Bad Religion - "Parallel"

[rycro]

Gah, I've had this song going through my head on indefinite replay. (Also, I'm testing out my ability to copy and paste with my phone.)


sleeping on a time bomb, staring into space
there's an ocean of unpleasantries we are not prepared to face

sitting on the fence post
to watch the storm roll in
and terrified of the damage
it will bring when it begins

it will begin

splintered dreams of unity (our lives are parallel)
so far from reality
(our lives are parallel)
independent trajectories
(our lives are parallel) separate terms of equality
(our lives are parallel)

our lives are parallel

is there no redemption?
no common good?
is there nothing we can do
for ourselves, or only what we should?
comes the hard admission of
what we don't provide
goes the insistence on the
ways and means that so divide

they so divide

side by side suffering loneliness
(our lives are parallel)
phony collective progress
(our lives are parallel) accepting that it's all such a mess
(our lives are parallel)
gesturing without hope of redress
(our lives are parallel)

our lives are parallel

forging little plays of
deception and pain
as we watch our foundation
crumble away
staggering like birds
against a hurricane
and trying all the while to
stay out of each other's way

broken dreams of unity
(our lives are parallel)
independent trajectories
(our lives are parallel)
screaming out for understanding
(our lives are parallel)
turning inward and suffering
(our lives are parallel)

Parallel!