Why this was never on any of his albums is still a mystery to me! This is classic Stevie!

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http://www.youtube.com/wa...1FOdPJVxWA

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Seems the wisdom of man hasn't got much wiser
Than the very beginning of our time
Agree or war has been our way of compromising
Let live and love has become our biggest lie

Seems to me that fools are even more foolish
Thinking of themselves and nobody else
But then if asked for poor will riches be replenished
They say boot straps must be pulled up by themselves

Feeding off the love of the land
Leaving much to be desired

Living off the love of the Lord
While the price for life is higher

Isn't love to be admired
Has the good in man expired
Stealing all the love and the beauty from the land

I awake each morning to the birds a-singing
Singing out to God to come and save his own
But when throughout the world the cry of love is ringing
Is then when He'll stop to hear our song

Did you know that when you feel the earth a-shaken
It's only mother nature with a crying heart
You see we have taken from her for so many ages
Will there be a time when taking stops and giving starts

'Cause we're feeding off the love of the land
Leaving much to be desired

Living off the love of the Lord
While the price for life is higher

Isn't love to be admired
Has the good in man expired
Stealing all the love and the beauty from the land

Yes we are feeding off the love of the land
Never hearing what He's saying

Living off the love of the Lord
Never feeling what you're praying

Never praising Him for beauty
Only praying God please give me

Stealing all the love and the beauty from the land
Stealing all the love and the beauty from His land

[Edited 7/11/13 8:30am]

I have this song. It's on the maxi single of Gotta Have You. I suppose since this was really an unreleased song recorded in the early 1970s, it doesn't really fit on the Jungle Fever soundtrack soundwise. By that point Stevie was recording in digital, and Feeding Off The Love Of The Land was analog.

Its hard to listen to something like this and then listen to the crap that gets passed off as music nowadays.

MickyDolenz said:

I have this song. It's on the maxi single of Gotta Have You. I suppose since this was really an unreleased song recorded in the early 1970s, it doesn't really fit on the Jungle Fever soundtrack soundwise. By that point Stevie was recording in digital, and Feeding Off The Love Of The Land was analog.

I thought I've heard this in a movie before. Couldn't remember which one though. I guess I should've first thought, "A Spike Lee Joint".

Musicslave said:

MickyDolenz said:

I have this song. It's on the maxi single of Gotta Have You. I suppose since this was really an unreleased song recorded in the early 1970s, it doesn't really fit on the Jungle Fever soundtrack soundwise. By that point Stevie was recording in digital, and Feeding Off The Love Of The Land was analog.

I thought I've heard this in a movie before. Couldn't remember which one though. I guess I should've first thought, "A Spike Lee Joint".

I only bought the single because of Feeding being the B-side. There's no remixes of Gotta Have You on it, just the album version, a radio edit, and an instrumental version.

Weird...I first heard this song when I bought this compilation in 1990.

http://www.discogs.com/Va...ter/117311

It's one of Stevie's most powerful songs. I also love the Jungle Fever version with Bill Lee's orchestral accompaniment.

lrn36 said:

It's one of Stevie's most powerful songs. I also love the Jungle Fever version with Bill Lee's orchestral accompaniment.

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Me, too! In this case, I love what Bill Lee's strings added to the song...

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I didn't realize there are 2 versions. The one I have is the version with the strings. On the credits on the single, who is doing strings is not mentioned, so I thought it was part of the song. All it says on the cover is 'Engineered and mixed by Robert Margouleff and Malcolm Cecil. Additional engineering by R.R. Harlan'. So maybe R.R. Harlan recorded the strings and overdubbed them on the original track.

It was suppose to be on Fulfillingness First Finale. But, for whatever reason, didn't make the cut.

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G3000 said:

Why this was never on any of his albums is still a mystery to me! This is classic Stevie!

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http://www.youtube.com/wa...1FOdPJVxWA

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Seems the wisdom of man hasn't got much wiser
Than the very beginning of our time
Agree or war has been our way of compromising
Let live and love has become our biggest lie

Seems to me that fools are even more foolish
Thinking of themselves and nobody else
But then if asked for poor will riches be replenished
They say boot straps must be pulled up by themselves

Feeding off the love of the land
Leaving much to be desired

Living off the love of the Lord
While the price for life is higher

Isn't love to be admired
Has the good in man expired
Stealing all the love and the beauty from the land

I awake each morning to the birds a-singing
Singing out to God to come and save his own
But when throughout the world the cry of love is ringing
Is then when He'll stop to hear our song

Did you know that when you feel the earth a-shaken
It's only mother nature with a crying heart
You see we have taken from her for so many ages
Will there be a time when taking stops and giving starts

'Cause we're feeding off the love of the land
Leaving much to be desired

Living off the love of the Lord
While the price for life is higher

Isn't love to be admired
Has the good in man expired
Stealing all the love and the beauty from the land

Yes we are feeding off the love of the land
Never hearing what He's saying

Living off the love of the Lord
Never feeling what you're praying

Never praising Him for beauty
Only praying God please give me

Stealing all the love and the beauty from the land
Stealing all the love and the beauty from His land

[Edited 7/11/13 8:30am]

They should have included it as a bonus track on the 'Jungle Fever' OST, but like it's been said, it wouldn't have fit in with the 90's style R&B tracks on the album.