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Slayer

Desire

Release date: 9th June 1998

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‘Desire’ by Slayer is a 1998 track from the album ‘ Diabolus in Musica ’. The lyrics are steeped in possessive romantic obsession and a grim sense of inevitability, moving from “rapture” into fantasies of erotic fulfilment, with the repeated mood of being trapped and unable to resist. Over the course of the chorus, the speaker insists on being alone with a fatal certainty, while the imagery turns inward, as though desire is something that can be felt from inside the body.

"Desire" is a track by Slayer, from the album Diabolus in Musica , released 9th June 1998. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Slayer.

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Lyrics

Desire

[Verse 1]

No one could ever doubt my rapture

As you, too, will soon discover

No one will ever cross my love

Deadly consequence will rise above

[Chorus]

Lying all alone and dead

Visions of erotic bliss

Feel your warmth from inside your skin

A fever I cannot resist

[Verse 2]

Desire, I would kill for you

Right or wrong, I'd do anything

True and pure, the intensity

Every time death is next to me

[Chorus]

Lying all alone and dead

Visions of erotic bliss

Feel your warmth from inside your skin

A passion I cannot resist

[Guitar Solo: Jeff Hanneman]

[Guitar Solo: Kerry King]

[Bridge]

Anxiously feeling grotesque

Up against your flesh

Forbidden fantasies

Uncontrollable heat

[Chorus]

Find yourself all alone and dead

Visions of corroding bliss

Feel the warmth from inside your skin

A sensation I cannot resist

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From Diabolus in Musica

1998
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    Jeff Hanneman, Tom Araya
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    Rick Rubin
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    Tom Araya
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    Paul Bostaph
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    Jeff Hanneman, Kerry King
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    Tom Araya
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    Allen Sanderson, Bryan Davis, John Tyree, Sebastian Haimerl, Wade Goeke
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