We All Want What We Can't Have lyrics

So I left you there at the door.

Ooh, I thought he'd give me more.

What looked so good from afar

just wasn't worth losin' your heart.

Does everything look better

when it's just beyond your reach?

Oh, I know it's a human thing,

always somethin' else you think you need.

Sell my soul to the devil 

just to get you back,

we all want what we can't have.

We all want what we can't have.

Man on the street has a wish to be king.

He believes that will solve everything.

But somewhere there's a king 

who walks down from his throne

for a simple life he's never known.

Why can't we be satisfied

with what we're given in this life?

Oh, I know it's a human thing,

always somethin' else you think you need.

Sell my soul to the devil 

just to get you back,

we all want what we can't have.

We all want what we can't have.

He wants her, she wants him

and so it goes around again.

But maybe someday I can see

what's right before my eyes.

Does everything look better

when it's just beyond your reach?

Oh, I know it's a human thing,

always somethin' else you think you need.

Sell my soul to the devil 

just to get you back,

we all want what we can't have.

We all want what we can't have.

We all want what we can't have.

We all want what we can't have.

• Artist:Ellen Shipley
• Album:Breaking Through the Ice Age (1980)