rouge
- Greg Graffin
1. the common people
2. population
2. population
"I'm a member of a growing populace," - American Jesus
- Greg Graffin, Brett Gurewitz
Put forward just because it would be popular
"Authority is populist deceit" - Requiem For Dissent
- Greg Graffin
To give an omen or anticipatory sign of; indicate
"Sources of inquiry have nothing to portend," - Misery And Famine
- Greg Graffin
A porch or a walkway with a roof supported by columns often leading to the entrance of a building
"Graduated mentors stroll in marbled brick porticos" - Inner Logic
- Greg Graffin
The future, future generations, succeeding generations
"Waiting for endless charity devoid of any sense of posterity." - Ad Hominem
- Greg Graffin
Those oriented toward practical action or thought
"They're the self-appointed righteous pragmatists," - Modern Day Catastrophists
- Greg Graffin
1. Dangerously lacking in security or stability
2. Subject to chance or unknown conditions
2. Subject to chance or unknown conditions
"The balance is precarious as anyone can tell," - Kyoto Now!
- Greg Graffin
"The despair and oblivion of our precarious race" - Won't Somebody
- Brett Gurewitz
"The despair and oblivion of our precarious race" - Won't Somebody
- Brett Gurewitz
1. To dress up; primp.
2. To swell with pride; gloat or exult.
2. To swell with pride; gloat or exult.
"She was preened and redeemed " - Queen Of The 21st Century
- Greg Graffin
1. Exhibiting prejudice or bias
2. Causing harm or injury; detrimental, harmful or injurious
2. Causing harm or injury; detrimental, harmful or injurious
"Prejudicial waters wash over me" - Scrutiny
- Greg Graffin
Knowledge of actions or events before they occur; foresight
"But prescience was lacking and the present was not all" - Billy
- Brett Gurewitz
"It's a matter of prescience," - Kyoto Now!
- Greg Graffin
An aspiration or intention that may or may not reach fulfillment
"Pretensions of a higher ground." - Adam's Atoms
- Greg Graffin
"What pretension, everlasting peace," - Cease
- Greg Graffin
"When there’s the pretension of living a lie?" - The Surface Of Me
- Greg Graffin
To be greater in strength or influence; triumph
"Persistence could prevail" - Believe It
- Greg Graffin, Brett Gurewitz
"Prevailing winds blow stronger" - Let It Burn
- Greg Graffin
[prion] - Proteins with the same or similar Amino sequence as other proteins that have the property to interact with their counterparts in such a manner that the external structure of the normal proteine is changed to that of the prion.
[jive] - A reference to Gibson's "Neuromancer" where the term refers to a sign language.
In the context of the song: "speaking prionic jive" ~ "speaking in corrupted sign language".
[jive] - A reference to Gibson's "Neuromancer" where the term refers to a sign language.
In the context of the song: "speaking prionic jive" ~ "speaking in corrupted sign language".
"You're a sidewalk cipher speaking prionic jive," - Give You Nothing
- Greg Graffin, Brett Gurewitz
The act of moving along or forward; progression.
"Wild in the street like a formal procession of love and deceit" - The Devil in Stitches
- Brett Gurewitz
"A procession of humanity, strikingly simian," - Who We Are
- Brett Gurewitz
1. Something that is proclaimed; a public and official announcement.
2. The act of proclaiming.
2. The act of proclaiming.
"Hey Moral Soldier you've got righteous proclamations," - I Want To Conquer The World
- Brett Gurewitz
Someone who returns home from travelling, especially having repented of former extravagant behaviour.
"When the prodigal son with a caroming shadow of hate comes to land at home," - Prodigal Son
- Brett Gurewitz
Not respectful of religious practice
"Predisposed to my profane decree" - It's Reciprocal
- Greg Graffin, Brian Baker, Bobby Schayer
"If you seek to make divisible the principle of the profane rights of man" - The Profane Rights of Man
- Greg Graffin
"To pierce the vein of the sacred and profane," - The Quickening
- Brett Gurewitz
Descendants or offspring collectively
"Oozing, with progeny writhing and desperate" - Individual
- Greg Graffin
"And their progeny crawl from underneath it." - My Poor Friend Me
- Greg Graffin
"Our progeny in silence thinking "what about us?"" - Victims Of The Revolution
- Greg Graffin, Brian Baker
Growing or multiplying by rapidly producing new tissue, parts, cells or offspring
"Culture was the seed of proliferation but it's gotten melded" - No Control
- Greg Graffin
1. Lacking standards of selection; indiscriminate.
2. Casual; random.
2. Casual; random.
"We're listless, promiscuous," - Part IV (The Index Fossil)
- Greg Graffin
To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread
"Propagated just by hope" - All Fantastic Images
- Greg Graffin, Brian Baker
"Separate evaluate and cultivate and propagate" - Germs Of Perfection
- Greg Graffin
Holder, owner, possessor
"I plied the grim proprietor with milk and tangerines" - I Won't Say Anything
- Brett Gurewitz
The state or condition of being successful, esp. Financially
"Only precious few can garner our prosperity," - American Jesus
- Greg Graffin, Brett Gurewitz
"Mere prosperity and inhumanity? It may well be but," - Grains Of Wrath
- Greg Graffin
"The promise of prosperity?" - Recipe For Hate
- Greg Graffin
"A renewed promise of prosperity," - The Hippy Killers
- Greg Graffin
"You want prosperity" - The Same Person
- Greg Graffin, Jay Bentley, Brian Baker
"The march for empowering prosperity," - Victims Of The Revolution
- Greg Graffin, Brian Baker
A stock of needed supplies
"So I guess I'll just cope with my provisions" - Chimaera
- Greg Graffin
1. Next or nearest in space or time
2. Very near
2. Very near
"See, the good things soon flow proximate." - Yesterday
- Greg Graffin
An elevated platform, lectern, or stand used in preaching or conducting a religious service
"Bullshit beams from the bully pulpit" - Big Black Dog
- Brett Gurewitz
"Climbing the pulpit steps before an eager congregation," - Dearly Beloved
- Brett Gurewitz
"Heard a sermon from a creaky pulpit with no one in the nave." - Faith Alone
- Greg Graffin
Adhering to strict moral or religious principles
"Puritan work ethic maintains its subconscious edge" - You Are (The Government)
- Greg Graffin
Assumed to be such; supposed
"The scientist purported that there ain't no purpose" - Shattered Faith
- Greg Graffin
lacking in courage, strength and resolution
"They'd rather see us all pusillanimous," - Hear It
- Greg Graffin
1. a pile of combustibles
2. a heap of combustibles for burning a corpse as a funeral rite
2. a heap of combustibles for burning a corpse as a funeral rite
"I'll set a funeral pyre." - Kerosene
- Brett Gurewitz
