I Am The Strange Hero Of Hunger chords by
Billy Childish

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Key: G minor

Verse 1
Em Em 
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I am the strange hero of hunger.
Am Am 
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My girlfriend lives on the other side
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of the world
and has started reading Crime
and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Do you recognize the main character?
I ask her excitedly.
Doesn't he remind you of me?
Am Am 
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I've only just begun, she answers.
Em Em 
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What's his name? Roger.
But all the characters have about
Am Am 
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Em Em 
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three different names.
I always get confused
and can't tell who's too,
because I'm dyslexic
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Em Em 
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and don't make sounds for the names,
but Roger's for short
and his sister's called Dunya.
Am Am 
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Isn't Dunya  a beautiful name?
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If little Huddy had been born a girl,
we'd have named her Dunya.
When I talk of the beauty
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E E 
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of girls' names,
Am Am 
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or the strange bravery of artists,
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Am Am 
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Em Em 
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or see the light change over sea and sky,
every second impossible showers of gold
turn into terrible hues of purple and black
and my heart rate quickens
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Em Em 
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because I'm amongst my own people.
I am the hero of all of my favourite novels.
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I live in them and they live in me.
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Am Am 
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I'm Arturo Bandini on Angel's Flight,
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swearing at a beautiful dark -haired girl
in tattered shoes.
I'm Roger, guilty of a terrible
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and senseless murder
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on the streets of St Petersburg.
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I'm the strange hero of hunger,
Em Em 
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starving to spite myself in
Christiana.
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I'm Johann Nagel,
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tormentor of the midget and sui cide.
I'm Ishmael, knocker -off of tall hats.
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I'm every novelist
and every character ever dreamed.
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I'm every one of my
favourite artists,
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and feel myself not one jot less,
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but equal to all of them.
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Turner, Munch, Holbein
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and Hokusai.
Naturally, I have no heroes.
I am my heroes.
I am my brothers and sisters.
I feel myself joined by the
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Em Em 
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soul with all beauty.
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Em Em 
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My heart sings with every brave endeavour,
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Em Em 
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with the strange wings of impossible  butterflies,
with every rock that breathes
life into the world.
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I stand shoulder to shoulder
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with all denouncers of meanness.
I honour spirit and faith
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and uphold  the glorious amateur.
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Am Am 
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I'm in love with
desperate men
with desperate hands
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walking in secondhand shoes,
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Am Am 
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searching for God
and hearing God
Em Em 
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and hating  God.
I'm a desperate man
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buckled with fear.
Am Am 
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I'm a desperate man
Em Em 
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who demands to be listened to,
who demands to connect.
I'm a desperate man
Am Am 
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who denounces  the dullness of money
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an  d status.
I'm a desperate man
who will not bow down
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to accolade or success.
I'm a desperate man
who loves the simplicity of painting
and hates galleries and white
walls
and the dealers in art,
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who loves unreasonableness
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and hot -headedness,
who loves contradiction,
hates publishing houses,
and also I am Vincent van Gogh,
Am Am 
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Hiroshige,
and every living, believing artist
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who dares to draw God on  this planet.

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