Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Peggy Lee
Canonical path: /peggy-lee/you-can-t-always-get-what-you-want
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You Can't Always Get What You Want
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You Can't Always Get What You Want
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I saw her today at the reception.
She had a glass of wine in her hand.
She said, "Well, now I have to go meet my connection."
At her feet was a footloose man.
I heard her say,
"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, you just might find,
surely you will find you get what you need.
Oh, don't you find that you will get what you need?"
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Peggy Lee performs "You Can't Always Get What You Want", and this lyric page sits inside the Peggy Lee catalog on LyroVerse.
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