Lyrics to
All I Ever Wanted

This version of All I Ever Wanted was released by Santana in 1979.

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Well I told you ’bout your attitude
And it didn’t do me any good
‘Cause you took your love away
Left me here alone with all this lonely heartache.

There are places I remember
Where the ladies still are tender
Against you they can’t compare
Baby we’ve just got to get it back together.

All I ever wanted was to be with you
All I ever wanted was to be with you.

I just got to get it through to you
That my loving heart is ever true
Please come back to where you belong
Girl you got to know I’ll never do you wrong.

All I ever wanted was to be with you
All I ever wanted was to be with you.
Yeah you.
Oh oh.

All I ever wanted was to be with you
All I ever wanted was to be with you.

Well I told you ’bout your attitude
And it didn’t do me any good
‘Cause you took your love away.

All I ever wanted was to be with you
All I ever wanted was to be with you
All I ever wanted was to be with you
All I ever wanted was to be with you
You!

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Santana has released many songs over the years besides All I Ever Wanted. Santana released songs from 1969 to 2005 spanning across albums like Santana, Abraxas, Santana III, Caravanserai, Amigos, Festival, Moonflower, Inner Secrets, Marathon, Oneness: Silver Dreams - Golden Reality, Zebop!, Shango, Havana Moon, Beyond Appearances, Blues For Salavador, Freedom, Spirits Dancing In The Flesh, Milagro, Supernatural, Shaman, and All That I Am. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Santana.

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About Lyrics and All I Ever Wanted by Santana

When you decide to study the lyrics to All I Ever Wanted, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Santana. Some of the lyrics to All I Ever Wanted have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Santana and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to All I Ever Wanted if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to All I Ever Wanted" means the words set to the music of All I Ever Wanted, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Santana. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to All I Ever Wanted and the lyrics to All I Ever Wanted are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Santana who came here looking just for the lyrics to All I Ever Wanted, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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