1. a small group of plotters, esp. against a government
2. the plottings of such a group
3. a clique
"
(A cabal of psychopathy)" -
Faces of Grief
- Brett Gurewitz
having an unpleasant sound or bombardment of sound
"
Resound like a cacophonous symphony." -
Hear It
- Greg Graffin
1. jarring, dischording sound; dissonance
2. the use of harsh or dischordent sound s in literary composition
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It's a mortal wretched cacophony." -
Pity The Dead
- Greg Graffin
The area ruled by a caliph or chief Muslim ruler
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I'm your caliphate, opioids and mutilation" -
Candidate
- Brett Gurewitz
Inexperienced and immature.
"
Entangled by our callow gravity" -
Vanity
- Brett Gurewitz
A chant, hymn or song, especially a nonmetrical one, with words from a biblical text
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For the canticle of manacles abating." -
Prodigal Son
- Brett Gurewitz
1. To surrender under specified conditions; come to terms.
2. To give up all resistance; acquiesce
- Greg Graffin
To collide and rebound; glance
"
When the prodigal son with a caroming shadow of hate comes to land at home," -
Prodigal Son
- Brett Gurewitz
Any of four classes, comprising numerous subclasses, constituting Hindu society
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The caste of coffee achievers didn't perform like they planned." -
Anxiety
- Greg Graffin
Someone or something that helps or encourages progress or change
"
Sweet catalyst for the acolytes" -
Heroes & Martyrs
- Brett Gurewitz
"
Now, there's a list of catalysts that hold the heart at bay" -
Nothing To Dismay
- Greg Graffin
A group of people, who following the rise of socialism, theorized that the supremacy of the industrial working class would follow a social catastrophe, such as a general strike
"
They're the modern day catastrophists," -
Modern Day Catastrophists
- Greg Graffin
A state or situation of great distress or unrest felt to resemble a boiling kettle or vat:
"
My heart is not a cold cauldron of proof." -
Prove It
- Greg Graffin
"
In the big charade?" -
Leaders And Followers
- Greg Graffin
"
We are just pretenders, lost in this charade" -
Pretenders
- Greg Graffin
"
Yeah, Papa and his family always on parade. Tearing through the turnstiles, a weekender’s charade." -
Pride and the Pallor
- Greg Graffin
"
You've got to quit your little charade and join the freak parade" -
The World Won't Stop Without You
- Greg Graffin
1. A deep, steep-sided opening in the earth's surface; an abyss or gorge.
2. A sudden interruption of continuity; a gap.
"
Burn like a chasm in the night, " -
Turn On The Light
- Brett Gurewitz
"
Escape from the earthly chattel" -
What Tomorrow Brings
- Greg Graffin
"
Chicanery from truth." -
Only Entertainment
- Greg Graffin
"
And feel those flywheels churn on your blenderhead." -
Blenderhead
- Brett Gurewitz
"
Are you churned by emotion from voices in your head?" -
Pity The Dead
- Greg Graffin
A person or thing of no influence or importance
"
You're a sidewalk cipher speaking prionic jive," -
Give You Nothing
- Greg Graffin, Brett Gurewitz
Citizens considered as a group
"
There's always a flaw in the reasoning that fates the citizenry" -
Chaos From Within
- Greg Graffin
Having or claiming to have the power of seeing objects or actions beyond the range of natural vision.
"
And the professorial truth, and the dear clairvoyant youth," -
Pessimistic Lines
- Greg Graffin
A group of people with common characteristics, aims, or interests
"
The fuel that drives the clan, (Cave in)" -
American Jesus
- Greg Graffin, Brett Gurewitz
To arrange something, such as laws or rules, into a system
"
Full of codified arbitrary directives," -
Come Join Us
- Greg Graffin
The act of sharing; community; participation.
"
We'll have peace on earth and global communion." -
I Want To Conquer The World
- Brett Gurewitz
1. to force or drive, esp. to a course or action
2. to have a powerful effect or influence
"
Ubiquitous, compelling too," -
Recipe For Hate
- Greg Graffin
The color of a person's skin, especially the face. If you have light skin, for example, you might be said to have a fair or pale complexion.
"
And the ancient nobility's complexion differs just in name" -
Old Regime
- Greg Graffin
The state of being an accomplice; partnership or involvement in wrongdoing
"
The cops will never prove complicity now." -
Anesthesia
- Brett Gurewitz
1. to acknowledge as true, just or proper
2. to grant as a right or privilege
"
He said the rich would never concede," -
Watch It Die
- Greg Graffin
1. An over-high esteem of oneself; vain pride
2. Something conceived, especially, a novel or fanciful idea
"
Is profit and greed the only conceit on a scale between" -
Grains Of Wrath
- Greg Graffin
"
And precious tomes to fuel your pulpy conflagrations." -
I Want To Conquer The World
- Brett Gurewitz
To combine, To bring together
"
Because passion unabated can be readily conflated as belligerence." -
The Resist Stance
- Greg Graffin
To solidify by or as if by freezing,
"
Flatter hopes don't flatter and soul batter won't congeal to mend" -
Materialist
- Greg Graffin
A large gathering of people
"
Climbing the pulpit steps before an eager congregation," -
Dearly Beloved
- Brett Gurewitz
Involving or taking great care; painstaking; diligent.
"
It's a dangerous slip, a conscientious shift." -
The Resist Stance
- Greg Graffin
a sudden, alarming amazement or dread that results in utter confusion; dismay
"
All it does is promote fear and consternation." -
Them And Us
- Greg Graffin
A continuous extent, series, or whole
"
On the tip of a continuum flowing wavelike" -
Marked
- Brett Gurewitz
1. overcome by a sense of guilt and desirous of atonement
2. showing remorse
"
Is persuading me contritely to persist." -
Delirium Of Disorder
- Brett Gurewitz
An intense, paroxysmal, involuntary muscular contraction
"
It's a game of strange compulsion, our visceral convulsion:" -
Anxiety
- Greg Graffin
A poor excuse for not doing something.
"
Bad religion, a copout is all that's left." -
Bad Religion
- Brett Gurewitz
Not openly practiced, avowed, engaged in, accumulated, or shown
"
But action is no gift from some covert and lofty God," -
At The Mercy Of Imbeciles
- Greg Graffin, Brian Baker, Greg Hetson
To shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays
"
Cowering like settlers on someone else's land" -
Chaos From Within
- Greg Graffin
1. A formal statement of religious belief; a confession of faith.
2. A system of belief, principles, or opinions
"
We all need some kind of creed to lead us to light." -
Meeting of the Minds
- Greg Graffin
"
And you share neither color nor creed," -
The Handshake
- Greg Graffin
A standard, rule, or test on which a judgment or decision can be based
"
Right or wrong, the main criterion is what you do and not what you say," -
Shattered Faith
- Greg Graffin
"
Separate evaluate and cultivate and propagate" -
Germs Of Perfection
- Greg Graffin
"
Well cultivation might have served you" -
Murder
- Brett Gurewitz
The moment at the end of a performance when actors come back on the stage and thank the audience for applauding them for their performance.
"
Darkness falls, curtain calls, the cynic's beer soon overflows." -
Doing Time
- Brett Gurewitz
"
Well, he's a mourning star with a champagne heart at his curtain call," -
Prodigal Son
- Brett Gurewitz
Any of a large group of chemical compounds containing the radical CN, especially the very poisonous salts sodium cyanide and potassium cyanide. Cyanides are used to make plastics and to extract and treat metals.
- Brett Gurewitz