Lyrics to
You’re All I Am

This version of You’Re All I Am was released by Foreigner in 1978.

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I never knew a man would be so lonely
The life of a treated man so wrong
But when the odds were all against me
You gave me the strength to carry on

You gave me a new start, so I will give you my heart

You, you are my life, you’re all I am
Only you can understand the way I am

You never give me enough of your love
I need more and more each day
Honey, can’t you see the only thing I can be sure of
Is that something real has come my way

Oh, so I believe my heart, though sometimes it tears me apart

You, you are my life, you’re all I am
Baby it’s you, you are my life, you’re all I am
Only you can understand the way I am

You know I live my life for you

You are my life, you’re all I am
Ooh baby it’s true, you are my life, you’re all I am
Only you can understand the way I am

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About Lyrics and You’Re All I Am by Foreigner

When you decide to study the lyrics to You’Re All I Am, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by Foreigner. Some of the lyrics to You’Re All I Am have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Foreigner and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to You’Re All I Am 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 You’Re All I Am" means the words set to the music of You’Re All I Am, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Foreigner. 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 You’Re All I Am and the lyrics to You’Re All I Am are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Foreigner who came here looking just for the lyrics to You’Re All I Am, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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