Go Hard Go Hungry - Laurence Fox

I have a little voice in my head

More a song so softly sung

And he’s gently chiding me

He sings of raising my heart to exceed all this fear

And this doubt, he says, highlights me

In the desperate moments I long for him

Just to cease, he just sings much louder

His baleful reprieve, if I say

I will, then I will be saved, he says

That I must go hard or go hungry

These are the rules of the good times, baby

Go hard or go hungry

No other reason to live, my baby

I am just wondering on, I say

I have a song, I say, of my own, I say

And as these birthdays just fall and aren’t returned

I can hear him loud, 'cause he must be heard

In the desperate moments I long for him

Just to cease, he just sings much louder

His baleful reprieve, if I say

I will, then I will be saved, he says

That I must go hard or go hungry

These are the rules of the good times, baby

Go hard or go hungry

No other reason to live, my baby

You didn’t bring me to the face of the world

Just to cry freedom and then return

We stand as one, with your hand on my back

I must go on

We stand as one, with your hand on my back

I must go on

My child, it’s your time

Go hard or go hungry

These are the rules of the good times, baby

Go hard or go hungry

No other reason to live, my baby

Go hard or go hungry

These are the reasons we live, baby