The Wanderlust Lyrics

Lyric discussion by vengefor 

Cover art for The Wanderlust lyrics by Metric

This song is about someone that always wants to go forward. In doing so, that tends to leave people behind and leave one without a true sense of a place that resembles "home". In the song, the singer encounters someone also "moving forward", but perhaps from another direction, and when they "collide", she realizes,"Oh, you're the one I had to meet"--this person is EXACTLY whom she needed. And now that they have found each other, she asks, "Will there ever be a place for you and me?" (As to say, "will there ever be a home for you and me".) And in reply, he gives her the most beautiful answer, singing, "Wanderlust will carry us on", as to say, "Our wanderlust IS our home. Perfect.