The Rolling Stones – You Can’t Always Get What You Want Lyrics

And I saw her today at the reception
A glass of wine in her hand
And I knew she was gonna meet her connection
At her feet was her footloose man

Now you can’t always get what you want, alright
Now you can’t (always get what you want)
That’s right
Now you can’t (always get what you want)
And if you try sometime, oh you just might find
You get what you need, oh yeah

And I went down to the demonstration, yeah
To get my fair share, get my fair shares of abuse
Singing, “We’re gon’ vent our frustration
And if we don’t, we’re gon’ blow, we’re gon’ blow a fifty-amp fuse”
Yeah, you all know what I’m singing now
Come on y’all, I’ll tell you all ’bout it now but

You can’t always get what you want, yeah
Now you can’t always get what you want, yeah
Now you can’t always get what you want
And if you try sometime, yeah you just might find, yeah
You get what you need
Baby
True love

And I went down to the Chelsea Drugstore
To get your prescription filled
I was standing in line with Mr. Jimmy
Yeah man, did he look pretty ill

Yeah, we decided to have a soda
What’s your favourite flavour? Cherry red
And I sung my song, sung my song to my friend Jimmy
And he said one word back to me, back to me, and that was, “Dead”
I said, come on

Now you can’t always get what you want
You can’t always get what you want
You can’t always get what you want
And if you try sometimes you just might find
You get what you need
Baby
True love, yeah
Alright

Oh yeah

Yeah, you can’t always get what you want
You can’t always get what you want
You can’t always get what you want
And if you try sometimes you just might find
You get what you need

Yeah
Yes
Oh yes (oh yes)
Oh yes (oh yes)
Oh yes (oh yes)
Ah, ah, ah (ah ah, ah)
Oh, oh, oh (oh, oh, oh)
Woo!