Bad Religion

Album: Godsmack (2000)
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    Can you feel I'm not like you anymore?
    I can't see, I can't breathe
    See you quiver like the dogs on the streets
    Looking down on as I beat you

    Oh, it's a bad religion
    From a broken nation
    It's a contradiction
    And I can't take it anymore, yeah

    Who's to say I won't like you anyway?
    Take a deep breath, I'm alive
    Can you hear me? I'm alive inside of you
    Agony creeps up behind you

    Oh, it's a bad religion (a bad religion)
    From a broken nation (a broken nation)
    It's a contradiction
    And I can't take it any fuckin' way
    (It's a bad religion, bad religion, bad religion)
    From a broken nation (a broken nation)
    It's a contradiction, yeah

    Can you feel it?
    I gotta live with it every day
    And I can't take the pressure
    I'm goin' insane, now go away
    Go away
    Yeah Writer/s: Salvatore P. Erna, Tommy Stewart
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Comments: 6

  • Shepardleec from Central UsIt's so obviously about Sully's stance on being pro-life. He is a practicing Wiccan, so it's not anti-religion. Just listen to the lyrics.
  • Zero from Nowhere, NjI relate it to be about bullies and how they're really just insecure cowards on the inside, they feel insecure about themselves, so they pick on others to feel better about themselves, there really not that different from the people they tease ("Who's to say I won't like you anyway? Take a deep breath, I'm alive. Can you feel me, I'm alive inside of you. Agony creeps up behind you." "Can you feel it? I gotta live with it everyday, and I can't the pressure. I'm goin' insane, now go away!) The first verse could be from the POV of the bully ("See you quver like the dogs on the street, lookin' down on as I beat you.") IDK just my interpretation.
  • Jorge from Bronx, NyGodsmack,,,Of course many people just read the tittl and speculate,in Fact came to know is about abortion,even now i like the tune!
  • Zero from Nowhere, NjLove the drums in this one.
  • Pierce from Peoria, IlIn honesty, I think this has absolutely nothing to do with religion or abortion. The song's narrator has been forced by authority to think and act in a certain way which he has come to realize is hypocritical. He knows now that the way he used to live will deeply affect him for the rest of his life, which he can never forgive or forget and hopes those who deceived will feel guilty for what they have done ("Can you hear me? I'm alive inside of you. Agony creeps up behind you.") Erna uses religion as a metaphor for hypocrisy.
  • Daniel from Winchester, OhThis song totally relates to what I think about religion personally, its all just hype and all of its just hypocritical nonsense
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