Bad Religion - God Song Lyrics






and did those feet in ancient times trod on america's pastuers of
green? and did that anthropocentric god wane with their thoughts and
beliefs all unseen? i don't think so, he's up there with the others
laying low, vying with those who you've traded your life to to bless
your soul, and have they told you how to think, cleansed your mind of
sepsis and automony? or have you escaped scrutiny, and regaled
yourself with depravity? now we all see, "religion is just synthetic
frippery, unnecessary in our expanding global cultural efficiency" and
don't you fear this impasse we have built to our future? ever so near,
and oh so austere





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  1. W.... a....

    Excellent

  2. T.... L....

    Love this song and this video! The first line of this song is from a William Blake poem called And did those feet in ancient times" Check it out!

  3. R.... H....

    One of (many) BR favorites
    I always used to think/say: "Religion's just synthetic Referee"
    Frippery...(rhymes with)
    The more you know....the less you really do.

  4. A.... R....

    This song start with an allusion to the William Blake poem 'Jerusalem'.
    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54684/jerusalem-and-did-those-feet-in-ancient-time

  5. s.... ....

    great!!!!

  6. J.... P....

    I've learned more from Greg's lyrics than from any form of public education, simply because he speaks about what public education institutions don't want you to know.

  7. G.... C....

    Sweet 🎸 solo

  8. J.... W....

    This is the greatest song with lyrics that I have ever come across! I'm well-versed in these words but the fact that you put the meanings in there for the uneducated, makes me feel that there is Faith in humanity the ignorance will not come to fruition! Thank you!

  9. P.... ....

    Love the added definitions, haha. “I bought Suffer and then I bought a thesaurus.”

  10. S.... F....

    13 personas creyentes le dieron dislike :v

  11. s.... ....

    Ever so near...and oh so austere. We're there Greg...Trump is president, even if he died, Mark Pence the teabagger would replace him. And Trump has shown us that parties mean shit, he was a Democrat all his life, got fun pics of the 3 (him and the 2 clintons) from 3 and 4 years ago.

    The guitar solo fucking kill in that song, all I can say.

  12. A.... !....

    Damn their lyrics are the deepest ! Hands down!

  13. R.... O....

    Why is that one line between quotation marks? "Religion is just synthetic frippery, unnecessary in our expanding global cultural efficiency"

  14. M.... S....

    But... But... I am a huge fan of Bad Religion and I already bought a thesaurus after I bought Suffer!!!

  15. m.... ....

    This is a really well made video! Well done.

  16. c.... o....

    Do we really need words like anthropocentric and wane defined for us.

    c.... o....

    As a person whos mother tongue isnt english... yeah :D

    c.... o....

    We are ignorant of all things, until we learn them. There's no shame in learning from a song, or video.

    c.... o....

    Apparently we do, just look at who is President of the USA...

  17. F.... ....

    This is awesome! Thank you!

    The reason I got a 9.3/10 for my English pre-University (for Dutch folks: VWO) exam was Bad Religion! When I bought a new Bad Religion CD back in the days, I always took a dictionary to help me out understanding Grerg's lyrics (Brett's too of course, but those were a bit simpler). Sometimes I even couldn't find a translation at all ( f.i. beatitude) haha.

    F.... ....

    A french dictionary would have helped you with this, fancy English is almost all words that exist in french too, thanks to the Nordmands invading the Great Britons (normal Britons are in France, the province of Brittany) for 200 years actually was good for their so, so easy to learn language.

    F.... ....

    Thank you, I learned something today :)

  18. P.... L....

    Against The Grain was a fucking perfect record, period! From Modern Man to Walk Away. The urgent desperation in Gregg Hetson's guitar leads coupled with Gregg Geffen's lyrics were fucking magical! I was lucky enough to have had the opportunity to see them perform this record live when it first came out. It was a mind blowing experience to say the least.

  19. D.... D....

    I love the solo. Its nothing crazy or over the top but its enough to put a smile on your face and say "aye man, that's a pretty sweet solo." I guess its a case of less it more.

    D.... D....

    Bro that solo gets me off, its so fucking rad man, its on fucking fire.. Brett Gurewitz kills on lead, so creative.

  20. H.... ....

    i like the music the problem, is that the lyrics say that God = to religion. That's false.

    H.... ....

    @HugoElcabezas When?

    H.... ....

    @Theyneverknow clean your mind of sepsis and autonomy. Religion is just synthetic frippery, unnecessary...
    when the song is called God Song but they put it together always, when they are not

    H.... ....

    @HugoElcabezas That may be the most stoned post I've ever read.

    H.... ....

    @Theyneverknow congratulations

    H.... ....

    +HugoElcabezas It's still true that religion was made by man to understand things. We used God and gods to explain the natural order.

  21. D.... ....

    He makes reference to this song in the book he wrote: Anarchy Evolution. He said he kind of regrets adding a line that was so direct about his feelings of the uselessness of religion. I have to say though, this song wasn't one of BR's I was really familiar with before reading this book. GG is the man. Love the song and video

    D.... ....

    meowsthi you can't explain yourself. but that's ok, you don't have to. you've made it clear how ignorant you are

    D.... ....

    meowsthi I'm good, I got a wife for that. now just stfu, I just can't seem to leave this alone when I have some internet thug talking shit!!

    D.... ....

    Man, you're really bad at using words. First, nothing I've done equates to me being a "thug". Also, in no way is a dried out, wrinkled up, jizz soaked sock a "wife". You're bad at this, quit while you're behind.

    D.... ....

    meowsthi you talk shit behind a computer screen because it keeps you safe. if you ever said anything like that about my family to my face I'd fuckin beat you within an inch of your life. this is what "internet thugs, tough guys," whatever you want to say act like.

    D.... ....

    Sigh... going back to my original point, you're a fucking idiot. Goodbye, idiot.

  22. w.... j....

    Black hole singularities ,
    Look that shit up

  23. Z.... H....

    The definitions are great in this video. When I started to learn English about 20 years ago I couldn't even write down a simple grammatically correct affirmative sentence on my own. However, thanks to being a fan of Bad Religion, I knew the meaning of words like "phony" or "frippery", or could spell correctly the sentence "unnecessary in our expanding global cultural efficiency", or the complete lyrics of some BR songs. All in all, it's useful for your English vocabulary be a BR fan :)

    Z.... H....

    *to* be a BR fan ;)

    Z.... H....

    The punk band that requires a dictionary

    Z.... H....

    The definition of "depravity" is wanting.

  24. L.... T....

    I would listen to this on repeat till the end of time

  25. a.... ....

    I like what you did with the definitions. Bad Religion uses so many meaningful words, that might need clarification.

  26. m.... ....

    why the need to place word definitions in the video? it's ridiculous.

    m.... ....

    It's actually very smart of the person who made the video. I for one had no idea what any of the words meant, and when I look at Bad Religion's lyrics (in this instance Greg Graffin's) I constantly look up word definitions. People are lazy... They don't want to learn. (personal experience) and whenever they hear a word they don't know they'll just skip right on over it, or never try to learn what it means. Definitions on screen just opens the book of knowledge up to people who are... lazy? I don't know! Props video creator! 

    m.... ....

    Words are strong, and even stronger if they are understood :)

  27. H.... M....

    unneccessary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  28. a.... ....

    Anyone else find it funny that "depravity" is defined as "the state of being depraved/ a depraved act or practice"? Not much of an actual definition, now is it?

    a.... ....

    He got good definitions for 10 out of 11 of the selected words. I'll take it. :D

  29. A.... G....

    Then how can you claim that you know for a fact that the afterlife is real?

  30. D.... ....

    from what I have seen with my own eyes and what I have heard

  31. A.... G....

    How do you know that?

  32. h.... ....

    I've learned a fair amount of new vocabulary by pausing Bad Religion songs and breaking out the dictionary.

  33. D.... ....

    I believe there is a god some don't all I know for a sure fact is afterlife is real

  34. S.... K....

    Well anyone who would complain about you posting this with definitions would also complain that you didn't post it with definitions. They just want to whine about something, anything. Personally, I would take the higher road and not acknowledge them. Acknowledge: the act of saying f$%K you; you whiny b*#ch.

  35. R.... ....

    Did you just put someone down as being gay? Still got a lot to learn I guess.

  36. D.... D....

    --->Role models. I'm gonna pass my albums down to my kids for sure.

  37. D.... D....

    You should do more of their songs like Beyond Electric Dreams. This would have helped me out years ago when I first started listening, sitting for hours doing high school type vocabulary excercises on the words I didn't understand. Greg and Bretts lyrics are what kickstarted my yearning for not only a larger, and growing, vocabulary, but also a yearning for understanding the natural world. Latch key kid turned self motivated intellect. Bad Religion is good for kids. Greg and Brett are good -----

  38. D.... D....

    It's a little pretentious to assume that everyone knows those words. It's all about learning faggot. Try it sometime. I had such a narrow vocabulary before learning of BR and after years of sitting and religiously (pun intended) listening to them whilst rapidly writing down defenitions of the words I didn't understand, I have quite an extensive vocabulary. Thank you BR for helping me yearn to educate myself in both science and English.

  39. T.... J....

    I like your lyrics videos. I also like the definitions. Infact I wish more people did it the way you do.

  40. M.... ....

    I agree with you lookprettyappealing. When I first heard Bad Religion in high school, some twenty odd years ago, I was looked through the dictionary to learn what the definition of 'frippery' was. Bad Religion songs are wrought with obscure, but meaningful vocabulary.

  41. A.... B....

    Well, I'm Brazilian and I dont understand totally the lyrics (or a few words) , and some definitions helped me a lot! (:

  42. H.... ....

    Then don't watch it.

  43. T.... ....

    Atheism is the way

  44. s.... ....

    "synthetic frippery" and "impasse to the future" Brilliant!

  45. k.... ....

    Bad Religion for dummies :)

  46. H.... ....

    i learned 1 or 2 new meanings :)

  47. p.... ....

    I actualy learned new vocabulary from listionig to Bad Religion.

  48. J.... J....

    i didnt know any of those fucking words XD

  49. M.... ....

    Totally dude! I speak english pretty well, but it's not my first language and I don't know all these words really as they are not words I often would use or hear. So thanks alot for the definitions!

  50. B.... ....

    it'a a little pretentious to presume that every bad religion fan is an English native speaker

  51. t.... ....

    Thanks for this, I am a Bad Religion fan, but when I post it on Facebook, I get sick of people saying "the song doesnt make any sense, what are the big words for" So thank you, you saved me time and made a great video to a great song!

  52. S.... P....

    Hmm, that is one tasty guitar solo.

  53. I.... ....

    Thanks a lot! Very well thought and well made video.

    Great fucking band.

  54. s.... ....

    Haha yes! (y)

  55. l.... ....

    you're right

  56. r.... ....

    Thanks for the explanation. Makes sense. Carry on with your good work lookprettyappealing. ;)

  57. l.... ....

    i can't take any credit because i didn't write the song, but i'm glad you found it helpful.

  58. l.... ....

    i disagree. i didn't put up the definitions because i assume that all bad religion fans need them, nor did i do it exclusively for bad religion fans. i did it so there's a better understanding for anyone listening to this for the first or have just wondered what those words meant in the context of the song. i think they add a better understanding when you read and listen, kind of like following along with an audiobook. but of course, not everyone needs that but it can be helpful.

  59. r.... ....

    It's a little pretentious to presume that Bad Religion fans have to have the lyrics defined for them op. If we didn't understand the big words in the lyrics we probably wouldn't be watching this video in the first place.

  60. M.... J....

    Learning English from Bad Religion?
    Fuck yeah.....

  61. r.... w....

    Some of the most intelligent lyrics of any band I've known. Note: God is different than religion.

  62. F.... H....

    I like them because they are helpfull;)

  63. S.... ....

    Great job, thanks

  64. c.... ....

    Good work, much better than mine. please make more.

  65. R.... S....

    now my vocabulary has increased. thanks lookprettyappealing. ;)

  66. P.... R....

    If only more people listen to br the world may be a better place

  67. E.... S....

    Never thought someone could use so many words I dont understand in such a short song o.o

  68. s.... ....

    @HuffyT266 English is not my native tongue, either, my first language is a Native American language, that few have heard and even less speak. But I didn't think about those who aren't very fluent in English

  69. T.... .....

    dude you should do all BR videos...definitions for their lyrics should be required

  70. t.... r....

    yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

  71. B.... ....

    @sbcistheboss I see no problem with helping our less educated friends learn a few words and understand the song more fully.

  72. s.... ....

    This is only high school vocabulary. Yeah, Greg may be a professor and he may have a PhD. And yes, he is very smart. But these words aren't too hard to understand.

  73. F.... ....

    @idk5674 ....the band is called bad religion.... How much of a pointer do you need?

  74. B.... M....

    @crazyaboutsquirrels all of greg's lyrics are educational.

  75. B.... M....

    @idk5674 is this a serious question?

  76. B.... M....

    @sbcistheboss Greg is smarter than everyone, even us fans.

  77. s.... ....

    Why put definitions? People that listen to Bad Religion are smart enough to know this stuff. ;)

  78. E.... ....

    this video is amazing!! good job!! 5/5

  79. A.... E....

    Religion isn't that way to all.

  80. M.... L....

    @ross817 Sadly, in this day and age it's a necessity for many.

  81. A.... ....

    I feel really smart because I didn't need any of the definitions on the bottom of the video. :-)

  82. c.... ....

    This video is educational. xD

  83. T.... ....

    i have some downloading to do now

  84. j.... ....

    I just love how you put the definitions in the video! Many a night I've spent with a Bad Religion CD in my deck and a dictionary in my hand. The "wordiness" has long been a joke around BR fans. Have you heard NOFX's "I'm a fan of Bad Religion"? Bad Religion taught me to ask questions. But I do enjoy poking a little fun. It's nice to know that you can be intelligent. You can have reasons for saying "fuck you", which is what rock and roll and especially punk is about... Great vid!

  85. j.... ....

    @TheLargehoman Get his book! It was fucking fantastic!

  86. p.... ....

    I've learned so many words thanks to Bad Religion- myoma, torpor, misanthropic anthropoid, and more I can't recall from the top of my head.

  87. d.... ....

    if you don't mind me saying, 'and did those feet. in ancient times...' is a reference to william blake's poem 'jerusalem'. it goes 'and did those feet in ancient time walk upon england's mountains green and was the holy lamb of god on england's pleasant pastures seen'. 'i don't think so' is clearly a refutal. a beautiful song, btw.

  88. B.... J....

    hahaha i like how you put definitions