[Intro] Hunger Just hunger Hunger Still here [Verse 1] Grew up where the fields Went on forever Worked before the sun Came up to watch Dad never said He was hungry Just got up earlier Just worked longer The hunger in this family Doesn't have a name Just has a habit Of getting up early I learned it young That particular ache That pushes you forward Before you know why [Pre-Chorus] Not the kind That food fixes Deeper hunger Older hunger [Chorus — Country build] Hunger In the bones Hunger Coming home Passed down through Every generation Hunger The thing that kept us Moving through The hardest years The hardest years [Verse 2] Mama had a garden Out back of the house Fed us through The lean months Never called it sacrifice Never called it anything Just went out early With her coffee That hunger she carried Wasn't lack It was drive Different thing entirely Watched her hands Do impossible things With whatever was there With whatever remained [Pre-Chorus] Not the kind That ever fully goes Useful hunger Honest hunger [Chorus] Hunger In the bones Hunger Coming home Passed down through Every generation Hunger The thing that kept us Moving through The hardest years The hardest years [Bridge — Country storytelling] Left the farm at eighteen Thought I'd outrun it The hunger followed me To every city Every apartment Every new beginning Same ache in the chest Same early morning Thought success would fix it Thought arrival would fix it Got there Still hungry Called my dad Told him about it He laughed Said welcome home Said the hunger Doesn't mean something's wrong Said the hunger Means you're one of us [Spoken — Over acoustic guitar] There's a hunger That the comfortable life Can't touch Can't fill It's not about What you don't have It's about what you're Still reaching for The horizon kind The never quite there kind The kind that makes you Get up one more time My people called it Different things Work ethic Stubbornness Faith But I call it What it is Hunger The family kind [Final Chorus — Full band] Hunger Still in the bones Hunger Still coming home Every generation Carried it forward Hunger The thing that keeps us Reaching past The hardest days Still reaching Still reaching Still hungry Still here [Outro — Acoustic fade] Hunger Still here Hunger Always was The fields The early mornings The hunger Still going Still going Hunger Still Here Still Hungry Still Reaching
