Desperately Wanting Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Mendalusa77 

Cover art for Desperately Wanting lyrics by Better Than Ezra

I think it's about a friend who maybe was molested as a kid, grew up to be a drug addict. The doctors saved her/him after they overdosed, then pumped her full of pills again and then wondered how she relapsed when they "turned her on again."

The narrator is angry at all the people who fucked up his friend---her family, her doctors, all the people who never really gave her a chance to succeed. I think this song is telling her how he understands how she may want to kick them all in the face. He wants to help her to truly recover and get straight if she would give him the chance.