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 a bitch when you learn to scratch that itch

A 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 vague conceptions

Obliterate each other with impunity and release the weight of history

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 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)

To another abyss (To another abyss)

So far away (To another abyss)

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