Lyrics for All I Want Is You as interpreted by archmastermind

All I Want Is You Lyrics
You say you want diamonds on a ring of gold
You say you want your story to remain untold
But all the promises we make
From the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you

You say you'll give me a highway with no one on it
Treasure, just to look upon it
All the riches in the night
You say you'll give me eyes in a moon of blindness
A river in a time of dryness
A harbour in the tempest
But all the promises we make
From the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you

You say you want your love to work out right
To last with me through the night
You say you want diamonds on a ring of gold
Your story to remain untold
Your love not to grow cold
All the promises we break
From the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you

You
All I want is you
All I want is you
All I want is you

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nissejos
03-05-2002

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A total love song..

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ballzofsno
05-02-2002

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It is a love song, sure, but everyone writes love songs. It tells of the intensity of desire and lust, the desire to be everything to someone, when really these promises are unfulfillable. So, it comes to the question of whether we can love within our limitations, or whether it will all end when our own human weaknesses are exposed.

It's about love, but a fragile love, a love where the 'promises we make' are too grand to support. The narrator hear's all these promises from his lover, and they all sound wonderful, but they're unnecessary. He only wants her, everything else is a distraction.

That's all well and good, but The Edge and the violin are really what brings this song from mediocre to great. The musical leads parallel the story, through miniature peaks and lulls, to the stirring climax after Bono shouts "You --- all I want is you ... ", as if the person is confronting the demons and choosing between love and lust, then into the gentle but restrained denouement, which seems to signify a comfortable satisfaction with intense feeling restrained below the surface.

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ButtOfMalmsey
05-07-2002

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I used to think of this as a generic love song, but now I find it deeply sad, almost paranoid. Not as paranoid as Every Breath You Take, but definitely as obsessive.

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4methisisheaven
05-15-2002

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This song reminds me of my summer in upstate NY. It is such timeless song and is is so much more than a love song...I think we have all come to that conclusion. It's like passion, that sometimes can't be fulfilled. Yeah.

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Queen33
06-03-2002

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I love this song!! I am a dancer, and I am currently working on a solo to this song. I love U2 anyway, so probably anything they sing I would love! This song just speaks to me, it makes me think of someone I really love, and all the things we ask of eachother, but when all we really want is eachother. *****WHOEVER POSTED THESE LYRICS FORGOT A VERSE!!!!!!!!!*****

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emann333
06-12-2002

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"Obsessive love"... isn't love at all. Bono addresses that in this song. The definition of true love is ultimate selflessness, living to make another person happy in any and every way that you can. Bono realizes that when it is the desire for another that governs us, it isn't love at all... it's lust. Infatuation is so often confused with love in our society, and U2's "All I Want is You" confronts that issue. The final stanza, "You/All I want is you (repeated)" is nearly screamed by Bono, and Edge's guitar intensifies as well, both symbolizing the desire, rage, jealousy, and potential destruction lying in wait just under the facade of lust.

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U2aholic
07-15-2002

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This song is definetly a love song, as before pointed out, and also a song about lust and things you can't have.

It's a great song.

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superbowl4me
07-24-2002

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this guy doesn't want anything to get in the way of their love.
she wants a diamond ring, and he don't give a @#$%. He wants her and nothing else. the end is like he gets upset and starts freakin out cause she is letting material things get in the way of their love. simply put, he is nuts and obsessed.

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antmann
06-17-2003

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This song is about obsession. The guy is obsessed with the girl who seems more obsessed with material things. He tells her the way he feels about her and how he doesn't need those material things because she gives him everything he wants

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crashbangboom
06-18-2003

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are you oblivious? this song isn't about obsession, ballzofsno explained it perfectly and i couldn't do any better myself.

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jdappleton
06-22-2003

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This would be a great song to sing to your wife on your wedding night at the reception in front of hundreds of your closest friends and family.

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Mitsuko
06-01-2004

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I agree with Ballzofsno on this one...

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driggsy
06-05-2004

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ballzofsno described this so perfectly, that there is not much to add.
I'd just like to say that if I had to pick ONE song and only one, and that song would become the only piece of music that I could listen to for the rest of my life...this would be it.

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firthelement
10-11-2004

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someone has probly sed it already, but i havent red all of the above cos im rilli tired, but neways....this girl wants things from him and of him....but all he wants is her, and her love.....aww how sweet

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hot_hot_heat
10-12-2004

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good job ballzofsno, that is exactly how the song was intended, and not just because i say so, but because it is the story depicted in the video. and yes, superbowl4me, he does give a @#$% about what she wants, including a diamond ring, because he buys it for her...and in case you're wondering, the whole scenario takes place at a circus, and this guy is a dwarf who falls in love with someone of normal size, who in turn falls for another guy...and we find out in the end that being totally in love with someone is not in fact infatuation even if it isn't selfless, because he was in love with her, and it was real. her happiness does matter to him, but he cannot bear her being with someone else, so he kills himself in the end. this takes place during the "you; all i want is you" ballad, so emann333 i havta say that he has already dealt with all those emotions. U2 KICKS A*S! l8er

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atthedrive-in
12-08-2004

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one of the saddest songs ever written.

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elven_princess
12-13-2004

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Agree with atthedrive-in, one of the saddest song ever written... but I still love it and U2 is my favorite, can't help it!

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hoops
12-21-2004

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jdappleton, I desperately wanted this song for the first dance on my wedding night, but I was over-ruled in favour of Bryan Flippin' Adams. I guess she just didn't get it the way I did. Anyway, we are separated now, so maybe next time...

All I will say is her wanting material things and me just wanting her love is just how it ended up.

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U2takemehigher
12-25-2004

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i really think it is a wonderful love song. it's just a simple statement that you ask for so much, but in the end all i want is you.... you know what i mean. it's simple. it's classic

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albanyankee
01-01-2005

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Personally, I'd like to have this song for the very last dance at my wedding reception some day. A wedding is a day on which a lot of vows are made which will almost certainly be broken at some point, given our frail humanity. I mean, honestly, "for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part"? That's a lot to live up to and I'd imagine almost everyone fails to in some small way each day of their lives, even when couples "remain faithful" to each other in the sense of not committing adultery. And when those promises fail, or rather when we fail the promises, the only thing left is us in our frail humanity. When two people can continue to embrace each other in those circumstances, that's likely as close as they'll get to divine love in this life. Having never been married I have no idea what it's like to live that kind of love day in and day out, but when I hear this song I always think of how much I want to.

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evengodh8screed
02-02-2005

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ok I vaguely remember the video for this song and I thought it was the trapeze girl who ends up dying. if im wrong was the midjet at his own funeral as a ghost or something

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66chargerfan
03-13-2005

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this is the song that makes me think of a girl im trying to forget, while was in high school i used to listen to this song alot....

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Kitdan
03-20-2005

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hey albanyankee funny you mention this as a wedding song because its what my husband and i had for ours. a lot of people found it strange as they thought it was more fitting for a funeral! Anyway, i think what really makes this song special is lines like "your story to remain untold", to me it was like saying i dont care where you have been, what mistakes you have made, all i care about is who you are now and i love you and all i want is what you are, right here and now. thats how i feel about my husband :) and i must say that my diamonds on a ring of gold were simply the icing on an already divinely perfect cake :)

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Azdnumis210
04-11-2005

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does anyone know, on the "best of 1980-1990" cd, what is the hidden track that comes after this? i never noticed it until today.. its really short.. i dunno.

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Azdnumis210
04-11-2005

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alright.. that was a large joke.. its called october. sorry about that one. har har.

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