I've Wanted You lyrics

There's this image of you that I can't shake

That day we drove out to the ocean

So many things I wanted to say

But I knew it, it was all in vain

Life doesn't give you hoops to jump through

It gives you tireless roads to cross

This sadness came over me

So in love, so at a loss

I've wanted you

For so very long

I've been feeling so in between things

Sad and stuck and alone

Even when I'm as high as I can get

I can't forget I'm on my own

Keep thinkin' I can escape this

But there are no red shoes to tap

Just endless crawling through a desert

And babe, there never was a map

I've wanted you

For so very long

Ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh

All the people I have grown to love

That I've had to leave behind

Because that was the way the road turned

I'm sorry I have let you down

You caught me in a moment

When I was trying to catch the wind

Thought there was some kind of magic

But there was just well executed tricks

I've wanted you

For so very long

This is what time does to us

We try to fight and never win

There's no plot to follow here

Just repetition of the same old sin

But I keep thinking that I've found it

A way to fill up the empty parts in me

If it's all temporary

I guess I'll have to wait and see

But I've wanted you

For so very long

Ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh

The woman who lives above me

I hear her listen to the radio

She loves the old time stations

They sing "Lover, don't let me go"

And I have been there before

In that place of desperate need

I'm not ready to go back there

To wait for someone else to leave

But I've wanted you

For so very long