Along the Way: One of BR greatest songs. Although hard to interpret, I believe its about life, and how time passes by and experience is gained. It talks about the path of life, and keeping your own path, being an individual, and following that path to find happiness.
"its probably the most comforting and positive BR song. It basically says that no matter what happens to you on the path of life, if you strive to reach the end of your path, and you do reach it, you will find true happiness and comfort. But everyone's path is different. That's why the person the singer's talking to won't follow him. But they'll run into each other and affect each other's lives. The moral of the story is that if you don't give up, and follow your path to the very end, you will find freedom and happiness. 'Tommy' refers to Tom Clement, an old friend of Brett and Greg, who committed suicide during the band's old days. He's free because he followed his path and now he's truly happy. And so will you if you do the same. Not by killing yourself, because everyone's path is different." (Marcelo Teson)

Bad Religion: the theme song.

Do What You Want: A song about anarchy, where all signs of hope on living together in a functional world are lost. Like the thoughts of anger after visualizing a failed dream if unity. Its like opening a birthday present, you try to be neat, try to keep the wrapper intact, then it kind of breaks a little, you say 'fuck it' and tear it apart.

Doing Time: "its a song that simply states that life is a metaphorical jail sentence. No one asks for it. You are just forced to live it. 'How long I don't know' refers to the fact that it can end at any given instant." (Jack Smith)
"I think that life is like jail, but I also think that Jack Smith neglects the obvious denounciations of alcohol. It begins by comparing a cynic and an optimist, but they both drink beer. Later, it tells of William and John who died because of alcohol. I've always believed that Doing Time is about people who differ greatly (optimists and pessimists) but still destroy themselves with the same poison - beer. I believe that the songs represents the idea that we're all gonna die and that beer will just facilitate that. (Tim Paxton)

Eat Your Dog: " ''Weak and sick dying in the sand, no such thing as a promised land. Don't lose faith in a better life. Reincarnation poor excuse.Your dying you assholes your religion can't help you now. Dying and starving in a field you used to plow' I feel that this song is trying to state that placing to much faith in any form of religion is setting yourself up for disapointment. 'Rotting bones in your barren fields, sacred creature supposed to heal. He won't save you and he won't save me. See what you want to see.' It also challenges you to look into things before you accept them for what they are said to be. "(Bill Thompson)

Faith in God: "This song is not about having faith in god. It's about how easy it is to explain the unexplainable when you say 'god' did it, and that beleiving in god will give some sort of superficial meaning to your life. In the last part of the song it tells you to create your own system of beliefs. 'don't be feeble like all of them. You have your own brain full of thoughts and choices. So use it don't let them use you.' " (Bill Thompson)

"I believe that this song basically denounces organized religion but let's you know that there's nothing wrong with believing in some form of god as long as it's on your own terms. This is best illustrated by the line, 'It's alright to have faith in god but when you bend to their rules and their fucking lies that's when I start to have pitty on you!'" (Larry Hurst)

American Dream: "This song shows the stereotypical perfect life and how people defeat themselves trying to achieve it. People spend there whole lives trying to accomplish what is said to be "a successful life". A quote the Dead Kennedys puts in perspective:
'The dark shattered underbelly
Of the American dream
Avoid it like the plague as
It stares you from the bathroom mirror' " (Bill Thompson)

Frogger: If you ever owned an Atari as a child, or a really old computer, you probably know the game Frogger. Really 80's game. Its about this really lame frog who has to cross the street without getting ran over by the passing cars. The meaning of the song is obvious, "trying to cross the boulevard, playing Frogger with my life".
"it was written when Greg was in college - he went to an urban school and thus was sick of putting his life in danger crossing the city streets to get to class." (Jack Smith)

Fuck Armageddon...This is Hell: What this song is trying to tell us is that, being scared of hell is totally unjustified. Why fear a dark after life in the depths of hell, when mortal life sucks even more.
"This song is not about man's fear of a dark afterlife. It displays an overview of things that happen in the world today that we overlook and in comparison the modern world is in some ways worse than hell. 'How could hell be anyworse when life alone is such a curse?' 'Countries manufacture bombs and guns, to kill your brother for something that he hasn't even done. Smog is ruining my lungs there not sorry say I'm wrong and hide behind there lies there helping everyone.' "(Bill Thompson)

Latch Key Kids: Its the story of modern youth, hidden and sheltered by their parents form the real rotten outside world. Its probably the story of you and me.
"and if they yell for justice we'll hide them from the light
so that when they learn the truth they won't be scared of the night."

i think that it says that the kids these days (by not having thier parents around) are forced into the real world at a young age. they have to fend for themselves most of the day. "if they yell for justice we'll hide them from the light, so when they learn the truth they won't be scared of the night" that says they are hidden from the light, which is the love and all that the parents didn't provide them. so they won't be scared of the night, which says they already know that life sucks and they aren't scared like the kids whose parents sheltered them from all the evils of life who enter the darkness of the real world frightened. it also says "if you cause any trouble then i don't want to see" . they aren't saying be good, but condoning bad behavior as long as they don't know about it. and the punishment is no TV. (sirbryan@bellatlantic.net)

Part III: This song is about the apocalyptic end of humanity, the final page in the books of history, when mankind fights the last World War, and everything is destroyed. Its obviously the sequel to Part II.
"as man unleashed his deadly bombs and sent troops overseas
to fight a war which can't be won and kills the human race,
a show of greed and ignorance, man's quest for dominance."

Pitty: With no hope for the future, all that is left is pitty "on the billions of ignorant people"

We're Only Gonna Die: A brief song that predicts how arrogance and so-called "modern mentality" will kill humanity.

Yesterday: A song about the common cliché about the good old days, when everything was better. It makes us realize that decay is a process which takes time, and that everything is getting worse and worse.

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