I wanted him to kiss me how
With open mouth and open mouth
We keep our distance now
I wanna feel his hands go down
I try not to think about
What happened last night outside his house
Too far to go back now
Just wanna feel his hands go down
[Refrain]
Sudden
Sudden desi—
Sudden
Sudden desi—
A sudden desire
[Verse 2]
Take the elephant by the hand and hold it
It's cruel to tame a thing that don't know its strength
But better to walk beside it
Than underneath
My kind companion
Softened stone
My gentle giant
Painful reminder
Don't look in my eyes (Sudden)
I feel a sudden desire (Sudden desire)
Don't know if I can deny (Sudden)
A sudden desire (Sudden desire)
Your fingerprints on my skin
A painful reminder
Don't look in my eyes (Sudden)
I feel a sudden desire (Sudden desire)
A sudden desire
[Bridge]
Won't fit in the room, big balloon
Trails me 'cause I can't let go
Everywhere I am, it sticks close like a friend
Just like him
Just like him
Friendly reminder of a sudden desire
[Chorus]
Don't look in my eyes (Sudden)
I feel a sudden desire (Sudden desire)
Don't know if I can deny (Sudden)
A sudden desire (Sudden desire)
Your fingerprints on my skin
A painful reminder
Don't look in my eyes (Sudden)
I feel a sudden desire (Sudden desire)
A sudden desire
I wanted him to kiss me how
With open mouth and open mouth
We keep our distance now
I wanna feel his hand go down
I try not to think about
What happened last night outside his house
Too far to go back now
Just wanna feel his hands go down
About
“Sudden Desire”, the closing track to Hayley’s first EP, sees her with the urge to connect with someone in a romantic fashion.
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
On an Instagram live Q&A, Hayley said :
Once we got past Leave it Alone and Simmer, Joey and I wanted to write some R&B songs. […] We started to work on this and it very quickly became aggressive in the chorus, almost like Army of Me by Bjork. […] I just knew, at that point, that I wanted to write about something uncomfortable or that might be embarrassing. It’s a song about having a lust for feeling you really don’t want. Like, you’re like: “I don’t want to feel that, I don’t want to desire this person because it might hurt me, it might hurt them. It just may be dangerous.” But then, at the same time, that often is one of the very things that will attract us back, that sneaky feeling.
She also added:
It’s a very grown-up song. Don’t listen to it with your parents in the car.
- 1.Simmer
- 3.Cinnamon
- 4.Creepin’
- 5.Sudden Desire
- 6.Dead Horse
- 7.My Friend
- 8.Over Yet
- 10.Why We Ever
- 11.Pure Love
- 12.Taken
- 13.Sugar on the Rim
- 15.Crystal Clear
