The Rolling Stones' lyric 'But if you try sometime you find...' is completed by 'you get what you need.'
'You Can't Always Get What You Want' was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and released by The Rolling Stones in 1969. It appeared on the album Let It Bleed and became one of the band's most enduring songs.
The recording opens with a choir and includes acoustic guitar, piano, French horn and other instruments. The London Bach Choir sings on the track, giving the arrangement a ceremonial sound that contrasts with its references to political meetings, social unrest and personal disappointment.
The song was not the band's biggest original chart hit in the United States, but it grew into a major live staple. The phrase is often shortened in everyday speech, yet the lyric's full contrast is between not getting what one wants and receiving what one needs.