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The Dark Discovery
To Hope Is to Fear

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To Hope Is to Fear

Release date: 1998

From The Dark DiscoveryTrack 115:39

Death Metal/Black Metal

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"To Hope Is to Fear" is a track by Evergrey, from the album The Dark Discovery, released 1998. The track is 5:39 long. It's filed under Metal. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Evergrey

Evergrey

Lyrics

To Hope Is to Fear

Weakened by the truth of life

Suffering this endless pain

Mourning the birth of time

Falling asleep to wake up in vain

Demons making trophies out of man

Nurturing from the souls of the lost

False prophets behind every lie

Predicting disaster in hope of horror

I hope death finds me

With the proper god in mind

To hope is to fear

To hope is to fear

To hope is to fear

To hope is to fear

Try to imagine not to fear the awakening of the sleeping

Try to see this fiction in its truth

Instead of believing in a romance being

Distracted confused sad my soul's abused

I won't drift away with my tears

Cause to hope is to fear

I hope death finds me

With the proper god in mind

To hope is to fear

To hope is to fear

To hope is to fear

To hope is to fear

Let me through this hall of light

I've got to set foot on

The other side...

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Track details

From The Dark Discovery

5:391998

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Album

The Dark Discovery

Track number

11

Release year

1998

1Blackened Dawn
3:53
2December 26th
5:06
3Dark Discovery
3:35
4As Light Is Our Darkness
2:00

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