Groundhogs – Sad is the Hunter – lyrics about man’s cruelty and how music is the saviour.

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This could be the theme tune for the anti-hunting league. I’m not sure if they’d appreciate such a heavy sounding song though.
The basic premise of the song is that cruelty is integral to humanity but that we can channel those primitive urges into music. We can rise above our barbarity.
I also believe that we can become better.
Sad is the Hunter
Thinking ’bout the prospects of the future,
Thinking ’bout conditions in the past.
Thinking ’bout the people in my own time,
How long their future’s gonna last.
Read about the Spanish inquisition,
Read about the witch-hunt’s of those days,
Things have only changed in outward appearance,
Cruelty is integral in man’s ways.
For we all applaud the surgeon,
saving lives and mending limbs,
Does he use his latent sadism,
For his work is pretty grim. .
Hunting is the vehicle for some men,
To satisfy their baser needs,
Sport is the label for this depravity,
A distortion of the need to feed.
Innocents should never have to suffer,
With their lives for the pleasure of the few,
An alternative is always available,
look at it from a different view.
This decade has seen a new way,
To curb this unfortunate trait,
Let music be the hunter,
and keep your conscience straight.

2 thoughts on “Groundhogs – Sad is the Hunter – lyrics about man’s cruelty and how music is the saviour.”

  1. YEAH ! What a line: Let music be the hunter …

    Let The Music Play On – Poem by Babatunde Aremu

    There is a music within me
    No one hears it but me
    No back-up soloist but me
    It is neither sang by a physical vocalist
    Its trumpets are blown by the ancients
    Its lyrics are written by invisible hands
    I enjoying listening to its percussions
    When I am sleeping
    It keeps playing in my sub-concious
    When I am awake
    It re- vibrates in my soul
    Year-in- year out the music echoes
    Before I was born the music was
    After me, the music endures
    My music is filled with love, kindness,
    Forgiveness, temperance, peace and joy
    This music heals broken-hearted
    It unchains those in bondage
    Seasons may change,
    Instruments may be modernised
    But my music is incorruptible
    My music is in the word of God
    My absolute trust is built in it
    So, let the music play on

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