I remember running through the wet grass

13 on both the RPM Top Singles and Alternative 30 charts. The song was most successful on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, where it peaked at No. 48 on the US Billboard Hot 100, peaking on February 8, 1997.

'Desperately Wanting' (radio edit) вЂ“ 4:01.

The video for 'Desperately Wanting' was filmed at Los Angeles International Airport. That's an amazing time of promise, and that's what 'Desperately Wanting' is about.' Music video But there's a time where all your potential is untapped and the world hasn't had its way with you. And then life takes everybody on their own journeys. And how when you're young and you're running around all night, and life hasn't had its way with you, the playing field is equal and it's flat. And then just how you lose touch with people. One person made a lot of bad decisions and ended up having some mental issues. And then it's a story of two people who took divergent paths in life. It was about those nights spent with a friend running around, running through the wet grass. And literally, you're running all through the neighborhood and through the yards, and there's the dew on the grass. Specifically that song is about when I used to camp out with my friends in the summer down in the South, and you'd stay up all night causing havoc, throwing rocks at passing cars, knocking over mailboxes and vandalizing, as red-blooded men are wont to do.

In an interview with, Better Than Ezra frontman Kevin Griffin, who wrote this song, explained: ''Desperately Wanting' is a song where someone is looking back on their childhood.

I remember running through the wet grass