The first seed of inspiration for this song came after reading the book "Hunger" by 1920 Nobel Prize Laureate, Knut Hamsun. The book chronicled the days of a pathetically starving Norwegian writer who was obsessed with making his living as a freelance journalist. The book ends with him giving up and boarding a freighter ship in need of seamen. When writing the song I expanded the context to include the starving souls of war torn battle zones, and made my first demo of it around the time of Live Aid and the mass African starvations.

When mothers plead for help from war torn battle zones And foreign correspondents relay the dying moans To distant helpless people in warm suburban homes De-sensitized to the searing pain that rips right through the bones There comes a gentle voice to the lost and searching souls Telling them to rise up and seek a brand new role Salvation will be fostered in the hearts of all the pure And though this world may self-destruct the spirit will endure If we hunger...