"Hungry Planet" Lyrics - The Byrds

Lyrics

“Hungry Planet”


I’m a hungry planet, I had a youthful face

They were in a hurry to take a lot of space

They needed bombs and tungsten, ore and iron

So they climbed right down in and blew a lot of me right through.


I’m a hungry planet, over in the sky

The things they did to hurt me have gone by and by

Now here I am all alone, will they ever learn

Well I had to shake and quake and make their houses burn.


I’m a hungry planet, I had a blue sea

All the people kept chopping down all my finest trees

Poisoning my oxygen, digging in my skin

Takin’ more out of my earth than they’ll ever put there in.

I’m a hungry planet.