nora york sings "what i want"

I'd like to begin this song I wrote about ceaseless yearning and never-ending want with a poem of popular Petrarchan paradoxes by Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder: "I find no peace, and all my war is done; I fear and hope, I burn and freeze like ice; I fly above the wind, and yet I cannot arise; And naught I have, and all the world I seize upon."

I want what I can't have, need what I can't want

Have what I don't have, what I want

What I can't have, need what I can't want

Have what I don't have, what I want

What I can't have, need what I can't want

Have what I don't have, what I want

What I can't have, need what I can't want

Have what I don't have, what I want

What I can't have, need what I can't want

Have but I don't have

It feels like all I got is loss on a bad back

Gone with the last train, honey don't you fret

Every cloud has a silver lining

Just a little rain, just a little rain, just a little rain

I want what I can't have, need what I can't want

Have what I don't have, what I want

What I can't have, need what I can't want

Have but I don't have

My mind won't stop, and my heart says go

Nobody knows how to hold me

My mind won't stop, and my heart says,

"Good things come to those who wait"

And I can't stand in ... 

I can't stand in line forever

Stand the cold air

Glad-handed

Sick and tired of the "Later, maybe"

Take it, fake it, take it, take-it-or-leave-it life

And I gotta just tame it

I gotta just name it

I gotta just seize, so please, oh please, oh please, oh please

Oh please me right, 'cause

My mind won't stop

And my heart says go

Nobody knows how to hold me

My mind won't stop—and my heart says go-ooooo ... 

Good things must be here—yes, right here

Here, right here, right here

I won't live this life forever

One time round is all the offer is

Sick and tired of the "Later, maybe"

Take it, fake it, make it, leave it life

And I gotta just name it, I gotta just claim it

I gotta just seize

Oh please, oh please, oh please me right

I want what I can't have, need what I can't want

Have what I don't have, what I want

What I can't have, need what I can't want

Have but I don't have—you know that

My mind won't stop, and my heart says go

Nobody knows how to hold me, no

My mind won't stop, and my heart says go

'Cause I want what I can't have, need what I can't want

Have but I—have what I want

What I can't have, need what I can't want

What I can't have, need what I can't want

Have but I don't have, what I want

What I can't have, need what I can't want

Have what I don't have, what I want

What I can't have, need what I can't want

Have but I don't have, what I want

What I can't have, need what I can't want

Have but I don't have what I want

(Applause)