Hunger (Is a Crime)

09.07.93
She don’t want for nothin'
God, how great her need;
a warm embrace to carry her
when the shinning lights recede
to a field of vegetation;
still somehow incomplete
anything for hunger,
when a girl has to eat

…Because a girl has to eat
…yeah, a girl has to eat

Dragging camel after camel
'cause she likes the way the feel
fills the emptiness inside her
only time & love can heal
she's as lonely now as ever
so she walks these streets by night
to an all-night diner
where a girl can get a bite

…Because a girl has to eat
…yeah, a girl has to eat

Hunger is a crime…
Hunger is a crime…
Hunger is a crime…

Some things she's not so proud of
some times she can't recall
it's true, she isn't perfect,
but who's perfect; after all
she's a child in a corner
who is craving something sweet
such a deplorable condition
for a girl who has to eat

…Because a girl has to eat
…yeah, a girl has to eat

So I'm outside her window
at eleven-twenty-five
this night feels so fatal,
yet I am so alive
get your face off that pillow,
wake up your sleepy head
come the morrow they will find us
fat and still in bed,
...because a girl hmm, hmmm