The Rolling Stones: You Can't Always Get What You Want Meaning
Song Released: 1973
Covered By: Glee Cast
You Can't Always Get What You Want Lyrics
A glass of wine in her hand
I knew she would meet her connection
At her feet was her footloose man
No, you can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you...
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It also had alot to do with Marianne Faithfull, at this time she was sinking into a much heavier drug use and this was Mick's plea to her to slow down.
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Actually Mr. Jimmy refers to the song's producer (Jimmy something, I forget his last name), who filled in on drums after the drummer couldn't master the beat.
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It's about communism. (well not really but I'd like it to be.) I want the song to be about someone living in a communist country who wants to buy whatever he or she wants, but instead their government just gives them the necessities.
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I think the song refers to different ways of feeling disattisfied with life and how we cope with that with other things.
'I knew she would meet her connection
At her feet was her footloose man'
It sounds like the women compensated for her unfaithful
husband (Footloose man) by buying drugs.
'You can't always get what you want
And if you try sometime you find
You get what you need'
The rest of the song seems to follow other ways
of being diasapointed with life in general.
'And I went down to the demonstration
To get my fair share of abuse
Singing, "We're gonna vent our frustration
If we don't we're gonna blow a 50-amp fuse"
Sing it to me now...' -
He says "I went to the drugstore ... Standing in line was Mr. Jimmy", I heard this referred to Jimmy Hendrix.
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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In some respects, the song is about the end of the 60's, and the fact that people of the time simply couldn't have whatever they wanted.
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The lyrics "I knew she was gonna meet her connection" refers to buying drugs, meeting a drug connection.
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