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You Can't Have Everything
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Written: 1990 Recorded: June 27, 2000 Mastered: July 2006 Originally appeared on: Beggars Dozen (1990)
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Conceived and reared in New York, domesticated in Southern California. Physician, musician, husband, father and generalized procrastinator, not necessarily in t
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic General
Charts
Peak #1,426
Peak in subgenre #336
Author
Michael Novick
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August 05, 2006
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MP3 2.8 MB • 128 kbps • 3:05
Story behind the song
I was in love with her. She was dating some guy, a friend she knew from home. She caught him cheating at a frat house and came running, drunk, down the hill to our dorm, to me, drenched and sobbing, makeup hopelessly and, if we’re going to be honest, comically smeared. You can’t have everything. I think this song was a big step forward for me, though I didn’t realize it at the time. It’s passionate. It doesn’t rhyme. It got me thinking.
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you come in from the rain with tears in your eyes and you don't know which way to turn things get so confused you're feeling battered and used you want to be holding hands you want to be taking time you want to be running wild you want something desperate and alive but you can't have everything it's always the same it's said and it's done but you want something more than a dream in the midnight sun it was one on the one he made you believe in him he broke your defenses down he promised you everything then he took it all away and said, "you can't have everything"
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