The Hunger

Album: Cold World (2016)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song came from a chorus idea that bassist Aaron Pauley came up with before vocalist Austin Carlile worked on the verses. Carlile told Metal Hammer: "I kind of wrote it as the end of the world - we kill, we war, we murder, we hurt, scorch the skies and poison the air just to watch the stumbling efforts to partially fix it. You have made your bed, now lie in it, and realize you can't eat your money."
  • Austin Carlile sings in the second verse:

    Occupy, blind sheep
    Save us! save us! Save us!
    There's an answer to this, let us walk the earth
    The first ones to warn, to teach, to lay down their life
    Sacrifice!


    Carlile explained: "The verse about Jesus goes along with 'Like A Ghost.' I don't agree with categories of religion, I agree with what Jesus said. The only thing Jesus ever talked about was loving your neighbor. And he came to do that, and show us that ultimate love."
  • This was the Cold World track that took the longest to get right. Carlile told HMV.com:

    "We wrote the song, arranged it, wrote lyrics, rearranged the song, rewrote the lyrics, recorded, rerecorded. It was a painstaking process, but we're happy it evolved the way it did."

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