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Desire Lyrics
I want to be clean, I want to be whole
I want revenge, I want control
I want to give up, I want to give in
Destroy all I have been
I want to be cruel, I want to be cold
I want a chance to sell my soul
I want to break out, I want to dive in
To lose myself in sin
I don't need anything
I'm just wanting
Just wanting
Desire all desire is
Desire breeds desire
Desire all desire is
Desire feeds desire
I want to scream, I want to shout
I want to have faith and never doubt
I want to bend, I want to break
To sleep and never wake
To break down walls and to escape
Be alone and hide my face
I want to feel, I want to touch
Want to stop wanting it so much
<i>(Chorus 2x)</i>
Song Info
Submitted by
toadtws On Jan 14, 2002
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How can no one else have commented on this? I love this song. The lyrics are amazing. x
I agree about it being amazing. My own feeling is that sometimes, you just get the urge to break out and do something completely uncharacteristic of yourself. I know I feel that way sometimes. It's not necessarily something that I would do, but sometimes I just desire to be something else.
The song is about the desire to be content.
This song rings to me some of the Buddhist leanings Glenn has expressed in interviews; one of the precepts is one of the sources of suffering is desire. So to me, it's very simple. Desire is a disease, something to be eliminated; we should appreciate what we have, stop accumulating junk, and be content.