Bad Religion Lyrics

Album: The Empire Strikes First

The Quickening Lyrics

The quickening is an ephemeral thing 

 That only happens in the dark 

 Like catching lightning in a jar 

 And the pain that it brings 

 Is just the promise of spring 

 It’s madness on the way 

 Oh, what does it mean… 

 

 To come alive 

 To come alive 

 To come alive 

 (To come alive)

 To come alive 

 To come alive 

 To come alive 

 

 The entering is soulful conjecturing 

 Oh, lost and by the wind grieved ghost 

 Come back to me again 

 Because the way that she bleeds 

 Is in the law that he reads

 Confusing words and deeds 

 So what does it mean… 

 

 [Chorus]

 

 To pierce the vein of the sacred and profane 

 Poor science, in service of a faith 

 But who will bear the mark of Cain? 

 

 [Chorus]