Ben Harper (1969) singer-songwriter and musician
Wicked Man.
Song lyrics, There Will Be a Light (2004)
“What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.”
— Alcuin
in R Lacey and D Danziger, The Year 1000, Little, Brown and Co,GB, 1999, p. 57
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