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One Direction

Temporary Fix

Release date: 13th November 2015

From Made In The A.M. (Deluxe Edition)
Track 14
2:55
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About This Track

A deluxe-edition bonus track that leans into the band's more overtly sensual register, 'Temporary Fix' sketches a night of mutual convenience with a directness unusual for the group's catalogue. The narrator reads body language across a crowded room, proposing himself as a no-strings solution to restlessness and insomnia alike. The premise is transactional but not cold; the repeated invitation frames desire as a kind of service, offered without expectation beyond the span of a single evening. The production keeps pace with the lyric's urgency, the verses moving quickly from eye contact to a taxi backseat, the chorus built around the hook's promise of availability. One Direction frame the encounter as something the other party controls and names, the narrator content to be summoned when needed and dismissed when not. It is a posture of calculated passivity, the song's tension drawn from the gap between the intensity of the moment and the impermanence both parties accept from the outset.

"Temporary Fix" is a track by One Direction, from the album Made In The A.M. (Deluxe Edition), released 13th November 2015. The track is 2:55 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about One Direction.

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One Direction

One Direction

Lyrics

Temporary Fix

Saw your body language and I know how you're feeling
You look like the kind of girl that's tired of speaking
Standing with somebody but he doesn't know what you like

You caught my attention, you were looking at me first
All that I can see's you waking up in my t-shirt
If you're not hooked on anything right now, I can be your vice

All you need to know is

You can call me
When you're lonely
When you can't sleep
I'll be your temporary fix
You control me
Even if it's just tonight

You can call me
When you feel like
I'm your good time
I'll be your temporary fix
You can own me and we'll call this what you like

Let me be your good night

The night is on your lips and I feel like I'm locked in
There's a million lights, I don't care if they're watching
Your body is saying everything, I don't have to read your mind

Feel you on my neck while I'm calling a taxi
Climbing over me while I climb in the backseat
Now we're taking off, now we're taking it off tonight

All you need to know is

You can call me
When you're lonely
When you can't sleep
I'll be your temporary fix
You control me
Even if it's just tonight

You can call me
When you feel like
I'm your good time
I'll be your temporary fix
You can own me and we'll call this what you like

Let me be your good night

We can roll in the darkness,
Let me touch you where your heart is
And if you're feeling the weakness
Well, I told you, baby, that you can call me
I'll be your temporary fix
You can call me

You can call me
When you're lonely
When you can't sleep
I'll be your temporary fix
You control me
Even if it's just tonight

You can call me
When you feel like
I'm your good time
I'll be your temporary fix
You can own me and we'll call this what you like
Let me be your good night

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Track details

From Made In The A.M. (Deluxe Edition)

2:552015
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Made In The A.M. (Deluxe Edition)
Made In The A.M. (Deluxe Edition)
One Direction
13th November 2015
Track number
14
Release year
2015
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    3:12
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    3:50
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