Bad Religion - I Want To Conquer The World (Lyrics)

The song I Want To Conquer The World from the No Control album (1989):
01: Change Of Ideas
02: Big Bang
03: No Control
04: Sometimes I Feel Like
05: Automatic Man
►: I Want To Conquer The World
07: Sanity
08: Henchman
09: It Must Look Pretty Appealing
10: You
11: Progress
12: I Want Something More
13: Anxiety
14: Billy
15: The World Won't Stop

[@6ghu7i]

This is the first bad religion song I ever heard and I was immediately hooked. That was 22 years ago and it's still my favorite song by them and they are my favorite band of all time

[@fasolakiltd]

33 years here … I am still getting restless whenever I hear the song :)

[@americanstandardbearer181]

Me too.

[@doncavatti]

Same. Seen them live a few times. They're amazing. Favorite show was when they played with Death By Stereo at La Fiesta Ballroom in Bakersfield, California. I really wish that venue was still open. It's small and intimate but can handle a few bands rocking your face off. I love it!

[@doncavatti]

@@fasolakiltd right!? And every one of the people he's talking about is me. LMAO. A true wordsmith at work. This is what I aspire to be, inspiring me. And you. Hell yeah!

[@Imagination_Now]

Same. 23 years ago for me. Their lyrics are phenomenal..and wrapped up in a punk rock bow...what's not to love?? 🖤

[@acousticmario6109]

One of the best punk songs ever. Gives me middle/highschool flashbacks!

[@TheUniverse420]

Same here bruh..when i was 14 the skateboarding days...im 32 now times have changed lol

[@barfyyarfy996]

I wore a bad religion shirt in a conservative Christian school and turned heads.

[@Raipongai]

im in middle school and this song discribes what i hope to do and the part about the idiots is true for most of my classes now are filled with idiots and knuckleheads who dont know anything besides stupid things like sksksksksk period poo and just being jerks

[@WocklessGamingforAnimeMoms]

Me right now at 24 Flashback!!!

[@AvionAvionando]

​@@omarslim3362ROBASTE MIS PALABRAS BRO ✌️

[@Raipongai]

ill be playing this when i start my world conquer

[@Athena-we2uz]

Same, meet you in the war zone.

[@Raipongai]

@@Athena-we2uz if i remember to when become a leader ill change what this says to be prepared

[@justmissjamey]

Such prophetic words....

[@myapalmer4206]

i love punk music like this, super fast paced and aggressive but still so fluid at the same time. makes me wanna bop around yk

[@justinlacek1481]

Exactly. It's so good

[@UB13]

I forgot about this, it feels good to come back to Bad Religion after 6 or 7 years.

[@wapwothefetty2569]

He is ~👀 lyrically gifted~ *chefs kiss*

[@gingervitus2377]

Great bands like this are the ones that give you an enhanced vocabulary!! So descriptive paints such an awesome picture.

[@AvionAvionando]

Punk profesionals hehe

[@lq9blzr]

All I know is I was freshman in HS and a girl named Amanda who I had a crush on made me listen to Bad Religion at 3am in her bedroom....they are my favorite band and I still think of her almost daily

[@Moishe555]

So...ummm...next question...

[@terror1878]

So you had sex while listening to BR. Thats nice

[@dip518set]

@@terror1878 so many things make me feel like this poor man was getting no butt from her but he did learn a valuable lesson about being friendzoned

[@laughingskull3881]

Wait every day. That's unlikely but I can see y she has a special place in ur Hart but I don't think ur thinking about her every single day

[@slippinstan9927]

Damn I wish I knew a girl who knew who bad religion was😂

[@chrisjames4438]

Hes not talking about actually conquering the world. This song is about how the catholic church tried to conquer the world 2000 years ago. And it worked. This song is a rebellion to their cause.

[@slayz13razor]

In my opinion, he talking about how insane it is to think that that one person can rule the world. And he is listing a bunch of other types of people because he thinks that just one of these mindsets would not be fit to rule the whole world. A bleeding heart is easily temped. You can't improve the whole world by just looking at the data. a diplomat would leave many things for more of other things. This is just MY opinion though.

[@AvionAvionando]

Good POVs brodas 👍 very good desuctions

[@Epok317]

I'd say you both can be right. This song is a lot like The Answer where it can be interpreted many ways. Everyone thinks they would be the best ruler, the most benevolent tyrant. They would never abuse their power the way everyone else does. I got it all figured out.

[@TheSurviver72]

Great lyrics.

[@abdo19code]

Wasn't aware bad religion were communists. But that's cool with me

[@georgemanize]

@@abdo19code They hate both sides equally.

[@youareaspook5897]

@@georgemanize theyre just anti-authoritarian

[@AvionAvionando]

​@@abdo19codehaha , also

[@mommapancakess]

Love love love love love love love love THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@kevinm5564]

First heard this 20 years ago and it still rips!

[@AvionAvionando]

Agreed ...20 years ago Also...EXACTLY!

[@djlos1978]

Still VERY relevant to this day!

[@robrite6315]

Bad Religion is too good

[@WiseTvMan2]

bad religion is my favorite band EVER!

[@AvionAvionando]

In My top 20 ( millencolin , Misfits , iron Maiden , etc also

[@justmissjamey]

This band lyrics and melody with the music is so poetic

[@xxx4ngelbra1nzxxx40]

This is unwillingly stuck in my head ,👁️👄👁️👄

[@wapwothefetty2569]

Hi me

[@Thee-_-Outlier]

Best argument for an autocracy i've heard

[@neverclame]

Mr house anthem?

[@rizalkarkasuto872]

this was bad ass,forever the best

[@judet2006]

1st BR song i ever heard, instantly became my favorite band

[@AvionAvionando]

Haha

[@joshuadallas3135]

Great song makes me so sad for what could be in a world without capitalism

[@cavemancult1999]

God the lyrics... just fucking beautiful

[@iloveaviation-burgerclub-a8145]

"With a quick wink of my eyes and a good you must be joking." Epic. Griffith4president.

[@stevenbradfield3492]

A prerequisite to anything worth while. Helps me conquer my world, as I see it.

[@GLASSB182]

Will never get old

[@susanshira3783]

In a single adjective-"savage"!!!

[@liamlockley7812]

My favourite song to skate to , many years ago 😎💪💪

[@anthonyjoseph330]

My favorite band of all time.... I called them my desert-island band..... I'm sure you guys know what that means

[@adelaidedupont9017]

Assuaging temptation indeed! Maybe it's as well they fail...

[@chrismartino3519]

can't keep it together listening

[@nunyabisnis1448]

this reminds me of Rodney Mullen doing unreal flip's on skate boards trick's for plan B and skateboarding every day

[@brucer2152]

Been in q-tine since march 8th...this song is how I feel today...

[@jada5546]

I heard the singer is actually a philosophy teacher and dang I’d love to be in his class XD

[@GrayWoIf]

Cringe Cakes don't know if he still teaches but he did say in an interview that not once did anyone realize he was in a band which is pretty good for him I'd be a total fanboy it be annoying

[@CoralSkin-bd2xz]

Cringe Cakes science teacher, actually.

[@whatabouttheearth]

Cringe Cakes he was a sociology teacher at UC Davis...true philosophers come from Modesto

[@Engineeringuncovered]

Well he has a 4.5 out of 5 on rate my professor and everyone seems to like him

[@paigescaffidi9587]

Yeah, Berkeley if I'm not mistaken. He has my favorite male singing voice OF ALL TIME, ANY GENRE! And they're also my favorite band 💜🎤🥁🖨🎸💯🎼🎶🔊⭐🙋💖

[@kylemulch4117]

One of the best devices for conveying a message is to provide examples even if it is saying it's your intent altho you don't actually intend it. It gives you as well as your audience a chance to process the repercussions of said stance, it allows one to asses the many possible outcomes. To conquer one must defeat, the lesson one should naturally arrive at would be to collectively proceed. Wild to think

[@adelaidedupont9017]

Very true, Kyle! #examples #outcomes #messages #intent #wildforthinking

[@justinlacek1481]

I actually think this might be the greatest punk rock song ever. It has to be the pinnacle.

[@michaelrasmussen7357]

NOFX song The Decline personally

[@AvionAvionando]

HARD DECISIONS .... FOR ME MILLENCOLIN IS MY FAV BAND , BUT Cual Of they're SONGS IS My fav ? I STILL DONT KNOW , Only a little example : HIGHAY DONKEY , OLYMPIC ; LEONA , AND SO MUCH MORE'S ( sorry guys for My comentarys in that publication 🙂 ....... HXC IS D MOST COOL MUSIC OF ROXK FOR ME , &2ND METAL (HEAVY

[@rmsolis19]

wish they would come out with new music.

[@blackblock86]

True North just came out not too long ago.

[@Xallisto1]

true north was 4 years ago :P

[@dragontvteam8359]

TRVE NORTH, please :)

[@whatabouttheearth]

Aloha Rose they have and it sucks

[@williamschaeffer409]

Aloha Rose wow ur wish came tru! could u do me a favor? please wish for my psycho girlfriend to stop being a total passive aggressive bitch. it would make my life a little more happy.

[@AvionAvionando]

0:24 "wgurewits" Genius

[@alexandriaalonso8698]

this was sick

[@frombigisland5229]

What’s up 🆙 G’

[@ytrbsa]

Covid 19 lockdown brought me here

[@sandonpreston7529]

Don't be discouraged. Love! Grow a garden! Save the whales! Be motivated! Be the best you can be! Don't hate and discriminate. Be a Man!

[@ColaWeissify]

i want the Worf feed to my children!

[@justtrollinalong977]

2022...who's here?

[@AvionAvionando]

2024

[@irish-italianintrovert.8600]

Yeah the world is still ruled by idiots

[@manchildperson]

Pulpy conflagrations? Dude loved his thesaurus.

[@Camoedine]

Truly, making lyrics in any way interesting is a crime.

[@JasonFuller]

Dude has PhD; had to study the thesaurus to jump though the testing hoops to get into grad school...

[@EndlessSummer888]

Greg's got a PhD. Most who do have an extensive vocabulary. It's reflected in a lot of Bad Religion songs, I've needed a dictionary a few times for some BR lyrics.

[@sandonpreston7529]

Don't be all judgement dude. This is the best. So don't preach.

[@sandonpreston7529]

@@JasonFuller Don't judge. There are many great songs. Be cool. Don't fight. Cry if you want- The Who

[@NemesisTomato]

I feel like the lines "Is your fecundity a trammel or a treasure?" and "can you improve this place with the data that you gather" did not age well, unless you consider them actual questions and not sarcastic rhetorical questions. Hey, it's from 1989. Still love the song and the band.

[@BUFFALO_cougar_slayer]

I think they’re still every bit as relevant. There are contemporary men and women of science who go against the “do no harm” ethos of the sciences, whether wittingly or unwittingly. And I believe the trammel or treasure line is an allegory for the earth becoming ostensibly overpopulated. Which, of course, this issue will only become more relevant until an extinction event takes place.

[@ianfinrir8724]

@@BUFFALO_cougar_slayer Not for nothing, but birth rates are going down around the world.

[@GuarujaBrazilGTASA-MP]

this is real song!!!!!

[@jovannycampas]

They laugh at me but it’s ok I know music 😂🎉

[@abassett22]

This dude is such a god damn genius. Who writes the lyric “is your fecundity a trammel or a treasure”? I had to google that shit. Who talks like that?

[@Aymiikeeganmelb]

This speaks ..

[@20oztsunami]

Your labours soothe the hurt?

[@kommi7658]

*Expose the Corporates.

[@stormbornbjornsson6576]

Eh, same thing.

[@EsotericOccultist]

With the cellphone or laptop you got from a corporation?

[@andrealb4363]

Culprits is correct!

[@kommi7658]

@@EsotericOccultist and?

[@kevbo1024]

@@EsotericOccultist "You complain about society yet live in one." Your comment is dumb.

[@cursedapostate3705]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

[@TapestryOfLife]

Who's her 3572?

[@Xylerius]

TheSupreme Guy56 sent me

[@losingwaves9209]

H-Street!

[@wapwothefetty2569]

This song is so addicting and his voice is so fuaxking odd i

[@AvionAvionando]

Agreed ...TOTALLY BRO ! ! ! ! ! ( You hurt me words perfectlty!!!

[@acousticmario6109]

I always thought it was expose the corporates and feed em to the children. Not culprits.

[@deltav864]

Same here and "Do away with their pollution..." instead of just the air pollution.

[@Dubtrokuted]

Expose of corporates and feed unto the children. Is what i believe he’s saying

[@boringmostdays]

🤘

[@kidlattv8501]

I swear i first heard this on Tony Hawk Pro Skateboarding

[@MarginWalker]

666th viewer WOOT!

[@theskateshark4435]

Now, thats just Bad Religion...

[@herrgrabarske]

I'm just a man with a mission. :)

[@lowerclassbrats77]

In the name of the Pfizer, the Moderna, and the Johnson&Johnson, amen ✝️. Fauci be with you. 🙏

[@MingusCasey]

bad religion for bad company everywhere.

[@namnefternamn5463]

These lyrics are creepy in the context of the state of the world today.

[@AvionAvionando]

...Y E S

[@akunhun4499]

This but unironically

[@zeroninerecords5871]

[@ro0t14]

Blurry lyrics makes my eyes hurt.

[@GothicDamien666]

B Squared stupid comments make my head hurt

[@cavemancult1999]

RIP Headphone users

[@wapwothefetty2569]

Ahhhhjj

[@AvionAvionando]

Hahahaha

[@AvionAvionando]

And 2024 inhalambrics XD

[@msd5808]

Well you didn't!

[@andrewwoodruff3028]

About the NWO

[@sideaffects4757]

Come check out our band!!

[@AvionAvionando]

About letters , my opinion no here

[@wapwothefetty2569]

He sounds like this kid ik in 6th grade!!! Hi david

[@yautjawolf9758]

What you want do today...? Steal poohs honey!

[@jesseb9882]

What's next? RATM is political? Come on!

[@prettynoose8497]

I feel bad that millennials do not have a band like Bad Religion for their generation. I also feel bad that millennials don't have good rock n roll music to represent their generation.

[@judet2006]

Its bc their gen sucks

[@263malice]

Rise Against baby!!!

[@andrealb4363]

This is the reason why br wrote wrong way kids..

[@BUFFALO_cougar_slayer]

We had Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Bring Me The Horizon, Jawbreaker, Modest Mouse, Linkin Park, Smashing Pumpkins, Rage Against the Machine, Nirvana, The Used, Pavement, Sleater-Kinney, Dropkick Murphys, Hole, At the Gates, The Strokes, Arcade Fire, Tool, and the list goes on and on through many a sub-genre. There’s something for everyone. Oh, and we got the best era of hip hop to boot. We millennials were spoiled musically. By now, we realize just to what extent.

[@AgeofReason]

@@BUFFALO_cougar_slayer those are all bullshit Vvhite people and "hip hop" I already know you claim to like wutang clan.

[@projekteva]

Bad Religion made me Catholic and conservative.

[@gropiaf6029]

So subversive

[@dmc009]

See f*ck air pollution, imma save the whales *first* ... if im bored i guess i may find the time to promote global communion.. i dunno. I might never .

[@andreidullius1896]

Fora Bolsonaro fascista

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[@AvionAvionando]

About bolsonaro , I don't have opinion, no have info about real succes políticas in braseü

[@dicktater2737]

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