Requiem For Dissent Lyrics

Oratory of hope and glory, a whisper and a rhyme
An effigy, a soldier out of time
Citizen and patriot, you can't be far behind
The funeral weighing heavy on your mind

Requiem, bring the dissident from slumber
Requiem, raise the rebel from its grave
Requiem, sound the revolution's thunder
A monumental blunder averted and betrayed

Dig around the cemetery, a record of the day
Friends and neighbors in stages of decay
But the saddest thing of all eludes discovery
The stimulus for this somber ceremony

Requiem, bring the dissident from slumber
Requiem, raise the rebel from its grave
Requiem, sound the revolution's thunder
A monumental blunder averted and betrayed

The sanctimonious minions, how they grovel at the feet
Authority is populist deceit
Pity yet another casualty's demoralized decline
Just a victim of irrational design

Requiem, requiem, requiem
Bring the dissident from slumber
Requiem, raise the rebel from its grave
Requiem, sound the revolution's thunder
A monumental blunder averted and betrayed

Bad Religion - New Maps of Hell

Jul 2007

1. New Dark Ages
2. Grains Of Wrath
3. Fields Of Mars
4. Germs Of Perfection
5. Requiem For Dissent
6. Submission Complete
7. Grand Delusion, The
8. Honest Goodbye
9. Prodigal Son
10. Before You Die
11. Lost Pilgrim
12. Heroes And Martyrs
13. The Grand Delusion