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Smothered Hope - Live Lyrics by Ministry

Live Necronomicon

2017

[Verse 1]
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

[Chorus]
I just don't want to know anymore
Life shifts up and down, everybody knows it's wrong
Life shifts up and down, everybody knows it's wrong
Life shifts up and down, everybody knows it's wrong

[Verse 2]
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 your voice, your voice cries out hypocrisy
Sightless eye regard my past sometimes it should

[Chorus]
I just don't want to know anymore
Life shifts up and down, everybody knows it's wrong
Life shifts up and down, everybody knows it's wrong
Life shifts up and down, wrong

[Post-Chorus]
Why don't you care?
Life shifts up, down, wrong

[Guitar Solo]

[Bridge]
Sell your soul
For rock and roll
Sell your soul
Sell your soul
Sell your soul
Sell your soul

[Outro]
Smothered hope, smothered hope
Smothered hope, smothered hope
Smothered hope
Smothered hope
Life shifts up, down, wrong
Life shifts up, down, wrong
Sell your sell, sell your soul
Sell your sell, sell your soul
Sell your soul
For rock and roll
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"Smothered Hope - Live" appears on "Live Necronomicon" in 2017.

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