All I Need

ALL I NEED
I’m dying to catch my breath
Oh why don’t I ever learn?
I’ve lost all my trust,
though I’ve surely tried to turn it around

Can you still see the heart of me?
All my agony fades away
when you hold me in your embrace

Don’t tear me down for all I need
Make my heart a better place
Give me something I can believe
Don’t tear me down
You’ve opened the door now, don’t let it close

I’m here on the edge again
I wish I could let it go
I know that I’m only one step away
from turning it around

Can you still see the heart of me?
All my agony fades away
when you hold me in your embrace

Don’t tear me down for all I need
Make my heart a better place
Give me something I can believe

Don’t tear it down, what’s left of me
Make my heart a better place

I tried many times but nothing was real
Make it fade away, don’t break me down
I want to believe that this is for real
Save me from my fear
Don’t tear me down

Don’t tear me down for all I need
Make my heart a better place
Don’t tear me down for all I need
Make my heart a better place

Give me something I can believe
Don’t tear it down, what’s left of me
Make my heart a better place
Make my heart a better place

This is definitely my favorite Within Temptation song!
I mean, seriously, even though it doesn't relate to me at all, I love the lyrics because they're so meaningful, powerful, beautiful, and so deep!
Then the song, the instrumentation/music is awesome! I love the guitar parts, the drum beats, the keyboard; it gives it a soothing, "jazz-like" feel to the song! The mood is really "sad-ish" but relaxing at the same time!
Then the vocals...Oh my fuckin god, I love them! I love the "Pop-ish" sound, her voice is really soothing, and her voice here sounds so fragile and delicate and innocent(I mean that as a good thing), and it's oh so beautiful, angelic, and so hypnotizing. And her Vibrato is amazing! Her voice, in this song, gives me chills and goosebumps all over my body!
Then the video...the video is so fuckin awesome! Some of you might not understand it, but there's so much symbolism, imagery, elements, and depth to the video. PLUS, no surprise here, Sharon looks really, REALLY hot! (Personally, my favorite "Sharon look" from all the videos!)
So what do you get when you combine all of these elements, characteristics, details, objects, ideas, concepts, styles, and moods?
You get...
All I Need, a true Epic and Perfect MASTERPIECE, in every sense of the word!

From fanzine six:

Quote :

This song has been written from the point of view of someone who has been disappointed in love and life. A person who has found something or someone he wants to believe in again. At the same time he knows that he won't be able to deal with a new disappointment. He's afraid of giving into the temptation of wanting to believe, because if it does backfire again, he's not sure what he's going to do.

I don't know why this songtext turned out to be on this subject. Sometimes lyrics just go into a certain direction and others are written with a subject in mind from the start. All I know is that this text became a lot more real to me when a friend of the family committed suicide this year. We knew he was going through a rough time. The last time Robert and I saw him we realized that he had reached the point where he would either break, or he would have to dramatically change his view on life and his future. More than two years passed, and nothing really changed, until we were on tour this year. He'd had some bad news, and that was just one disappointment too many.

When I was 10 or 11 years old, he took me to a friend who had moved from my hometown all the way to Joure in Friesland, which lies way up in the north of the country. It's about a 2-3 hour's drive from where I live, and for us Dutch people that's a lot because we're not used to driving too many hours in a row. Friesland, which is 1 of 12 Dutch provinces, has its own dialect and in the past the Frisians actually said they wanted to be independent from the rest of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Our friend was a Frisian and he bought me a fake Frisian passport. :-) I can remember it had all kinds of info about Friesland and it provided discount at, for instance, museums, stores, and cinemas. This immediately broke the ice. Although I'd known him for as long as I can remember -- I was a bit shy back then. I only saw him when he was in the country, when he had to work in my hometown with my dad. He lived in Indonesia where he'd married and had a family, but whenever he was in Holland he stayed at my grandma's place, where he would rent a room. When he gave me the passport he said: "As this will be your first time in Friesland, I won't be able to take you with me unless you have a Frisian passport..." LOL. He was this really big guy, who was not much of a talker, but the fact that I was shy made him talk the whole trip long. He told me all kinds of things about the cities we passed, the environment and about his beautiful Friesland. He treated me like a grown-up, which was really good for my self-esteem. It was a great start of the weekend. I had forgotten about this trip, but when things like this happen, you start to remember many things you'd forgotten about along the way. I still have that passport and I'll always have my memories. I really was a good guy. Rest in peace.

~Sharon

Wows. That's pretty upsetting Maybe that's who Forgiven's about?

I think so

I've always thought All I Neeed is a very personal song but this story just brought my to tears

So powerful and saddening! All I Need just became a more meaningful and powerful song to me! It has always been my favorite song, but now it's even more than the rest (I don't think I made any sense there, but I don't care) I have more respect and love for this song now!
AIN4TW

I love this song so much And the video is really great!

I hate the prick who commented on Sharon's breats as she was falling down though -_- Perv

^ My Dad commented on them when he saw the video. They are kind of noticeable. I'm sure Sharon wouldn't be offended.

I love All I Need but I find it hard to listen to because the time in my life where I related to it was horrible and I would never ever want to have to relate to All I Need again.

Lol. I seriously told the guy off I told him to and look at some other person falling down a well or whatever that was

Men can be so pervy sometimes

Well it's a bit inappropriate commenting on YT. Good come back.

Yep they can. But Sharon is beautiful so I dont blame them.

If I was a guy I would do the same thing

But the -way- he said was stupid. Like "I'm so gonna try and get this girl laid...Look at her tits!"

^Yeah, I cursed off some dudes off before too. For example, one guy gave a rude comment about her, so I told him (and it went something like this:) "Dude, I know Sharon is fuckin hot and what not, you're not the only one, but that doesn't give you any right to disrespect her in that manner. So be more respectful and less of a perv"

Oh, and this other guy said "I would jeez all over that bitch" so I responded with something like this: "Your mom right!? I mean, you did say BITCH, right? Because I know Sharon isn't one, so it has to be your mom then. BTW, that's what I did to your mom last night, so yeah..."
So yeah, some people are straight up disrespectful and idiotic!

I love that come-back.

That's an awesome comeback
Poor Sharon! When you look at the lyrics now, you can see exactly what she is talking about. I just wanna give Sharon a big, big hug. But I wouldn't want to make her sad. But I'd hug her anyways, just because she is Sharon

This song seems really personal and absolutely heartbreaking. I can imagine an intimate slowdance when I hear it.

It's definitely a favorite

Truth be told, I almost can't listen to All I Need anymore... Don't get me wrong, I love the song, it relates to me so well, but it is a long story. Made short, a girl whom I do not like much at all found All I Need, and now it feels like I have to share the song with her Yes, I have issues...

I love this song...but only because it's easy for me to sing. If I can sing a song and I can sing it WELL, it's automatically AMAZING!!!

I love this song, especially Sharon's voice is very powerful in it

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