All That Musicians Want

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  • Bryan Adams: you when you're lying here in his arms
  • All-American Rejects: to touch you
  • Beach Boys: to always bring good to you, to give you all the love he can, help you in whatever you do, to bring happiness to you
  • Beastie Boys: girls
  • Mariah Carey: you for Christmas
  • Sheryl Crow: to have some fun until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard
  • Bob Dylan: to be friends with you
  • Eiffel 65: one more day to make you change your mind and wanna stay
  • LCD Soundsystem: your pity, your bitter tears
  • M.I.A.: to (bang bang bang bang) (chk-chk cling) take your money
  • Tim McGraw: a life, to drink from a glass from a well that ain't dry
  • Kylie Minogue: to make you so so happy, make you smile, make you hers
  • Joni Mitchell: for your love to bring out the best in her and in you
  • Alanis Morissette: some patience, a way to calm the angry voice, deliverance, some peace, a place to find a common ground, a wavelength, some comfort, a way to get my hands untied, some justice
  • Jason Mraz: to love you
  • R. Kelly: to love you, make your body feel like heaven, satisfy you
  • Reel Big Fish: more
  • Britney Spears: to hold you tight, treat you right, be with you day and night
  • Staind: you
  • Toad the Wet Sprocket: to feel this way, to be this close, to feel the same
  • U2: you
Author Comments: 

Man, Alanis Morissette is demanding.

Staind and U2 want the exact same things. They should work together.

You forgot the most famous one
Cheap Trick: (I want) you to want me

Ah, but this only includes lyrics that say "all I want" (or some variant). Cheap Trick could want many things, but this list ensures that I'm summing up each artist's sole request, even if the artist's sole request is a long laundry list like Alanis.