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Smothered Hope Lyrics
withered rope you hang what's empty
can't remain to put it
simply in time cry the
hollow words to sing with false disguise
smothered hope fly from sorrow for a new divine tomorrow
i just don't want to know anymore
life shifts up and down everybody knows it's wrong
why don't you care? now do it seem fair?
it's not in the rhyme or reason
so it goes with every season
crawl to top fall through bottom
first hand love is really rotten
slice of life find what's plenty
inch towards a sanctuary
light with me inside the womb
i know everyone everybody knows it's me
it's my voice, my voice cries out obscenity
sightless eye regard my past sometimes it should
i just don't want to know anymore
can't remain to put it
simply in time cry the
hollow words to sing with false disguise
smothered hope fly from sorrow for a new divine tomorrow
i just don't want to know anymore
life shifts up and down everybody knows it's wrong
why don't you care? now do it seem fair?
it's not in the rhyme or reason
so it goes with every season
crawl to top fall through bottom
first hand love is really rotten
slice of life find what's plenty
inch towards a sanctuary
light with me inside the womb
i know everyone everybody knows it's me
it's my voice, my voice cries out obscenity
sightless eye regard my past sometimes it should
i just don't want to know anymore
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according to this one thing i read..its about his pet mouse hope that he smothered with a pillow when he was a kid
no ya see...it wasnt on purpose and thats why he wrote the song...he felt like shit....hence..life shifts up and down..everyone knows its wrong
This has to be their best song! Why cant mainstream music be this intellegent?
I just listened to David's Bowie "Stay" and noticed the intro and the riff is very similar to those of "Smothered Hope", but with a disco flavor. It's much more than just a coincidence. Does anyone know if is it explicitly an inspiration?
@Alieno I don't know it for a fact, but I do think it was an inspiration, yeah. After Bowie passed away this year, cEvin posted on Facebook that seeing him in concert in 1976 was a life-changing moment for him. That would have been the Station to Station tour, which indeed is the album Stay is from. Rest his soul, Bowie was a hugely syncretic artist who was always borrowing inspiration from other musicians in any genre and inspiring them in turn.
@Alieno I don't know it for a fact, but I do think it was an inspiration, yeah. After Bowie passed away this year, cEvin posted on Facebook that seeing him in concert in 1976 was a life-changing moment for him. That would have been the Station to Station tour, which indeed is the album Stay is from. Rest his soul, Bowie was a hugely syncretic artist who was always borrowing inspiration from other musicians in any genre and inspiring them in turn.
my best guess is that it's about suicide. losing all hope and killing yourself.
I really like this song (hell yeah Skinny Puppy). I think its about an outsider who commits suicide-and in many ways cuz they're unpopular
Omg - on purpose ?! Guess the pro-animal rights attitude was a later development.
now this too... is a song.