Singing "What I Want"
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0:00 - 0:03I'd like to begin this song I wrote
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0:03 - 0:08about ceaseless yearning and never-ending want
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0:08 - 0:13with a poem of popular Petrarchan paradoxes
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0:13 - 0:16by Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder:
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0:16 - 0:21"I find no peace, and all my war is done;
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0:21 - 0:28I fear and hope, I burn and freeze like ice;
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0:28 - 0:31I fly above the wind,
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0:31 - 0:34and yet I cannot arise;
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0:34 - 0:37And naught I have,
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0:37 - 0:41and all the world I seize upon."
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0:46 - 0:48♫ I want what I can't have, need what I can't want ♫
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0:48 - 0:50♫ Have what I don't have, what I want ♫
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0:50 - 0:52♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫
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0:52 - 0:54♫ Have what I don't have, what I want ♫
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0:54 - 0:56♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫
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0:56 - 0:58♫ Have what I don't have, what I want ♫
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0:58 - 1:00♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫
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1:00 - 1:03♫ Have what I don't have, what I want ♫
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1:03 - 1:05♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫
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1:05 - 1:06♫ Have but I don't have ♫
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1:06 - 1:08♫ It feels like all I got is loss on a bad back ♫
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1:08 - 1:10♫ Gone with the last train, honey don't you fret ♫
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1:10 - 1:12♫ Every cloud has a silver lining ♫
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1:12 - 1:16♫ Just a little rain, just a little rain, just a little rain ♫
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1:16 - 1:19♫ I want what I can't have, need what I can't want ♫
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1:19 - 1:21♫ Have what I don't have, what I want ♫
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1:21 - 1:23♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫
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1:23 - 1:26♫ Have but I don't have ♫
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1:26 - 1:29♫ My mind won't stop, and my heart says go ♫
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1:29 - 1:34♫ Nobody knows how to hold me ♫
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1:34 - 1:37♫ My mind won't stop, and my heart says, ♫
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1:37 - 1:41♫ "Good things come to those who wait" ♫
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1:41 - 1:44♫ And I can't stand in ... ♫
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1:44 - 1:48♫ I can't stand in line forever ♫
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1:48 - 1:51♫ Stand the cold air ♫
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1:51 - 1:53♫ Glad-handed ♫
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1:53 - 1:57♫ Sick and tired of the "Later, maybe" ♫
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1:57 - 2:01♫ Take it, fake it, take it, take-it-or-leave-it life ♫
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2:01 - 2:03♫ And I gotta just tame it ♫
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2:03 - 2:05♫ I gotta just name it ♫
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2:05 - 2:08♫ I gotta just seize, so please, oh please, oh please, oh please ♫
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2:08 - 2:10♫ Oh please me right, 'cause ♫
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2:10 - 2:12♫ My mind won't stop ♫
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2:12 - 2:15♫ And my heart says go ♫
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2:15 - 2:18♫ Nobody knows how to hold me ♫
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2:18 - 2:23♫ My mind won't stop -- and my heart says go-ooooo ... ♫
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2:40 - 2:45♫ Good things must be here -- yes, right here ♫
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2:45 - 2:48♫ Here, right here, right here ♫
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2:48 - 2:53♫ I won't live this life forever ♫
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2:53 - 2:57♫ One time round is all the offer is ♫
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2:57 - 3:01♫ Sick and tired of the "Later, maybe" ♫
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3:01 - 3:05♫ Take it, fake it, make it, leave it life ♫
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3:05 - 3:08♫ And I gotta just name it, I gotta just claim it ♫
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3:08 - 3:10♫ I gotta just seize ♫
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3:10 - 3:13♫ Oh please, oh please, oh please me right ♫
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3:13 - 3:16♫ I want what I can't have, need what I can't want ♫
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3:16 - 3:18♫ Have what I don't have, what I want ♫
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3:18 - 3:20♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫
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3:20 - 3:22♫ Have but I don't have -- you know that ♫
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3:22 - 3:26♫ My mind won't stop, and my heart says go ♫
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3:26 - 3:30♫ Nobody knows how to hold me, no ♫
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3:30 - 3:35♫ My mind won't stop, and my heart says go ♫
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3:35 - 3:39♫ 'Cause I want what I can't have, need what I can't want ♫
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3:40 - 3:43♫ Have but I -- have what I want ♫
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3:43 - 3:45♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫
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3:45 - 3:48♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫
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3:48 - 3:50♫ Have but I don't have, what I want ♫
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3:50 - 3:52♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫
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3:52 - 3:54♫ Have what I don't have, what I want ♫
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3:54 - 3:56♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫
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3:56 - 3:58♫ Have but I don't have, what I want ♫
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3:58 - 4:00♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫
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4:00 - 4:02♫ Have but I don't have what I want ♫
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4:06 - 4:11(Applause)
- Title:
- Singing "What I Want"
- Speaker:
- Nora York
- Description:
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Nora York gives a stunning performance of her song "What I Want," with Jamie Lawrence (keyboards), Steve Tarshis (guitar) and Arthur Kell (bass).
- Video Language:
- English
- Team:
closed TED
- Project:
- TEDTalks
- Duration:
- 04:14
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