Addicted To Love
w-inds. Lyrics

The lyrics to w-inds.'s song Addicted To Love explores the sublime and unpredictable nature of love. The opening lines, "I wanna know what love is, ippiki ichigo soshite ishin denshin" (meaning "once in a lifetime, heart-to-heart communication"), suggest a longing to understand the uncharted wilderness of love. The artist then delves deeper into the subject, expressing the paradoxical nature of love as one becomes more and more tender-hearted yet frightened at the same time, "ai wo shireba shiru hodo okubyou ni narunda, mou daremo nidoto aisanai tomo chikatta... dakedo doushite? Kikanai yokusei mata kinshin ni furete" (meaning "the more one knows about love, the more fearful one becomes. I swear I won't love once again... but why? The restraint doesn't work, it touches the heartstrings again"). Amid the repetition of "addicted to love" and "la la la la" in the chorus, the artist further observes that love is a self-driven ego trip of dopamine, and that he is addicted to the mysterious and powerful force of love, no matter how fleeting, illusory, or painful it may be.

The lyrics also explore the transformative impacts of love, expressed through the metaphors of falling and flying, "maggasakini ochinagara mo tonderu kanji" (meaning "feeling like flying while falling down"), and the duality of love's object as both an angel and a devil, "aishi wa ego, soshite sore wa dopamine no shigoto, ganbou to yokubou ga orikonosu tada no sakkyaku... naraba doushite? Sayonara yori yasashisa no hou ga setsunai no?" (meaning "love is ego, and that's the work of dopamine. Desire and lust weave an obvious hallucination... but then why? Is kindness sadder than goodbye?"). The chorus repeats three times, each time stressing the singer's addiction to love, his willingness to embrace the bitter-sweet nature of the experience.