Vanity Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I'll strike it if I don't like it
Gimme a club and I will have myself a riot
I'm a monkey with a brick on my shoulder
And I'm getting bolder
Let's deny and defame
Let's destroy and recreate in our glorious name
And when the joke of our centrality is upon us
Grovel and decry
[Chorus 1]
Our vanity
Disgraced to face our own humanity
In a world that mocks our tragedy
[Verse 2]
Hyper-aware and impaired
Terrified by nature's mocking stare
Yearning for significance beyond our animal kin
On which we do depend
[Chorus 2]
Such vanity
Isolated with our own inanity
Entangled by our callow gravity
Disgraced to face our own humanity
I'll strike it if I don't like it
Gimme a club and I will have myself a riot
I'm a monkey with a brick on my shoulder
And I'm getting bolder
Let's deny and defame
Let's destroy and recreate in our glorious name
And when the joke of our centrality is upon us
Grovel and decry
[Chorus 1]
Our vanity
Disgraced to face our own humanity
In a world that mocks our tragedy
[Verse 2]
Hyper-aware and impaired
Terrified by nature's mocking stare
Yearning for significance beyond our animal kin
On which we do depend
[Chorus 2]
Such vanity
Isolated with our own inanity
Entangled by our callow gravity
Disgraced to face our own humanity
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“Vanity” is a song released by Bad Religion as the eighth track on their 2013 album, True North. Its drum intro is widely held as an example of the phenomenal drumming of Brooks Wackerman, Bad Religion’s drummer since The Process of Belief, and left after 2013’s Christmas Songs EP to “pursue a different path.”
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- 1.True North
- 2.Past Is Dead
- 5.Fuck You
- 8.Vanity
- 10.Crisis Time
- 15.The Island
- 16.Changing Tide
Credits
Produced By
Written By
Lead Vocals
Lead guitar
Guitar
Bass
Drums
Backing Vocals
Recorded At
Joe's House of Compression - Pasadena, CA
Release Date
January 8, 2013
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