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As I grow older, one thing becomes clearer: almost everything we have been told about being a "real man" is a lie and a scam. What we are told doesn't make us men, it makes us good soldiers of someone else's war.

Because let's face it boys: we've been in charge for quite a while now. And who's gonna be bold enough to say the results are entirely and unambiguousy convincing? Maybe it's time we re-evaluate our parameters, what say you?

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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
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 claim we are masters and landlords
When we’re just puppets on a string?
I’ve said it 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 big fools

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
How could there be hope?
Hope is a sick joke

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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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