Category: The Answer Category: Songs
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Yesterday
Brett’s song “You” was like a fun twist on a love song dedicated to his ex-girlfriend who had really ticked him off. It even had a reference to the Beatles’ “We Can Work It Out” with the line “there’s no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.” How cool is that? This info comes from…
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You
OMG, you won’t believe it! The lyrics of this song are like, totally meant to be satire! And there’s this one line that’s, like, super important: “And I make a difference too.” According to Greg, it’s, like, seriously difficult for just one person to change a law. It’s, like, only possible if a whole bunch…
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You Are (The Government)
Song meaning Greg Graffin: “Hey, if you ever get your hands on our first EP, a 7″, there’s this dude in the crowd wearing a badass leather jacket that says ‘You don’t belong’ on it. That’s where we got the title from. It totally captures the punk attitude of the time – none of us…
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You Don’t Belong
Guess what? There’s this awesome East Bay band that you need to check out! They have a CD with a super fun song called “Color Me Badd Religion”. It’s a medley of Bad Religion songs, but with hilarious lyrics that poke fun at them. And that’s not all, they also have a song called “Greg-Ex…
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Voice Of God Is Government
Guess who made a surprise appearance in their album Firme? It’s none other than Brett! They totally caught him off guard by putting his picture in there without even asking. How cheeky and exciting! This content was originally written by the badass contributors of thebrpage.net, the best superfan resource and website that exists for any…
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Waiting for the Fire
Brett is super stoked about “Walk Away” and thinks it’s one of his best songs. It’s all about having the courage to leave a crappy situation when you need to. The character in the song doesn’t do it though, he keeps going back to his boring life and daydreaming about leaving someday. But Brett wants…
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Walk Away
Origin Watch-o is like a burst of excitement and playfulness, similar to “sitcow / sitgow” and “Ya Hey”. Jay explains that during the recording of Suffer, they had a phase of ending words with ‘ow’, so instead of saying “hey Brett, what’s up?”, they would say “heow Breow, what’s ow?”. This phase influenced the creation…
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We’re a Happy Family (by The Ramones)
Title: We’re Only Gonna Die From Our Own Arrogance In All Ages, this song is sometimes referred to as “General Sometimes” or “We’re Only Gonna Die From Our Own Arrogance.” The inspiration for the lyrics came from the book Origins by Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin, which Greg received as a Christmas gift in 1979.…
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We’re Only Gonna Die
Introducing “We Are Love You” – the ultimate bootleg Bad Religion 40th Anniversary t-shirt! Get ready to rock and roll with this epic piece of merchandise that took social media by storm. We even had sneaky robot accounts infiltrate The BR Page Facebook Group multiple times just to spread the word! And guess what? At…
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What Can You Do?
Greg playfully and excitedly explained the meaning behind the song “When.” He said that the chorus, which goes “When will you try to change the logarithmic pace of kissing things goodbye/ When will you know that human life is so short and death is oh so slow,” sums it up perfectly. He wanted to ask…
