Animal

Album: Hysteria (1987)
Charted: 19 6
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  • A wild ride, over stony ground
    Such a lust for life, the circus comes to town
    We are the hungry ones, on a lightning raid
    Just like a river runs, like a fire needs flame, oh
    I burn for you

    I gotta feel it in my blood, whoa oh
    I need your touch, don't need your love, whoa oh
    (And I want, and I need)
    (And I lust, animal)
    (And I want, and I need)
    (And I lust, animal)

    Cry wolf, given mouth-to-mouth
    Like a movin' heartbeat in the witching hour
    I'm runnin' with the wind, a shadow in the dust
    And like the drivin' rain, yeah, like the restless rust
    I never sleep

    I gotta feel it in my blood, whoa oh
    I need your touch, don't need your love, whoa oh
    (And I want, and I need)
    (And I lust, animal)
    (And I want, and I need)
    (And I lust, animal) huh, ah

    Cry wolf, baby, cry tough
    Gonna hunt you like an, an, an, an, an animal
    Gonna take your love and run

    I gotta feel it in my blood, whoa oh
    I need your touch, don't need your love, whoa oh
    (And I want, and I need)
    (And I lust, animal)
    (And I want, and I need)
    (And I lust, animal)

    (And I want, and I need)
    (And I lust, animal)
    (And I want, and I need) tame me, tie me
    (And I lust, animal) make me your animal
    (And I want, and I need) show me, stroke me
    (And I lust, animal) let me be your animal

    (Animal) and I want
    (And I need, animal) ooh, ooh, ooh, animal (animal) Writer/s: Joseph Elliott, Philip Collen, Richard John Cyril Allen, Richard Savage, Robert John Mutt Lange, Stephen Maynard Clark
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Comments: 2

  • Kathleen from Clinton, MdThe line "Like the restless rust, I never sleep." is a reference to Neil Young's Rust Never Sleeps released in 1979. Def Leppard also quoted Neil Young's Rust Never Sleeps album in their song "Rock of Ages" by quoting the refrain of Young's "My My, Hey Hey." (I had a typo --- sorry!!!)
  • Kathleen from Clinton, MdThe line "Like the restless rust, I never sleep." is a reference to Neil Young's Rust Never Sleeps released in 1979. Def Leppard also quoted Neil Young's Rust Never Sleeps album in their song "Animal" by quoting the refrain of Young's "My My, Hey Hey."
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