Need You Now

Need You Now is the eighth song featured on the album, Why Make Sense?.

Trivia
"It's that thing you get when someone suffers with melancholy or depression: you feel like you're trapped in this downward spiral, like there's no escape," he added.
 * Alexis Taylor: "‘Need You Now' is a bit different to anything I've previously written about - it's about the bleak reality of living in a world where terrorism exists in such a visible way. The track isn't trying to solve anything, it's just a recognition of the fact that it's there and we're helpless against it. Hot Chip songs are usually about relationships – either my own or my relationship to the music we make... 'Need You Now' comes from a more pessimistic place. It's an attempt to condense down that sense of helplessness you get watching the news."
 * The music video was shot in Hastings on England's south coat and near the late film director Derek Jarman's garden in Dungeness, the clip finds a helpless Alexis Taylor facing the aftermath of a breakup.
 * This features a sample of Sinnamon's 1983 single "I Need You Now." "I had written the music and found the sample we needed for the chorus, and I presented it to Alexis, who I think wrote the lyrics on that day," co-vocalist Joe Goddard recalled to The Independent. "He was feeling kind of melancholy, and the music evoked something he was feeling at that moment. I don't think it was that premeditated. That's where the best Hot Chip music comes from: a kind of immediate, fresh take on the music."

Lyrics

 * I need you now
 * Need you now
 * Say it loud
 * I need you now
 * I need you now
 * Need you now
 * Say it loud
 * I need you now


 * Tired of being myself
 * Caught up in this world
 * I never dreamed I could belong
 * To a state that don't see right from wrong
 * I never dreamed I would belong
 * To your place


 * I need you now
 * Need you now
 * Say it loud
 * I need you now
 * I need you now (In a place so far)
 * Need you now (In a place so far)
 * Say it loud
 * I need you now


 * Tied up in disgrace
 * How can we keep a man so long
 * Waiting for a fate
 * Stripped of all our hearts
 * Never dreamed we would belong
 * In a world, a world that's just gone wrong


 * And if we try to stand alone
 * We'll be playing with a force beyond control
 * Our faces pressed against the glass
 * In the knowledge you belong to us


 * I need you now
 * Need you now
 * Say it loud
 * I need you now
 * I need you now
 * Need you now
 * Say it loud
 * I need you now
 * I need you now