Merle Haggard – Always Wanting You

“Always Wanting You” is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard and The Strangers. It was released in February 1975 as the second single from the album Keep Movin’ On. The song was Haggard and The Strangers twentieth number-one single on the U.S. country chart. It stayed at number one for two weeks and spent a total of ten weeks on the chart.

In 2004, “Always Wanting You” was featured on the radio station K-Rose in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

From the album Keep Movin’ On
B-side “I’ve Got a Yearning”
Released February 3, 1975
Genre Country
Length 3:09
Label Capitol
Songwriter(s) Merle Haggard
Producer(s) Ken Nelson. Fuzzy Owen

Merle Haggard – Always Wanting You Lyrics

Always wanting you, but never having you
Makes it hard to face tomorrow ’cause I
Know I’ll be wanting you again
Always loving you but never touching you
Sometimes hurts me almost more than I can stand

I’d been better off if I’d turned away and never
Looked at you the second time
‘Cause I really had my life all together
Till your eyes met mine

And there I saw a yearning and a feeling ‘cross
The room that you felt for me
Wish I’d had a way of knowing that the things we had in
Mind could never be

Always wanting you, but never having you
Makes it hard to face tomorrow ’cause I
Know I’ll wake up wanting you again
Always loving you but never touching you
Sometimes hurts me almost more than I can stand

Always wanting you, but never having you
Sometimes hurts me almost more than I can stand