"All I Need" lyrics

"All I Need"
(from "The Color Purple" soundtrack)

Easy, I'm takin' it easy
'Cause life's too short to give my heart so freely
Simple, what I want is simple
Like fallin' rain, summer and spring, here I am

All I know is lonely ain't that bad
Without the tears and without the past
And memories of how I kept hangin' on

I am all I need for real
'Cause now I see that what I wanted in you was always in me
Real

Silence, it was beautiful silence
After I got over my last heartbreak, it was quiet
Now, here for, what are you here for?
To create complications and take me through changes?
Just tell me now

All I know is lonely ain't that bad
Without the tears and without the past
And the memories of how I kept hangin' on (Hangin' on, hangin' on, hangin' on)

I am all I need for real
Now I see that what I wanted in you was always in me
For real

I was chasin' love and it just kept runnin'
I settled and you wasn't the one
I gave you everything
That's when our love was free
Don't know why you tried to make me pay
What's the reason, boy, can you explain?
I never knew how to love me
Maybe that was the cause
Maybe he's not your fault
Can't blame for what you don't know
Should've never trusted you
But now I know that

I am all I need for real
Now I see what I wanted in you was always in me
For real, for real
(I am all I need for real) And I am all need
But now I see that what I wanted in you was always in me, eeh

Ooh, ah (Ooh)
Oh, yes (Ooh)
That you
That you thought I wasn't goin' nowhere
Didn't you, oh (Ooh)
But I'm (Ooh)
But I am (Ooh)
I'm happy about it (Ooh)
Yes, I am (Ooh)
I was dependant on you (Ooh)
Now I'm dependant on me (Ooh)
Ooh


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