The Surface of Me lyrics

Oh yeah!

A study of history

Reveals an unflagging appeal to mystery

You talk about abstraction

At the top of the list

But you might as well get pissed

'Cause in me the essence does not exist

No!

Yeah yeah!

You’re so shallow

How can your romance hope to be

The veil of an ersatz human nature

That can pacify but never slept well

When there’s the pretension of living a lie?

Take me as I am, judge me for my crimes

I can say I’ll behave freely all the time

You can predict what I’ll say, it’s in my DNA

But soon I’ll be a catalogue number anyway

So say a little prayer

Convince yourself that someone cares

All I am is what you see

There is nothing more than the surface of me

There is nothing more than the surface of me!

You know?

Oh yeah!

Apologies to Skinner

But I do believe that I feel like I’m a winner

Having just discovered a long solved modal secret

Of how I always feel

So goddamn downtrodden and desperate

Take me as I am, judge me for my crimes

I can say I’ll behave freely all the time

You can predict what I’ll say, it’s in my DNA

But soon I’ll be a catalogue number anyway

So say a little prayer

Convince yourself that someone cares

All I am is what you see

There is nothing more than the surface of me

There is nothing more than the surface of me!

• Artist:Bad Religion
• Album:The Empire Strikes First (2004)