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 stopand my heart says go-ooooo ...
Good things must be hereyes, 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 haveyou 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 Ihave 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)