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How do you feed your soul these days?
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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 ♫
♫ 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 ♫
♫ 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" ♫
♫ I can't stand in line forever ♫
♫ Sick and tired of the "Later, maybe" ♫
♫ Take it, fake it, take it, take-it-or-leave-it life ♫
♫ I gotta just seize, so please, oh please, oh please, oh please ♫
♫ Oh please me right, 'cause ♫
♫ 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 ♫
♫ 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 ♫
About The Speaker
"Philosopher diva" Nora York is an adventurous singer-songwriter with a drive to explore the human condition.
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Nora York gives a stunning performance of her song "What I Want," with Jamie Lawrence (keyboards), Steve Tarshis (guitar) and Arthur Kell (bass).
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