Desperately Wanting

"Desperately Wanting"
Single by Better Than Ezra
from the album Friction, Baby
Released December 3, 1996
Genre Alternative rock
Label Elektra Records
Songwriter(s) Kevin Griffin
Better Than Ezra singles chronology
"King of New Orleans"
(1996)		 "Desperately Wanting"
(1996)		 "Long Lost"
(1997)

"King of New Orleans"
(1996)		 "Desperately Wanting"
(1996)		 "Long Lost"
(1997)

"Desperately Wanting" is a song by American alternative rock group Better Than Ezra. It was released in December 1996 as the second single from their studio album, Friction, Baby.

Reception

"Desperately Wanting" reached No. 48 on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking on February 8, 1997.[1] The song was most successful on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, where it peaked at No. 10.[2]

Composition

In an interview with SongFacts.com, Better Than Ezra frontman Kevin Griffin, who wrote this song, explained: "'Desperately Wanting' is a song where someone is looking back on their childhood. Specifically that song is about when I used to camp out with my friends in the summer down in the South, and you'd stay up all night causing havoc, throwing rocks at passing cars, knocking over mailboxes and vandalizing, as red-blooded men are wont to do. And literally, you're running all through the neighborhood and through the yards, and there's the dew on the grass. It was about those nights spent with a friend running around, running through the wet grass. And then it's a story of two people who took divergent paths in life. One person made a lot of bad decisions and ended up having some mental issues. And then just how you lose touch with people. And how when you're young and you're running around all night, and life hasn't had its way with you, the playing field is equal and it's flat. And then life takes everybody on their own journeys. But there's a time where all your potential is untapped and the world hasn't had its way with you. That's an amazing time of promise, and that's what 'Desperately Wanting' is about."[3]

Chart performance

Chart (1996–97) Peak
position
Canada Alternative 30 (RPM)[4] 13
U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks[5] 11
U.S. Billboard Album Rock Tracks[6] 10
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Airplay[6] 48

References

  1. ↑ "Better Than Ezra Song Chart History: Alternative Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 2011-04-16.
  2. ↑ "Better Than Ezra Song Chart History: Alternative Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 2011-04-16.
  3. ↑ http://www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/kevin_griffin_of_better_than_ezra/
  4. ↑ "Rock/Alternative - Volume 64, No. 22, January 27, 1997". RPM. Retrieved 2010-12-03.
  5. ↑ Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks - Better Than Ezra - "In the Blood". Billboard.com. Retrieved on June 17, 2009.
  6. 1 2 Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks - Better Than Ezra - "In the Blood". Billboard.com. Retrieved on June 17, 2009.


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