Lenny Kravitz Songs - Frankenstein Lyrics

Lenny Kravitz - Frankenstein

Lenny Kravitz - Frankenstein Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Strut
Released: 2014

Frankenstein Lyrics

A lie he broke and beaten
And better have alive
My heart is slowly beating
Don’t leave me here to die

'Cause I need love (love)
Yeah, I need love (love)
You say that I’m your baby
But I feel like Frankenstein
I need love

I try so hard to please you
You’re never satisfied
Will you ever release me yeah?
I’m tossin’ twirls to swine

But I need love (love)
Sister, I need love (love)
You say that I’m your baby
But I feel like Frankenstein
I need love

The lie that you are leading
Will never let you shine
Your words are so deceiving
But yet they taste like wine

Can’t help yourself from creeping
Can’t help yourself from lying
One more day of this shit and I‘ll lose my mind

But I need love (love)
Baby, I need love (love)
You said I was your savior
But I feel like Frankenstein

The life that you are living
Will never let you shine
Your words are so deceiving
But yet they taste like wine

I need love (love)
But, I need love (love)
Yeah, I need love (love) sister
Yeah
But I need love
But I need love
Sugar, uh
But I need love (but I need love)
Uh, baby
But I need love
Can you give some
I need love (but I need love)
I beg you baby
But I need love
I need, I need, I need love

Writer/s: LENNY ALBERT KRAVITZ
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Frankenstein Song Chart

After Lenny Kravitz had finished filming Hunger Games, he went home to the Bahamas to record his Strut album. He named each of the songs before he wrote any words, purely on the impressions he got when he recorded the basic tracks. Kravitz then wrote lyrics to correspond to his instinctive titles.

He said regarding this song about Mary Shelley's famous man-made creature, "He was a loving character, but he was also a monster. It's a great metaphor for misunderstood love."

Mary Shelley (1797-1851) was just 19-years-old when she came up with the idea for Frankenstein during a trip to the region of Geneva, Switzerland, where much of the story takes place. It came out of an evening spent with her travelling companions, which included her future husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. They started discussing ghosts and the supernatural fuelled perhaps by laudanum and Byron's doctor, John Polidori, suggested they should have a competition to see who could write the best horror story. Mary couldn't think of one at the time but that night she dreamt of a scientist who created life and was horrified by the result. Percy was impressed and he got Mary to write it out in full. "I busied myself to think of a story which would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature and awaken thrilling horror," she said.

The first edition of Frankenstein was published anonymously in 1818. Mary Shelley's name appears on the second edition, which was published five years later. After Frankenstein Mary wrote another six novels. The Last Man, a pioneering science fiction novel of the human apocalypse in the distant future, is considered by some to be her best work.