The Hunger is a classical psychoanalytic piece by Sacred Machines. A critical leitmotif for Sacred Machines is the notion of “imagination,” and how the thinker shapes his/her own world through the powers of belief and imagination. The meaning of “The Hunger” can be expressed in the idiom, “You’re only as old as you feel” (Laber-Warren, 2019). By “walking with the hunger,” it is possible to imagine one’s self as one was… twenty years ago. Try it. It’s a real thing.
THE HUNGER
(Carruthers/RE-VO) (1988)
I have watched you climb a thousand dreams
Drift away through time on a desert stream
There you stand in sight, where the river winds
You were spoken for in another place, another time
I feel the hunger
I breathe the hunger everyday
Walk with the hunger
You see yourself like it was twenty years ago
Staring into space, watching the TV screen
Nothing about this place is what I mean
There you wait with pride, for a moment’s grace
Those who can look back feel another place, another face
I feel the hunger
and I breathe the hunger everyday
Walk with the hunger
You see yourself like it was twenty years ago
Finding it hard to say how it feels
To see through simple eyes at a wonderworld
I’ll walk with you in light of your angry screams
You’ll know very soon the hunger is the stuff of dreams
I feel the hunger
and I breathe the hunger everyday
Walk with the hunger
You see yourself like it was twenty years ago
