We Are Hungry Men

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We Are Hungry Men by David Bowie

About We Are Hungry Men

"We Are Hungry Men" is told by a self-styled "messiah" whose persona would reappear in different forms in the songs "Cygnet Committee" (from the album Space Oddity), "Saviour Machine" (from The Man Who Sold the World) and "Oh! You Pretty Things" (from Hunky Dory), as well as in the protagonist of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. The track also explicitly referenced subjects like abortion, infanticide and cannibalism. .

We Are Hungry Men Lyrics

[00:01.50] Here is the news
[00:02.14] According the latest world
[00:02.26] Population survey
[00:02.86] Figures have reached
[00:05.09] Danger point, my God
[00:06.83] London 15 million 75 thousand
[00:08.78] New York 80 million
[00:11.08] Paris 15 million and 30
[00:12.87] China 1000 million
[00:14.84] Millington-Spa: lots
[00:16.64] My studies include exophagy
[00:18.94] I formed my own society
[00:21.88] To crush the power of fecundity
[00:25.45] The world will overpopulate
[00:28.89] Unless you claim infertility
[00:31.88] So who will buy a drink
[00:34.13] For me, your Messiah
[00:36.36] We are not your friends
[00:41.60] We don't give a damn for
[00:44.17] What you're saying
[00:47.18] We're here to live our lives
[00:50.52] I propose to give the pill
[00:54.77] Free of charge to those that feel
[00:57.90] That they are not infertible
[01:00.66] The crops are few, the cattle gone
[01:04.15] There's only one way to linger on
[01:07.56] So who will buy a drink
[01:09.87] For me, your Messiah
[01:12.38] We are not your friends
[01:17.64] We don't give a damn for
[01:20.17] What you're saying
[01:22.28] We're here to live our lives
[01:26.29] Achtung, achtung, these are your orders
[01:30.43] Anyone found guilty of
[01:32.54] Consuming more than their
[01:33.89] Allotted amount of air
[01:34.97] Will be slaughtered and cremated
[01:38.02] One only cubic foot of air is:
[01:39.78] I prepare the document,
[01:41.02] Legalising mass abortion
[01:44.36] We will turn a blind eye to infanticide
[01:46.40] We are not your friends
[01:52.87] We don't give a damn for
[01:54.84] What you're saying
[01:58.46] We're here to live our lives
[02:00.66] You don't seem to hear me clear
[02:05.52] Do I talk about your sphere?
[02:08.50] Let me explain my project dear
[02:11.73] Show you how I'll save the world
[02:15.03] Or let it die within the year
[02:18.07] Why do you look that way
[02:20.22] At me, your messiah
[02:24.13] We are not your friends
[02:28.04] We don't give a damn for
[02:30.13] What you're saying
[02:32.90] We're here to live our lives
[02:37.69] We are hungry men
[02:40.49] We don't give a damn for
[02:42.97] What you're saying
[02:45.86] We're here to eat you
[02:58.84]

From the album: The Deram Anthology (1966 - 1968)