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Everybody Wants What They Can't Have

from "Westernization" (2023) by Confusionaires!

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This song is a bit of a story song. It combines the traits of multiple people over the years, myself included, who've been extremely selfish and self serving much to the chagrin of the community. The song serves as an ominous warning about where that lifestyle leads...

When you're 22, you're invincible.
But fast forward a couple decades and it's a little less cute.

We all know someone like this, don't we?

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I remember how it happened he don’t listen when you push him away
If I had myself a pistol I swear I’d make him pay
I get so nervous when he comes around here
Shaking like a Chevy taking off in 3rd gear
And the cooling off period is way too long
So I never bought a gun, I wrote another sad song

To you he’s the biggest rock & roll star in the world
But to me he's just another son of a bitch who's trying to steal my girl
You can hold someone in high regard
But it really don't matter who they are
Everybody wants what they can't have

It's all he can manage just to keep on staggering around
Concentrating every last effort on running his mouth
His liquor is brown and his drugs are white
Surefire recipe for starting a fight
In a redneck bar with some redneck guys
Who couldn’t shut him up so they blacken his eyes

To you he’s the biggest rock & roll star in the world
But to me he's just another son of a bitch who's trying to steal my girl
You can hold someone in high regard
But it really don't matter who they are
Everybody wants what they can't have

He wandered home alone a little while after the sun rose
He laid his head on the kitchen table and I guess he just never awoke
I heard the landlord found his keys in the door
Just as he did so many other times before
He could have gone pretty far with his rock & roll band
But his heart and his liver had a different plan

He could have been the one to breathe rock & roll new life
But in the end he was just another son of a bitch who’s flirting up my wife
You can hold someone in high regard
But it really don't matter who they are
Everybody wants what they can't have
We all want what we can’t have

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from "Westernization" (2023), released April 13, 2023

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Confusionaires! Edmonton, Alberta

Confusionaires are a world-class traditional rock & roll band that are constantly pushing the boundaries of what traditional music can be. Hailing from Edmonton, Canada, the trio has built a sound that’s synonymous with the hardest-hitting and country and rockabilly acts around. Confusionaires appeal to both the purists and the rebels, and their sound transcends generational boundaries. ... more

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