Tonart: G minor
Verse 1
Em
I am the strange hero of hunger.
Am
My girlfriend lives on the other side
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
I've only just begun, she answers.
Em
What's his name? Roger.
But all the characters have about
Am
Em
three different names.
I always get confused
and can't tell who's too,
because I'm dyslexic
Am
Em
and don't make sounds for the names,
but Roger's for short
and his sister's called Dunya.
Am
Isn't Dunya a beautiful name?
Em
If little Huddy had been born a girl,
we'd have named her Dunya.
When I talk of the beauty
Am
E
of girls' names,
Am
or the strange bravery of artists,
Em
Am
Em
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
Dm
Em
because I'm amongst my own people.
I am the hero of all of my favourite novels.
Am
I live in them and they live in me.
Em
Am
I'm Arturo Bandini on Angel's Flight,
Em
swearing at a beautiful dark -haired girl
in tattered shoes.
I'm Roger, guilty of a terrible
Am
and senseless murder
Em
on the streets of St Petersburg.
Am
I'm the strange hero of hunger,
Em
starving to spite myself in
Christiana.
Em
tormentor of the midget and sui cide.
I'm Ishmael, knocker -off of tall hats.
and every character ever dreamed.
favourite artists,
Am
and feel myself not one jot less,
Em
but equal to all of them.
Am
Turner, Munch, Holbein
Naturally, I have no heroes.
I am my heroes.
I am my brothers and sisters.
I feel myself joined by the
Am
Em
soul with all beauty.
Bb
Em
My heart sings with every brave endeavour,
Am
Em
with the strange wings of impossible butterflies,
with every rock that breathes
life into the world.
Am
I stand shoulder to shoulder
Em
with all denouncers of meanness.
I honour spirit and faith
Am
and uphold the glorious amateur.
Em
Am
I'm in love with
desperate men
with desperate hands
Am
walking in secondhand shoes,
Em
Am
searching for God
and hearing God
I'm a desperate man
Em
who demands to be listened to,
who demands to connect.
I'm a desperate man
Am
who denounces the dullness of money
I'm a desperate man
who will not bow down
Em
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,
Am
who loves unreasonableness
Em
and hot -headedness,
who loves contradiction,
hates publishing houses,
and also I am Vincent van Gogh,
Am
Hiroshige,
and every living, believing artist
Em
who dares to draw God on this planet.
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