I think you should listen to “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” today
I am a big fan of the classics and The Rolling Stones are one of the greats. With all this talk of self care and positivity, we can forget that the past has some advice for us too. I think music is one of the better ones, with songs that reach generations. One of these songs is Rolling Stones’s You Can’t Always Get What You Want.
Lyrics are here:
[Verse 1]
I saw her today at the reception
A glass of wine in her hand
I knew she was gonna meet her connection
At her feet was a footloose man
[Chorus]
You can’t always get what you want
You can’t always get what you want
You can’t always get what you want
But if you try sometimes
Well, you might find
You get what you need
[Verse 2]
And I went down to the demonstration
To get my fair share of abuse
Singing, “We’re going to vent our frustration
If we don’t, we’re going to blow a 50-amp fuse”
[Chorus]
You can’t always get what you want
You can’t always get what you want
You can’t always get what you want
But if you try sometimes
Well, you just might find
You get what you need
[Verse 3]
I went down to the Chelsea drugstore
To get your prescription filled
I was standing in line with Mr. Jimmy
And man, did he look pretty ill
We decided that we would have a soda
My favorite flavor, cherry red
I sung my song to Mr. Jimmy
Yeah, and he said one word to me, and that was “dead”
I said to him:
[Chorus]
You can’t always get what you want
You can’t always get what you want
You can’t always get what you want
But if you try sometimes
Well, you just might find
You get what you need
[Verse 4]
You get what you need, yeah, oh baby
I saw her today at the reception
In her glass was a bleeding man
She was practiced at the art of deception
Well I could tell by her blood-stained hands
[Outro]
You can’t always get what you want, yeah
You can’t always get what you want, ooh yeah
You can’t always get what you want
But if you try sometimes, you just might find
You just might find you get what you need, ah yeah
Ah yeah
Wooh!
Ah you can’t always get what you want (no no)
You can’t always get what you want (you can’t no no)
You can’t always get what you want
…mmm but if you try sometimes, you just might find
You just might find you get what you need
Ah yeah!
Ah yeah! Yeah
People more religious will say, “When God closes a door he opens a window”, and for a lot of non-religious folks, it makes it hard to listen, but when the Stones say “You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find you get what you need”. So the next time you face a disappointment, or face something you view as a failure, it may lead you to something that actually makes better sense.
Listen this humpday Wednesday to a song about moving forward and accepting things may not be what you thought it’d be, but it works out.
