As you ruminate the hopeless sands of time
Did you wander out your days lost and resigned
Or recreate the universals in your mind?

Everybody is a bastard
My world is like plaster
Crumbling apart from pressure of the blaster
Waiting for a sign

And the momentary pleasures take their turn
As a wistful boy runs out of things to learn
The episodes of yore are never to return

Scare up some hope
You're gonna need it just to cope
You are the decision
Numbers don't lie
When you bite the dust
Was it for purpose or for trust?
You'll never relive it
Think before you die
Yeah think
Think before you die

Deficit and deprivation
In the wake of desperation
Rewrite the morals, rectify the nation
Now may be your time

As you ruminate the hopeless sands of time
Do you wonder how your life has been defined
You know eternity can't ever change your mind
You know eternity can't ever change your mind

So think
Think before you die
Whoa think
Think before you die!

- Bad Religion
"Before You Die"
New Maps of Hell (2007)