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"-Can't Always Get What You Want" was a Mite too Optimist...
The first and most obvious influence for this one is evident right in the title itself. I do wonder, sometimes, if Mick and Keef consciously set out to write a song that would become an ofttimes impishly-mocking cliché. Likewise is the obvious parable of the goose that laid the golden egg, and our insatiable desire to take things apart to try and see how they work, even at the expense of breaking them.
*cough* Curta Calculator-enthusiasts, yes, I am looking at you right now… *cough*
Well, as Billy Bragg sang in the song “Must I Paint You a Picture?” from his 1988 album Worker’s Playtime:
“The temptation
to take the precious things we have apart
to see how they work
must be resisted, for they never fit together again…”
I will also admit that when I think of clever little things about the Stones, I can’t help but think of that rather politically-incorrect joke about had The Stones been Scottish rather than English, they may have Spoonerised the full title of “Get Off My Cloud!”
There is also a reference to a quote I’ve always liked, and which was attributed to Atheist Philosopher Bertrand Russell:
“No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin; he does not say, 'You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.' He attempts to find out what is wrong and to set it right.”
This is also not about any one, particular person, but rather a compilation of bits and pieces of at least a dozen different people that I have butted heads with over the course of my life, and I think that, as a result, the meta-reference is generic enough that most people could likewise apply it to their own life experiences to a greater or lesser degree. It features parents, more distant relatives, friends, acquaintances, and other people in positions of authority over us… Maybe not necessarily mine, and not necessarily yours either, but perhaps we can all identify with them to a greater or lesser extent.
And yes, I’ll admit that this is a rather bitter, pessimistic message, overall, but I think it does qualify as Manifest Knowledge that there are a certain number of things in life that simply are that way, and not a damn thing to be done about it.
Or, for the {TL;DR] Gen-X Slacker Translation: “It is what it is.”
*cough* Curta Calculator-enthusiasts, yes, I am looking at you right now… *cough*
Well, as Billy Bragg sang in the song “Must I Paint You a Picture?” from his 1988 album Worker’s Playtime:
“The temptation
to take the precious things we have apart
to see how they work
must be resisted, for they never fit together again…”
I will also admit that when I think of clever little things about the Stones, I can’t help but think of that rather politically-incorrect joke about had The Stones been Scottish rather than English, they may have Spoonerised the full title of “Get Off My Cloud!”
There is also a reference to a quote I’ve always liked, and which was attributed to Atheist Philosopher Bertrand Russell:
“No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin; he does not say, 'You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.' He attempts to find out what is wrong and to set it right.”
This is also not about any one, particular person, but rather a compilation of bits and pieces of at least a dozen different people that I have butted heads with over the course of my life, and I think that, as a result, the meta-reference is generic enough that most people could likewise apply it to their own life experiences to a greater or lesser degree. It features parents, more distant relatives, friends, acquaintances, and other people in positions of authority over us… Maybe not necessarily mine, and not necessarily yours either, but perhaps we can all identify with them to a greater or lesser extent.
And yes, I’ll admit that this is a rather bitter, pessimistic message, overall, but I think it does qualify as Manifest Knowledge that there are a certain number of things in life that simply are that way, and not a damn thing to be done about it.
Or, for the {TL;DR] Gen-X Slacker Translation: “It is what it is.”
Category Poetry / Animal related (non-anthro)
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