Nora York: Singing "What I Want"

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Translator: Reviewer: Daban Q. Jaff
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I'd like to begin this song I wrote
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about ceaseless yearning and never-ending want
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with a poem of popular Petrarchan paradoxes
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by Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder:
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"I find no peace, and all my war is done;
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I fear and hope, I burn and freeze like ice;
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I fly above the wind,
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and yet I cannot arise;
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And naught I have,
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and all the world I seize upon."
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♫ I want what I can't have, need what I can't want ♫
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♫ Have what I don't have, what I want ♫
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♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫
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♫ Have what I don't have, what I want ♫
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♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫
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♫ Have what I don't have, what I want ♫
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♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫
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♫ Have what I don't have, what I want ♫
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♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫
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♫ Have but I don't have ♫
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♫ It feels like all I got is loss on a bad back ♫
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♫ Gone with the last train, honey don't you fret ♫
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♫ Every cloud has a silver lining ♫
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♫ Just a little rain, just a little rain, just a little rain ♫
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♫ I want what I can't have, need what I can't want ♫
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♫ Have what I don't have, what I want ♫
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♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫
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♫ Have but I don't have ♫
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♫ My mind won't stop, and my heart says go ♫
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♫ Nobody knows how to hold me ♫
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♫ My mind won't stop, and my heart says, ♫
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♫ "Good things come to those who wait" ♫
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♫ And I can't stand in ... ♫
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♫ I can't stand in line forever ♫
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♫ Stand the cold air ♫
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♫ Glad-handed ♫
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♫ Sick and tired of the "Later, maybe" ♫
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♫ Take it, fake it, take it, take-it-or-leave-it life ♫
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♫ And I gotta just tame it ♫
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♫ I gotta just name it ♫
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♫ I gotta just seize, so please, oh please, oh please, oh please ♫
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♫ Oh please me right, 'cause ♫
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♫ My mind won't stop ♫
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♫ And my heart says go ♫
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♫ Nobody knows how to hold me ♫
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♫ My mind won't stop -- and my heart says go-ooooo ... ♫
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♫ Good things must be here -- yes, right here ♫
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♫ Here, right here, right here ♫
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♫ I won't live this life forever ♫
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♫ One time round is all the offer is ♫
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♫ Sick and tired of the "Later, maybe" ♫
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♫ Take it, fake it, make it, leave it life ♫
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♫ And I gotta just name it, I gotta just claim it ♫
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♫ I gotta just seize ♫
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♫ Oh please, oh please, oh please me right ♫
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♫ I want what I can't have, need what I can't want ♫
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♫ Have what I don't have, what I want ♫
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♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫
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♫ Have but I don't have -- you know that ♫
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♫ My mind won't stop, and my heart says go ♫
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♫ Nobody knows how to hold me, no ♫
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♫ My mind won't stop, and my heart says go ♫
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♫ 'Cause I want what I can't have, need what I can't want ♫
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♫ Have but I -- have what I want ♫
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♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫
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♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫
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♫ Have but I don't have, what I want ♫
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♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫
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♫ Have what I don't have, what I want ♫
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♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫
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♫ Have but I don't have, what I want ♫
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♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫
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♫ Have but I don't have what I want ♫
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(Applause)
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