All I Really Want

I don’t want to buy another thing
I don’t want to watch TV
I don’t want that pale blue light to
Shine on me

All I really want is you
All I really want is you
I don’t need whiter teeth
Or clear skin
I don’t need them to tell me
The shape I should be in

All I really want is you
All I really want is you

They sold me a car
A crashing dream
They sold them to everyone
And counted the beans

Bumper to bumper
Jam to jam
Inch by inch
Scam by scam

All I really want is you
All I really want is you

Sitting on a broken train
Just outside the station
Trying to work out which line
I should be chasing

The artificial needs of a slave population
Searching for freedom in the arms
Of those that enslave them

I don’t want to be a fat Western pig
Consuming everything in sight
I don’t want to crush you
With my military might

All I really want is you
All I really want is you

And a new house
New face
New wheels
No taste
All grace or sympathy
Compassion or love

All I really want is you
All I really want is you

Lyrics by:
Squire

Available on:
Time Changes Everything (3.51)

Details:
All I Really Want is a nice come-down after the fast paced Transatlantic Near Death Experience which precedes it. The looser live versions of this are an improvement on a somewhat rigid studio version however.

John Squire made an artistic work, 'All I Really Want' (plaster of paris, acrylic, cellulose and gloss), a face mask of his partner Sophie Upton, in 2002:

"This is a face mask of my partner, Sophie. The letters refer to the number of a New York taxi that she left my wallet and passport in. It took us three days to find it and, when we eventually did, it drove past us. We grabbed another cab and I got to say those immortal words: 'Follow that cab !' We finally found it and got everything back. I thought it was fated." (John Squire speaking to The Guardian, May 2004)

The taxi number can be found on a previous John Squire work from 1999, 'IJ52'.

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