museless aiming

Musical desire

This has been inspired first by a critic (I forget which) who wrote that 'Robert Smith sings "never" the way Joey Ramone sings "wanna";--that little word implies an entire philosophy of being', followed by subsequent listening and a few conversations. I'm just interested in what various song writers want.

The Ramones

I wanna be sedated
I wanna be well
I wanna be your boyfriend
I wanna live
Now I wanna sniff some glue now I wanna have something to do
Now I wanna be a good boy
I wanna be learned, I don't wanna be tamed

The Manic Street Preachers

Chronologically.

I want to be your only possession
I want to fly and run til it hurts
I want to be so skinny that I rot from view
I want to walk in the snow and not leave a footprint
I want everyone corrupt (admittedly a quote from 1984)
I wanna die, die in the summertime
I am the girl that wanted to be god

The Red Sun Band

Yeah I used to have these dreams of travelling...

I wanna live in ol' mexico
I wanna life with a ranchero
I wanna spend my days smoking dope
I wanna live in Australia
I wanna live in the middle of the desert
I wanna let the sunsets burn

Crowded House

I wanna be forgiven; I wanna laugh with children

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Thu May 31 22:39:26 BST 2007