My Angst in Lyrics -- Add your angst lyrics here, too!

[BeF]

Hello there, I decided to start this post because:

• I love lyrics.
• I've seen the other threads called "Lyrics that appeal to you today" and those are good threads, they always inspire me to download songs.
• I wanted to specify a certain mood in the lyrics, and for this one I chose -- "angst" -- don't think I'm some angry, pessimistic person, I just have a lot of stong political/social beliefs.
• I know that this theme of "angst" is one us bluelighters will have no problem with. I don't mean to be generalizing all of us bluelighters, but most of us have at least one strong disgust against something. And there has to be SOME lyrics about that somewhere.

Okay, so I will stop with my rambling and get on with it. Oh, feel free to post several songs in one post when you reply to this. The more the merrier -- the more songs the more music I might download.
The Decline by NoFXNote:In between sections of these lyrics, I have put the explanation of them one of those quote box thingys. this song is 18 minutes long. "They cover a variety of political issues that Fat Mike often privately addresses but hasn’t communicated so bluntly through NOFX. In my opinion, this is the most fucking brilliant criticism of modern America’s problems that I’ve come across, and below are some of the lines that sent rushes through my body... so here are the lyrics, and following them will be the reason I've chosen this song as a song that illustrates an example of my angst against The United States Of America.
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Where are all these stupid people from?
and how did they get to be so dumb?
Bred on purple mountain range
Feed amber waves of grains
To lesser human beings, zero feelings
Blame it on...
human nature, man's destiny
Blame it on the greediocracy
The fear of God,
the fear of change,
fear of truth
Add the Bill of Rights
Subtract the wrongs, there's no answers
Memorize and sing
Star spangled songs,
when the questions
Aren't ever asked
Is anybody learning from the past
We're living in united stagnation
Father what have I done.
I took that 22.
A gift for me from you to bed with me each night.
Kept it clean polished it well.
Cherished every cartridge every shell
Down by the creek under brush under dirt
There's a carcass of my second kill
Down at the park under stone under pine
There's a carcass of my brother William
Brother where have you gone to I swear
I never thought I could I see so many times
They told me to shoot straight, don't pull
The trigger squeeze, that will insure
A kill, a kill is what you want
To kill is why we breed

For anyone who has seen the statistics comparing handgun fatalities worldwide, America continually outdoes other nations by staggering differences. Guns are the ultimate symbol of individual power in our country – they’re the main reason most people obey a police officer’s orders and not an unarmed "rent-a-cop" equipped with a badge and a uniform. This is no coincidence, for guns have been embedded in American culture from the beginning, whether it’s the clause in the Constitution ensuring our right to bear arms or our idolization of shoot-em-up Western movies only a few decades ago.
The Christians love their guns the church and NRA
Pray for their salvation
Prey on lower faiths
The story book's been read
And every line believed
The curriculum's been set
Logic is a threat
Reason searched and seized

In this verse, the Christian religion is criticized for; 1. Favoring the right to bare arms; 2. Criticizing any other relgions; 3. Holding so true to the Bible, when -- for all we human beings know -- it could be simply a story book; 4. For totally discouraging the teaching of evolution in their schools; and for their mere ignorance to the fact that there is much proof that evolution occured. No, their only argument is something to the tune of, "Well if the Bible says this... then how could evolution be true?"; 5. Not only discouraging the scientic theory of evolution, but other scientifically proven things.
Jerry spent some
Time in Michigan
A 20 year vacation
After all he had a dime
A dime is worth a
Lot more in Detroit
A dime in California
Just a 20 dollar fine
Jerry only stayed
A couple months
It's hard to enjoy
Yourself while
Bleeding out the ass
Asphyxiation is
Simple and fast
It beats 17 fun years
Of being someone's bitch

4 mins and 20 seconds into the song, NOFX points to the injustice in sentencing an individual to a "20 year vacation" for possession of a "dime" of pot. Although I’m not sure how I feel about NOFX’s radical view that all drugs should be legalized, I enthusiastically support their argument that marijuana should be legalized. As long as pot is illegal, we are creating criminals out of often otherwise upstanding citizens, and restricting public access to a drug that is less harmful than many of the substances we prescribe legally through our medical system. Suddenly, the mysteries of why our prisons are overcrowded and why we’re so eager to throw fellow Americans behind bars come to light, and the fight for marijuana legalization becomes a much more important issue than some hippie in Berkeley trying to get a hit.
Don't think
Drink your wine
Watch the fire burn
His problems not mine
Just be that model citizen
I wish I had a schilling for every senseless killing
I'd buy a government. America's for sale and
You can get a good deal on it and make a healthy
Profit, or maybe tear it apart you start with
Assumption, that a million people are smarter than one!
Serotonin's gone she gave up drifted away
Sara fled though process gone
She left her answering machine on
The greeting left spoken sincere
Messages no one will ever hear

I'm sure you know what serotonin is if you're here on bluelight, so this is pretty self-explanitory.
10,000 messages a day a million more transmissions lay
Dead victims of the laissez faire 10,000 voices
100 guns, 100 decibels turns to one, one bullet
One empty head now with serotonin gone
The man that used to speak
Performs a cute routine.
Feel a little patronized.
Don't feel bad. They found
A way inside your head
And you feel a bit misled.
It's not that they don't
Care. The television's
Put a thought inside your
Head like a Barry Manilow
Jingle I'd like to teach the
World to sing in perfect
Harmony a symphonic blank
Stare. It doesn't make you care.
Not designed to make you care.
They're betting you wont care.

This is an obvious poke at the apparent fact that the media and the government seem to be working hand in hand, attempting to brainwash all Americans. And, a lot of Americans buy into this illusion of false realities that the government illustrates to us all through that little invention we call the TUBE.
They'll place a wager on your greed.
A wager on your pride
Why try to beat them when a million others tried
We are the whore.
Intellectually spayed
We are the queer
Dysfunctionally raised
One more pill to kill the pain,
One more pill to kill the pain
One more pill to kill the pain,
Living through conformity
One more prayer should keep me safe.
One more prayer to keep us safe
One more prayer to keep us safe
There's gonna be a better place

Addicts taking just "one more pill to kill the pain" seems to be equal to religious people saying "One more prayer will keep us safe." Both are untrue, both are illusions there to cover up the harsh reality, the harsh truth of how bad life can really be.
Lost the battle lost the war lost the things
Worth living for lost the will to win the fight
One more pill to kill the pain
The going gets tough the tough get debt
Don't pay attention pay the rent our next of kins
Pay for your sins a little faith should keep us safe
Save us
The human existence is failing
Resistance essential. The future
Written off. The odds are astronomically
Against us only
Moron and genius would fight a
Losing battle against the super
Ego when giving in is so damn comforting
And so we go on with our lives we
Know the truth but prefer lies
Lies are simple. Simple is bliss. Why
Go against tradition when we can
Admit defeat. Live in decline. Be there
Victim of our own design
With status quo built on suspect.
Why would anyone stick out their
Neck fellow member of club
We've got ours. I'd
Like to introduce
You to our host
He's got his and I've
Got mine. Meet
THE DECLINE
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My reasons for why I chose The Decline for one of the songs that illustrates my personal angst can be summed up with one quote from the song, though all of the lyrics led to my obsession with the views in the song, this quote did it for me:

"One more pill to kill the pain
The going gets tough the tough get debt
Don't pay attention pay the rent our next of kins
Pay for your sins a little faith should keep us safe.
This quote sums up the whole eighteen minutes: with all the shit wrong in America today, you’d think the public would stand up and fight until these injustices were corrected. Unfortunately, that only applies to a small part of the population, who are usually dismissed as "radicals" (us Bluelighters a good example of these radicals) and not taken seriously. NOFX points out that rather than standing up and fighting the problems with society, modern Americans look for ways to hide and distract their attention away from the issues: whether it’s psychiatrist-prescribed pills, brain-numbing TV shows, or praying to an almighty deity to fix our problems for us. While we sit idle and watch our society turn to shit, we allow our interactions, relationships, and rights to all decline.
Not too long ago, the generation that mostly makes up our parents today was not afraid to stand up to anyone. The fact that we remember the 60’s as an embarrassing orgy of sex and drugs reflects the modern viewpoint that the time for protest is over. The public still constantly complains about their "rights" being violated, but rarely do you see them do anything about it. When Americans hear about a protest against sweatshop labor, they roll their eyes and wish the individuals would quit disrupting their shopping. When the government makes decisions that screw most of the population, Americans choose to concentrate on more exciting issues like the president’s sex life. What has happened to the American personality? Why have we stopped embracing the rebels that have stood up to the problems our country’s history, whether it was slavery or discrimination? We need to stop thinking that protest and rebellion belongs in certain decades or radical locations – it only takes a few dedicated individuals to rekindle the fire in the fight against injustice.
And you thought NOFX was only about being funny…
And now, since it took me so long to type all of that out, I am not going to post any other songs RIGHT NOW... later...

 

[Angelight]

isn't this why we have "lyrics that appeal to you today" thread...
i WAS gonna close this, but i guess we mine as well see what kind of response it gets