I can't get no validation

(Luscious Keith Richards guitar riff)

I can’t get no (da dad um!)
VAL-ID-DA-TION.
I always court literary
FRUSTRATION!

And I tried.
And I tried,
And I tried,
And I tried.

I can’ t get no
(DA-DA-DUM)
I can’t get no

When I’m listening to NPR
And Terry Gross comes on the radio.
She’s telling me more and more
about publishing information
and how it will end in literary frustration.
I can’t get no!
No, no no!
Hey, hey hey!
Put that manuscript away!

When I’m writing rhyming poetry
and I give it to my friends to see
but they can’t be my friends because
they say no writer sucks as bad as me.
I can’t get no!
No No no!
Hey Hey Hey!
Put that manuscript away!

I can’t get no
VAL-I-DA-TION!
I always court
Literary Frustration!

And I tried
And I tried
And I tried
And I tried!

I can’t get no!
(DA DA DUM!)
I can’t get no!
(DA DA DUM!)

I can’t get no
VAL-I-DA-TION!
I always court
Literary Frustration!

And I tried
And I tried
And I tried
And I tried!

I can’t get no!
(DA DA DUM!)
I can’t get no!
(DA DA DUM!)

When I running someone over in my car
and I’m snorting this and knifing that
and I’m trying to meet some literary agent
who tells me
Baby, baby baby this will never sell
come back later next week when you learn to spell.

I can’t get no!
NO! No! No!
BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM!
Hey hey hey!
Put that manuscript away!

I can’t get no,
NO! NO! NO!
Put that knife away!
That what I say!

I cant’ get no
Validation!
I always taste
Literary Frustration!
I can’t get no!
I can’t get no!
I can’t get no!
VALIDATION!
No validation.
No validation.
No validation!
I can’t get no!