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I Desire - The One I Love

By Pastor Chingtok Ishaku

15,448 views Sep 7, 2026 updated Verified editorial review

Song Meaning

Pastor Chingtok Ishaku builds this one out of call-and-response rather than narrative, which strips the song down to almost nothing but insistence — no one else, no one else, repeated until the exclusivity of the claim is the entire content. The verse's short questions and answers ("no one else but you can satisfy" met with a flat "no") work like a catechism more than a lyric, teaching the response by making the congregation say it back. The second half, subtitled "The One I Love," shifts register toward the language of Song of Solomon — being sealed upon the heart, living for, singing to, rejoicing at a single beloved — borrowing romantic intimacy to describe devotion rather than keeping the song in more generic praise vocabulary. That borrowed intimacy is what separates this from a simple declaration of loyalty; the echo section's short verbs (live, sing, rejoice, respond) each name a different way affection gets expressed rather than just repeating the same claim four times. For a song built on so little lyrical material, the specificity of "sealed upon my heart" carries most of its emotional weight.
Lyrics Verified by Editorial Team

Chorus:

I desire nothing else

No one else but you lord

I desire nothing else

No one else

But you Jesus.


Verse:

Call: No one else but you can satisfy

Response: No……………..

Call: No one else but you can change my life

Response: No………

No one else but you can give me hope for tomorrow

I desire nothing else no one else but you Jesus


THE ONE I LOVE 


The one l love is ever before me

He’s seal’s upon my heart

I live for the one I love


Echo:

I live for the one I love

I sing to the one I love

I rejoice at the one I love

I respond to the one I love.

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