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Savage Garden - I Want You
Anytime I need to see your face
I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place where
Your crystal mind and
Magenta feelings take up shelter
In the base of my spine
Sweet like a chic a cherry cola
I don't need to try and explain
I just hold on tight
And if it happens again I might move
So slightly
To the arms and the lips and the face
Of the human cannonball
That I need to I want to
Come stand a little bit closer
Breath in and get a bit higher
Youll never know what hit you
When I get to you
Chorus
Ooh I want you
I don't know if I need you
But ooh I'd die to find out
Ooh I want you
I don't know if I need you
But ooh I'd die to find out
I'm the kind of person who endorses
A deep commitment
Getting comfy getting perfect
Is what I live for
But a look then a smell of perfume
Its like I'm down on the floor
And I don't know what I'm in for
Conversation has a time and place
In the interaction of a lover and
A mate
But the time of talking
Using symbols using words
Can be likened to a deep sea diver
Who is swimming with a raincoat
Come stand a little bit closer
Breathe in and get a bit higher
Youll never know what hit you
When I get to you
Chorus
Anytime I need to see your face
I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place where
Your crystal mind and
Magenta feelings take up shelter
In the base of my spine
Sweet like a chic a cherry cola
I don't need to try and explain
I just hold on tight
And if it happens again I might move
So slightly
To the arms and the lips and the face
Of the human cannonball
That I need to I want to
Chorus
So can we find out
This was Savage Garden’s breakout hit. “I Want You” was released in North America in February of 1997, where it peaked at No. 4 on the United States Billboard Hot 100 and by April had achieved gold status according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It would also become a #1 single in Canada in June 1997, the first of three Savage Garden songs to top the Canadian charts. It’s about a guy who is so taken with someone, he has to take a chance by approaching them, even though they seem to have a reputation. In the worlds of vocalist Darren Hayes: “‘I Want You’ is a song about a dream about being in love with a male energy, and waking up and feeling sad that I knew there was a part of me that was missing.” In 2016 the song was also used as the ending theme of the fourth part of the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure anime, Diamond is Unbreakable. On the choice for this song as the ending theme, Hirohiko Araki stated: “This is a song where the rhythmic pattern represents the 90’s era in which Part 4 is set. There’s a certain touch of the progressive songwriting in the way it dramatically crescendos through the song, and I thought it was perfect for the anime.”
