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Yeah, lover I'm off the streets
Gonna go where the bright lights
And the big city meet
With a red guitar, on fire
Desire
She's the candle
Burning in my room
I'm like the needle
Needle and spoon
Over the counter
With a shotgun
Pretty soon, everybody got one
And the fever when I'm beside her
Desire, Desire
(Burning, Burning)
She's the dollars
She's my protection
She's the promise
In the year of election
Sister, I can't let you go
I'm like a preacher
Stealing hearts at a traveling show
For the love or money, money...?
Desire...
Gonna go where the bright lights
And the big city meet
With a red guitar, on fire
Desire
She's the candle
Burning in my room
I'm like the needle
Needle and spoon
Over the counter
With a shotgun
Pretty soon, everybody got one
And the fever when I'm beside her
Desire, Desire
(Burning, Burning)
She's the dollars
She's my protection
She's the promise
In the year of election
Sister, I can't let you go
I'm like a preacher
Stealing hearts at a traveling show
For the love or money, money...?
Desire...
Lyrics submitted by archmastermind
Track duration: 02:59
"Desire" as written by David Edge, Paul Michael Nineham
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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For one, I believe the first line is "Lovers, out on the street". But that's minor.
The last part, I believe, goes:
She's a goddess,
She's my possession.
Yeah she's the promise
In your collection.
....
For love of money money money (etc)
Yeah the Fever getting higher
Desire.
1st Verse is about a musician who's gonna try and hit the big time - 'Love I'm off the streets...red guitar on fire etc...
2nd Verse is about a junkie, 'candle, needle spoon', and his Desire driving him to rob places 'over the counter with a shotgun'
3rd Verse is about an electoral candidate 'she's my dollars, my protection ($ are his protection)' and then he likens his electoral campaign to that of a preach stealing hears for 'love or money'.
In the 2nd and 3rd Verse, Desire is described as a female thing 'when I'm beside her' and 'she's my dollars', probably sounds better than saying 'when I'm beside it'
The chorus and bridge link the verses together - 'And the fever getting higher'
There we are, pretty straightforward stuff, three different verses, three perspectives.
ive always thought this what about the DESIRE to shoot up heroin, atleast in a addicts state of mind. why you ask?
"She's a candle burning in my room
Yeah, I'm like the needle, needle and spoon
Over the counter with a shotgun
Pretty soon, everybody got one
And the fever, when I'm beside her"
ingredients to heroin: candle (flame), needle, spoon, shotgun (something to shoot into your blood).
the line "everybody got one" is like saying everyone is happy now that their high. whoever this song is for or about they've got the fever for someone and are going after them, hence DESIRE!!!
A song about blind ambition and as all we know greed is good! Right?
I agree wholeheartedly with Keyser Sushi's post. Also, I think it goes in tandem with Hawkmoon 269.
Some are so hooked on fame that they would go insane without it.
whoever said that might on to something; after all....
"Gonna go where the bright lights and the big city meet"
"She's a candle burning in my room
Yeah, I'm like the needle, needle and spoon"
i find the fact that he said needle, spoon and candle terrifying since it refer to drugs, she is what help me get high, she is power, success. but i'm only a drug/power addict i'm just used to administer a dosage of another dream of power/success-or maybe just the awful truth that ambition without success leads in the end to drugs !
"Over the counter with a shotgun. Pretty soon, everybody got one"
dreams of success and wealth maybe faced with a discouraging reality that leads you to stealing...but it doesn't exactly end well ...
I believe in some live performances Bono has changed "beside" to "inside". Not sure if he was told by the record company he couldn't have such a direct sexual reference on the album or what...