Bad Religion – Submission Complete

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  General Comment:ITS SAYING YOU ARE THE SHEEP BLIBNDLY FOLLOWING THE HERD, YES YOU, THE ONE WHO HAS COMPLETE APATHY TOWARDS POLITICS AND GLOBAL AFFAIRS, EVERY ONE OF YOU ARE ALLOWING TYRRANY TO LIVE AND BREED BY NOT STANDING UP FOR YOUSELVES AND YOUR FELLOW MAN!

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  Song Meaning:OPEN YOUR FUKING EYES! THATS THE MEANING! i am truely dissapointed in the mntality of so many bad religion fans when bad religion stands for feedom and standing up against our corrupt government. Its sooooooooooooo plain and simple and still barely any of you know what this song is about, at least the guy who quoted george orwell showed some signs of inteligence. this song is saying your education systems along with the media and governmet and LYING TO YOU and the military IS GOING TO KILL YOU! this is a theme that REPEATS REPEATS REPEATS in bad religion songs so start waking the fuck up and doing something about this threat to your freedom

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  Song Meaning:OPEN YOUR FUKING EYES! THATS THE MEANING! i am truely dissapointed in the mntality of so many bad religion fans when bad religion stands for feedom and standing up against our corrupt government. Its sooooooooooooo plain and simple and still barely any of you know what this song is about, at least the guy who quoted george orwell showed some signs of inteligence. this song is saying your education systems along with the media and governmet and LYING TO YOU and the military IS GOING TO KILL YOU! this is a theme that REPEATS REPEATS REPEATS in bad religion songs so start waking the fuck up and doing something about this threat to your freedom

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  Song Meaning:OPEN YOUR FUKING EYES! THATS THE MEANING! i am truely dissapointed in the mntality of so many bad religion fans when bad religion stands for feedom and standing up against our corrupt government. Its sooooooooooooo plain and simple and still barely any of you know what this song is about, at least the guy who quoted george orwell showed some signs of inteligence. this song is saying your education systems along with the media and governmet and LYING TO YOU and the military IS GOING TO KILL YOU! this is a theme that REPEATS REPEATS REPEATS in bad religion songs so start waking the fuck up and doing something about this threat to your freedom

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  General Comment:George Orwell said " It is possible to dehumanize all society, and for life to go on.."
  
  My own interpretation of this relates to; put in your best effort in the given structural limitations your confined in.. and when submission is complete.. you either make the grade or your not good enough.. Like applying for college or like the asshole guy who took me aside today and told me I didn't make the baseball team and come back next year...
  
  
  But actually, It seems to may apply to college structural mandates to form the nations youth... and we all know thats a circus.. of professorial senility.. ( I know from experience)..
  
  But from the lyrics.. it seems to be most likely about military recruits. The predominant core of them, uneducated, joined to put some kind of substantial purpose in their lives because they cant see past it and feel the urgency to do something of the sort.. they don't have the wisdom yet to understand that its merely a "trawl" of irrational indoctrination...
  
  and for the many whom died for our country.. Submission Complete.. for them now.

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  General Comment:This song has to do with giving up your dreams. The narrator urges you to give up your dreams (break the guilty trammels of yesteryear) to join the masses, to gain security and comfort (the taste of failure makes it all clear). The freshmen lectures and brandishments lead to dreams, which may lead to success (impoverished accomplishments). to stop it, the puppetmasters (society?) "tighten your strings" and make it difficult for you to reach your goals. People are drilled from the beginning that money, comfort, security are the most important things to look for in life, and people start looking for the easy ways to accomplish that, no matter what they may have to give up to reach it. this song is about the reflection of dead ambition: about those who gave up their goals, their dreams, and their hopes.

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  General Comment:To add on to my previous comment, I think it also has to do with how, in college, people want to get others to join frats and sororities, and after you get in, after all the promises that these self-righteous pricks make to you, the promises are broken and you have to be their bitch to gain any kind of status from them, and it almost seems pointless to the point of giving up. Thus goes for the second part where it sounds like Mr. Greg is singing about kids being recruited to the military and they feel like they aren't going anywhere but to be tortured and ridiculed until they finally break down, but it doesn't matter because they are told that they will amount to nothing without joining A: the frat/sorority, or B: The military

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  General Comment:To me, this song pretty much means that they give us only 2 roads to walk down: Go to school and be brainwashed by professors or join the military and be brainwashed by the Generals, etc... and we "have to" take their word on everything or else we amount to nothing. I only went to college for 2 years, and am doing better now than I was in college. So you don't really need college or the military to become successful, but society limits us down to those two options at the given time

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  General Comment:"Fuck the freshman lectures and brandishments
  They just betray impoverished accomplishments
  The puppet masters fear originality
  They tighten up the tethers and they shackle your feet
  Submission complete!"
  
  What I personally think about this part here, is how in college, many times they don't care if you're telling the truth: the care if you spout back the bullshit they say.

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  General Comment:I'm agreeing with the "Boot Stamping" comment - again I think it is a song about Orwell's 1984 -
  
  The sad reflection of dead ambition
  You live for nothing
  Submission complete!
  
  I think is about when Winston gives in at the end and gives up his girlfriend, submitting himself and destroying the last of his ambition

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