HUNGRY MAN

from HUNGRY MAN by GARRETT R. COOPER

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The song HUNGRY MAN was written for band, DAMNED MEN. Although the song was performed numerous times in late 2013 with DAMNED MEN, to date a version had not been recorded.

Appreciative note to Justin and Nick of DM for their consideration in me completing this version for release.

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I was trying not very hard at doing nothing and getting pretty good at it.
Living on Maud and Smith, taking all that I could get and giving nothing back, living poor.

Thinking of the world that was turning by and all the men that i'd hoped to die.
There was an inkling, a diamond in the rough, a real tough nut that i'd broken all my teeth on trying to crack.
I had a craving, a dog clawing through the dirt, scooping down to gulp from the place where no man wins, he only loses more slowly.

Then I heard that someone said "if you don't move you'll die" so I dropped myself in the drink and headed to the street where I did wander and I wonder... If you're buried in a suit, why would you choose to wear one day in and day out?
But I slid myself in the cloth and sealed myself in the box, living poor.

Someday i'll be lifted upon some shoulders and carried down the steps of an old stone hall. I'll be lowered down in a hole and everyone will call "there goes the hungry man" and his dog keeps digging "living poor"

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from HUNGRY MAN, released August 20, 2014
Thanks also to Ben (Pops) Cooper for not fussing over a pinched / cultivated line in the lyrics.

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GARRETT R. COOPER Adelaide, Australia

Songs written and recorded as abruptly as possible between 2009 and 2016.

All music now written and released under the name MULE

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