I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
There's a change in pace
Of fantasy and taste
Do you like good music?
Do you like to dance?
Oh, yeah
Hanging out for a body shot at night
Ain't it strange what they do to feel all right?
Oh, yeah
So, when will you call?
I am experienced
Oh, yeah
Face to face and back to back
You see and feel my sex attack
Sing it
Flesh, flesh for fantasy
We want
Flesh, flesh for fantasy
It's after midnight
Oh, are you feeling all right?
Oh, yeah
Turn on the light, babe
Are you someone else tonight?
Neighbour to neighbour, door to door
Don't ask questions, time for it all
Oh, yeah
Face to face and back to back
You see and feel my sex attack
Sing it
Flesh, flesh for fantasy
We cry
Flesh, flesh for fantasy
Ow
I sing for culture
Father, love his son
Mothers, daughters too
It's an old, old story
Cries the new world too
Flesh, flesh, flesh for fantasy
We want
Flesh, flesh for fantasy
We want
Flesh, flesh for fantasy
You cry
Flesh, flesh for fantasy
Let's go down, let's go down
Let's go down, let's go down
Let's go down, let's go down
Do you like good music?
Do you like to dance?
It's nearly morning
Do you wanna risk a chance?
Neighbour to neighbour, door to door
Enjoy the crime, you do your time
Never been nothing before
Of fantasy and taste
Do you like good music?
Do you like to dance?
Oh, yeah
Hanging out for a body shot at night
Ain't it strange what they do to feel all right?
Oh, yeah
So, when will you call?
I am experienced
Oh, yeah
Face to face and back to back
You see and feel my sex attack
Sing it
Flesh, flesh for fantasy
We want
Flesh, flesh for fantasy
It's after midnight
Oh, are you feeling all right?
Oh, yeah
Turn on the light, babe
Are you someone else tonight?
Neighbour to neighbour, door to door
Don't ask questions, time for it all
Oh, yeah
Face to face and back to back
You see and feel my sex attack
Sing it
Flesh, flesh for fantasy
We cry
Flesh, flesh for fantasy
Ow
I sing for culture
Father, love his son
Mothers, daughters too
It's an old, old story
Cries the new world too
Flesh, flesh, flesh for fantasy
We want
Flesh, flesh for fantasy
We want
Flesh, flesh for fantasy
You cry
Flesh, flesh for fantasy
Let's go down, let's go down
Let's go down, let's go down
Let's go down, let's go down
Do you like good music?
Do you like to dance?
It's nearly morning
Do you wanna risk a chance?
Neighbour to neighbour, door to door
Enjoy the crime, you do your time
Never been nothing before
Lyrics submitted by spliphstar
Flesh for Fantasy Lyrics as written by Steve Stevens Billy Idol
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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From Billy Idol's autobiography, Dancing With Myself: "'Do you like good music / Do you like to dance.' I wrote the lyric as if it were a sexual advert someone had placed in a newspaper or magazine.
[...] It is strange what mental and chemical processes our minds and bodies go through that send us searching deep into the night for sexual satisfaction. Some people took my advert literally. Mainly, it's a song that spoke to the audiences of the time, who were in the process of discovering their own sexualities."