LUST
(Words and Music by Rick Springfield)
Lust shows her pretty face
And cupid hits his mark
And I have no time to say
I'm not ready for this
Insipid smile on my face
And a dumb remark
I trip, slip, slide over the precipice
I got the right map baby
But the wrong direction
Staring at the TV set
Trying to right this wrong
I didn't cast my vote
It was a fixed election
Somebody tripped the switch
And the light came on
Now I can't make it stop
I can't make it stop
I can't make it stop
It's true and I can't explain
Just what makes her so different
I should feel wonderful
But I don't feel wonderful
And I don't want to carry this weight myself
You tell me I look bad
Hey what do you mean by that
'Cause I am addicted and I can't help myself
My wing and a prayer nose dive into the street
And they hang the 'disturbed' sign outside my door
I twist my fingers
I shuffle my feet
My friend Dr. Robert said there is no cure
I got the right rat baby
But the wrong dissection
I'm staring at the TV set
Trying to write this song
I didn't seek this mountain or this insurrection
I just entered somewhere beautiful I don't belong
I can't make it stop
No I can't make it stop
I can't make it stop
It's true and I can't explain
Just what makes her so different
I should feel wonderful
But I don't feel wonderful
And I don't want to carry this weight myself
You tell me I look bad
Hey what do you mean by that
'Cause I am addicted and I can't help myself
I don't want this
Fucked up pearl
I cannot take this
She, she must be the one
It's true and I can't
explain
Just what makes her so different
I should feel wonderful
I should feel wonderful
But I don't feel wonderful
And I don't want to carry this weight myself
You tell me I look bad
Hey what do you mean by that
'Cause I am addicted and I can't help myself
(total playing time 3:31)
Song Facts:
Rick has attempted to perform this song a few times. In Arlington, VA on
5/13/00, at Navy Pier in
Chicago (2nd show) on May 28, 2000 and again in Harris, MI (2nd show) on
June 17, 2000.
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Reviews:
My 2nd favorite after Scandalous Life. - I love the
music - I love his voice - I love the line "You tell me I look bad; hey what do
you mean by that?" - Reminds me of "How's my hair?" every time!
I love "I should feel wonderful; but I don't feel wonderful." - I love, love,
love when he speaks (not sings, I mean) that one line with that sexy, sensuous,
gravelly voice - "I should feel wonderful"
I love that he curses - "I don't want this fucked up pearl" - such a bad
boy. He definitely has the goatee when he sings this in my head.
I love "I am addicted and I can't help myself" - how many of us use that line to
describe our Rick addiction?
I love his use of vocabulary (I love words!) - For someone who was a high-school dropout,
he has a bigger vocabulary than most college graduates I know.
I can't list the rest of my favorite lines because then I may as well just copy
and paste the whole song.
I loved this song before I ever REALLY listened to it. I see this as he is in lust
with the wrong type of girl. Maybe she has a lifestyle that is not healthy either in
general or for him. She is a craving for him that he can't satisfy. It's
keeping him up nights which is affecting his creativity and his health . He knows it
can never work, but he can't stop the insanity.
This has got to be in my top 10 favorites of Rick's songs--if not top 5. This is the
song that caught my undivided attention on this CD when I first heard it. It just
epitomizes his talent for taking unusual words that most writers don't use and fitting
them oh so perfectly into his songs!
I love the beat and the rawness of how the music sounds. When I very first heard this
song, I thought he was talking about lust, addiction, for a drug of some sort, but then of
course he puts in the infamous "I don't want this fucked up pearl, I cannot take
this, SHE, SHE must be the one" so then I thought maybe he wrote this about falling
in love, lust with his wife.
I have not figured out the line "you tell me I look bad, Hey what do you mean by
that" I mean is he losing sleep over the lust for this woman, drug, whatever?
My very favorite part is the very beginning of the song all the way down to "I trip,
slip, slide over the precipice"!!! Then I also love, love the verse with "my
friend, Dr Roberts" in it too.
So, so talented to be able to put his thoughts out there this way and use
"insipid", "precipice", and "insurrection" to make his
point. I have almost worn this song out on my two SS CDs!
This song does not sound like Rick's voice. The music doesn't sound like
something he would write either unless it is just arranged differently.
To me this is about some "bad girl" who comes invading his life, something that
we have heard before. I get the feeling he is just basically weak and can't resist
this type of person.
"I can't make it stop". Like all men, I think he likes to sit back and
have the women come to him, (but that is usually not the kind of woman he will end up with
for a lifetime mate). Again, he is in this relationship. He is liking it, but he
knows it is wrong.
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Good things come to those who wait, and that
especially rings true for the end of this album. This track makes this whole CD a
keeper for me. This song ranks up in my top 5 favorite Rick songs, actually to
be more specific, it's probably number 2 after my all time fav,
"Souls". This song however, holds the award for the only Rick
Springfield song to literally stop me in my tracks on my first listen
through. I was blown away after the first sentence, actually I think Rick had me at
"Lust". His voice is so rough. I was strangely attracted to that.
The music sounds so raw. That intrigued me also. "I trip, slip slide
over the precipice" makes me just want to grin, the prose is so poetic.
"I should feel wonderful, but I don't feel wonderful" basically sums up a lot of
days for me. This is such a mundane statement, yet it speaks volumes. The way
his voice sounds each time these words are repeated in the song makes your heart want to
break. ESPECIALLY near the end, where Rick is just speaking these words,
and there's that exhale of breath and then silence. A very dramatic effect
which also just sounds so damn sexy it makes you want to squeal out loud.
I believe that Rick is referring to Lust as a female presence, but I've always felt that
the term Lust is being used to represent Rick's need to be a musician/songwriter.
This song is detailing Rick's journey of living with depression and his need to express
himself through his music. I feel that Rick has done a fine job of once again
masking the lyrics into sounding like it's man-woman, quite like some earlier works
such as AOTH.
"Lust shows her pretty face, then Cupid hits his mark and I have no time to say I am
not ready for this"...I hear this as I've got this song in me dying to come out and
be composed, but I've also got this depression thing going on which is making this too
much to handle.
"Somebody tripped the switch and the lights came on, now I can't make it stop.
It's true and I can't explain just what makes her so different"
Something happened somewhere which made him want to write again. The light came
back on. This song will be good.
"I should feel wonderful..." Of course, this should make him happy - the
writers block has lifted, but somehow the depression is still holding him down so he is
not happy.
"Cause I'm addicted and I can't help myself" I love this line. This
is why Rick is RICK SPRINGFIELD. This is why he does what he does.
"My wing and a prayer nose dives into the street and they hang the disturbed sign
outside my door..." More therapy jive.
"I don't want this fucked up pearl" I remember thinking to myself,
"Did he say Fuck?" Well I'll be damned. I can't pretend to know
exactly what Rick is referring to here, but I bet it has something to do with his
celebrity, because then he says, "I cannot take this" .
However, "She" must be the one. Again, I think this is referring to lust
as a female presence, and his lust being his need to be a songwriter. There is no other
for him. I'm so fuckin' glad. :-) >
I've never had the chance to hear this one
live. It's on my list of things to accomplish before I die. I pestered Rick to
death for about 2 years on this song before I finally decided to stop before it reached
restraining order status. This is definitely one song that I'd love to have
Rick tell us a little more background about, it just intrigues me so. I was really
hoping to see it on the upcoming S/D/A/A, but alas I guess it's not going to be
there.
The only thing I've had Rick tell me about this song is that he thought it wasn't quite
finished. So that piques my curiosity greatly.
I like this song a lot because he is such a
smart-ass (sorry, couldn't think of a better word). The lyrics and the music fit
each other nicely. I see it as a song about someone who is addicted to women.
I do like the way he uses his words!
You know how you sometimes meet up with someone
and you think,"He's really cool. If I wasn't married, I would love to get to
know him."... or something like that. Well, I think of this song as a show of
Rick's love for women and being drawn to one or another of them. And then he
realizes he's doing it again... getting stuck into something deeper. I'm totally NOT
calling him a cheater. I just think of this song as an expression of that basic
instinct, Rovianne kind of thing. It's a player who suddenly realizes he's a fish on
hook.
Longings, yearnings and fantasies, which one
normally wouldn't even share with a life partner or the closest of friends, Rick shares
with us and the world. He's clearly in forbidden territory here. Not necessarily acting on
his lustful feelings, but feeling guilty about them, none the less.
"I've just entered somewhere beautiful, I don't belong." Sometimes this
line gives me pause, has he "acted" on his desire?
"*I should feel wonderful, but I don't feel wonderful" His voice is
absolutely "lustful" here and that little groan, coming from deep in his throat
sends shivers down my spine.
Big shocker -- I love this song. This is one of the few songs on SS that
grabbed me as soon as I heard it. Everything about it, from the music to the lyrics,
is just excellent in my book.
Once again, Rick has used words that you normally wouldn't hear in a song (insipid,
precipice, insurrection) and it works perfectly.
What I get from the song is this: He sees this girl, and BAM... he's a goner. It
wasn't expected, it just happened, and from then on out, he's pretty much in his own
self-imposed hell of thinking about her constantly, perhaps losing sleep over it because
he feels guilty about it.
"I should feel wonderful" (because it's a thrilling thing when you first fall
for someone) "but I don't feel wonderful" (because he shouldn't have fallen for
her in the first place) "I just entered somewhere beautiful I don't
belong" (I have no business feeling this way ... what the hell am I doing?)
I like the imagery it provokes of being held prisoner by your thoughts.
"I twist my fingers... I shuffle my feet" "staring at the TV set"
"you tell me I look bad" ... all of these bring to mind someone who is totally
lost in their thoughts (fantasies?) about someone, and no matter how they try, they can't
stop thinking about it. It's something we've all experienced about someone at one
time or another.
Something else I like about it is the sense of desperation it suggests. The way he sings
"I can't make it stop.... no, I can't make it stop..... I can't make it stop"
and "I cannot take this" are two lines that immediately come to mind here.
It's driving him crazy, and there's nothing he can do about it.
I'll admit it, one of the main reasons I wanted to hear this song so much before I got the
CD was because of this part: "I don't want this ... fucked up pearl ... I
cannot take this ... she, she must be the one" So sue me (shrugs) I happen to like that Rick has a potty mouth. LOL)
One final thought ... where he speaks the line "I should feel wonderful" is
definitely better when you listen with headphones. ;-) Man, the way he says
that line kills me every time and that little breath at the end of it... *THUD!!*
When I first listened to this song, I have to admit I didn't like it and would
often just skip it. But after really listening it, it is now one of my favorites. It
is very sexy and raw and shows he's putting his emotions out there. Admitting his
weakness, like he is in love with the wrong girl and it is not good for him or its too
sudden, but he cant help it.
"cupid hits his mark and I have no time to say I am not ready for this"
You sometimes can't pick who you fall in love with, love is blind as they say.
Another hint to him that this is the wrong girl is because "I should feel wonderful,
but I don't feel wonderful" He is just tormented because he doesn't want to
love this woman. When he says he doesn't want "this fucked up pearl" I
think it means that being in love (the pearl) with the wrong person is "fucked
up", and he doesn't want to feel this way. He doesn't want the confusion or
aggravation. It would be much easier to be in love with the "right"
person.
My favorite line is when he says "I should feel wonderful" reminds me of
the heavy breathing he sometimes did during JG at the shows. It is now one of my top 5 fav
songs.
Before I got Sahara Snow, I kept hearing the buzz on this song. It was
one that kept coming up as one people wanted Rick to sing. I kept hearing so much
about it, I finally broke down and got the cd. But I have this thing with
expectation, that if I allow it to build up in my mind, no matter how good something is,
I'll be disappointed, because it never seems to live up to my expectation. So I
think I kind of tricked myself on this one, but I think I had convinced myself that I was
going to be disappointed. So when the cd came in, I exercised a tremendous amount of
self control and I listened to the whole cd instead of jumping ahead to this one.
The song played. I was NOT disappointed.
I loved this song the very first time I heard it. The thing I liked most:
Ricky said the "f" word. I don't think I had ever heard him talk
"dirty" at that point and I was still caught up the image that had been (and
kind of still is) projected on him of being a rather "good boy".
I guess it was my realization of him busting out of that cage.
This song is just so well written. I like the way he has the rhythm of the words
going on throughout the song
- direction - election
- dissection-insurrection
-wrong - on - song- belong.
My absolute favorite thought in this song is "I should feel wonderful, but I don't
feel wonderful". That's so true when it comes to a lot of situations of
"getting what you want", not just with lust or sex. How often to you think
you really want something, and when you get it, it doesn't feel near as good or satisfying
as you thought it would, or if it does, it doesn't last.
This is definitely on my top 5 favorite Rick Springfield songs list.
The one thing that does bother me about this song is the line "I got the right rat
baby, but the wrong dissection". I actually took zoology in college and had to
know every single part of a rat, when cut open, and I get way too clear of a visual with
this line. I would like to see "I got the right mirror baby, but the wrong
reflection", that would work better for me.
Who hoo, been waiting for this one!!! My fav song on the CD. No doubts that
this one was written by Rick and only by him. To me it is a song about a guy that at
first thinks he has a sexual attraction to someone and then, pow, finds he is in love and
doesn't know what to do about it. Sex the guy can handle, but love and emotions -
nope.
There are so many great lines in this song. Just leave it to our wonderful songwriter to
use the word precipice :o) >Some of my fav lines are:
"Insipid smile on my face And a dumb remark" - "'Cause I am addicted and I
can't help myself " "My friend Dr. Robert said there is no cure"
(applicable in my life)
"I don't want this Fucked up pearl" - now this line makes me think of Daddy's
Pearl and I'm wondering if there is any correlation.
All in all I love the song lyrics and music. For
the life of me I don't know why he won't play it in concert.
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