"Chaos From Within" lyrics - BAD RELIGION

Cowering like settlers on someone else's land
Mistaking advances of the natives
Who have come to lend a hand
It's a sad and pathetic badge of shame, my friends
Terror always seems to win
In the drama of human motivation
Where is restraint and reason?

[Chorus:]
Threat is urgent, existential
With patience wearing thin
But the danger's elemental
It's chaos from within

The fox-stained leaves of civilization
Depict a stark repeat
It's always a flaw in reasoning
That fates the citizenry
When the ancestor fell from the arbor
The march of fear began
But the predator wallowed in failure
In the face of consciousness

[Chorus:]
Threat is urgent, existential
Time to scan the horizon
But the danger's elemental
It's chaos from within

[Guitar solo]

[Chorus:]
Threat is urgent, existential
Omnipresent like a skin
But the danger's purely mental
It's chaos from within
Chaos from within