Want and Able

Album: Lazaretto (2014)
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  • Who is the who, telling who what to do?
    Who is the who, telling who what to do?
    Who is the who, telling who what to do?
    Tell me who, tell me who, tell me who

    Well, Want and Able were crossing the road
    Want had a feeling there was something he was owed
    But Able broke it to him that there's a social code
    So walk straight down the middle now and do what we're told
    Walk straight down the middle now and do what we're told

    Who is the who, telling who what to do?
    Who is the who, telling who what to do?
    Who is the who, telling who what to do?
    Tell me who, tell me who, tell me who

    Want said that didn't feel so good
    To never be fulfilled
    Forever stressed out and impatient
    Always saying "just over the next hill"
    Always saying "just over the next hill"

    Who is the who, telling who what to do?
    Being able is to freedom what wanting is to cruel
    It's hard to tell it seems, which one of them's the fool
    Is freedom a gift, that we only give to the ones that say "I love you"?

    Who is the who, telling who what to do?
    Who is the who, telling who what to do?
    Who is the who, telling who what to do?
    Tell me who, tell me who, tell me who

    Now, Want and Able are two different things
    One is desire, and the other is the means
    Like I wanna hold you, and see you, and feel you in my dreams
    But that's not possible, something simply will not let me Writer/s: Jack White
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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