Primeira fase (1980-1985) O Bad Religion foi formado em Los Angeles, Califórnia, em 1980 pelos estudantes do ensino secundário Greg Graffin (vocal), Jay Bentley (baixo), Jay Ziskrout (bateria) e Brett Gurewitz (guitarra), este último também conhecido como "Mr. Brett". Suas maiores influências estão nas primeiras bandas de punk rock tais como Ramones, Black Flag e The Clash. Fora do movimento punk, suas influências também incluem Beach Boys, Elvis Costello, Todd Rundgren, The Jam e Nick Lowe, e autores como Jack Kerouac.
Quatro anos de trabalho duro!Neste mês de maio fizemos quatro anos no ar. Continuamos trabalhando na divulgação deste maravilhoso instrumento, obrigado por participar da nossa história!
C#EBF# Have you been to the desert, have you walked with the dead? C#EBG# There's a hundred thousand children being killed for their bread AE And the figures don't lie they speak of human disease BEB But we do what we want and we think what we please
C#EBF# Have you lived the experience, Have you witnessed the plague? C#EBG# People making babies sometimes just to escape AE In this land of competition the compassion is gone BEB Yet we ignore the needy and we keep pushing on EB Keep pushing on C#AEB This is just a punk rock song C#AEG# Written for the people who can see something's wrong AE Like ants in a colony we do our share B But there's so many other fuckin' insects out there C#AEB This is just a punk rock song
C#EBG# C#EBG#
(continue w/ lyrics) Have you visited the quagmire, have you swam in the shit? The party conventions and the real politik The faces always different, the rhetoric the same But we swallow it all and we see nothing changed
Nothing has changed
This is just a punk rock song Written for the people who can see something's wrong Like workers in a factory, we do our share But there's so many other fucking robots out there This is just a punk rock song
C#EBF# 10 million dollars on a losing campaign C#EBF# 20 million starving and writhing in pain C#EBF# Big strong people unwilling to give C#EBB Small in vision and perspective
One in five kids below the poverty line One population runnin' out of time
Runnin' outta time
This is just a punk rock song Written for the people who can see something's wrong Like ants in a colony, we do our share But there's so many other fucking insects out there This is just a punk rock song