This Is for All the Hungry People

 🎶 "This Is for All the Hungry People" – by Zipolita (Tina Winterlik) 🎶

(Inspired by “Lonely People” by America)

Verse 1

This is for all the hungry people,

Hearts full, but their cupboards are bare.

For the ones holding back their tears in silence,

While billionaires feast without care.

For the grandma who splits her pills in two,

For the child with a growling belly at school,

For the mother skipping meals for her baby,

In a world where profit breaks every rule.

Chorus

How did we lose the meaning of a meal?

How did fresh fruit become a luxury deal?

We were meant to share, meant to grow,

Not stand in lines with shame and woe.

This is for the hungry people,

Left out while the rich put on a show.

Verse 2

I once flew home, so light and thin,

The car thought I wasn’t even in.

Scurvy isn’t just a story of the past—

It's hunger dressed in modern masks.

My ancestors, bones and brave,

Survived on roots the earth still gave.

But now we scroll, we click, we crave—

And billionaires build rockets to escape.

Bridge

Poisoned by sugars, trapped in fat,

Our food is profit, and that is that.

We lost the farms, the trees, the song—

The soul of feeding all is gone.

What if food was sacred again,

What if meals were shared as friends?

What if we gathered in gardens free,

Fed with love and dignity?

Chorus (repeat)

How did we lose the meaning of a meal?

How did fresh fruit become a luxury deal?

We were meant to share, meant to grow,

Not stand in lines with shame and woe.

This is for the hungry people,

Left out while the rich put on a show.

Outro

So let this be a seed we sow,

In every heart that’s known this low.

No one should choose between rent or rice,

And hunger should never be the price.

This is for the hungry people—

Still waiting to be fed, still holding on to hope.