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Years & Years - Desir
Years & Years - Desire


Years & Years - Desire Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Y & Y EP
Released: 2014

Desire Lyrics


I must be tough
I must behave, I must keep fighting
Don't give it up
I want to keep us compromising

Open your arms and pray
To the truth that you're denying
Give in to the game
To the sense that you've been hiding

Where are you taking me?
I can't be blamed
I want you to want me again

Is it Desire
Or is it love that I'm feeling for you
I want desire
'Cause your love only gets me abused

Give me that rush
I want to show you what you've been missing
Am I enough
To keep your other lovers hidden

Where are you taking me?
I can't be blamed
I want you to want me again

Is it desire
Or is it love that I'm feeling for you
I want desire
'Cause your love only gets me abused

Is it desire (is it desire)
Or is it love that I'm feeling for you
I want desire
I wanna see what you're willing to lose

You know that you've got me
You've locked me down
You tell me you want me
You need it now
You know that you've got me
You've locked me down
You tell me you want me now

Is it desire? (Is it desire)
Or is it love that I'm feeling for you
I want desire (I want desire)
'Cause your love only gets me abused

Is it desire? (Is it desire)
Or is it love that I'm feeling for you? (That I'm feeling for you)
I want desire
I wanna see what you're willing to lose (ooh what you're willing to lose)

Writer/s: HULL, THOMAS EDWARD PERCY / JEFFERIES, ANTHONY PAUL / DALEY, DANIEL ANTHONY BEAUCLERC / CHIN, MITCHUM KHAN / WARE, JESSICA
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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  • Years & Years are a soulful electronic pop trio who formed in 2010. Their vocalist Olly Alexander is also a successful actor having featured in a number of films including Tormented, Enter the Void, and Great Expectations as well as also playing Jakob in the TV series Skins. He joined the band after guitarist Mikey Goldsworthy heard him singing in the shower.
  • This is the third single released by the band. "We started writing the chorus first, which isn't usually how we write, as 'desire' became the hook and statement," Alexander explained. "The track reminded us of those big '90s house tunes, which we took a lot of inspiration from, including Chicago house, so we wanted to keep that same energy and pace throughout."
  • The song's music video was directed by Sing J Lee (Gorgon City's "Ready For Your Love," Charli XCX's "Boom Clap"). "After getting hooked on the track, the boys sent a note through about the meaning of the song, a cyclical conflict of being a slave to desire and the blurring between the lines of lust and love," Lee explained.

    "This in mind, I wanted to create something sensual and surreal, and it felt right that we should visit a strange world set within an apartment block and fleetingly peer into the lives of characters as they voyeuristically and hungrily fantasize over watching each other," he added, "with Olly playing the enigmatic raconteur."