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Mar29

Hungry Like The Wolf – Song Lyric Sunday – Urgent Urges

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Hungry Like The Wolf – Song Lyric Sunday – Urgent Urges

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For SLS today we have songs that feature urges and the need for gratification. Thanks, Jim!

To join in this fun weekly challenge, and to see other entries, just click the above link.

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The Psychic Apparatus

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I chose, “Hungry Like the Wolf”,  by Duran Duran. The last time I posted this song was for another SLS challenge for ‘animals’ – March 10, 2019.

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March 29, 2026 – Song related to Sigmund Freud’s id exhibiting instinctual drives that seek immediate pleasure or gratification without regard for reality

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I always liked this song, even if I didn’t know what it was about. It just had a good sound and lyrics. But now I mostly remember it from a true crime that this song features in with the case of murder. Ann Rule, in her book, “Small Sacrifices”, wrote about Diane Downs, and how she shot her children, killing one, all for wanting a man. This was a favorite song of hers and it was playing on the car radio as she shot her kids. One of the survivors remembers this.  In the link below it goes into this more fully.

Here’s the Wikipedia article on how they came to make this song:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_Like_the_Wolf

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“Hungry Like the Wolf”,  by Duran Duran

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Darken the city, night is a wireSteam in the subway, earth is afire (do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do)Woman, you want me, give me a signAnd catch my breathing even closer behind (do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do)
In touch with the groundI’m on the hunt, I’m after youSmell like I sound, I’m lost in a crowdAnd I’m hungry like the wolfStraddle the line in discord and rhymeI’m on the hunt, I’m after youMouth is alive, with juices like wineAnd I’m hungry like the wolf
Stalked in the forest, too close to hideI’ll be upon you by the moonlight side (do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do)High blood drumming on your skin, it’s so tightYou feel my heat, I’m just a moment behind (do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do)
In touch with the groundI’m on the hunt I’m after youA scent and a sound, I’m lost and I’m foundAnd I’m hungry like the wolfStrut on a line, it’s discord and rhymeI howl and I whine, I’m after youMouth is alive, all running insideAnd I’m hungry like the wolf
Hungry like the wolfHungry like the wolfHungry like the wolf
Burning the ground, I break from the crowdI’m on the hunt, I’m after youI smell like I sound, I’m lost and I’m foundAnd I’m hungry like the wolfStrut on a line, it’s discord and rhymeI’m on the hunt, I’m after youMouth is alive, with juices like wineAnd I’m hungry like the wolf
Burning the ground, I break from the crowdI’m on the hunt, I’m after youScent and a sound, I’m lost and I’m foundAnd I’m hungry like the wolfStrut on a line, it’s discord and rhymeI’m on the hunt, I’m after youMouth is alive all running inside
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: John Taylor / Simon Le Bon / Nick Rhodes / Andy Taylor / Roger Taylor
Hungry Like the Wolf lyrics © Gloucester Place Music Ltd

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Here is the song with a video of all kinds of real wolves in nature scenes.

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“Hungry Like the Wolf”, by Duran Duran, was released in 1982 from their album, “Rio”. It is credited to the whole group as songwriters, and is on the EMI – Harvest label.

 

 

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