You Can’t Always Get What You Want

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I saw her today at the reception
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A glass of wine in her hand
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I knew she was gonna meet her connection,
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At her feet was her foot-loose man–.

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And you can’t always get what you want-,
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Honey, you can’t always get what you want-
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You can’t always get what you want-
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But if you try sometime, yeah,
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You just might find you get what you need!

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I went down to the demonstration
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to get our fair share of abuse–,
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Singing, “We gonna vent our frustration”
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If we don’t we’ll blow a fifty amp fuse-
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So, I went to the Chelsea Drugstore
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to get your prescription filled
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I was standing in line with your friend Jimmy
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And man, did he look pretty ill–
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We decided that we would have a soda-,
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My fav’rite flavor was cherry red–
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I sing this song to my friend, Jimmy,
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And he said one word to me and that was “dead”

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And you saw her today at the reception
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In her glass was a bleeding man-
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She was practised at the art of deception,
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I could tell by her blood-stained hands

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And you can’t always get what you want-,
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Honey, you can’t always get what you want-
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You can’t always get what you want-
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But if you try sometime, yeah,
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You just might find you get what you need!

You Can’t Always Get What You Want

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