Is This Desire? Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Saya13 

Cover art for Is This Desire? lyrics by PJ Harvey

You\'re all grasping at straws. It\'s not so complicated. Dawn is (always) tomorrow. Joseph is the past. Tomorrow came and cooled the love because tomorrow built a new fire that made Joseph (adulterous Nick) feel like a king - (he could love yet not be monogamous/true) - Secrets in his eyes - all the things he won\'t say but he will do. She asks is this desire enough to lift us above all that (typical cheating shit) and it wasn\'t. The love was intense but the desire was (ultimately) not enough to lift him higher, or make her want to stay, it (his infidelity) indeed, cooled her desire, yet the music belies the facts as still the love smoulders and yet has to be put out, it\'s restrained, like an ember - and an ember contains the potential (desire) for a wildfire and yet it is also the death of the fire.