The Byrds

Hungry Planet

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I’m a hungry planet
I had a youthful face
They were in a hurry
To go to outer space
They needed bombs and tungsten
Ore and iron too
So they climbed and they dug and they blew
Divided me right in two
I’m a hungry planet
Orbiting in the sky
The things they did to hurt me
Pass on by and by
Now here I am all alone
They never ever learn
Well I had to shake and quake
And make their houses burn
I’m a hungry planet
I had the bluest seas
Oh the people kept chopping down
All my finest trees
Poisoning my oxygen
Digging into my skin
Taking more out of my good earth
Than they’ll ever put back in
I’m a hungry planet

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planetearth On Apr 12, 2004

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by mbrachman

16y ago

Haunting song: lyrics about the depredations of human profit-driven devastation of the Earth against country blues instrumentation. Cowritten by McGuinn, then-Byrds-bassist Skip Batten, and the ever-ubiquitous LA producer/provocateur Kim Fowley.

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