Songs about wanting, needing, and the space between the two.
Songs about wanting, needing, and the space between the two.
403 songs share this lyrical DNA.
Songs in this theme
more than just a little bit by Artemas - This is a sex song dressed up as a power struggle. Artemas frames desire as something mutual and consensual, but the pus...
Candy Shop (feat. Olivia) by 50 Cent - This song is not about a candy store. It is a confident, flashy rehearsal of sexual power where pleasure becomes a commo...
Turnaround by 54 Ultra - This is a song about someone who keeps insisting they won't wait while actively describing themselves waiting. The centr...
DIET PEPSI by ADDISON RAE - This is a song about performing innocence lost rather than actually losing it. Addison catalogs every move she makes—lip...
Bird Flu by 6LACK - 6LACK maps out exactly how men fuck up good things by running from intimacy, then spending years learning what that cost...
half return by Adrianne Lenker - This is a song about rehearsing a return to childhood and finding nothing alive to come back to. Adrianne Lenker shows a...
Steamboat by Adrianne Lenker - This is about someone who keeps trying to convince herself she doesn't need connection, then admitting she's terrible at...
A SONG FOR SIENA by Adam Klobi - This is about mistaking loneliness for connection. The narrator knows just enough about Siena to build a rescue fantasy,...
forwards beckon rebound by Adrianne Lenker - This is a song about intimacy as collision. Lenker writes love as something that keeps pulling you toward it even as it ...
not a lot, just forever by Adrianne Lenker - This is about wanting permanence with someone while being terrified of your own capacity to destroy it. Lenker writes fr...
anything by Adrianne Lenker - This is about wanting someone so badly you'll take any scrap of closeness they'll give you, even if it means swallowing ...
zombie girl by Adrianne Lenker - Listen. Adrianne Lenker is not writing a horror story. She is tracing a recurring absence that keeps showing up as a per...
American Dream by Alabama Shakes - This is a song about needing to stay asleep because waking up is unbearable. Brittany Howard frames the American Dream n...
One Stop by Aldous Harding - This is a song about someone who lives by reinvention returning to a place where the old version of themselves still exi...
In My Own Time by Alela Diane - This is a song about someone who has convinced herself that staying still is a choice. She frames inertia as autonomy, i...
Sadness As a Gift by Adrianne Lenker - Adrianne Lenker treats grief as evidence, not a problem to be fixed. The song argues that sadness proves the depth of wh...
Maybe Again by Alex Isley - This is about knowing something is over while refusing to fully close the door. Isley isn't waiting around, but she won'...
Bad Moons by American Football - This is a confession from someone who has spent years performing stability while secretly unraveling. The song maps self...