U2 Songs - All I Want Is You Lyrics

U2 - All I Want Is You

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Album: Rattle And Hum
Released: 1988

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 harbor 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

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Writer/s: EVANS CLAYTON
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Bono wrote the lyrics about his wife Ali. The quiet verses are him telling her the words, the loud guitar pieces at the end of the verses is her reaction. At the end when he screams "All I want is you" 4 times, the Edge solos for that amount of time, as her reaction. (thanks, Bill - Johnstown, PA)

The Edge came up with the guitar part while working on U2's song "Desire."

Van Dyke Parks arranged the strings. He was best known for working with Brian Wilson on the Beach Boys Smile project, writing intricate lyrics for Wilson's melodies, but many other artists have called upon his services as a session musician and arranger, including T-Bone Burnett, Rufus Wainwright and Joanna Newsom. When we spoke with Parks in 2011, he talked about "framing" a song to give it "greater power of enunciation so that it will be noticed." "All I Want Is You" is a great example of his work, as the strings bring out an emotive quality in the song without detracting from its other elements.

On The Best Of 1980-1990, "October" comes on as a hidden track about a minute after this.

The single is backed with a cover of "Unchained Melody."

This was used in the trailer for the 2000 movie All The Pretty Horses. It was also on the soundtrack to Reality Bites. (thanks, Wendy - Yakima, WA)

This plays under the credits of the U2 documentary Rattle And Hum.