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Hope is a sick joke

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Don't get fooled by the seemingly defeatist title. This song is actually a raging fist with a proudly displayed middle finger towards everything I'm expected to be as a man.

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As long as we measure the value of a man
By how many other men bow to him
As long as we measure the strength of a man
By the number of his victims
As long as we worship the fighting cocks
The lions and the peacocks
As long as we take pride in tears
In humiliation and fear

There can be no hope
There can be no hope
How could there be hope?
Hope is a sick joke

How can we look at ourselves in the mirror
And not burst out laughing?
How can we think we are masters and landlords
When we’re just puppets on a string?
Like I said before our chains are plated gold
So we can pretend they are jewels
Our prisons have wi-fi and beer is ice cold
So we can all revel like fools

There can be no hope
There can be no hope
How could there be hope?
Hope is a sick joke

How much crap has been poured in our heads
That we love what hurts us the most?
How many lies have we been breastfed
By shadows of long extinct ghosts?
All that we touch we turn into a war zone
Can’t we do better than that?
All of the shams and deceit we condone
Is this what it’s all about?

There can be no hope
There can be no hope
How could there be hope?
Hope is a sick joke

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from Hope is a sick joke, released October 28, 2020
Words & music Laurent Leemans

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The Imaginary Suitcase Nivelles, Belgium

Folk/singer-songwriter duo led by a grumpy Belgian guy voicing his considerations about life, death, and the confusing bits inbetween.

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