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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 diffe...
[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
Vanity was written by Brett Gurewitz.
Vanity was produced by Brett Gurewitz & Joe Barresi.
Bad Religion released Vanity on Tue Jan 08 2013.