Prefab Sprout - Desire As Lyrics

That oppening pad...gets me everytime.

Anyone listening to this jewel in 2020?

minha favorita do álbum.

Way ahead of their time. Impressing

Just when you thought you couldn't get enough Prefab Sprout, this comes along. https://youtu.be/4ds6pZ7weaw

why is this song soooooooo good....

Unforgettable, unpassable. Floating with no time and space....pure beauty.

Mi par di vedere la bocca spalancata e gli occhi increduli di Mozart dopo il primo ascolto di questo formidabile e straordinario album.

Non so spiegare ciò che in me provoca questa canzone, vorrei vivere per sempre in essa,nella sua armonia malinconica perdermi. Per sempre.

The music and lyrics draw you in with their authenticity and brooding, delicate reflection on love.

Can a song be so perfect? Pff...

99 out of a 100 for me. It was the sticking with the front drum brake that lost it the 1%. Useless stoppers.

as much as i love this album, credit goes to Thomas Dolby. Fantastic production...

I'm addicted to this song 😍

Handsome DEVIL 👌❤️❤️

goodness knows why you throw it to the birds..

Blade Runner.

First time listener here, started with Cars and Girls and now this. I’m a big Paul Weller fan and all of Prefab Sprouts stuff is just awesome

Know about the Go-Betweens?

i ve got six things on my mind and moore

This song just makes me feel the feels man

I've got 6 things on my mind, you're no longer one of them, Whoosh, that is a big put down. . . . . . .

i have got sixteen on my mind.......

Non ci sono parole per questo pezzo, per Paddy e per i Prefab... Estasi forse potrebbe andar bene... Li ascolto dal 1984. Li ascolterò sempre.

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 Love Love Love

"Connor............What can we do for you?"

I ve got six tunes on my mind And they all are from Prefab sprout

Direct from Heaven. So beautiful!

THANK YOU!! to the human who introduced Thomas Dolby to Prefab Sprout...BRILIANT!...

This is Classic, Music Perfection, I just can´t get over it. Paddy, don´t you ever set me free. Thank you for that

Just so good, big part of my youth

Ahhh...Paddy McAloon, your music will always be on my mind.

Ahhh....Paddy McAloon!

this song got me so addicted to it !!

i came for that music from a fuckin movie, but this songs is just awesome

Bet the song is better than the film...

Handsome Devil brought me here

I'm here coz of Handsome Devil 😍

the movie was corny to me, unbelievable. But when this song played, I took notice. Not often that music impresses me like this.

Haha me too. Great film

same. movie that always seems to make me happy

Same here!

Me toooo ❤

Where is the love button here, damn!

It's hard to imagine a more perfect set of notes than those of 1:23.

"they were the best times, the harvest years, with jam to lace the bread"
...brilliant Paddy !!!!

COMPARTO LO MISMO !!

Love this song forever ♡♡

One really understated band one thing I truly shared with my father was our appreciation for Prefab Sprout

Why are there always a pair of deuces? 2 thumbs point south down. Therefore, two deaf ears hear, what?

Loved this album since I bought in the 80s. It is so clearly a Thomas Dolby produced song, as the opening two chords are pretty much the same as his song "Budapest By Blimp" released a few years later.

thats exactly what i thought when i first heard it. i looked it up because i thought theres no way thomas dolby wasnt involved in this it sounds 100% like one of his songs lol

I've got six things on my mind you're no longer one of them
I've got six things on my mind you're no longer one of them
I've got six things on my mind you're no longer one of them

A Masterpiece

So good. Brilliant. Always was. Always will.

arnaudpainter yep!

anybody ever hear Thomas Dolby's "Budapest By Blimp"?

+Quinn Johnson Yes I have Quinn. Only 10.000 times I guess...after being a DJ for almost 20 years I still consider 'Budapest' as the best popsong that's ever been written. Dolby produced this Prefab album...btw..guess you know.

Yeah, I only wished to point out the beginning of Budapest sounds very close to the opening of Blueberry Pies, which as we both know, TD produced. Miss these halcyon years...

Desire As, not Blueberry Pies. Momentary lapse of reason as well as judgment.

+Quinn Johnson Budapest is from 1988, this one from 1985. Same area... this music heals my soul, man...

+Quinn Johnson Yess!!,Ofcourse!!
He produced this record by Prefab Sprouts..and more from them..+ he made/makes some of the most brilliant songs/Albumes....Still.../Bjorno

could be 1 of the best songs ever written

It's perfect as it stands, so why then crush it in your perfect hands? This cuts so deep.

Prefab Sprout - Desire As = Musical Perfection.
Amazing how songs can perfectly express a moment in time, its memories, the exact colors and feelings.
Thank you forever, Paddy McAloon. You´re genius.

Desire As

I've got six things on my mind you're no longer one of them
I've got six things on my mind you're no longer one of them
I've got six things on my mind you're no longer one of them
(Desire as a sylph figured creature who changes her mind)
I've got six things on my mind you're no longer one of them
(Desire as a sylph figured creature who changes her mind)

They were the best times,
the harvest years with jam to lace the bread
So goodness, goodness knows why I'd throw it to the birds

But there it is, and there we are
And all I ever want to be is far from the eyes that ask me
In whose bed you're gonna be and is it true you only see
Desire as a sylph figured creature who changes her mind?
Desire as a sylph figured creature who changes her mind?

It's perfect as it stands, so why then crush it in your perfect hands?
(Desire as a sylph figured creature who changes her mind)
I've got six things on my mind you're no longer one of them
I've got six things on my mind you're no longer one of them

So tell me, you must have thought it all out in advance
Or goodness, goodness knows why you'd throw it to the birds
You mock the good things, you play the heart strings,
Play them one by one.

But there it is, and there we are
And all I ever want to be is far from the eyes that ask me

In whose bed you gonna be and is it true you only see
Desire as a sylph figured creature who changes her mind?
It's perfect as it stands, so why then crush it in your perfect hands?
Desire as a sylph figured creature who changes her mind
In whose bed you gonna be and is it true you only see
Desire as a sylph figured creature who changes her mind?

I've got six things on my mind you're no longer one of them
I've got six things on my mind you're no longer one of them
It's perfect as it stands so why then crush it in your perfect hands?
Desire as a sylph figured creature who changes her mind
Desire as a sylph figured creature who changes her mind
I've got six things on my mind you're no longer one of them
It's perfect as it stands so why then crush it in your perfect hands?
I've got six things on my mind you're no longer one of them
I've got six things on my mind you're no longer one of them
(Desire as a sylph figured creature who changes her mind)

+californyaeh Thanks for lyrics ! and done 100% (unlike most ! )

Stupenda

When Love Breaks Down was a red herring; it was this on side two that was the real break-up song.  wish i wrote this. "It's perfect as it stands, so why then crush it in your perfect hands?"

i so agree

and bonny

Sylph Figured Creature who changes her own mind (I should have written this)

The lyrics in this song are just astonishing, Paddy you are and always will be up there with the very best songwriters in Pop history, and the music is fantastic too.

Yep, true, so very true. A moment in time, captured forever. It;s 2020 and I'm still listening......

Good luck with that. Been there.

Banda da minha vida,musica do meu coração!!!!

.....♥

A classic from my youth. And a salve for my present.

just split with a loved one......thanks paddy X

wow i'll be honest I was born in 85' so grew up on all the 80's - 90's music and can't believe I went this long having only heard to cars and girls,when love breaks down and King of rock n roll I love this band so diverse and chilled out yet rediculously deep

SUBLIME...

Listening to this...hopefully to forget a girl I can't have...

super band!

goodness why... but there it is

I agree ricardo

Their best song ever, as far as I'm concerned. An unknown masterpiece.