"Desire", lagu ikonik yang dibawakan oleh U2, mengisahkan tentang hasrat yang membara dan bahaya obsesi. Dengan liriknya yang mendalam dan metafora yang menggugah, lagu ini mengeksplorasi keterikatan manusia pada hasrat yang dapat mengkonsumsi dan menghancurkan. Seiring perkembangan lagu, narator menggambarkan hasratnya sebagai "lilin yang menyala di kamarnya", membandingkannya dengan kecanduan berbahaya dari "jarum dan sendok". Perjalanan emosional yang intens ini berpuncak pada pengulangan yang obsesif dari kata "desire", menyoroti kekuatan destruktif yang dimiliki hasrat yang tak terkendali.
Desire Lyrics
U2
(Yeah)
Lover, I'm on the street
Gonna go where the bright lights
And the big city meet
With a red guitar...on fire
Desire
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
Desire, desire...
And the fever...getting higher
Desire, desire...burning, burning
She's the dollars
She's my protection
Yeah she's a promise
In the year of election
Oh sister, I can't let you go
Like a preacher stealing hearts
At a traveling show
For love or money money money
money money money money money
money money money
And the fever, getting higher
Desire, desire, desire, desire
Desire, desire
Lover, I'm on the street
Gonna go where the bright lights
And the big city meet
With a red guitar...on fire
Desire
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
Desire, desire...
And the fever...getting higher
Desire, desire...burning, burning
She's the dollars
She's my protection
Yeah she's a promise
In the year of election
Oh sister, I can't let you go
Like a preacher stealing hearts
At a traveling show
For love or money money money
money money money money money
money money money
And the fever, getting higher
Desire, desire, desire, desire
Desire, desire
