Name: Hunger
Duration: P00H06M35S
Description: A song about eating disorders and their parallels with the hunger to find ones self.

Hunger

from Bardo (digital LP) by Jordan Reyne

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A song about eating disorders and their parallels with the hunger to find ones self.

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Hunger

At first it was just sometimes,
when she felt alone and cold.
Because the warmth of endless portions
helps the numbness to take hold.
Oh was there always such an aching?
Was there always such a need?
Because the stolen voice of hunger
screams too loud now not to feed.

And the carving up of bread,
soft and sensual as flesh
seems so sure to fill the hole that
the absences all left
but then the hated, dreaded tide of
the fullness and the shame
is enough to make one's tongue and hands
cry out the churned remains.

And I think I've lost you again.
I think I've lost you again.
And as this nothing hauls out
all unsaid words fall
in senseless calls for an end.

There is no final bite to savour
no last supper to mark death.
Just figure eights that turn for ever
until shame robs me of breath.
And through the smell of my rejection
of posession by this beast,
there is the sickened wave of calm
the dawn of my release.

And I think I've lost you again.
I think I've lost you again.
Oh the ache of un-named need
what is it you want from me?
What is left to want from me?

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from Bardo (digital LP), released December 23, 2018

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Jordan Reyne Karlsruhe, Germany

Known recently as the Resident Evil 7 vocalist (trailer track, "Go Tell Aunt Rhody"), Jordan is described by New Zealand's National Radio as the pioneer of a new sound, Jordan's music is a blend of irish/ celtic rock, steam-era machine noise, and Grimms fairytale-eske lyrics. Imagine PJ Harvey trapped in the workhouses of Industrial Revolution era England, with only Nine Inch Nails for company. ... more

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