Lyrics
Mediocrity
I've spent my life observing and then pondering this place
And never has confusion ever ceased.
I've also heard a lot of exaltation for our kind
And sanctimonious reverence for peace.
The stories from our childhood condition us to think
That beauty is a basic human trait.
But how are they reconciled with daily realities
Like poverty and dominance and rape?
But you have to be
Stone cold dead not to see
Overwhelming incongruity,
As we search for suggestions to remedy...
Mediocrity. [3x]
If you just sit back and record what you see,
The tragic and exquisite are the same to some degree.
But most events depict a common theme:
There's far more disorder than there is harmony.
I said you've got to be
Stone cold dead not to see
Overwhelming incongruity,
It is pointless to search for teleology.
Mediocrity... (Always mediocrity) [6x]
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this song is about the theory of mediocrity. It is also my personnal favorite BR song. The lyrics are very strong, and the music is probably the best in the whole stranger than fiction era. It is a very loud and fast paced punk rock song suggesting that there is nothing special about the world and especially about humans, starting from the point that the human race may be an error of the evolution. The second verse s…
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Well right off the bat i want to say that this is, lyrically and musically, my favorite bad religion song. on to my interpretation. the song is about the slow decay of morality and society in america, with lines such as "the stories of our childhood condition us to think that beauty is a basic human trait, but how do they reconcile with daily realities, like poverty dominance and rape" and "there is far more disorder…
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