The Bad Religion Song Interpretation List
80-85    Against the Grain    Suffer    No Control    Generator    Recipe for Hate    Stranger than Fiction    The Gray Race    No Substance
Suffer

1000 More Fools: A song that criticizes conformity in people and wakes us up to the reality that "1000 more fools are being born every fucking day."

What can you do?What Can You Do? This song is showing us how the leaders of our world are just as helpless and powerless as us when it comes to helping the human race. It also shows how many have decided to just go with the flow of things, since they feel they have no control. It also mentions how we are all someone else's fool at some time or another which is very true. Its a short song with a lot of meaning. (David Avedisian)

Suffer:"a song about man's conquest for superiority, and its repercussions on society as a whole. 'The business man whose master plan controls the world each day Is blind to indications of his species slow decay.' (Bill Thompson)

Do What You Want: This is a portrait of someone who has given up. He knows there's something wrong, but either doesn't know how or doesn't want to do anything about it. So he just regresses into hatred and apathy. (Raphael Baker)

Part II (the Numbers Game): This is the first one of the Part trilogy. It talks about the espionage, imperialism and mentality prior to a world conquest crusade by a first world country.
"so pack your bags you third world nation, victory through domination!"
A scary thought made into a powerful song. The name of the song is probably referring to the fact that conquest is indeed a numbers game.

I believe it is also about the world wars. Part two deals with world war II and the imperialism and all that dealt with that.(John Grubb (MrBean995@aol.com))

Part IV: The sequel to Part II and III, where the human race lies extinct, fossilized under a pile of destruction.
"We'll be an index fossil buried in our own debris"
An index fossil is a short lived species that when found can be used to know the age of the earth layer it was found in. Greg's interests in evolutionary biology can be noted in this song.

Part III dealt with world war III and the bombs sent. Part IV is about what you said, when humans kill themselves and starts over from scratch. (John Grubb (MrBean995@aol.com))

You Are (the Government): A song about governments, criticizing democracy. It compares the president to a puppet and calls him a loser (does it?).
"There's a loser in the house (the white house?) and a puppet on a stool"

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