lyric
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Its most famous lyric is: “You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.”
From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026
By the second track, Stupid Song, they've hooked up; and she's so happy she can't write a sensible lyric.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
That lyric is heard over a minor-key piano in “Love Story,” the last track on the first side.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
The lyric, "I'll cry my eyes violet", refers to the star's famously entrancing eyes; and the line "what could you possibly get for the girl who has everything" namechecks one of her films.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
Whenever there was a pause in the song she filled it with gasping broken sobs and then took up the lyric again in a quavering soprano.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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