You Want This
"You Want This" is a song by American singer Janet Jackson from her fifth studio album, janet. (1993). Released as the album's seventh single (sixth and final in the U.S.) in October 1994, the track was written and produced by Jackson and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. The single version, also used in the music video, featured an additional rap verse from MC Lyte. The song was listed in the Rock Song Index: The 7500 Most Important Songs for the Rock and Roll Era (2005) by Bruce Pollock.
Song information
Based on samples from Diana Ross & the Supremes' 1968 song "Love Child" and Kool & the Gang's 1973 song "Jungle Boogie", the song is about Jackson being told by her girls that a guy is watching and wanting her. Jackson proclaims if the guy wants to be with her, he has to work for it. The single contains two B-sides, the janet. track "New Agenda" and the then-unreleased "70's Love Groove", which also appears on 1995's janet. Remixed.
MC Lyte said of the song: "By that time, Janet and I were friends. It was just a matter of her asking if I wanted to do it. I was just about to go on tour with her and do her U.S. leg. Coupled with that, they asked me to do a song with her that we could perform while we were on that tour. The tour was definitely huge. Touring with Janet actually showed me what it can be like and what we as performers should be treated like and how not to take any shorts.”
As Long As You Want This
So come on now
Come on now
Come on now
So I'm looking for the rightful let me in
Kick me hit me don't you know I always win
Heaven help you
Heaven knows what's on my mind
Ooohhh.. as long as you want this
Here's my answer, here's my one and only truth
Here's my reason why I give my word to you
So just this once
I want it all this time
As far as I remember, the chains were always ending
But life is never ending
Oh no I
So as long as you want this, I have to let you know
As you want this, I have to let you know
This much is true
And I'll never change, I'll never stop
I'll never change, this time I'm gonna take you down
Oh come see me oh come hear me, I'm your man
Oh come feelin' what I give is what I am
Ooohhh
Just this once
I want it all this time
As far as I remember the chains were always ending
But life is never ending
No no, so as long as you want this
As you want this, I have to let you know
This much is true
And I'll never change, I'll never stop
I'll never change, this time I'm gonna take you down
Ooohhh take you down ooohhh come on
No no no no no no
As long as you want this, I've got to let you know
If you want this, I got to let you know
This much is true
So give it to me, give it to me yeah
Won't you give it to me, give it to me yeah