Bad Religion Lyrics

Album: The Empire Strikes First

To Another Abyss Lyrics

Not long ago, and yet the image is so vague 

 I hesitate to label it a memory 

 There was a show of local color and I felt astray

 Cause I had nothing to offer but insufficiency 

 

 And you know that it’s such a bitch 

 When you learn to scratch that itch 

 Of blatant fallibility 

 Sooner to some, but eventually 

 All gets pointed in the same direction 

 While the human masses and their vague conceptions

 Obliterate each other with impunity 

 And you wonder, “what’s in this for me?” 

 

 To another abyss 

 To no avail 

 The search is bound to fail 

 To another abyss 

 To no avail 

 So long ago I set sail 

 And it chills me to the bone 

 That I’m so far away from home 

 To another abyss 

 

 So what should I do now? What should I celebrate? 

 Given finite means and a penchant to depreciate 

 How can I still avow and depend upon a state 

 That cares nothing for my happiness, welfare, or fate? 

 

 And I know I can’t explain 

 The commotion in my brain 

 Like a terrifying reality 

 Deconstructed but inadequately 

 All gets pointed in the same direction 

 While the human masses and their vain conceptions 

 Obliterate each other with impunity 

 And release the weight of history 

 

 [Chorus]

 

 So long ago, so long ago…oh, I set sail 

 And I’m struggling on the way 

 And I’m waiting for the day (to another abyss) 

 And I’m looking for the way back home (to another abyss) 

 So far away (to another abyss) 

 So far away (to another abyss) 

 (to another abyss) So far away 

 (to another abyss)