Amoeba’s Lorica: You Can’t Always Get What You Want

With apologies to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

I saw it today at the checkstand,
The very last pint of heavy cream.
It was in another’s bag; I asked the lady,
Is there backroom stock, or is that just a dream?
She said to me:

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, may be you’ll find,
You get what you need.

My wife, she sent me out for baking powder –
There’s nothing on the shelves, and that was that.
I asked my lady love about her baking, and
She said one word to me, and that was “Flat.”

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,
You get what you need.

I went down to the local hardware,
To get our propane tanks filled,
I was standing outside with this big dude,
Staring at the sign that told us all to chill.

He said, “Bruddah, you know that this is payback,
For counting on those trucks, planes, and ships.”
I asked him what he planned to have for dinner,
He said “What we always did: fish, no chips.”
And then he said,

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,
You get what you need.