Unlike most other people, when I hear this song, I don't imagine it being about obsession. The video would paint that picture more than the actual song does, but even still I have never considered this to be a song about obsession.
I've always imagined that "All I Want is You" is a pretty straighforward and simple song. The lyricist's frustration is pretty evident throughout and the outcome is a sort of haunting, raw, and beautiful love song.
I think it's about a man and a woman who are deeply in love, but both have quite different ideas of what love and a relationship are supposed to be. She believes that love is measured by material objects and she seems to be concerned with how love can benefit them as individuals while he is simply saying he doesn't care about all the glamour she seems to be caught up in. All he wants is her and their love, and everything else is trivial. The lyric of the song makes the man sound frustrated because it would seem that he can do nothing to please her and keep her happy while he is perfectly happy just being with her. So in a way, he has to jump through hoops for this woman while none of that means a damn thing to him.
It's an epic song and what I love most about it is that it's a very common relationship problem. Two people with two completely different ideas of what love is and how it should be. A very bitter sweet and beautiful song. I have to add that this is the song that got me hooked on U2. I fell madly in love with this one years and years ago.
Unlike most other people, when I hear this song, I don't imagine it being about obsession. The video would paint that picture more than the actual song does, but even still I have never considered this to be a song about obsession.
I've always imagined that "All I Want is You" is a pretty straighforward and simple song. The lyricist's frustration is pretty evident throughout and the outcome is a sort of haunting, raw, and beautiful love song.
I think it's about a man and a woman who are deeply in love, but both have quite different ideas of what love and a relationship are supposed to be. She believes that love is measured by material objects and she seems to be concerned with how love can benefit them as individuals while he is simply saying he doesn't care about all the glamour she seems to be caught up in. All he wants is her and their love, and everything else is trivial. The lyric of the song makes the man sound frustrated because it would seem that he can do nothing to please her and keep her happy while he is perfectly happy just being with her. So in a way, he has to jump through hoops for this woman while none of that means a damn thing to him.
It's an epic song and what I love most about it is that it's a very common relationship problem. Two people with two completely different ideas of what love is and how it should be. A very bitter sweet and beautiful song. I have to add that this is the song that got me hooked on U2. I fell madly in love with this one years and years ago.