Can't Have

Album: Climate Change (2017)
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  • Ape Drums, Steven Clark, and yours truly
    Mr. W.W.
    I told you once (Can't have)
    I tell you twice (Can't have)
    The grass looks greener on the other side
    'Til you get to the other side

    Well you're happy now
    And I'm so glad, 'cause you're so right
    Well then I guess we always
    Want what we can't have
    Why does loneliness hurt so bad
    And girl I want you back
    Well then I guess we always
    Want what we can't have

    Can't have
    Can't have
    Can't have
    Ohh!

    I see Central Park, from my hotel room
    And it's got me thinking
    'Bout the crazy things we use to do
    For the fame, for the power, for the fortune
    Ducked prison, ducked death, I'm fortunate
    It was all a dream, now I wake up and live it
    Thinking that the sky was the limit
    'Til I figured out there was footprints on the moon
    Now I'm like get out the way, bitch move

    Papo I'm live, fuck the other side
    I'm always gonna rep 305 'til I die
    Everyone knows that this chico gon' ride
    Now I won't kill you but I'll watch you die
    I'm always gonna rep 305 'til I die
    Everyone knows that this chico gon' ride
    Now I won't kill you but I'll watch you die
    Everyone wants what they can't have right?

    Well you're happy now
    And I'm so glad, 'cause you're so right
    Well then I guess we always
    Want what we can't have
    Why does loneliness hurt so bad
    And girl I want you back
    Well then I guess we always
    Want what we can't have

    Can't have, can't have
    Can't have, can't have
    Can't have, ohh!

    Looking at my backyard, now all I see the ocean
    Not bad for a kid that grew up with roaches
    Drama, chaos, and different coaches
    That's what allows me to see through these vultures
    First we shining shoes
    Then we own the shoe shop
    First we make the sandwich
    Then we own the restaurants
    First then we clean the house
    Then we own every house on the block
    Not bad for some immigrants

    Papo I'm live, fuck the other side
    I'm always gonna rep 305 'til I die
    Everyone knows that this chico gon' ride
    Now I won't kill you but I'll watch you die
    I'm always gonna rep 305 'til I die
    Everyone knows that this chico gon' ride
    Now I won't kill you but I'll watch you die
    Everyone wants what they can't have right?

    Well you're happy now
    And I'm so glad, 'cause you're so right
    Well then I guess we always
    Want what we can't have
    Why does loneliness hurt so bad
    And girl I want you back
    Well then I guess we always
    Want what we can't have

    Can't have, can't have
    Can't have, can't have
    Can't have, ohh!

    But I guess we always want
    What we can't have Writer/s: Armando Christian Perez, Eric Alberto Lopez, Samuel Evan Hyken, Steven Alan II Clark, Steven Sanz
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Payday Music Publishing, SC PUBLISHING DBA SECRETLY CANADIAN PUB., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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