Against the Grain lyrics

Three thousand miles of wilderness, overcome by the flow

A lonely restitution of pavement, pomp and show

I seek a thousand answers, I find but one or two

I maintain no discomfiture, my path again renewed

Against the grain

That's where I'll stay

Swimming upstream

I maintain against the grain

Here labeled as lunatic, sequestered and content

There ignored and defeated by the government

There's an oriented public whose magnetic force does pull

But away from the potential of the individual

Against the grain

That's where I'll stay

Swimming upstream

I maintain against the grain

The flow is getting stronger with smaller increments of time

And eddies of new ideas are increasingly hard to find

You need all that the other has, it's your right to seize the day

But in all your acquisitions you will soon be swept away

Against the grain

That's where I'll stay

Swimming upstream

I maintain against the grain

There's a common consensus and an uncomfortable cheer

A reverberating chorus that anyone can hear

It sings, "leave your cares behind you, just grab tenaciously"

This lulling sense or purpose will destroy us rapidly

Against the grain

That's where I'll stay

Swimming upstream

I maintain against the grain

Against the grain

Against the grain

Against the grain

• Artist:Bad Religion
• Album:Against the Grain (1990)