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Quote #4
And will never allow me to blarney
My way to getting
The fame and the girl and the money
All at one sitting. (29-32)
Finally, here in the eighth stanza, we get to see what is leading to this sense of dissatisfaction our speaker is grappling with. He feels like things are missing from his life—he feels unfulfilled. He can't seem to get all the pieces of a happy fulfilling life all at the same time. Something is always missing. And what's to blame? Yup, those external and internal toads (societal expectations about work and his internal sense of duty and obligation) are what keep him from getting what he wants. Bummer.