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Bad Religion - Sorrow Song MeaningsLyrics:Father can you hear me? How have I let you down? I curse the day that I was born and all the sorrow in this world Let me take you... (See the rest of these lyrics) Submitted by: everybodyisjesus Added: 2007-01-03 00:05:54 Rating:  This song is about a cure to "all the sorrow in the world." He begins off by saying "let me take you to the herding ground/where all good men are trampled down/to settle a bet that cannot be won/between a prideful father and his son," suggesting that competition between men is the root cause of all conflicts. He later states the symptomatic causes. "when all soldiers lay their weapons down/or when all kings and all queens relinquish their crowns/or when the only true messiah saves us from ourselves/it's easy to imagine there will be sorrow...no more." In the first part he is attacking war, in the next he isn't just saying that kings and queens shouldn't exist, but all unfair authority, in the next he says that religion shouldn't exist, and in the final section he is saying that if all these things were true, then there would be no sorrow.
Submitted by: anonymous "Kings and Queens relinquish their crowns" isn't just referring to authority. It's referring to every individual person and suggesting that individual pride and arrogance are the cause of all the world's sorrow thereby suggesting that change must start at a personal, individual level. Only when we let go of our egos and let go of our pride can we begin working towards a better future. It also relates back to We're Only Gonna Die From Our Own Arrogance.
Submitted by: cynic Bad religion have always been against the government and religions (mostly christains) parts of the song is saying that once there will be no more pain and sorrow then he'll believe there's a god but until then he won't.
Submitted by: anonymous I consider myself an Atheist, so my personal leanings are not really influencing my opinion here.
Submitted by: anonymous I think the "prideful father and his son" is an allusion to George Bush Sr. and his son, the president, and the song is an attack on the Iraq War and corrupt politics. The current Iraq war is a follow up to the Gulf War initiated by President Bush's father, George Bush Sr.
Submitted by: anonymous Well, that's a wonderful idea. Except for the fact that the song was released in 2002, and we didn't invade Iraq until 2003.
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