Get Off

Song details

Bad Religion original
Yes
First released
1990
First release
Against The Grain (album)
Songwriter
Greg Graffin

Lyrics

Get Off

Lascivious, it's all that I can think of As I drag my feet searching like a Diogenes. Dangerous, the adjective of the decade And of your alluring intricacies. I can see your green-screen mentality And I can feel the sting of it's consequence, And I know I shouldn't, but it's too much to ignore, An emotion I deplore. Every time I look at you, I just want do it, I can clench my fist right through it, But I just want to get off. Rectilinear, this direction we've been heading Never realizing we are on a runaway machine, Angular, the momentum that does turn us one Step further on our ladder, one more turn toward the east. I realize your green-screen mentality And I know it is shared by many more, I know it's quite impossible, but I am damned to find a way to revolve the other way. Every time I scrutinize I just say "screw it", We're on a ride down a blind conduit And I just want to get off.

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First released on Against the Grain / Recipe for Hate · 1997

Appears on

Operation Rescue: Live In Dusseldorf Germany 12 4 1992 FM BroadcastBootleg · 2023View 1 version →The Best SongsBootleg · 2005View 1 version →Hazard RadiationBootleg · 2004View 1 version →Against the Grain / Recipe for HateMisc release · 1997View 1 version →

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76release versions
#55

55th most featured song

58documented shows
#111

111th most played song

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legacy memberJul 21, 2006 · edited Sep 6, 2010

Remember when this song was written; this song is not limited to American politics, it is a commentary on society as a whole, the reference to cynicism, and IBM green-screen computers, technology pushing us farther from nature - this song is about anarchy, about "revolving the other way" - and since this song was written we have seen our society continue down that conduit - ask yourself educated reader - do you nee…

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Remember when this song was written; this song is not limited to American politics, it is a commentary on society as a whole, the reference to cynicism, and IBM green-screen computers, technology pushing us farther from nature - this song is about anarchy, about "revolving the other way" - and since this song was written we have seen our society continue down that conduit - ask yourself educated reader - do you need that cell phone? Do you need to watch reality television? We become sedate as we dazzle ourselves with the toys that keep us from what we really want - it's not any different from the mother who uses the television as a babysitter - or feeds candy to her inquisitive child rather than sitting down and enjoying the world anew all over again. This song embodies that emotion and frustration.
legacy memberJul 8, 2005 · edited Date unknown
the whole song is a double entendre in the first verse the personhas problem with lust and just wants to "get off" were in second verse a concerned individualis worried about the current condition of america and calls it "runaway machine" and all this person wants to do is get off