(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

I went back to field station

And let the passing trains

Cool me off

In the heat

Man gets off the train

Asks me for satisfaction

He looked like Keith

But, uh, he said his name

Was Mick

And I thought that

Was the funniest thing

I ever heard in my life

We went back to my place

Which at the time

Was one of those fun little country houses

That you think you only see
In fairy books

I had a garden

I had flowerpots

Under my windows

I had plump little pillows

With ‘Home Sweet Home’

Written on them

‘Show me around,’ Mick said,

And so I spun around in a circle

Because I was a real gas back then

I was--I was really something

Remember when you could be something

Just because you were young

And you didn’t care

Who went to bed with you?

I thought about putting on the Stones

So I went ahead and did it

Because why not?

Take two

And call me in the morning

You know?

That’s what I did

With Mick who looked like Keith

I took him

And then I worried about it

When I woke up

The next day

Not in the morning

I never got up in the morning

Back then

The record was still skipping

When I went downstairs

And found him

Stomach up

On my lawn

Giving all my neighbors a show

Luckily I only had one neighbor

And she was blind, so--

Poor thing

Couldn’t see

What she was missing

I went out

And laid on the lawn with him

Because I read about

Something like that once

In a story or something

Maybe something

In a waiting room

Even though I don’t much

Like waiting

To have somebody tell me

What I don’t have much left of

Have to be crazy

To wait around

To have somebody tell you

You’re running out of time

That’s how I see it

The old man who gave me

My little country house

Was always working in the city

And he had a thing

For women

He couldn’t save

Mick didn’t seem to like me

Because of that

He seemed to like me

Because I had forward-thinking

Proclivities

Told me I was some kind of

Future Space Girl

Or a star

Or a Star

Or something having to do

With the Moon

He wasn’t the first guy

To tell me

That I wasn’t

Of this earth

Or

Maybe

Not long for it

Anyway

We let the grass

Cool our backs

And the crickets

Were serenading us

Even in the middle

Of the day

And it’s the kind of summer

You know

You’re only going to get

For one

Two

Three more days

And then never again

But did I feel satisfied?

Hell yeah, I did

I felt just

Fine