Florence + The Machine - Hunger Lyrics

Florence + The Machine Lyrics

"Hunger"

Ooh, ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh

At seventeen, I started to starve myself
I thought that love was a kind of emptiness
And at least I understood then the hunger I felt
And I didn't have to call it loneliness

We all have a hunger
We all have a hunger
We all have a hunger
We all have a hunger

Tell me what you need, oh, you look so free
The way you use your body, baby, come on and work it for me
Don't let it get you down, you're the best thing I've seen
We never found the answer but we knew one thing

We all have a hunger (We all have a hunger)
We all have a hunger (We all have a hunger)
We all have a hunger (We all have a hunger)
We all have a hunger (We all have a hunger)

And it's Friday night and it's kicking in
In that pink dress they're gonna crucify me
Oh, but you and all your vibrant youth
How could anything bad ever happen to you?
You make a fool of death with your beauty, and for a moment

I thought that love was in the drugs
But the more I took, the more it took away
And I could never get enough
I thought that love was on the stage
You give yourself to strangers
You don't have to be afraid
Then it tries to find a home with people, oh, and I'm alone
Picking it apart and staring at your phone

We all have a hunger
We all have a hunger
We all have a hunger
We all have a hunger

Tell me what you need, oh, you look so free
The way you use your body, baby, come on and work it for me
Don't let it get you down, you're the best thing I've seen
We never found the answer but we knew one thing

We all have a hunger
We all have a hunger
We all have a hunger
We all have a hunger
We all have a hunger
We all have a hunger
We all have a hunger
We all have a hunger

And it's Friday night and it's kicking in
In that pink dress they're gonna crucify me
Oh, and you and all your vibrant youth
How could anything bad ever happen to you?
You make a fool of death with your beauty, and for a moment
I forget to worry

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Writer(s): Emile Haynie, Florence Leontine Mary Welch, Tobias Macdonald Jesso, Thomas Bartlett

"Hunger" is the second single from the band's 4th studio album "High As Hope". The song was premiered on May 3, 2018, accompanied by a music video.

"This song was never meant to be a song. It was a poem, written in an effort to understand the ways I looked for love in things that were not love. I was never thinking it would be a song, but maybe that's the point. And by singing it out loud, together we become a choir, a chorus, higher than the hurt, louder than loneliness." - Florence Welch.

album: "High As Hope" (2018)

Florence + The Machine - High As Hope album cover

"Hunger" lyrics

Florence + The Machine Lyrics