For the desired effect
Would you come back August or June, June
And I hate that tomorrow's too soon
But this collision, came mid bloom

Better built to resume
I'll see you August, see you June
I'm building higher than I can see
I want fantasy

Don't rest with the less
I'm burning to impress
It's deep in the middle of me
I can be fantasy

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: Oliver David Sim, Romy Anna Madley Croft, James Thomas Smith, Baria Qureshi

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MCB TEX

6y↑120

For the desired effect
Would you come back August or June, June
And I hate that tomorrow's December
But this collision, came mid bloom

Better built to resume
I'll see you August, see you June
I'm building higher than I can see
I want fantasy

Don't rest with the less
I'm burning to impress
It's deep in the middle of me
I can be fantasy

All comments from YouTube:

KipperTheArt

7y↑413

I use this song to test any new headphones I buy.

t b

11w

@yewberry have you a better suggestion?

t b

11w

Exactly why I am here! 🥳❤️

Korri Almengor

45w

🤣🤣

Hero & Poloolpp

2y↑1

The xx AND DT 770 gang

Ballal Mondal

KipperTheArt xx

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Kendall

7y↑143

The bass in this song is fucking amazing.

Natata Rojas

Kendall live it's too much better!!!!!

Bob Kaley

4y↑139

Let's be honest here, the majority of the xx songs are like the perfect songs to make love to.

Peer Offereins

4y↑13

Let me think about it. Yeah you're right.

Fire Lord Zuko

4y↑20

fucked last night to this song ayyyy

MCB TEX

6y↑120

Rumer Priestly

5y↑1

Came to the comments looking for exactly this. Thank you!

Kayla Dudley

5y↑69

I can't believe i went so long without knowing about this band's existence.

J

2y↑1

is this what it is like to be a 2000's kid

Gauthier Rigaux

4y↑3

Better late than never mate

Kyrinky

4y↑2

Agree, although it makes me catch feels easily, so I don't know if that is a good thing.

ajdrig

5y↑55

Some one should make a 10 hour loop of the bass.

João Filipe

10y↑15

i can't stop listening this...

Brandon Buthmann

5y↑17

Like landing randomly in the middle of the ocean at night descending towards the bottom of the abyss where there is light mysteriously

Isac

Brandon Buthmann this comment was exactly how i was feeling this song

AireLoosh

7y↑113

i blasted this song in my car with my friends 500$ speakers.... they broke

JoannaDark KM

3y↑12

glitch in the matrix

Lan Krownet

3y↑11

"your car" "your friends speakers"... your car... your friends speakers... ????

Azea Stevens

7y↑90

"This song is about unrequited love or wanting so badly to be in a relationship and that position to have someone to love, and love in return ('I'm burning to impress') be comfortable and yourself around that person completely, basically by saying ('I can be fantasy') its trying to prove all these emotions and feelings you want to feel and can share with someone."
(This is what someone else said it meant so it isn't in my own choice of words but I thought if I shared it on here you guys would get a better meaning of what this song is about.)

Fleet Foot

5y↑31

Play this song in the car and your car is literally shaking from all the bass.

Jay Brew

5y↑50

The Bass is literally too deep to play on my computer speakers haha

Kiznish a

I've got a pretty decent set of 2.1 computer speakers and the poor sub is getting a workout.

caween 🥔

10y↑1

I feel like something is going to pop out of nowhere. Like if I were alone in a room and this song started playing, I'd be fucked. But at the same time it's so beautiful. It puts me at peace. Like everything's okay. This ... this is genius.

Emmy Dahle

5y↑77

Wake up, get ready, go to school, learn unnecesarry shit that has nothing to do with my future, go home, smoke something and get hig af while listening to this song. Gives me a break from my life. Thank you.

Abilio Rodrigues

4y↑1

That's it ..
The truth

Fly ;and fuck

Dillon T

4y↑7

Emmy Dahle Don't stress it. I'm 21 and wish I had learned more in school. Knowledge is power so make the best out of your situation! One Love ✌

lux

6y↑62

This song it makes me think of my death..

Yael Teenage-Tragedy

7y↑110

falling in space. x

sana el bouzidi

exactly :D

Chris Leggat

7y↑58

Definitely used this song to check the sound in my car.

J

you should also get some sine wavs playing at certain low freq, then the true test begins

Eacy C

+Chris Leggat exactly just use this song to see if something has a good bass xD

Giulio Z.

6y↑24

The best bass frequencies

TheN1njaPerson

6y↑1

@***** deep ass bass. some people say its a myth.

lux

i dont really know tbh

Marcin Kisała

@lux bledstone what Hz value is the brown note

lux

6y↑1

It's no brown note but it's great none the less!

void

7y↑35

This song is the ultimate headphones test. :3

Jan Hromek

7y↑35

Yesterday I watched the 'Confessions' movie. Kind of surprise that I heard there one of my favourite songs from The xx…

David Vera

I am number 4 - shelter

Alexis Demar

7y↑6

this song reminds me of swimming in the ocean at nighttime. absolutely amazing

ForsytArtz // ΦορσυτΑρτζ

4y↑7

thanks to my art-teacher for showing me this awesome piece of music

Laura Aguirre

Best art teacher ever

Joel

Whenever I listen to this song I just imagine myself floating inches above the sea bed, in the pitch black slowly drifting along the bottom

Tanner Timothy

6y↑14

The XX is a great band. Love this song, along with the rest. It is also cool that Mac miller sampled this in his mixtape "Macadelic" I threw 8

Myers Storm

1y↑4

I want fantasy...

2019-2020? <3

Sido Lanters

2y↑1

“what happened in detail i can hardly remember, all i know is that we kept merging into one another. i was you, you were me. finally you somehow caught fire.”

— franz kafka

Your Excellency

10y↑2

WAIT, THIS IS MY NEW FAV SONG!!! IT'Z SOOOO ETHERIAL, LIKE ENTERING A NEW LAND, I WANNA PRODUC SOMETHING LIKE THIS!!!!!

JW006

I decided to listen to listen to this song whilst I was getting dressed. After the bass kicked in, I realised I had dressed myself up in a clown's costume, make up and all. I would do it again in an instant. If I wasn't so late for work.

Megan King

10y↑1

This song needs to be at least twice as long... love it

sam S

6y↑63

Each of us lives, dependent, and bound by our individual knowledge and our awareness. All that, is what we call “reality”. However, both knowledge and awareness is equivocal. One’s reality might be another’s illusion. We all live inside of our own fantasies…

Into the void

in short, it's called relativism

JuryKing

Haha exactly ^^ lol

Nori Nori

5y↑3

+sam S I think he got scared that you would go insane because of the song lol

sam S

6y↑8

@JuryKing its actually a quote, google it :D

JuryKing

6y↑8

Why are you writing like that. Stop getting so emotional over the song.

anateresa13

42 people dislike this song... It clearly means that this song is the meaning of life.

BrainscanIA

1y↑3

one of the best use of this music is in the japanese movie 'Confessions (2010)' climax. The movie is one of the best revenge movie ever made.

Fatine A

10y

This needs to be the soundtrack of a melancholic version of Alice in Wonderland!

8catsinmypants

10y

someone needs to stick this in a movie trailer for somthing awesome

JMMYDGTL

I will never grow tired of this song let alone the XX.

Javier M.

6y↑1

Wish they had more songs like this one, is like a poppy Grouper

Hezekiah Smith

8y↑1

put on repeat go to sleep

Tom Goodman

10y

Listening to this while being high feels amazing. This song is so euphoric, it makes you feel like you're surfing on the clouds in the sky.

doomsdale91

10y

this song feels like..when im about to light up my bowl and i have that feeling of peace all around me. like i just melt into my environment its like i dont even exist.

Juno Callow

4y↑8

I remember that this was the first song I listened to by them. Damn.

JaMMze

6y↑23

....It's deep in the middle of me....

Mya G

5y↑2

+ghostv8 same

Ghostv8

5y↑8

just as I read this i heard it

Cameroon Hall

10y

Honestly, the most euphoric song I have ever heard in my life. Definatly floating in space right now...

curlyydancer

10y

As a dancer, i find the xx so easy to move to. It's so incredible blasting this song in my studio, just letting the music move me.

Olympus

5y↑31

Just blowed off left side of the speaker in my car but it was worth it daaamn !!

MMMN

Your music just gave the earth everything it needs, this is our source of power.

nikole c

10y

I love driving at night to this song and watching all the city lights dance away into the night sky as i slowly drive by.

pastramipussy

When I listen to this song, I go into a trance, and it's the best trance I've ever had.

Zack Hage

6y↑10

To me this song is about how different life choices lead to different consequences, bringing fantasy to reality
Maybe I'm the only one though

Shauna

10y

This song makes me feel very far away. Somehow empty, like I'm perturbed. But I love it.

Paxton Wolf

You dont have to be love to high their music.

TrevorMeetsInfinity

The chemical process through which THC alters your mind's interpretation of sensory input and electrical impulses is not something to discredit. I love this song when I'm sober. I appreciate it on a much deeper, more personal, and euphoric level when I listen to it high. The XX's xx was one of the first albums I ever really understood on a more emotional and comprehensive level thanks to THC.

Andrea Stojanovska

8y↑1

This is the sexiest song EVER! :3

Sylvaine Borg

10y↑1

Thanks Lord for giving us the xx :)))))

mondaythe10th

10y

I'm listening to this with skullcandy skullcrushers and my earring was vibrating so much that I had to take it out Thats a first!

Rvben

You dont have to be high to love their music.

kadli666

I discovered this song in a Gandolfini's tribute document and I can't stop listening to this masterpiece

Cablecar18

10y

I listened to this while playing "Ravenholm" in Half-Life 2. With only the gravity gun. My heart was racing. Felt like I wouldn't get out. Like I'd Be trapped Forever

Nick Brunner

the bass is orgasmic

sophie cain

the bass in this song is unreal

Why Google, why?

I feel sorry for those without subwoofers, you guys are missing out on a pure peace of beauty with the bass of the song.

VexeD

10y

This song will be the theme song to the series/movie I'm probably gonna put on YouTube when I'm back in the states

LawrenceIfYouWill

10y

I don't need no weed when I got the headphones and this song is playing....PERFECT AAAH!!! *_*

Yammercat

i nearly broke my ears to this wonderful song and i would do it millions of times over again

Tmankidrule

I could definitely see this song playing in the background of a trailer for one of those movies where the world is ending.

Curfizzle

I was just thinking about how it'd feel to listen to this while on acid haha

haytotheden

10y↑1

This song is so sexy in my car. Or my old Altec Lansing computer speakers. The bass is mind numbing.

Kjfdrt Kd

5y↑47

THIS IS THE BEST SONG IN MY LIFE

Kjfdrt Kd

5y↑6

awmesome

Corat McRed

10y↑1

I just noticed the background in the x, actually moves around while the song plays. So cool.

Amanda Busatto

1:22 my head and my heart will explode.

willowramsey

40w

Pure opium. This song is bliss

Cheatcode

10y

I totally cried when I heard this in Kokuhaku--when the clock started reversing the explosion, I felt so sorry for Shuya...because that would just be a fantasy. He'd never be able to take back that explosion.

David Sansun

This on full volume through my headphones almost killed me. Like that scene in Scanners where the the guy's head blows up.

Powie11

10y↑1

I love the effect of their music

LUL

Man this is a great song, the replay button lost its virginity today :)

BOWERSKITTEN

5y↑7

omg this music is from " confessions - kokuhaku " no ? OAO

RIKO THE MAN

Sometimes I see the world how fucked up it really is 💕

MindlessWishing

11y

this song is perfect right before i go to sleep.

Fuhhh

1:22 and everything after is all I really like about this

Safiel Vonay

I fantasize... of both of us, combining thoughts like stars do dust. ~Safiel

Peter garner

reminds me in between falling asleep and having the slightest bit of awerness left, this is the music that my dreaming mind plays

Genesis1music

13w

I heard Tokyo 11 and 1 threw 8 before actually hearing this song. Trippy asf

CautionChildrens

mac anyone? Just started listening to them, they are so relaxing :) getting me up there without any help from mary :)

xoxopiakatharinaxoxo

''..and smoking weed'' haha oh my god that came pretty unexpected. it's my fav part though.

Damian

Imagining i'm in a field with nothing but fog for miles and i can see the trees branches gently moving :)

FrankyDee63

7y↑25

where do i find more songs with that really low rumble which kicks in at 1:22

Indicud

1y↑3

Mac Miller - 1 threw 8

DeDirtyMonkey

2y↑1

nuages - dreams

spicymoon

Pierce Fulton-Old Man & The Sea (or and is or) I forgot lol but that song might have what you're talking about :)

Cesar Corrales

Dredude- weedstorm

Cesar Corrales

Thats the only part i listen to

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edballs

10y

living up to the cliche annd being high, all i will say is that this is an amazing song whether under the influence or not, its merely that i would say the music seems to 'surround' me more... fucking excellent experience.

1MDCR

10y

i swear romys solo at the end fits perfectly with the chorus or shelter?

jujubeanz

the song goes deep.

yasmine nairat

5y↑5

I LOVE THIS MAN'S VOICE :') ♥

frank vigan

49w

I found this song after so many years, fren

Maddie Anderson

10y

the soundtrack of one of my wildest/weirdest nights..

Andreas Faust

imagine the xx playing this song in the middle of a lake at night below a starry sky, and thousands of colorful glow sticks lighting up the scene while you are sitting in one of the small wooden boats on the lake kissing the love of your life or/and smoking weed.

Anjuly Labruyere

Listen to this with Earpods. it is amazing!

meggan bean

10y

wow. this band. puts me in.. a mood.. like im underwater and cant breath.... like i dont have any blood in my body. like im dead and laying on the beach. i love the XX!

Sebastián Párraga

you just feel this amazing thing in your ear

Alyssa Goidich

7y↑8

I swear i could sleep to this music its so peaceful and great

Brittsterzz yoo

10y

Get Stoned Turn The Strobe On And Trip Ballz To This (:

g h o s t k i d s

10y

My poor, old subwoofer ;). My entire body shakes, everything shakes and flows. Like the soundtrakck of my drems, like the time stops, like I'm lost among the stars...Unbelievable feeling. Love this song so much <3.