Hope of the States
Hope of the States were an English post rock-influenced indie band from Chichester.
Members
All instruments are as listed in the sleeve notes for the band's second album, Left.
Former members
History
The band formed in 2000, naming themselves after The Shame of the States, Albert Deutsch's 1948 book on the state of mental healthcare in the United States. They were discovered after sending a demo to the Planet Sound teletext page, and were signed to Sony BMG. Scott R. Walker left the band after the first initial releases and then went on to form KASMs. The band's guitarist James Lawrence committed suicide in January 2004, shortly before the release of their first album, The Lost Riots, which reached the Top 40 in the UK Albums Chart. The band's first single, "Black Dollar Bills", was packaged in a hessian sleeve, each hand-sewn by a band member. The band's most extensive UK tour started in October 2004, beginning with a date in Belfast's Mandela Hall, including an appearance at the Dance Academy in Plymouth.
The States
The States can refer to:
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The States (TV series)
The States is a 2007 American documentary television series about the history of each state in the United States of America, narrated by Edward Herrmann.
The show documents each of the 50 states in the union. The show begins with an introduction to the five states to be documented within the episode. Each state's segment begins with the narrator giving a clue as to what that state might be, and then revealing the answer. ( e.g. "There is a North Dakota and a South Dakota, a North Carolina and a South Carolina, but there's been one "West" anything! Welcome to West Virginia.") There is then a billboard that pops up showing the state nickname, motto, population, population ranking within the union, date the state entered the union, and state flag. During interviews with historians or notable people from a state, the state's quarter is shown. Since the series was produced in 2007, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Alaska, and Hawaii are shown with their flags. Those quarters were released in 2008
U.S. state
A state of the United States of America is one of the 50 constituent political entities that shares its sovereignty with the United States federal government. Due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the federal government, Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the state in which they reside.State citizenship and residency are flexible and no government approval is required to move between states, except for persons covered by certain types of court orders (e.g., paroled convicts and children of divorced spouses who are sharing custody). States range in population from just under 600,000 (Wyoming) to over 38 million (California). Four—Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia—use the term commonwealth rather than state in their full official names.
States are divided into counties or county-equivalents, which may be assigned some local governmental authority but are not sovereign. County or county-equivalent structure varies widely by state. State governments are allocated power by the people (of each respective state) through their individual constitutions. All are grounded in republican principles, and each provides for a government, consisting of three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial.
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Hope of the States
ALBUMS
- Left released: 2006
- The Lost Riots released: 2005
Died: 2006-08-30
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Sing It Out
by: Hope of the StatesThe signs above my head are clear to all
An underachiever but a true believer
Who never had a hope in hell
I am the soldier, I am the soldier
Who fought in the war for nothing
I am the damage that a dream does
I am the damage that a dream does
Sing it out, sing it out
you're not alone
you are not, you are not the only one
you were lost and now you're found
sing it out, sing it out
Sing it out, sing it out
you're not alone
you are not, you are not the only one
you were lost and now you're found
sing it out, sing it out
If i sing a song for economics
the numbers never add up
I am debt, I am loss, I am written off again
and again, and again, and again
So i walk this line alone
I endure cause I've always known
The only way things will ever change
is if I try and I'm right and I'm right and I'm right
Sing it out, sing it out
you're not alone
you are not, you are not the only one
you were lost and now you're found
sing it out, sing it out
Sing it out, sing it out
you're not alone
you are not, you are not the only one
you were lost and now you're found
sing it out, sing it out
Sing it out, sing it out
you're not alone
you are not, you are not the only one
you were lost and now you're found
sing it out, sing it out
Sing it out, sing it out
you're not alone
you are not, you are not the only one
you were lost and now you're found