"
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
"
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
"
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
"
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.
"
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
"
I condemn you to fiery perdition" -
Man With A Mission
- Brett Gurewitz
"
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
"
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
"
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.
"
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
"
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
"
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
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.
"
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
"
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
"
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
"
Underneath the Pontiff's nose" -
Sinister Rouge
- Greg Graffin
1. the common people
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
"
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.
"
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
"
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".
"
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.
"
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.
"
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
"
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
"
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
"
I'll set a funeral pyre." -
Kerosene
- Brett Gurewitz