Satisfaction

Album: Otis Blue (1965)
Charted: 33 31
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  • I can get no satisfaction
    I can get no satisfaction
    I have tried, I have tried
    I have tried, I have tried

    I can't get me no, ha, ha
    I can't get no, uh, now

    When I'm driving in my car
    And the man talks on the radio
    Keep tellin' me more and more
    About that useless information
    He's tryin' to mess up my imagination

    And I can get me no, no, no
    And I can get me no
    Hey, hey, hey
    What I say
    You gotta, gotta, gotta groovy
    We gotta have it, we gotta have it
    We gotta have it, we gotta have it
    Keep on grooving, keep on grooving
    We keep on grooving
    God, no, my, yeah

    I can get no satisfaction
    I can get no, no satisfaction
    I have tried, I have tried
    I have tried, I have tried, tried, tried
    I can't get me no, no, no
    And I can't get me no, no, no, no

    We gotta groove it, groove it, oh my now
    We keep on knockin', knockin' baby, yeah
    Au, gotta, gotta have it
    We gotta, keep, keep, ah

    Whatever, why won't you wait for time
    This little girl is tryin' to put me down
    I keep on runnin' round in my sleep
    I keep on messin' up any beat
    I keep on rockin', I try to find me
    Somebody to love me
    And give me some reaction
    And I can find nobody
    No, no, nobody
    Give me no faction, faction
    Faction got to have it
    Satisfaction, we got to have it
    Satisfaction, earlier in the morning
    Satisfaction, later in the evening
    Satisfaction, and don't make my Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn May 7th 1966, Otis Redding performed "Satisfaction" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
    At the time Otis' covered version of the song was at #14 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart; two weeks earlier it peaked at #4 for one week...
    {See next post below}.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn February 27th 1966, "Satisfaction" by Otis Redding entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #79; and six weeks later of April 10th, 1966 it peaked at #31 {for 1 week} and spent 8 weeks on the Top 100...
    It reached #4 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart...
    Between 1962 and 1969 he had thirty-one* records make the R&B Singles chart; thirteen made the Top 10 with on reaching #1, "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay"...
    He just missed having three #1 records when "I've Been Loving You Too Long" {1965} and "Tramp" {1967} both peaked at #2 on the R&B Singles chart...
    'The King of Soul' passed away on December 10th, 1967 at the young age of 26...
    May he R.I.P.
    * Ten of his thirty-one records charted on the R&B Singles chart after his untimely death.
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