“It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.”
Source: Every Day
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The Chorus of the song. The only part that is actually sung in the song. At the end of the performance, after the first line is sung, Arlo will quickly add in the phrase "Excepting Alice."
Alice's Restaurant Massacree

“And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.”
Variant: You can get what you want or you can just get old.

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“[…] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it.”
Source: Keep the Aspidistra Flying

“Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.”
From Treye Green's article "Happy 35th Birthday, Aaliyah: 15 Of The Singer's Best Quotes" (15 January 2014) http://www.ibtimes.com/happy-35th-birthday-aaliyah-15-singers-best-quotes-1542245
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"The Songbook of Sebastian Arrurruz" II. King Log.
Poetry