Young Guns Songs - I Want Out Lyrics

Young Guns - I Want Out

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Album: Ones and Zeros
Released: 2014

I Want Out Lyrics

All we are is leaves in the wind
And all of our moments pass us by before they begin

And I know I can't deny
The burning in your eyes
I need a little more now
Wage against the dying light
It's burning me tonight 'cause I need it

'Cause if this is love, baby, I Want Out (oh oh oh oh)
I will light up the sky as we burn it down (oh oh oh oh)
I know you can't doubt it, but let me say
'Cause I know it's better this way
'Cause if this is love, baby, I want out (oh oh oh oh)

All we are is breath against the glass
Just like the ashes of a fire fading fast

Yeah, I know I can't deny
The burning in your eyes
I need a little more now
Will you dance the time left
Is burning me tonight 'cause I need it

'Cause if this is love, baby, I want out (oh oh oh oh)
I will light up the sky as we burn it down (oh oh oh oh)
I know you can't doubt it, but let me say
'Cause I know it's better this way
'Cause if this is love, baby, I want out (oh oh oh oh)

If this is love, baby, I want out
I will light up the sky as we burn it down

'Cause if this is love, baby, I want out (oh oh oh oh)
I will light up the sky as we burn it down (oh oh oh oh)
I know you can't doubt it, but let me say
'Cause I know it's better this way
'Cause if this is love, baby, I want out (oh oh oh oh)
I want out (oh oh oh oh)
I want out (oh oh oh oh)

Writer/s: SIMON MITCHELL, BENJAMIN LLOYD JOLLIFFE, GUSTAV TOMAS WOOD, JOHN STUART TAYLOR, FRASER MACLEOD TAYLOR
Publisher: BMG Rights Management
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The first single from Young Guns third album, this was recorded in Bath, England with producer Steve Osborne (U2, Joy Division). The tune was debuted on BBC Radio 1 by Zane Lowe as the DJ's 'Hottest Record in the World' on August 7, 2014.

The song's music video was directed by Drew Cox. "With this being the video for our first new song, we wanted to have some fun and shoot something a little different and trippy and slightly unconventional for a rock video," vocalist Gustav Wood told Billboard magazine. "The director, Drew Cox, was totally on board and we had a lot of fun using projections and playing with video screens. It's got a great energy to it and we're really stoked with the results."

Frontman Gustav Wood told the story of the song to Kerrang!: "With the way the melody works, the first hit of the chorus had to be in a statement – it had to be something that feels good when I'm shouting it as loud as I can.

The first thing that came into my head was 'I want out,' and often the first thing that comes in is the best.

I had this line in my head for ages about how temporary and transient everything has a tendency of being, 'All we are is leaves in the wind.' Now, I sing the song, and to me it's about how finite life is. You have to enjoy every moment so if you're not happy with something, change it."

The lyric, "All we are is pressed against the glass" was inspired by the iconic video for Alanis Morissette's "Ironic," where the singer is in the car and driving through the snow. Wood explained: "I had this vision of being in a car, and it's all fogged up, and someone writing 'I want out' on the window in the fog."

The "Rage against the dying light" lyric is the opening line of the Dylan Thomas poem Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night. Gustav Wood said: "I've wanted to put it in a song for ages – you have to be a magpie and collect little bits and pieces. And that's really important, because if you sit down to write a song and you've got nothing in the bank, that's a really difficult place to be."

Originally published in the journal Botteghe Oscure in 1951, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night's connotation with death and endings has been much used in film and television.

The "rage against the dying light" line was previously used by Garbage in their 2012 track "Big Bright World."