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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W
Aberration
- Deviation from the normal or usual : DERANGEMENT
"Mutations, aberrations and blatant anomalies"
Chimaera, Generator
Graffin
Absolve
1. to set free from consequences or penalties resulting from action
2. to release, as from some duty or obligation
"My pessimistic lines, your superstitious lives, and the modern
age's lies won't absolve you."
Pessimistic Lines , Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
Abstain
- To refrain voluntarily
"Fighting hard to abstain and redress"
Leaders & Followers, Bonus Track
Graffin
Accolade
1. a ceremonial embrace
2. a ceremony to mark the conferring of knighthood
3. a mark of acknowledgement; award
"We've seen it through the accolades and rested in its lea."
The Positive Aspect of Negative Thinking, Against the Grain
Bentley
Accretion
- Growth or increase in size by gradual external addition,
fusion, or inclusion.
"The blossoming disease of man called tenure and accretion."
I Want Something More, No Control
Adaptations
- Adjustments to new conditions
"And adaptations of the deep blue sea"
Watch It Die, Recipe For Hate
Graffin
Affectatious
- Having a false appearance of a state, quality or manner
"My affectatious nature I can't rectify."
Entropy, Against the Grain
Graffin
Affinity
- Attractive force : ATTRACTION, SYMPATHY
"You took the most abundant smallest bits of matter and you
instilled them with affinity"
Chimaera, Generator
Graffin
Alleviate
- To make easier to endure; lessen; mitigate
"Alleviate your guilt, because he gave to you, brothers and
sisters."
Voice of God (is Government), 80-85
Altruistically
[altruism] - Unselfish concern for the welfare of others;
selflessness
"Introverted I look to tomorrow for salvation, but I'm thinking
altruistically"
Struck a Nerve, Recipe For Hate
Graffin
Anesthesia
- Loss of feeling, esp. as induced by certain drugs
Anesthesia, Against the Grain
Gurewitz
Analogue
- Something that bears a similarity in some respects to something
else that is otherwise dissimilar.
"The henchman is the human analogue of the suffering multitudes"
Henchman, No Control
Anechoic
(of a recording chamber, television studio or the like)
- Having sound reverberations reduced to the lowest possible level
"The anechoic nebula rotating in my brain is persuading me
contritely to persist."
Delerium of Disorder, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
Anthropocentric
- Considering man to be the most significant entity of the universe
"And did that anthropocentric God wane with their thoughts and
beliefs all unseen?"
God Song, Against the Grain
Graffin
Anthropoid
1. resembling man
2. in the shape of a man
"...a misanthropic anthropoid with nothing to say..."
Do What You Want, Suffer
Gurewitz
Armageddon
- According to the Bible, the place where the final battle will be
fought between the forces of good and evil. (probably so called
in reference to the battlefield of Megiddo. Rev 16:16)
"Fuck Armageddon, this is Hell!"
Fuck Armageddon, This is Hell, 80-85
Graffin
Assuage
- To make something unpleasant less intense or severe.
"your labors soothe the hurt but can't assuage temptation."
I Want To Conquer the World, No Control
Audacity
1. Daring, bold
2. Insolent
"If your reserve is weak, audacity complete."
Give You Nothing, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
Austere
- Stern and forbidding in appearance and manner
"Now we all fear this impasse we have built to our future; ever so
near and oh so austere."
God Song, Against the Grain
Graffin
Automaton
1. A self operating machine or mechanism, esp. a robot.
2. One that behaves or responds in a mechanical way.
"Automatons with business suits, clinging black boxes"
Inner Logic, Stranger Than Fiction
Graffin
"Automatons, illiterates, and indigents of every shape and size..."
Part II, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
B A C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W
Babel
- (biblical-Genesis 11:4-9) a scene of noise and confusion
named after a tower meant to reach heaven that collapsed
when God caused its builders to speak in different tongues
"When Babel's walls came crashing down"
Skyscraper, Recipe For Hate
Gurewitz
Barren
1. not producing offspring
2. unproductive or unfruitful
3. dull or boring
4. lacking or devoid
"Like a barren winter day"
Struck A Nerve, Recipe For Hate
Graffin
Beacon
1. a signal fire commonly on a hill, tower or pole
2. a lighthouse or other signal for guidance
"A beacon in the night, I'll burn relentlessly until my juice
runs dry,"
Turn on the Light, Against the Grain
Gurewitz
"Like a beacon in the mind of an ancestor to ignite a
people's will."
Cease, The Gray Race
Graffin
"The beacon of awakening is somewhere that I can't find"
What It Is, Stranger Than Fiction
Graffin
Beatitude
- Supreme blessedness; exalted happiness
"Inchoate beatitude, the lord of the flies."
1,000 More Fools, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
Big Brother
- The head of a totalitarian regime
"With opiates of silicon, Big Brother schemes to rule the nation."
Part II, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
Billow
- To surge or roll in large swells, surges or undulating masses.
"The billowing cyclone of time has blown away our reasons."
I Want Something More, No Control
Bogus
- Counterfeit or spurious
"Now it's time to erase the story of our bogus fate"
Recipe for Hate, Recipe for Hate
Graffin
Boisterous
1. noisily jolly or rowdy
2. rough and stormy
"And beside him flanking closely, are the boisterous, hollow
masses"
Leaders & Followers, Bonus Track
Graffin
Bolsters
- To support with or as if with a bolster (a long pillow or cushion
extending from side to side of a bed
"Any wretched ploy that bolsters our economy"
Too Much To Ask, Generator
Graffin
Boltzmann, Ludwig
- (1844-1906) an Austrian physicist
DID YOU KNOW:
Boltzmann derived a formula (the Boltzmann Distribution) which gives
the number of atoms or molecules with a given energy at a specific
temperature. This can theoretically be used to measure the entropy
of the universe.
"We're in a play of slow decay orchestrated by Boltzmann."
Entropy, Against the Grain
Graffin
Bombarded
1. attacked or battered with artillery fire
2. vigorously assailed
3. directing high energy particles or radiation against
"As I'm bombarded by superlatives"
Struck A Nerve, Recipe For Hate
Graffin
Bucolic
- Rural, rustic.
"...Phantasmal myriads of sane, bucolic birth."
1,000 More Fools, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
C A B D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W
Cabal
1. a small group of plotters, esp. against a government
2. the plottings of such a group
3. a clique
"Bad Religion, a cabal, that is all that's left."
Bad Religion, 80-85
Cacophony
1. jarring, dischording sound; dissonance.
2. the use of harsh or dischordent sound s in literary composition.
"It's mortal wretched cacophony"
Pity the Dead, The Gray Race
Graffin
Caste
- Any of four classes, comprising numerous subclasses, constituting
Hindu society.
"The caste of coffee-achievers didn't perform like they planned."
Anxiety, No Control
Catastrophists
- A group of people, who following the rise of socialism,
theorized that the supremacy of the industrial working class
would follow a social catastrophe, such as a general strike
"They're the modern day catastrophists"
Modern Day Catastrophists, Recipe For Hate
Graffin
Charade
- A false pretense or show
"Do you know your place, in the big charade?"
Leaders & Followers, Bonus Track
Graffin
Chimaera
- A fantastic or vain hope
(song title)
Chimaera, Generator
Graffin
Chicanery
- Trickery, deception
"'Cause you cannot distinguish chicanery from truth"
Only Entertainment, Generator
Graffin
Cipher
- A person or thing of no influence or importance
"You're a sidewalk cipher speaking prionic jive."
I Give You Nothing, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
Compelling
1. to force or drive, esp. to a course or action
2. to have a powerful effect or influence
"Ubiquitous, compelling too we cling to you like crazy glue"
Recipe for Hate, Recipe for Hate
Graffin
Complicity
- The state of being an accomplice; partnership or involvement
in wrongdoing
"The cops will never prove complicity."
Anesthesia, Against the Grain
Gurewitz
Concede
1. to acknowledge as true, just or proper
2. to grant as a right or privilege
"He said the rich would never concede"
Watch It Die, Recipe For Hate
Graffin
Conduit
- A natural or artificial channel through which water or other fluid
is conveyed
"I'm on a ride down a blind conduit, and I just want to get off."
Get Off, Against the Grain
Graffin
Conflagrations
- Large, destructive fires.
"and precious tomes to fuel your pulpy conflagrations."
I Want to Conquer the World, No Control
Convulsion
- An intense, paroxysmal, involuntary muscular contraction.
"It's a game of strange compulsion our visceral convulsion."
Anxiety, No Control
Contritely
1. overcome by a sense of guilt and desirous of atonement
2. showing remorse
"The anechoic nebula rotating in my brain is persuading me
contritely to persist."
Delerium of Disorder,
Graffin, Gurewitz
Cynic
- A person who believes that only selfishness motivates human
actions
"Then you can be known as a universal cynic too
The Universal Cynic, Bonus Track
Graffin
D A B C E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W
Dearth
- A scarce supply; a lack.
"As the dearth of new ideas makes us wallow in our shame."
Progress, No Control
Debonair
- Of pleasant manners; courteous, gracious, and charming
"We're savoir-faire and debonair, and things we do are done with
pride and care, oh yeah."
Part 4, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
Decoration
1. the act of decorating
2. adornment or ornament
3. a badge, medal, etc., conferred
"An icon on the wall, decoration and duress"
Portrait of Authority, Recipe For Hate
Graffin
Demise
- Death
"Our evolution is our demise"
Lookin' In, Recipe For Hate
Graffin
Demonstrative
1. expressing one's feelings openly
2. serving to prove, show or illustrate
"Well I guess God was a lot more demonstrative back when
he flamboyantly parted the sea"
Don't Pray On Me, Recipe For Hate
Gurewitz
Denouement
1. the final resolution of a plot, as of a drama or a novel
2. the outcome of a doubtful series of occurrences
"We're living in the denoument of the battle's gripping awe."
Fuck Armageddon, This is Hell, 80-85
Graffin
Depravity
- A corrupt act or practice
"Or have you escaped scrutiny, and regaled yourself with depravity?"
God Song, Against the Grain
Graffin
Derision
- Contemptuous or jeering laughter; ridicule.
"the ancient western treadmill of deception and derision."
I Want Something More, No Control
Desolation
1. devastation or ruin
2. loneliness or wretchedness
3. sorrow or grief
"Rage and desolation"
News From The Front, Bonus Track
Gurewitz
Dichotomy
1. Division into two, usually contradictive parts.
2. the phase of the moon , Venus, or Mercury when half of the disc
is illuminated.
3. Branching characterized by successive folklore into two
approximately equal divisions.
"Command exception and accept dichotomy"
Individual, Stranger Than Fiction
Graffin
Diogenes
(412-323 B.C.) a Greek cynic philosopher
"Lascivious, it's all that I can think of as I drag my feet,
searching like Diogenes."
Get Off, Against the Grain
Graffin
Discomfiture
1. frustration of hopes or plans
2. confusion; embarrassment
3. defeat in battle
"I maintain no discomfiture, my path again renewed"
Against the Grain, Against the Grain
Graffin
Disparity
- Distinctness in kind
"The level of disparity, the common man"
Markovian Process, Bonus Track
Graffin
Disposition
1. mental outlook or mood
2. an inclination or tendency
"Every day I wander in negative disposition"
Struck A Nerve, Recipe For Hate
Graffin
Dissipate
- To drive away, disperse.
"But you can bet your ass your free energy will dissipate."
The World Won't Stop, No Control
"Idleness and dissipation breed apathy."
Do What You Want, Suffer
Gurewitz
Dodo
- A clumsy, flightless, extinct bird
"It's the way of the Dodo, such a noble destiny"
The Dodo, Bonus Track
Graffin
Drastic
1. acting with violence
2. extremely severe
"I was born on planet Earth, at a drastic time full of plastic mirth"
Watch It Die, Recipe For Hate
Graffin
Drone
- To make a dull, continued, monotonous sound
"The good world unknown, you're stuck in the drone"
....You Give Up, Into The Unknown
Graffin
Duress
1. compulsion by threat
2. wrongful imprisonment
"An icon on the wall, decoration and duress"
Portrait of Authority, Recipe For Hate
Graffin
E A B C D F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W
Ecological
1. of or relating to a branch of science concerned with the
interaction of organisms and their environment
"Global awareness, ecological guilt"
Too Much To Ask, Generator
Graffin
Elan
- Enthusiastic vigor and liveliness; Distinctive style or flair.
"the morning rush hour traffic is our play of false elan."
Anxiety, No Control
Elation
- The feeling of being very happy or proud
"The pomp and elation, the duty and vocation"
Recipe for Hate, Recipe for Hate
Graffin
Embodies
1. gives a definite form to
2. collects or includes an organized whole
3. provides with a body
"It embodies what he cannot be"
Portrait of Authority, Recipe For Hate
Graffin
Enamored
- Inflamed with love
"I'm enamored by young lovers on the weekend"
Atomic Garden, Generator
Mr. Brett
Endogenous
- Growing or proceeding from within
"The swath endogenous of ourselves will be our quandary."
The Positive Aspect of Negative Thinking, Against the Grain
Bentley
Engorge
- To stuff or fill
"Crazy flowing mantide migrations engorge the big ventricle
of heartbroken America"
News From The Front, Bonus Track
Gurewitz
Ensconsed
- Covered or sheltered; hidden securely
"The vortex of their minds ensconsed within the murky deep."
1,000 More Fools, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
Enthalpy
- A thermodynamic function of a system, equal to its internal
energy plus the product of its volume and pressure.
"you are an element in a sea of enthalpic organic compounds."
The World Won't Stop, No Control
Entropy
1. hypothesized tendency toward uniform inertness, esp. of
the universe
2. the measure of the frequency with which an event occurs within
a system
"It's entropy. It's not a human issue."
Entropy, Against the Grain
Graffin
Eon
- A division of geologic time comprising two or more eras (also aeon)
"I show pity on the eons past."
Pity, 80-85
Epicene
- Belonging to or resembling both the male and the female;
Effeminate, unmanly.
"He's the quintessential mindless modern epicene."
Automatic Man, No Control
Eschew
- To avoid, shun.
"There are enormous things to do others practices to eschew"
The World Won't Stop, No Control
Evolution
1. any process of formation or growth
2. the development of complex plants and animals from
earlier, simpler forms
3. a pattern formed by a series of movements
"Our evolution is our demise"
Lookin' In, Recipe For Hate
Graffin
Exaltation
1. to elevate in rank, power or character
2. to praise or extol
"I've also heard a lot of exaltation for our kind"
Mediocrity, Bonus Track
Graffin
Excursive
- Digressive; tending to wander away from the main topic
"Excursive expeditions leave us holding less and less."
The Positive Aspect of Negative Thinking, Against the Grain
Bentley
Exquisite
1. of special beauty, charm or elegance
2. intense or keen as pleasure
3. keenly sensitive or responsive
4. of peculiar refinement
"The tragic and exquisite are the same to some degree"
Mediocrity, Bonus Track
Graffin
Extrication
- Freedom or release from entanglement; disengagement
"He sought extrication through chemical vocation..."
Forbidden Beat, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
F A B C D E G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W
Fallibly
[fallible] 1. capable of making an error.
2. tending or likely to be erroneous
"But I'm so fallibly human"
My Poor Friend Me, Recipe For Hate
Graffin
Fate
1. the ultimate power by which the order of things is prescribed
2. a prophetic declaration of what must be
3. death or ruin
4. destiny
"Now it's time to erase the story of our bogus fate"
Recipe for Hate, Recipe for Hate
Graffin
Febrile
- Feverish
"A febrile violent shocking smack"
Stranger Than Fiction, Stranger Than Fiction
Gurewitz
Fecundity
- State of producing of offspring or vegetation; fruitfulness;
"Is your fecundity a trammel or a treasure?"
I Want To Conquer the World, No Control
Feyly
1. (adjective) appearing to be under a spell
2. supernaturally
"After feyly discussing her rights"
Don't Pray On Me, Recipe For Hate
Gurewitz
Flamboyantly
- Acting with conspicuous dashing, boldness and color
"Well I guess God was a lot more demonstrative back when
he flamboyantly parted the sea"
Don't Pray On Me, Recipe For Hate
Gurewitz
Flanking
1. to be at the side of anything, as of a building
2. to be on the extreme right or left side of a military formation
3. to be at the flank or side of
"And beside him flanking closely, are the boisterous,
hollow masses"
Leaders & Followers, Bonus Track
Graffin
Foible
- A minor weakness or failing of character; slight flaw or defect
"White trash, 2nd generation, stupid foibles, indignation."
White Trash (2nd Generation), 80-85
Forefathers
- Ancestors
"Our forefathers who led the way, their victims are still here today"
Recipe for Hate, Recipe for Hate
Graffin
Frippery
- Something showy, tawdry, or nonessential
"Religion is just synthetic frippery."
God Song, Against the Grain
Graffin
G A B C D E F H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W
Garner
1. to gather and store
2. to get or acquire
3. to accumulate or collect
"Only precious few can garner our prosperity"
American Jesus, Recipe For Hate
Graffin
Gavel
- Feudal rent or tribute
"Frivolous gavel or design, ludicrous our threat."
The Positive Aspect of Negative Thinking, Against the Grain
Bentley
Gnosis
1. positive knowledge or esoteric wisdom, esp. knowledge
of spiritual truth or of matters commonly conceived to pertain
to faith alone
2. a combining form from Greek; a knowing, denoting cognition
or recognition
"Billy Gnosis was going insane"
Billy Gnosis, Into The Unknown
Gurewitz
Guise
1. general external appearance
2. assumed appearance or mere semblance
"Behind the guise of salvation"
Lookin' In, Recipe For Hate
Graffin
H A B C D E F G I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W
Hanson
- According to Mr. Brett,. a priest in Hawthorne's The Scarlet
Letter, but this remains obscure
"Well Hanson did it to Hester"
Don't Pray On Me, Recipe For Hate
Gurewitz
Hedonistically
- As one who practices hedonism (being devoted to pleasure as a way
of life)
"No longer will young Christian Americans hedonistically indulge
in masochistic submission
to rhythmic music."
Voice of God (is Government), 80-85
Hester
- Hester Prynne, the protagonist of The Scarlet Letter
"Well Hanson did it to Hester"
Don't Pray On Me, Recipe For Hate
Gurewitz
Horde
- Throng, swarm.
"Time is so rock solid in the minds of the hordes"
No Control, No Control
Huddled
1. crowded together
2. privately holding a conference
"Everywhere I look I see exclusive huddled uninviting shelter"
Kerosene, Recipe For Hate
Gurewitz
Hybrid
1. the offspring of two animals or plants of different breed
or species
2. anything derived from mixed sources
"The blood of the hybrid, it's just a recipe"
Recipe for Hate, Recipe for Hate
Graffin
Hypocrite
- A person given to hypocrisy (a pretense of having publicly
approved attitudes, beliefs or principles that one does not possess
"Everyone is a hypocrite"
Man With A Mission, Recipe For Hate
Gurewitz
I A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W
Icon
1. a representation of a sacred personage, usually painted on
a wood or ivory surface
2. anything devotedly admired
"An icon on the wall, decoration and duress"
Portrait of Authority, Recipe For Hate
Graffin
Immolation
1. the act of offering in sacrifice
2. killing; destroying
"...ecstatic immolation, incorrigible delight."
Turn on the Light, Against the Grain
Gurewitz
Incendiary
1. of, relating to, or involvinbg a deliberate burning of property
2. tending to excite or inflame
"Turn on a million blinding, brilliant, white, incendiary lights."
Turn on the Light, Against the Grain
Gurewitz
Inchoate
1. just begun; incipient
2. rudimentary; imperfect; incomplete
"Inchoate beatitude, the lord of the flies."
1,000 More Fools, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
Incongruous
1. lacking in harmony; incompatible.
2. not in agreement, as with principles; inconsistent.
3. not in keeping with what is correct, proper or logical,
inappropriate.
"Dire perpetuation and incongruous insistence"
Them and Us, The Gray Race
Baker, Graffin
[Incongruity]
"But you would have to be stone cold dead not to see
overwhelming incongruity"
Mediocrity, Bonus Track
Graffin
Incorrigible
- Incapable of being corrected or amended; incurable; unmanageable
"...ecstatic immolation, incorrigible delight."
Turn on the Light, Against the Grain
Gurewitz
Indigent
- One lacking the necessities of life because of poverty
"Automatons, illiterates, and indigents of every shape and size..."
Part II, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
Inept
1. not apt; without skill or aptitude, esp. for a particular task
2. inappropriate; out of place
3. absurd or foolish
"Grandiloquent in attitude, impassioned yet inept."
The Positive Aspect of Negative Thinking, Against the Grain
Bentley
Infallible
1. free from fallacy; not liable to error
2. unfailingly certain; trustworthy
"Create a God who's infallible"
Spirit Shine, The Gray Race
Baker, Graffin
Infirmity
1. a physical weakness or ailment
2. a moral weakness or failing
"The infirmity of man is brought on by his selfish cure."
How Much is Enough?, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
Inharmonic
- Not cogent or cohesive; dissonant
"Culture was the seed of proliferation but it has gotten melded
into an inharmonic whole"
No Control, No Control
Intercourse
1. dealings or communication between persons or countries
2. an intimate physical relationship, esp. between man and
woman, involving use of the sexual organs
3. literally fucking
"This intercourse of nature, this vulgar social pastime"
Leaders & Followers, Bonus Track
Graffin
Introverted
- Describing a person characterized by concern primarily of his
or her own thoughts and feelings
"Introverted, I look to tomorrow for salvation"
Struck A Nerve, Recipe For Hate
Graffin
Intrusion
- Thrusting oneself without invitation or welcome
"An oppressive intrusion and a plague across his land"
Portrait of Authority, Recipe For Hate
Graffin
Irascible
- Prone to outbursts of temper, easily angered.
"I've been incredible, so damned irascible"
Hooray For Me, Stranger Than Fiction
Gurewitz
J A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T U V W
Jack
- John F. Kennedy
"And maybe Jack did it to Marliyn"
Don't Pray On Me, Recipe For Hate
Gurewitz
Jaded
1. worn out or wearied, as by overwork or overuse
2. dulled or satiated by overindulgence
"In the night you see through jaded eyes."
Into the Night, 80-85
John
-John Lennon
"And Mark David did it to John"
Don't Pray On Me, Recipe For Hate
Gurewitz
Jurisdiction
1. the right, power, or authority to administer justice
2. authority; control
3. the extent or range of judicial or other authority
"You are jurisdiction."
You Are (the Government), Suffer
Graffin
Jurisprudence
1. the science or philosophy of law
2. a body or system of laws
"You are jurisprudence."
You Are (the Government), Suffer
Graffin
K A B C D E F G H I J L M N O P Q R S T U V W
Klan -the Ku Klux Klan "He's the fuel that drives the Klan" American Jesus, Recipe For Hate Graffin
L A B C D E F G H I J K M N O P Q R S T U V W
Lascivious
- Lewd; lustful
"Lascivious, it's all that I can think of as I drag my feet,
searching like Diogenes."
Get Off, Against the Grain
Graffin
Laurels
- A wreath of the laurel tree conferred as a mark of honor in
ancient times upon poets, heroes, and athletes; honors and glories
won for great achievement.
"Don't be a henchman, Stand on your laurels."
Henchman, No Control
Lea
- Grassland; pasture
"We've seen it through the accolades and rested in its lea."
The Positive Aspect of Negative Thinking, Against the Grain
Bentley
Listless
- Feeling or showing no inclination toward or interest in anything
"We're listless, promiscuous, and life to us is either hit or
miss, oh, yeah."
Part 4, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
M A B C D E F G H I J K L N O P Q R S T U V W
Maelstrom
- A violent whirlpool
"and you made a maelstrom of organic debris"
Chimaera, Generator
Graffin
Manifestation
- Display, demonstration
"It's the manifestation of a deeper fight"
Fertile Crescent, Generator
Graffin
Mantide
- A family of carnivorous insects, the type of an order
"Crazy flowing mantide migrations engorge the big ventricle
of heartbroken America"
News From The Front, Bonus Track
Gurewitz
Marilyn
- Marilyn Monroe
"And maybe Jack did it to Marilyn"
Don't Pray On Me, Recipe For Hate
Gurewitz
Mark David
- Mark David Chapman; John Lennon's assassin
"And Mark David did it to John"
Don't Pray On Me, Recipe For Hate
Gurewitz
Markovian Process
- A sequence of events each determined by the one
immediately preceding it and no other, formulated by Russian
mathematician Andrei Markov (1856-1922)
"Markovian Process, lead us not in vain"
Markovian Process, Bonus Track
Graffin
Mediocrity
- (noun) Average or commonplace
"As we search for suggestions to remedy mediocrity"
Mediocrity, Bonus Track
Graffin
Mentor
-A wise and trusted counselor
"Hey did you find the pieces your mentor left behind?"
The Dichotomy, Into The Unknown
Gurewitz
Microcosm
- A small, representative system having analogies to a larger system
in constitution, configuration, or development
"A microcosm of the human race"
Lookin' In, Recipe For Hate
Graffin
Migrations
1. going from one country to another, esp. repeatedly
and in large groups
2. passing repeatedly from one region or climate to another,
as certain birds
"Crazy flowing mantide migrations engorge the big ventricle
of heartbroken America"
News From The Front, Bonus Track
Gurewitz
Mire
1. an area of wet, soggy, muddy ground; a bog.
2. deep slimy soil or mud.
3. disadvantagious or difficult condition or situation.
"Lobbying determined through a mire of disbelievers"
Them and Us, The Gray Race
Baker, Graffin
Mirth
1. rejoicing; gaiety or jollity
2. amusement or laughter
"...from the plastic protests and the hands of time, and the pusuit
of mirth and all hating kind."
The Positive Aspect of Negative Thinking, Against the Grain
Bentley
"I was born on planet Earth, at a drastic time full of plastic mirth"
Watch It Die, Recipe For Hate
Graffin
Misanthropic
- Hating mankind
"A misanthropic anthropoid with nothing to say..."
Do What You Want, Suffer
Gurewitz
Mockery
- To treat with contempt or ridicule
"But as they were scrutinized in his colleague's eyes, he soon
became a mockery"
The Answer, Generator
Graffin
Moiety - One of two equal or approximately equal parts
"He struggled to find a distinctive moiety."
Them And Us, The Gray Race
Graffin
Mongrels
1. animals or plants resulting from the crossing of different
breeds or species
2. of mixed breed, nature or origin
"Did you see the mongrels on either side?"
The Dichotomy, Into The Unknown
Gurewitz
Moniker
- A person's name, esp. a nickname
"My moniker is man, and I'm rotten to the core."
Do What You Want, Suffer
Gurewitz
Mosaic
- A surface decoration made by inlaying small pieces to form figures
or patterns
"Or are you just a mosaic of thoughts alone?"
Chimaera, Generator
Graffin
Muse
- To be absorbed in one's thoughts; engage in meditation; to
consider or say thoughtfully.
"The poverty of his language and the wealth of his emotion bring
him endless murky musings."
Sometimes I Feel Like, No Control
- Any of the nine sister goddesses of learning and the arts in
Greek myth.
"I refuse to abuse what is kind to the Muse."
Along the Way, 80-85
Myoma
- A tumor consisting of muscle tissue
"I'm one big myoma that thinks the planet supports only me."
Modern Man, Against the Grain
Graffin
Myriad
1. an indefinitely great number
2. ten thousand
"...Phantasmal myriads of sane, bucolic birth."
1,000 More Fools, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
N A B C D E F G H I J K L M O P Q R S T U V W
Nebula
- A cloudlike, luminous, or dark mass composed of gases and small
amounts of dust
"The anechoic nebula, rotating in my brain, is persuading me
contritely to persist."
Delerium of Disorder, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
Negative
1. expressing denial
2. lacking positive or affirmative attributes
"Every day I wander in negative disposition"
Struck A Nerve, Recipe For Hate
Graffin
Noble
1. of an exalted moral excellence
2. of an admirably high quality
3. imposing in appearance
"It's the way of the Dodo, such a noble destiny"
The Dodo, Bonus Track
Graffin
O A B C D E F G H I J K L M N P Q R S T U V W
Obsequious
1. servilely compliant or deferential
2. obedient; dutiful
"The masses are obsequious, contented in their sleep."
1,000 More Fools, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
Oligarchy
- Government in which power is in the hands of a few
(song title)
Oligarchy, 80-85
Opaque
1. not transparent or translucent
2. not shining or bright
3. dull or unintelligent
"Wipe your opaque eyes and restore your crystal vision"
The Universal Cynic, Bonus Track
Graffin
Oppressive
1. unjustly harsh or tyrannical
2. causing discomfort
"An oppressive intrusion and a plague across his land"
Portrait of Authority, Recipe For Hate
Graffin
Opulent
- wealthy, abundantly supplied
"Protecting the opulent and staging moral standard"
Inner Logic, Stranger Than Fiction
Graffin
P A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O Q R S T U V W
Palatable
- Agreeable to the taste
"A drink of palatable water"
Too Much To Ask, Generator
Graffin
Palpitate
- Pulsate, throb
" ;And our hearts palpipate anxiously..."
Tiny Voices, Stranger Than Fiction
Graffin
Pang
- A sudden feeling of mental or emotional distress or longing
"A pang of consciousness at death and then you will agree."
Entropy, Against the Grain
Graffin
Paradigm
- An example that serves as pattern or model.
"He's a paradigm of carefree living"
Automatic Man, No Control
Pastime
- Any activity that makes time pass agreeably
"This intercourse of nature, this vulgar social pastime"
Leaders & Followers, Bonus Track
Graffin
Pathos
- The quality or power of evoking a feeling of pity or compassion
"...I see the pathos that I know, will spell the termination of
us all."
When?, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
Perdition
1. a state of final spiritual ruin
2. hell
"I'll condemn you to fiery perdition"
Man With A Mission, Recipe For Hate
Gurewitz
Peripheral
1. of or situated in the periphery (the external boundary of
any surface or area or a surrounding region or area)
2. comparatively superficial or unessential
"And the few who ride peripheral, maintain subtle advantage"
Leaders & Followers, Bonus Track
Graffin
Perspective
- A broad view of events or ideas in their true nature and
relationships
"The voyeuristic public of which we're all a part, maintains
perspective on the human play"
Leaders & Followers, Bonus Track
Graffin
Pessimist
1. one who has a tendency to see the world in a futile or
gloomy light
2. one who believes the world contains more evil than good
"Only an unrepentant pessimist"
Markovian Process, Bonus Track
Graffin
Phylogeny
- The evolutionary development and history of a species or higher
taxonomic grouping of organisms.
"a piece of chaos related phylogenetically to every living organ
system."
The World Won't Stop, No Control
Pining
1. losing vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
2. yearning intensly
"Your moment's pining like those tales, all intertwining, can become
the rusted lining of a deep neglected shell."
Blenderhead, Against the Grain
Gurewitz
Plague
1. an epidemic disease of high mortality
2. any widespread affliction or evil
"An oppressive intrusion and a plague across his land"
Portrait of Authority, Recipe For Hate
Graffin
Pogrom
- An organized massacre of helpless people
"This mammoth pogrom set upon us courtesy of the USA."
Unacceptable, Against the Grain
Bentley
Poignant
1. physically painful.
2. keenly distressing ti the mind or feelings.
3a. neat, skillful and to the point.
3b. astute and pertinent; relevant.
4. agreeably intense or stimulating.
5. (archaic) sharp or sour to the taste or smell
"[Sky] filled with poignant morose wonder"
Tiny Voices, Stranger Than Fiction
Graffin
Pomp
1. stately or splendid display; splendor; magnificence
2. ostentatious or vain display
"A lonely restitution of pavement, pomp, and show."
Against the Grain, Against the Grain
Graffin
"Displaying pomp and discipline, they mold their institution"
Inner Logic, Stranger Than Fiction
Graffin
"The pomp and elation, the duty and vocation"
Recipe for Hate, Recipe for Hate
Graffin
Pondering
- Considering something deeply and thoroughly
"I've spent my life observing and then pondering this place"
Mediocrity, Bonus Track
Graffin
Populace
1. the common people
2. population
"I'm a member of a growing populace"
American Jesus, Recipe For Hate
Graffin
Portend
- To give an omen or anticipatory sign of; indicate
"Sources of inquiry have nothing to portend."
Misery and Famine, Against the Grain
Graffin
Portico
- A porch or a walkway with a roof supported by columns often
leading to the entrance of a building.
"Graduated mentors stroll in marbled brick porticos"
Inner logic, Stranger Than Fiction
Graffin
Poverty
1. lack of money, goods or means of support
2. deficiency of desirable or necessary qualities
3. scantiness or insufficiency
"The poverty of reprisal from all involved"
Markovian Process, Bonus Track
Graffin
Pragmatists
- Those oriented toward practical action or thought
"They're the self-appointed pragmatists"
Modern Day Catastrophists, Recipe For Hate
Graffin
Prescience
- Knowledge of actions or events before they occur; foresight.
"But prescience was lacking and the present was not all"
Billy, No Control
Pretension
- Not supported by fact; mere display : SHOW : PRETEXT
"What pretension! Everlasting peace, everything must..."
Cease, The Gray Race
Graffin
Prionic
[prion] - a protein particle that lacks nucleic acid and is
sometimes held to be the cause of various infectious diseases
of the nervous system.
"You're a sidewalk cipher speaking prionic jive."
I Give You Nothing, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
Progeny
- Descendants or offspring collectively
"They live their lives under a blanket of shame, and their
progeny crawl from underneath it"
My Poor Friend Me, Recipe For Hate
Graffin
Proliferation
- Growing or multiplying by rapidly producing new tissue,
parts, cells or offspring.
"Culture was the seed of proliferation but it has gotten melded
into an inharmonic whole"
No Control, No Control
Prosperity
- The state or condition of being successful, esp. financially
"Can't you feel it, can't you see, the promise of prosperity"
Recipe for Hate, Recipe for Hate
Graffin
Provisions
- A stock of needed supplies
"So I guess I'll just cope with my provisions"
Chimaera, Generator
Graffin
Proximity
- Nearness in space, time or order
"Recognition by proximity and a brand new face"
Leaders & Followers, Bonus Track
Graffin
Pyre
1. a pile of combustibles
2. a heap of combustibles for burning a corpse as a funeral rite.
"I'll set a funeral pyre"
Kerosene, Recipe For Hate
Gurewitz
Q A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W
Quagmire
1. land with a soft, muddy surface.
2. a difficult or precarious situation or predicament.
"Have you visited the quagmire?"
Punk Rock Song, The Gray Race
Graffin
"When you're stuck in the quagmire"
The Universal Cynic, Bonus Track
Graffin
Quandary
- A state of perplexity or uncertainty, esp. as to what to do;
dilemma
"The swath endogenous of ourselves will be our quandary."
The Positive Aspect of Negative Thinking, Against the Grain
Bentley
Quintessential
- The pure, highly concentrated essence of a thing.
"He's the quintessential mindless modern epicene."
Automatic Man, No Control
Quixotic
- Caught up in the pursuit of unreachable goals; idealistic without
regard to practicality.
"Going through a world of sad debris regard quixotic reveries of
ownership."
I Want Something More, No Control
R A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q S T U V W
Rabble
- A disorganized or confused collection of things
"You feel no affinity to the rabble we're in."
Misery and Famine, Against the Grain
Graffin
Rapacity
1. given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed
2. an inordinate amount of greed
"Tell me is there anything so sure? Rapacity, tenacity, capacity
for more."
How Much is Enough?, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
Rapt
1. deeply moved or delighted.
2. deeply absorbed, engrossed.
"a lonesome muted stripling with a rapt remedial gaze"
Sometimes I Feel Like, No Control
"You were rapt by the hips"
Drunk Sincerity, The Gray Race
Graffin
Rapture
- Ecstatic joy or delight
"I've seen the rapture in a starving baby's eyes."
1,000 More Fools, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
Rectilinear
1. forming a straight line
2. formed by straight lines
"Rectilinear, the direction we are headed"
Get Off, Against The Grain
Graffin
Redolent
1. fragrant, aromatic.
2. suggestive, reminiscent.
"Charity has a redolence chasity cannot rescind"
Spirit Shine, The Gray Race
Baker, Graffin
"There's a panther wild and proud behind the doors of a redolent
cage."
Sometimes I Feel Like, No Control
Redress
1. the setting right of what is wrong
2. to set right
"Fighting hard to abstain and redress"
Leaders & Followers, Bonus Track
Graffin
Regaled
- Entertained sumptuously or agreeably
"Or have you escaped scrutiny, and regaled yourself with depravity?"
God Song, Against the Grain
Graffin
Relegate
1. to send or consign to an inferior position, place, or condition
2. to send into exile; banish
"What they call straight, I do relegate, as I cautiously
saltate along."
Forbidden Beat, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
Replete
- Complete
"So proud a history, replete with sanctity..."
Misery and Famine, Against the Grain
Graffin
Reprisal
- Action or an act in retaliation against someone for injuries
received
"The poverty of reprisal from all involved
Markovian Process, Bonus Track
Graffin
Reprobate
- A morally unprincipled person; One who is predestined to
damnation
"So what good advice have I got for you to insure against your
likely metamorphosis into this reprobate?"
Henchman, No Control
Reserve
- Formality and self-restraint in manner and relationship
"If your reserve is weak, audacity complete..."
I Give You Nothing, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
Restitution
- Restoration to the former or original state or position
"...a lonely restitution of pavement, pomp, and show."
Against the Grain, Against the Grain
Graffin
Revel
- To take great pleasure or delight in
"If you think you've got it made, just revel in your selfish ways,
because when the world stops turning, so will you."
When?, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
Reverence
1. a feeling of respect tinged with awe
2. a gesture showing deep respect, as a bow or curtsy
"And sanctimonious reverence for peace"
Mediocrity, Bonus Track
Graffin
Reveries
(plural of reverie) A daydream.
"when we are scared we can hide in our reveries, but what we need
is a change of ideas."
Change of Ideas, No Control
"Going through a world of sad debris regard quixotic reveries of
ownership."
I Want Something More, No Control
Revile
- To assail with abusive language.
"Kneel before you, revile your body"
Infected, Stranger Than Fiction
Gurewitz
Rift
- A valley along the trace of a fault
"The world's falling apart at the rifts..."
What Can You Do?, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
S A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R T U V W
Sagacious
- Having or showing keen discernment, sound judgement and
farsightedness.
"In sagacious dialog they despise their average ways"
Inner logic, Stranger Than Fiction
Graffin
Sage
- Profoundly wise
"No matter what sage advice he has to give"
The Dodo, Bonus Track
Graffin
Saltate
1. to dance or leap
2. to move abruptly
"What they call straight, I do relegate, as I cautiously saltate
along."
Forbidden Beat, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
Salvation
1. the act of saving from harm or loss
2. deliverance from the power and penalty of sin
"Introverted, I look to tomorrow for salvation"
Struck A Nerve, Recipe For Hate
Graffin
Sanctifies
- To set apart for sacred use, to consecrate.
"It sanctifies the future, yet renders us with fear."
Change of Ideas, No Control
Sartory
- Relating to the art of the tailor
"Then you took a million more varieties, a scalpel and sartory"
Chimaera, Generator
Graffin
Sanctimonious
- Pretending to be devout and righteous
"And sanctimonious reverence for peace"
Mediocrity, Bonus Track
Graffin
Savoir-faire
- Knowledge of just what to do in any situation; tact
"We're savoir-faire and debonair, and things we do are done with
pride and care, oh yeah."
Part 4, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
Scathing
- Bitterly severe
"And the scathing trajectory of the past"
Markovian Process, Bonus Track
Graffin
Sepsis
- A toxic condition resulting from the spread of bacteria or
their products from a focus of infection
"And have they told you how to think; cleansed your mind of sepsis
and autonomy?"
God Song, Against the Grain
Graffin
Septic
- Caused by a bacterial invasion of the body"
"The vector of suffrage, a warm and septic breeze"
Recipe for Hate, Recipe for Hate
Graffin
Sequestered
- Secluded; isolated
"Here labelled as a lunatic, sequestered and content. They're
ignored and defeated by the government."
Against the Grain, Against the Grain
Graffin
"Sequestering the blueprints of daily life"
Inner Logic, Stranger Than Fiction
Graffin
Sheaves
(plural of sheaf) A bundle of cut stalks of grain or similar
plants bound with straw or twine.
"Well the sheaves have all been brought, but the fields have washed
away."
Change of Ideas, No Control
Sheepish
1. embarrassed, as by having done something wrong
2. like sheep, as in meekness
"But he hides his hatred with a sheepish grin"
Leaders & Followers, Bonus Track
Graffin
Sieve
- A utensil of wire mesh or closely perforated metal, used for
straining, sifting, ricing, or pureeing.
"and it's all so oppressive my mind feels like a sieve."
Big Bang, No Control
Smidgen
- A very small amount
"Just a smidgen of the success pie and a pinch of social grace"
Leaders & Followers, Bonus Track
Graffin
Spectacle
1. an impressive sight or view
2. a public show or display
"When they march and shout, are a spectacle"
All Good Soldiers, Recipe For Hate
Gurewitz
Stalwart
1. (adj.) having or marked by imposing physical strength.
2. firm and resolute; stout.
1. (noun) one who is physically and morally strong.
2. one who steadfastly supports an organization or a cause.
"But we're looking for a few more stalwart clones"
Come Join Us, The Gray Race
Graffin
Stereotype
1. a printing plate made from a mold cast in type metal
2. an idea or expression lacking in freshness or originality
3. a conventional or standardized conception or image
"But to me it's just a stereotype"
Portrait of Authority, Recipe For Hate
Graffin
Sterile
1. free from germs or microorganisms
2. unimaginative and unfruitful
"But facts are sterile, not vulgar or sublime"
Markovian Process, Bonus Track
Graffin
Stimuli
-(plural) something that stimulates psychologically or
physiologically
"But I cannot ignore the stimuli"
Struck A Nerve, Recipe For Hate
Graffin
Stolid
- Not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive
"A stolid proposition from a man unkempt as I..."
Entropy, Against the Grain
Graffin
Stratified
- Former of arranged in layers
"And then you stratified acuumulations, weeded out bad variations"
Chimaera, Generator
Graffin
Strife
- Conflict, fight, struggle
"Long ago in a dusty village full of hunger, pain and strife"
The Answer, Generator
Graffin
Stripling
- An adolescent youth.
"a lonesome muted stripling with a rapt remedial gaze"
Sometimes I Feel Like, No Control
Subjugation
1. the act of bringing under complete control; conquering
2. the act of making one submissive or subserviant; enslavement
"Prepare yourselves for subjugation, victory through domination."
Part II, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
Sublime
1. elevated or lofty, as in thought
2. inspiring awe or veneration
3. exalted or noble
"But facts are sterile, not vulgar or sublime"
Markovian Process, Bonus Track
Graffin
Subtle
1. elusively thin or tenuous
2. fine or delicate in meaning
3. faint and mysterious
4. mentally acute
"And the few who ride peripheral, maintain subtle advantage"
Leaders & Followers, Bonus Track
Graffin
Suffrage
1. the right to vote
2. a prayer, esp. a short intercessory prayer or petition
"And your pathetic moans of suffrage tend to lose all significance."
Entropy, Against the Grain
Graffin
"The vector of suffrage, a warm and septic breeze"
Recipe for Hate, Recipe for Hate
Graffin
Superficiality
1. lying on the surface; external
2. not deep or thorough
"All he found was vulgar superficiality"
Them And Us, The Gray Race
Graffin
Superlative
1. something of the highest possible excellence
2. the highest degree; the acme
"As I'm bombarded by superlatives"
Struck a Nerve, Recipe For Hate
Graffin
Supine
- Lying on the back of having the face upward. Lethargic;
Passive.
"And our hearts palpitate anxiously as we soon will lay
supine"
Tiny Voices, Stranger Than Fiction
Graffin
Supplicate
1. to ask earnestly or humbly for, as by praying.
2. to make a humble entry; beseech.
3. to make a humble, earnest petition; beg.
"Supplicate you, are incurable"
Infected, Stranger Than Fiction
Gurewitz
Surfeit
- To indulge in anything to excess
"When will mankind finally come to realize his surfeit has become
his demise?"
How Much is Enough?, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
Surrey
- A light, four-wheeled, two-seated carriage, with or without a top,
for four persons
"But soon enters dusk as the last surrey rusts, and a new day upon
us results."
Forbidden Beat, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
Swath
- A strip, belt, or long and narrow extension of anything
"The swath endogenous of ourselves will be our quandary."
The Positive Aspect of Negative Thinking, Against the Grain
Bentley
Synapses
(plural of synapsis) The region of contact between the axon of one
neuron and the dendrite or cell body of another neuron, across
which nerve inpulses are transmitted in one direction only.
"Something in our synapses assures us we're OK, but in our
disequilibrium, we simply cannot stay."
Entropy, Against the Grain
Graffin
Syntactic
- Pertaining to the study of grammatical sentences in a language
"Syntactic is our elegance, incisive our disease."
The Positive Aspect of Negative Thinking, Against the Grain
Bentley
T A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S U V W
Tarmac
1. a tarmacadum road or surface, esp. an airport runway..
2. to cause an aircraft to sit on a taxiway [originally
a trademark].
"Underground heroes of the tarmac, shooting smack"
Hooray For Me, Stranger Than Fiction
Gurewitz
Teleology
- The theory that events and developments are meant to fulfill
a purpose and happen because of that
"It is pointless to search for teleology"
Mediocrity, Bonus Track
Graffin
Tenacity
1. the quality or property of being pertinacious, persistent,
stubborn, or obstinate
2. characterized by keeping a firm hold
"Tell me is there anything so sure? Rapacity, tenacity, capacity
for more."
How Much is Enough?, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
"Leave your cares behind you, just grab tenaciously."
Against the Grain, Against the Grain
Graffin
Terse
- Smoothly elegant; polished
"the terse, oppressive blanket that's instilled here by our spin."
Misery and Famine, Against the Grain
Graffin
Tome
- One of the books in a work of several volumes.
"and precious tomes to fuel your pulpy conflagrations."
I Want to Conquer the World, No Control
Torpid
1. deprived of the power of motion or feeling; benumbed.
2. dormant, hibernating.
3. lethargic, apathetic.
"The evil sits inside them torpid timing its escape"
Victory, The Gray Race
Graffin
"Languid wills and torpid minds"
Individual, Stranger Than Fiction
Graffin
Tragic
1. of or characteristic of tragedy
2. unfortunate or dreadful
"The tragic and exquisite are the same to some degree"
Mediocrity, Bonus Track
Graffin
Trajectories
1. the path of projectile or other moving body through space.
2. a chosen course or course taken.
3. (math) a curve tat cuts all of a given family of curves or
surfaces at a given angle.
"Independent trajectories"
Parallel, The Gray Race
Graffin
"And the scathing trajectory of the past"
Markovian Process, Bonus Track
Graffin
Trammel
- A shackle used to teach a horse to amble; Something that
restricts activity, expression, or progress; A restraint.
"Is your fecundity a trammel or a treasure?"
I Want To Conquer the World, No Control
Tranquil
- In an enduring state of unagitated quietness
"The jungle was once a tranquil hideaway
Losing Generation, Into The Unknown
Graffin
Transfixated
- Held motionless by or as if by piercing
"Transfixated on the big blue screen"
Only Entertainment, Generator
Graffin
Transgression
- Infringement or violation of a law, command, or duty
"Your transgressions are a danger flashing sign.
Blenderhead, Against the Grain
Gurewitz
Trepidation
1. a state of alarm or dread; apprehension.
2. an involuntary trembling
"And it fills us all with trepidation"
Them and Us, The Gray Race
Baker, Graffin
"The trepidatious throngs all fear the big eye in the sky."
Part II, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
Tumbrel
- A two-wheeled cart, esp. a farmer's cart that can be tilted to
dump a load.
"I know there's so much you want to say and the tumbrel of your
mind gets in the way"
Sometimes I Feel Like, No Control
Tumult
1. the din and commotion of a great crowd.
2a. a disorderly commotion or disturbance.
2b. a tempestuous uprising; a riot.
3. agitation in the mind or emotions.
"Tumult for the ignorant"
Them and Us, The Gray Race
Baker, Graffin
U A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T V W
Ubiquitous
- Existing or being everywhere at the same time.
"It afflicts us like a disease; Ubiquitous, compelling too"
Recipe For Hate, Recipe For PRE>
Graffin
Universal
- Embracing many or all skills or fields
"Then you can be known as a universal cynic too
The Universal Cynic, Bonus Track
Graffin
Unkempt
1. being in a neglected or untidy condition; disheveled; messy
2. unpolished; rough; crude
"A stolid proposition from a man unkempt as I..."
Entropy, Against the Grain
Graffin
Unperturbed
- Not disrupted, agitated, or greatly disturbed, esp. in mind;
unchanged from it's original state
"I'll remain unperturbed by the joy and the madness that
I encounter everywhere I turn"
Generator, Generator
Gurewitz
Unrepentant
1. not feeling sorry for a past action or attitude
2. feeling no remorse
"Only an unrepentant pessimist"
Markovian Process, Bonus Track
Graffin
Upbraid
- To reprove sharply; reproach.
"Upbraided for your actions past and present"
Henchman, No Control
V A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U W
Vain
- Without result or effect
"Markovian Process, lead us not in vain"
Markovian Process, Bonus Track
Graffin
"I know there are people who are cynical and vain"
My Poor Friend Me, Recipe For Hate
Graffin
Vector
1. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction
2. an organism that transmits a disease producing microorganism
"The vector of suffrage, a warm and septic breeze"
Recipe for Hate, Recipe for Hate
Graffin
Ventricle
1. either of the two lower chambers on either side of the heart
2. one of a series of connecting cavities of the brain
"Crazy flowing mantide migrations engorge the big ventricle
of heartbroken America"
News From The Front, Bonus Track
Gurewitz
Visceral
- Relating to, situated in, or affecting the viscera (soft
internal organs of the body, esp. those contained within the
abdominal and thoracic cavities; the intestines.)
"It's a game of strange compulsion our visceral convulsion."
Anxiety, No Control
Vocation
1. any occupation regularly followed for a living
2. a strong impulse to follow a particular career
3. a religious calling
"The pomp and elation, the duty and vocation"
Recipe for Hate, Recipe for Hate
Graffin
Volition
- The act of willing, choosing, or resolving
"You are the volition."
You Are (the Government), Suffer
Graffin
Vortex
- A state of affairs likened to a whirlpool for violent activity,
irresistible attraction, etc.
"The vortex of their minds ensconsed within the murky deep."
1,000 More Fools, Suffer
Graffin, Gurewitz
"Like a hungry fucking vortex that just flickers to existance"
Marked, Stranger Than Fiction
Mr. Brett
Voyeuristic
- Describing a person who habitually obtains sexual
gratification by looking at sexual objects or acts, esp. in secret
"The voyeuristic public of which we're all a part, maintains
perspective on the human play"
Leaders & Followers, Bonus Track
Graffin
Vulgar
1. lacking good taste or manners
2. indecent or obscene
3. of or belonging to the common people, as opposed to the
intellectual people
"This intercourse of nature, this vulgar social pastime"
Leaders & Followers, Bonus Track
Graffin
Vying
- Striving for superiority; contending
"...vying with those who you've traded your life to to bless
your soul."
God Song, Against the Grain
Graffin
"Everyone's vying for patronage"
The Handshake, Stranger Than Fiction
Graffin
W A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V
Waltz
- A moderately fast ballroom dance
"It's the waltz of desperation"
The Dodo, Bonus Track
Graffin
Wane
- To fall gradually from power, prosperity, or influence
"And did that anthropocentric God wane with their thoughts and
beliefs all unseen?"
God Song, Against the Grain
Graffin